Check this out.

[SandStorm]

I was just surfing through the last few pages of the Rumble Strip, and I came upon this. What do you reckon? Let's see who remembers the old GTP community.

 

[Klonie Gun]

It looks dated. Ugly, isn't it?

 

[Josh]

That's the old MSN community.

Not too many people will remember that. I don't remember it, but I've heard of it. That's what started it all.

 

[Talentless]

I've still got membership.

 

[askia47]

thats a loooooong time ago

 

[Jordan]

I remember it all too well! I posted a rather in-depth history of GTPlanet, including that MSN Community.

For the die-hard GTP enthusiast, the original birth of this community occured on my old GT2 MSN site (where I was inspired to create GTPlanet after receiving the gtplanet.net domain name as a birthday gift). The very first message on MSN was posted on January 15th, 2000, and can be found here. Other than myself, Talentless and Misnblu are the oldest active members, both of whom originally joined the community when it was still on MSN.

You can read the full post here.

 

[askia47]

cool!

 

[SandStorm]

Ahh, the old Community brings back a lot of memories . . . my discovery of GTP for one. I believe I was actually searching Google for GT3 news (at the time GT3 hadn't been released in Oz) and came across a site that said "For all your GTP needs", or something of the such.

My very first photo album (when the Community was still in action) was of Calibras. Perhaps it's still there.

 

[SandStorm]

Yep, here it is! Right down the very bottom, it's titled "um..cars an' stuff". And it still works!

I can't believe this. This must have been about two years ago, now.