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

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:

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!

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.

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

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

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

I was convincing myself that this was cool:

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

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

That actually looks pretty nifty...

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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.

So 2000.

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

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

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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! :)

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

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

How many members are left from then?

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

Watching YOUNG GUNS.

By the way, you were a pill popper?

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It still has green, the color of Yoda, and the color of rep.

I think I also see JRS there.

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.

Probably just Austruck and me, I think.

If I remember right, that's someone else.

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

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

One of the oldest forums I know about I guess.

Looks very professional.:D

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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! :)

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

Congrats, Chris!

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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.

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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?