EPTit's been 4 years now that i registered but i dunno really how i came across this site. prolly i was looking for infos on sc and after the misshappen gosugamers, discovered tl.net. i instantly liked the scene and posters here because of the maturity and knew that it was the real "core" of sc fans here... well, things have changed slightly over the years but one can still be content.
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Ghardo
Germany1685 Posts
it's been 4 years now that i registered but i dunno really how i came across this site. prolly i was looking for infos on sc and after the misshappen gosugamers, discovered tl.net. i instantly liked the scene and posters here because of the maturity and knew that it was the real "core" of sc fans here... well, things have changed slightly over the years but one can still be content. | ||
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Mastermind
Canada7096 Posts
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LaLuSh
Sweden2358 Posts
Think I've been lurking around here ever since late 2002. I was a big Garimto fan back then. Finally signed up on April 27th 2003. My first post, also related to the legendary Kang Min. A player who quickly rose to become my favourite after Garimto left the progaming scene: On July 13 2003 16:40 LaLuSh wrote: NAL_RA DOES BIG GAEM HUNTERS STRAT, HAHA. NADA GETS EMBARASSED. Stout MBC Starleague back in 2003. Nal_rA vs NaDa. Brings back memories, ohhhhh, the nostalgia. I was a die hard Kang Min fan from the beginning. Nal_rA probably is the only player I have never ever cheered against in a progaming match, regardless of which opponent he faced. Also, my english back then...  | ||
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FunFluffyBunny
Sweden1696 Posts
After that we started playing almost every weekend and eventually I found starcraftgamers (probably about 2002) and I still remember the first replay of pro-gamers I ever saw: Elky vs Sync on Vertigo and how amazed I was at the dropship micro and how they didn't just attack move their armies against each other in the center =) After that I started looking at more replays and I also found Palemans VOD site which introduced me to the emperor himself, and his games vs Yellow in Coca-Cola OSL and Garimto in 2001 SKY OSL. I still hung around scg though and thought that TL.net was just a bunch of assholes, especially Rekrul =D However, with toptalents (much love to him) old site I got to see oov vs yellow and oov vs Nada finals as well as oov vs Nal_ra on reqiuem from Gilette OSL. I think that this was about the same time that the old VOD thread started, and since you had to be an active member to get the password for the files I started doing liquibets and semi-spamming the comment thread to get enough posts. I've been stuck ever since...I've actually asked PoP to open liquibets early, just so that I wouldn't miss any bets going on vacation =D | ||
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ilovezil
United States4143 Posts
On September 12 2008 15:40 EvilTeletubby wrote: I just visited more and more until it was clear THIS was the place I wanted to be. The only thing I feel a bit bad about is that I've hardly met anyone from TL.net, and I would REALLY like to go to some meet-ups, I just wish more things happened on the east coast.  East coast? Son, where do you live? | ||
MrHoon
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1999. Korea was recovering from IMF and many of my neighbor friends who had office dads failed  . Fortunately my dad was a professor so we didn't suffer much from an economic standpoint. However during this time PCbangs became a huge success becauseUnemployed Men + Games with payed Time = LOLOLOLOLPROFIT My friends and I first played some shit ass Korean MMO (which oddly resembled Shining Force) called "DarkSaver." Like every korean MMO, it was a grindtastic game that was total shit. I just played Kingdom of Wind and Darksaver everytime I went there, but everyone else besides me played Starcraft. I was curious to what game it was but I didn't give a shit because My lvl 4 Kraken Knight was one badass Motherfucker. Then one day one of my friends who got "cable tv (note during this time cable TV was a sign of LUXURY in Korea, my dad told me I needed to keep dreaming ) told me Starcraft was played on Tooniverse(cartoon network)! I was like WTF NO WAI, THEY PLAY GAMES ON TV?Then I went over my friend's house and saw this whole pro gaming scene~ A white dude(giyom) in a space suit using protoss with a crowd. I was shocked and awed. Ever since that day I decided to watch every single game possible! Then I was sent to the states to learn engrish It was 2007 when I finally returned to the progaming scene and this time I was even more shocked! Why were there so many new players? What the shit was going on? I was so confused! My Korean was so rusty and I didn't know any English websites. Then I found a certain video on youtube with some white guys holding up a sign during a game that said "tl.net" Out of curiosity I typed that up in google and it led me right here! I was so happy I got information in english and people were very active. I lurked for about an year then registered. So here I am | ||
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iNcontroL
USA29055 Posts
 Yeah I know..At the time if you played bw you posted on TL.net. It was the authority and it was where all the top gamers communicated, networked etc. Now I post here for the hilarity and secondarily for the bw networking! | ||
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OrderlyChaos
United States1115 Posts
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EtherealDeath
United States8366 Posts
Susie you play WoW? I used to as well, raiding hunter who rolled a tanking/healing/shockadin pally for alt fun on the US Bronzebeard server. | ||
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Breavman
Sweden598 Posts
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KH1031
United States862 Posts
I vaguely remember that I started browsing on TL.net on late 2002 and finally created an account sometime mid 2003. Now that I think of it...I might have somehow gotten the link to TL from either sclegacy.com or broodwar.com, because those were the two sc sites that I visit before TL.net | ||
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Nightmarjoo
United States3360 Posts
Now that I think about it, I think I might've found this site through either the TANL, or Rekrul's progaming gossip posts. So I dunno how it happened, but I visit this site throughout the day, every day now. I think at first through lurking I thought the mods were too strict and decided to not post lol. | ||
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funkie
Venezuela9377 Posts
And these forums were the only ones who could stand my improper use of words and gramatics. fuck yeah, tl.net rules. | ||
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VIB
Brazil3567 Posts
On September 12 2008 14:43 lilsusie wrote: You mean koreans don't even realize non-korean sc communities exist even today?A community of SC fans... who weren't Korean?! This opened my eyes. I had no idea! | ||
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Oystein
Norway1602 Posts
I don`t remember how I found the site, think it could have been a link from a Norwegian community site. So I haven`t been the most active poster, but an avid reader! | ||
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Retsukage
United States1002 Posts
I found TL just from links on the internet and youtube videos. Since I kept noticing TL over and over, I decided to check it out, after a week of looking at TL during school, I was addicted. | ||
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YPang
United States4024 Posts
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Narrator
United States868 Posts
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VIB
Brazil3567 Posts
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Liquid`Zephyr
United States996 Posts
did you bang him? o wait i already know the answer to that as for me: i've been here since the beginning cough | ||
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