I vaguely remember the look of the 1st 2, but I remember the 3rd one. More like it is, now...

Hmmm, I wonder why it is so small... Those were full size pics.

i remember the first two...ah, the black & purple org. back in the days of bart van hemelen and "i like pizza", and before we had all these forums.

goodtimes.

I prefer the first one!

MinneapolisFunk said:

same here...i miss all the fun we had in the chatroom.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

yeah back in tha day of a somewhat bullshit free prince.org

You can look at the history of any web site with this link...

http://web.archive.org/we...rince.org/

A display will come up with archive dates...
[Edited 12/1/05 9:32am]

Change prince.org to whatever...
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TheRealFiness said:

...and ten-mile-long threads, since all we could reply to were the news items! They would veer wildly off-topic, and you'd get carpal tunnel syndrome scrolling up and down trying to figure out what the hell everyone was talking about.

That's why "FIRST!" was such a BFD...there'd be 10,000 replies by the end of the day!

FunkMistress said:

yeah that was the fun shit tho'

and all the fake 'prince' accounts that'd pop up...

man, those were good times. although, i like the new org better i think.

there's more topics, and although they suck sometimes because a lot of
folks are getting more and more nasty, i can at least spend a whole day
at work without doing anything but reading the org these days

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

back when the was still a pretty new feature and people
figured that as long as they used enough they would
be assumed to really be Prince

I was there.

memories

chakraSING said:

yeah, fun stuff fuuuuun stuff

chakraSING said:

Ah yes

DAMN...my web tv days...

the ole black & purple

TheMaster said:

how old is the .org? did prince ever want his name tag? did Mani ever frequent back then?

chunky said:

from the site FAQs:

Long ago (early 1990s), there was an e-mail list called the PML, (the Prince Mailing List), which changed ownership to became the PPML (the Paisley Park Mailing List). Eventually, a website was set up by a couple of volunteers to "archive" the past PPML mailings. In May, 1998, the archive site had a major harddisk crash, and went down. While recovering the data, the entire site was re-architected, and prince.org "v1.0" was publicly born on January 1st, 1999, offering much more than just archives of past PPMLs. "Version 2.0" was launched in February 2002, and added message boards and much more. "Version 3.0" came online in February 2004, with numerous enhancements and better web standards compliance.

Ahhh good times, good times. Everyone pretending to be everyone else in the chatrooms and all the stuff above.

Remember the old "We are prince.org and we are funky" page before getting to the homepage?

I remember posting my first ever news story and seeing it there on the homepage and thinking I've made it!

Dansa is on the ball with the I love Pizza comment! That used to crack me up and still does today

Good times, good times

Back in those days all I did was lurk. (makes you really long for the good ol' days, eh?)


Just when I started to join those huge threads the thing is shut down. I do have to say that I like this version better. It's the cast of characters that I miss.

TheRealFiness said:

Wait a second...
Are you sayin' that we're payin' for the bullshit now?

Illustrator said:

no no, the bullshit's still free, as always.

Hmm...

Maybe a forum skin is in order?

I remember that I was practically the only openly gay orger

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Awww. The memories. I met my wife in there. luvy.



The Chatroom was real cool. Real fun. DJFiness was talkin music.
Dansa was cool spreadin the love. Minneapolis Funk was horny. lol.


Everybody was real cool then.

Ben was around daily. Matt was there everyday. Smooth ship I say.

Ahh, those were the days, eh? Of course, I went by a different screenname back then.

july said:

i remember when ben and matt would periodically even make an appearance in the chatroom...

Jeez. I was just a kid back then.