MoFo Turns 14, shouts "You don't understand me!" at parents

[Yoda]

Yup, another year, and we're still around. Which is pretty wild, given that when it comes to lifespan websites are the fruit flies of the media world.

Last year, I said this:

When that 14th anniversary rolls around, you're going to be looking at a completely different site, and easily the most dramatic change we've undergone since way back in the site's first few years, when we implemented some version of the layout you still see today.
Yup, that definitely happened. If this isn't the biggest year-to-year change in the site's history, it's certainly the biggest in over a decade.

And the response has been really encouraging: we're on pace to shatter last year's post record (which shattered the old mark), the new server's still purring, and you guys are doing all sorts of cool, spontaneously organized stuff. Like the 1970s list, which-oh-by-the-way, has its deadline tomorrow. Get your list in! (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=35063)

I wanna thank all of you for spending your time here and making this such a cool place. Rest assured I never forget that my contribution to all this is to create and maintain the environment. But that's all for nothing if intelligent, funny, interesting people don't fill it with their thoughts and games and jokes. So thank you, again, for making this site what it is.

[The Rodent]

Trying to think what I was doing 14 years ago... drinking heavily at weekends... popping pills in the nightclubs...

[Yoda]

I was convincing myself that this was cool:

http://www.movieforums.com/images/oldsite/oldmofo_1.jpg

[The Rodent]

That actually looks pretty nifty...

[Yoda]

A fellow web developer did the logo, so that looks kinda sharp. But it's hilariously dissonant with the rest of the layout. I just sort of slapped it on there.

The software didn't have PMs, avatars, or a thousand other things back then.

[Skepsis93]

I was convincing myself that this was cool:

http://www.movieforums.com/images/oldsite/oldmofo_1.jpg

So 2000.

[rauldc14]

Is movieforums.com your main job Yoda? I mean is there income out of this, or is this more for fun?

[Skepsis93]

14 years for a movie website is seriously impressive. So many others out there that I'm sure quickly fell by the wayside, but MoFo is going as strongly as ever. Here's to 14 more! :)

[Swan]

I wish I knew this much about film when I was 14.

[jiraffejustin]

How many members are left from then?

[Sexy Celebrity]

Trying to think what I was doing 14 years ago... drinking heavily at weekends... popping pills in the nightclubs...
Watching YOUNG GUNS.

By the way, you were a pill popper?

[Sexy Celebrity]

I was convincing myself that this was cool:

http://www.movieforums.com/images/oldsite/oldmofo_1.jpg
It still has green, the color of Yoda, and the color of rep.

I think I also see JRS there.

[Yoda]

Is movieforums.com your main job Yoda? I mean is there income out of this, or is this more for fun?
Nah. It made a modest amount in the past, but has never been an income or anything. It doesn't really make anything right now because I've only just reintroduced ads (and ads in general aren't that profitable these days).

Anyway, there are nice fringe benefits to running a busy site beyond money, since I'm still a part-time web developer. Running this place has helped me learn and test a lot of things on a broader stage than I'd have been able to otherwise.

How many members are left from then?
Probably just Austruck and me, I think.

I think I also see JRS there.
If I remember right, that's someone else.

[EmmMimaki]

Trying to think what I was doing 14 years ago... drinking heavily at weekends... popping pills in the nightclubs...

wow sounds like fun, i was in 1st grade probably playing with dirt!

[Guaporense]

One of the oldest forums I know about I guess.

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

I was convincing myself that this was cool:

http://www.movieforums.com/images/oldsite/oldmofo_1.jpg

Looks very professional.:D

[Austruck]

You know, it's not just that this website is this old, but that it's still a heavily visited FORUM site. I used to visit a bunch of forums for all sorts of interests. Almost all of them have either completely died, dried up, or switched over to solely Facebook pages instead.

This is really the only actual forum I still visit regularly. Others are just places I go to ask very specific questions once in a while (usually tech-oriented).

Congrats, Yoda! You were such a little nerdy geek when you were 15! :)

[mark f]

14 years ago I thought I was young! Whoops.
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3ppveMgu71r4lux2.gif

Congrats, Chris!

[rauldc14]

I just didn't know if you had a full time job or anything. I'd imagine it would be hard to do that plus this site, but I see you make it work.

[VFN]

Creating a site at that age is impressive, but maybe more interesting is your subject choice. Did you have any dreams of getting into the movie industry, Yoda?

[The Gunslinger45]

Yoda thanks for keeping this place going for so long! Congratulations!

[Mr Minio]

Holy cow. I was 6 in 2000.

[Derek Vinyard]

HELL YEAH !! The Best Forum of all the internet in my opinion Congrats !

[The Gunslinger45]

I just realized when this site was made 14 years ago... I was 14 years old and in high school.

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fimages.hitfix.com%2Fassets%2F2059%2Fkeanu2.gif&f=1

[jrs]

Congrats on lasting this long. Next year will mark Mofo's 15th anniversary and that's a milestone in itself. Here's hoping this forum makes it to 30. :p

[The Gunslinger45]

And then when the forum turns 45 it will have a mid life crisis and buy a red convertible Corvette.

[Yoda]

Creating a site at that age is impressive, but maybe more interesting is your subject choice. Did you have any dreams of getting into the movie industry, Yoda?
Oh, not really. It might be fun to write a screenplay or something someday, but mostly just to do it. I like developing websites and I've been doing it forever, so I'm pretty content just to encourage others to join and/or appreciate the industry.

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

HELL YEAH !! The Best Forum of all the internet in my opinion Congrats !

Hear, hear!

[Cobpyth]

Congratulations! Let's hope the forum will proceed to exist with such prosperity for AT LEAST another 14 years. ;)

[Rhys]

14 years ago I was 4 years old. Congratulations on keeping a website alive for this long. I joined at the right time it seems (with just enough time to see the change over). I'm excited for the 15th year. =)

[Hit Girl]

I wanna thank all of you for spending your time here and making this such a cool place. Rest assured I never forget that my contribution to all this is to create and maintain the environment. But that's all for nothing if intelligent, funny, interesting people don't fill it with their thoughts and games and jokes. So thank you, again, for making this site what it is.

Thanks for providing an atmosphere that allows us to feel comfortable doing all these things. Here's to the next 14 years!

[Kaplan]

The site is coming of age! Congratulations!!!

http://images.fandango.com/MDCsite/images/featured/201205/the-goonies-treasure-map.jpg

[honeykid]

This place really is the best. :yup:

[Godoggo]

Trying to think what I was doing 14 years ago... drinking heavily at weekends... popping pills in the nightclubs...

Yeah, I was 16 so whatever I was up to wasn't any good. It seems like we were pretty much doing the same thing.

Hope the site is still here in 14 more years and longer. It's my second home. I wouldn't know what to do with myself without it.

[rauldc14]

Godoggo poppin pills? Whoa

[TheUsualSuspect]

14 years ago I was 12 and I've been here for 8 of those 14 years.

Congrats Yoda, keeping this place alive. You should be very proud of what you've accomplished.

[Harry Lime]

Congratulations to MovieForums and to Yoda. Great site. Thanks for everything.

[SamsoniteDelilah]

Congrats, Yods. It's no small task, keeping a forum alive, and this one works brilliantly as well as having fun people and a great atmosphere.

[Pussy Galore]

Wow I didn't know the forum was that old, congratulations and lets hope that it'll last for a long time. (I was 4 years old at the time XD)