What's in a name?

[Stomski]

So Hasbro are reducing their involvement with The Hub and Discovery are going to rename it.

I still think of the forum as "The Hub" and us as Hubbers... Probably as I joined originally in 2001ish. Do you?? Or are you new enough/old enough to be a TMUKer?

[Fortmax2020]

Old enough to be a TMUKer, but this is The Hub.

[Shockprowl]

This is The Hub. I am a Hubber. We're all Hubbers. But I like Transmasters UK as well. But I think 'Hub'.




Unfortunately, no one can be told what The Hub is... You have to see it for yourself.

[chrisl]

Another Hasbro foot-in-mouth there after all the fuss around the name....

Does this mean we can re-name this place The Hub officially?

I'm old enough to be a TMUKer.

[legios]

I think that my TMUK enlistment may predate this forums grandparental incarnation. (Also, I suspect I was one of the last TMUK members to emigrate over from the egroups - but then, I remember the days when the internet was mostly text, and Gopher was a SOTA data-retrieval method so I tend to be a relatively late adopter of new technological innovations). To me this places various incarnations have always been t'Hub (usually pronounced "the Hub", but "thub" on occasion as well. :-) ), no matter what its official name happens to be at any given time. That said, I would tend to describe myself as a TMUK member - it just so happens that the membership hapoens to hang out on the webforum I call t'Hub.

Does that actually make sense? No, probably not - why should I start making sense now after all these years...

Karl

[Stomski]

Who's in charge since G retired?

[Andy Turnbull]

Oct 1, 2014 14:17:22 GMT Stomski said:

Who's in charge since G retired?

The Godmod team of me, Phil and Martin, it's been us since this latest version as G was one of the Four who rule. Ralph has Godmod powers too, but hasn't been about much of late.

Andy

[Philip Ayres]

Oct 1, 2014 13:42:14 GMT legios said:

Also, I suspect I was one of the last TMUK members to emigrate over from the egroups

No that was me. I was a relatively late comer to version 1 of the forum.

[Shockprowl]

I'm not old enough to be a TMUKer first time round. Me internet baby.


HUB!

[Philip Ayres]

The real old timers did it via snail mail

The TMUK eGroup came into existence in 1998 set up by I think Chris White. The TMUK Chat eGroup followed in September that year.

The earliest message from me I can find on either is 10th Feb, 2000

The first reference to the Hub I can find is 11th Feb 2001

The forum was announced in this post from Garry on April 3rd the same year:

Buckle your seatbelts and prepare for the updated Hub!

There is a whole new Transmasters UK Beast Wars section helping to explain
the links between the TMUK Beast Wars and the TV series and beyond! New
artwork, strips, and stories have been uploaded as well!

And now there is a Forum for everyone to post their views. It is hosted by
EZ-Board - so you will need an account from www.ezboard.com in order to
post. It is mainly fanzine based - but if we need more forums - we will
create them! We also want to hear peoples thoughts about the conventions
and their experiences at them. Help make this as lively as the eGroup.

Check out The Hub on : www.tmuk-hub.org

Also make sure you give feedback on the good bits and how we can improve it
further.

Thanks for listening!

Garry

IIRC this is the third, and longest lasting, iteration of the forum.

[Hero]

This forum is almost 8 years old I think.

I was an avid snail-mailer back in the day.

[Philip Ayres]

The forum is 7 years old on 2nd November. The first post would appear to be This one by the Chunder Monkey

Little known facts about the forum:

1) You don't need the name of the thread in the URL

2) All the threads are numbered sequentially in the URL

Hence it's easy to pull up thread 1 and other early threads many of which, started by Burns, are still in use today.

[Benn]

Wow. I can now see myself spending hours picking random numbers and seeing what comes up...

[Andy Turnbull]

Good luck to you!

Andy

[Stomski]

To find out *the* question, I tried thread 42 and wasn't disappointed by the title that came up.

[The Huff]

Well, I've finally worked out what my password was and can now post again! Love having the name 'Hub' back and the new look is excellent! Look forward to chatting etc again!

[Philip Ayres]

Huzzah! Welcome back Matt! Ordered your CW Huffer yet?

[legios]

Matt! Great to have you back amongst us!

Karl

[The Doctor]

We are only one year away from the 15th anniversary of the Hub!

-Ralph

[Shockprowl]

Wow!

Who was there at the start?

[The Doctor]

I was.

-Ralph

[Fortmax2020]

Technically not at the start... I was loyal to the Hub's ancestor at the time.

[Andy Turnbull]

Welcome back Matt!

I wasn't here at the start was about 4 months in iirc, and have gone from pleb to GODMOD.

See what you can do when you apply yourself!!

LIVE THE DREAM!

Andy

[Hero]

I think I was at the start, but didn't post. Mainly posted on the TMUK e-mail group if anything. Was new to the whole forums thing at the time.

[Andy Turnbull]

I stumbled across the forum first and then joined the yahoo Group.

Which still exists, albeit with little activity.

Andy

[Bogatan]

I honestly cant remember. I dont think I was registered on the hub prior to... 2005 or 2006, but was on the yahoo group before that so possibly did join an earlier version of the hub. As I was only lurking till 05/06 it doesnt matter much.

[Bogatan]

A-ha.

April 1st 2003 - request to join the chat group.

It was the very first thing I did with my then brand new email account.

But I was probably lurking earlier or maybe signed up under a long lost email address. Remember the days when hotmail would shut down accounts if they weren't used for 30 days. Urghh!!

[The Doctor]

I was on the yahoo group in 2000 having found it via the old Transformers Galaxy website. Good times.

-Ralph