Do you remember when and/or how you found this site?
I admit since it was over 20 years ago I don't remember how I found this site but am sure glad I did.
Do you remember when and/or how you found this site?
I admit since it was over 20 years ago I don't remember how I found this site but am sure glad I did.
I was reading Oyster50's stuff on a different site, I don't remember where. I was halfway through a story and had to close out to get back to work. Later when I opened my internet app to finish, I realized I forgot to save the page. Not remembering the story title, I googled his name and discovered this place.
I don't recall how I found SOL, but when is easy. On your my account page, it will give you the date (and time) your SOL account was created.
For me its, 11/28/2005, 12:06:00 PM
Do you remember when and/or how you found this site?
Reading a story on alt.sex.stories.moderated and seeing a reference. My current account was created in 2011; I had a previous account from around 2004 to 2011.
I can't remember how or when I found SOL but I know the date on my account page is wrong, 6/10/2005, 1:57:10 PM, as I was reading SOL before I left Canada in 2001.
I do remember some of the first stories I read though - Camp and Orange County Babylon to name a couple and the one that I was reading right before I left,and thankfully was completed the day before I left on 1 June 2001 was Aftermath by Al Steiner. I remember being so grateful it was completed as I had been reading it from day 1 and didn't know when I'd have access to "open" internet again!
SunSeeker
Back in 1998 Lazeez and I were shooting the shit over few beers after finishing work on a graphic design project commissioned by the company I worked at back then, when lazeez mentioned he had a website and gave me the IP address to check it out. That was before he registered Storiesonline.net.
At the time he still had picture galleries and hadn't focused on stories only yet. Fun times...
8/29/2005, 7:29:13 AM
Way back in the dark days of time when the internet was run by dial-up modems that took us to Telnet sites.
One day on the open discussion channel a group of users where talking about their favorite sites and this one site was getting mentioned by users that I knew where from places like Denmark, Great Britton, South America, and of course America. So since I all ready liked reading and was curious about the diversity of users that said they like the site I gave it a look and never left.
For those who are curious I was on Brinta BBS.
I'm not sure, now. I'd been following ASSTR (as a newsgroup, not the website version, for the most part) for almost two decades (yes, it wasn't always called that) and newsgroups were getting more and more spammy and messy, and someone pointed me here.
That old account (which still exists, but is no longer premium) was created in 2007. This one is brand new (late 2020); I made it when I started posting.
I was recovering from wounds I got in Iraq. I was posted to Fort Campbell for physical therapy; they had torn down the barracks for the personnel assigned to the "Warrior Transition Regiment" before I arrived; so, we were being housed in a motel off post (thus not using a government internet connection). I was surfing on my personal computer, and found a short story about combat in Korea c.1951; it was a very good story and a link took me here.
I redeployed several times, and did not create an account until after I had retired from the US Army and would no longer be on (monitored) government networks. Although I mostly read the military, war, game lit, fantasy, westerns, and other stories with minimal or no sex... Accessing such a site through a government portal (even if I would never use a government computer to do so) may well have led to a ...Discussion with some unpleasant authorities.
I do enjoy some of the stories with sex. Gey Wolf's Variation on a Theme is an excellent example. https://storiesonline.net/s/20679/variation-on-a-theme
https://storiesonline.net/s/21339/red-or-green by Sapper-18 is "semi-fictional" but rings true!
https://storiesonline.net/s/65660/always-a-marine by Ernest Bywater was my introduction to that fantastic Aussie, and I have read nearly everything he posted on SoL.
https://storiesonline.net/s/11339/the-grim-reaper-romantic-story
and
https://storiesonline.net/s/71089/recluse-and-ghost (a fictional/fantasy story about a Veteran of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, also rings true, at least to me, in many ways; albeit with the fantasy elements notwithstanding.
There is so much good writing on SoL!
Of course, I have several WiPs (Works in Progress); now that I have moved to a more stable location, I plan to start posing again...
Like most have already said, I was here (silently loitering) before I took a gamble and created an account, which was Created: 20/10/2002, 20:00:49. I can barely remember last week let alone that far back, so no idea how I found it. I think it was through a link from NIFTY or Cyrstal's or similar ... LOL
Over twenty years ... Does that make me eligible for a veteran's medal? 😃