According to comments on an [url=https://www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Post/1226993?sort=0&page=0]Oct 2008 Post[/url], Bungie.com was registered as a domain name on a Tuesday, June 13th 1995. The oldest images of the website I found on this enigmatic 2008 post [url=http://web.archive.org/web/19961030235200/http://www.bungie.com/]show a very different Bungie.net[/url], The basic sprite work of the 90's is on full display here and it gives me such a feeling of nostalgia for things like old preserved ytmnd pages. In 2003 Bungie.net was created and updated to reflect its new focus on the highly acclaimed Halo franchise, and with it was born the precursor of Offtopic, our waning flood of random discussions; aptly known as [i]The Flood[/i]. Today we are the weakest we have ever been... But how; where did it fall apart? Some might say the great B.next exodus is to blame, or the "great purge" as it is sometimes referred to. Some might say the game destiny itself is to blame. My goal is to chart the rise and subsequent decline into the undead state we currently exist in. Posts were once awash with thousands of comments, now the top of trending rarely breaches one hundred. This is all very sad; and it made me wonder if when I joined in 2015 and became active in 2017... was I just too late to experience it? You've seen the posts, old users returning to be greeted by other users you rarely see, then suddenly a literal cryptid like Achronos, Foman etc. appears; That's because something took place on these forums; indescribable by most, the inception of a community, people making friends and bonding over a cultural hit (the Halo Games) and the Legacy of a developer they followed. A smaller developer who had a very different mission than the Bungie of today. I want to explore that and write something, likely a video essay. Currently I am looking for witnesses to the reign of the Flood and the "pfhor-times" if you get my meaning. If I could find just one user who frequented Bungie.com when the forums were first added in 2003 and the domain shifted to .net, I would enshrine their interview as the last true testament of the ancient users. Yes I know I'm using flowery language to talk about this but frankly there's an almost goofy reverence for those times. I'm just picking up what y'all put down. All people who have old accounts dating back 15 to 19 years; ~2003-2008 I will interview and take your account if you should so agree to offer your experience. Anyone who is or can lead me to someone who can prove they were contributing to Bungie.com before Bungie.net launched its forum, I will feature your account as the oldest available. I will be looking for the accounts of "middle-aged" and "younger" users soon enough, but for the time being I'm only looking for the stories of our most revered elders. [spoiler]I'll get back to Newtopica eventually... or not; life is funny that way; get over it; you were never paying me.[/spoiler] Edit: also if I'm getting dates/details wrong, I will seek to remedy that with my research...