When and how did you find NationStates?
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 6:11 am
I know this thread has been done before, but just out of curiosity, I'd like to see how the current crop is finding out about NS, and how many oldies-but-goodies from 2002-04 we still have left. (Hint: Anyone with "antiquity" as their founding date is really old, having joined on or before 26 Nov 2003.)
As for myself, I found NS in April 2012 when combing through Google results. I was a young idealist with the afternoon off who was searching for information on how to start my own country in real life, and a couple of pages down the list I saw the heading "NationStates | Create your own country". My next thought was "what's this?", so I clicked on it, read the FAQ page, and 12 minutes later, my first nation was born. This was only a week after FST's mod-enforced disappearance, and back then the site looked like this. It's now almost seven years later; my first nation has since ceased to exist, but with the exception of a year-long sabbatical from 2017-2018, I've been hooked ever since. I have a whole long list of people I remember from 2012-13 who are now inactive or even DoS; I'll post it if anyone's interested.
Edit 03 Mar 2019: The poll, which was removed when another thread was merged into this one, has been restored.
As for myself, I found NS in April 2012 when combing through Google results. I was a young idealist with the afternoon off who was searching for information on how to start my own country in real life, and a couple of pages down the list I saw the heading "NationStates | Create your own country". My next thought was "what's this?", so I clicked on it, read the FAQ page, and 12 minutes later, my first nation was born. This was only a week after FST's mod-enforced disappearance, and back then the site looked like this. It's now almost seven years later; my first nation has since ceased to exist, but with the exception of a year-long sabbatical from 2017-2018, I've been hooked ever since. I have a whole long list of people I remember from 2012-13 who are now inactive or even DoS; I'll post it if anyone's interested.
Edit 03 Mar 2019: The poll, which was removed when another thread was merged into this one, has been restored.