June 2001 - nearly 25 years on the forum (I'm the 18th registered member here), but i was also on the MSN GTP chat page for an unknown amount of time until Jordan created the forums.
I was still a teenager then (43 now), didn't have a car (got three now, two Skylines and a Note Nismo), didn't have a partner (been married since 2012 to my awesome gamer, car mad, sporty wife who's been nationally and world ranked in BMX), didn't have a house (owned a house for the past ten and a half years), didn't have a job (been employed at the same workplace now since 2012), didn't have kids (got two now, a four year old boy and two year old girl), and i had more hair, less weight, more time to game, and less knowledge of the world and how it works. 😅
There's been bad times too, but no point dwelling on all that as billions of people go through the same things.
I've also had my Gran Turismo website for 25 years, can't remember if i started it before or after i found GTPlanet though.
Love how this is still a friendly place, so many forums end up getting nasty and not nice places to be - keep it up Jordan!