I installed the first version of the software and set up the first user (me) at around 11pm on the 29th of December 2015, with a test user an hour or so later (the late great Suzie the cat). There must have been a couple more, and then at 8am the next morning Gilbertd rocked up and created an account. He's posted roughly ten times as much as I have over the years!

He was then followed by a bunch of refugees from The Other Site, and here we are nearly ten years later.

So, I don't know, zoom call and crack a beer at 23:06 on the 29th, anyone?

Sounds like a plan to me, it'll be like the days of Lockdown when nobody was allowed out so had to entertain themselves somehow.

To be honest I thought it was the previous December. It was July 2014 when I was up in Glasgow for the Commonwealth Games and we were sitting in a pub when the idea of a virtual pub came after 5 or 6 pints of a rather nice, locally brewed, Commonwealth Ale as an antidote to RR.net.

But being very sad, I've just gone into my 2015 email inbox and sure enough, there's the email timed at 01:53 on 30/12/2015 with a link and the suggestion of having a play and seeing if I can break it (which I did, a mere 16 hours later).

From that tiny start of half a dozen or so in the first week, the memberlist now shows we are up to almost 10,000 members. A shame a large proportion are spammers or bots. Equally a shame that some of the original members, Orangebean, dave3d and Ferryman to name just a few that I am aware of, are no longer with us.

10 Years!!!???
Seems like no more than 120 months ago to me!
As soon as I saw that in print, I had to really have a think about it.
I'm so glad that Gilbert invited me in from the cold, dark side!

All I can really say is:
Thank you so much for putting up the site and keeping it up!
Granted, one of the admins gets a bit grumpy at times, however he's got a long way to go to catch up
with the late, great Toad Hall.......
If I can figure out how to make zoom work on any of my devices, a meetup would be great!
Cheers for the last decade and looking forward to the next!
Best of the holidays to you as well!
Tom

it doesn't feel like ten years, i don't even think like i have owned the p38 for that long, it's gone very quickly. when i first purchased the rover and found the other R/R site it was really good, all the info that anyone could imagine and then it disappeared because of the stupidity of the owners, then Richard brought this site to my attention and i haven't really looked back. i have had a couple of , where are you messages from the other side but have ignored them basically. Its 8am here in Australia, if you were going to have a zoom meeting what time would that be here. i will look into getting a bloody camera that works and try and join in.

Isn't it +11 hours time difference? If you posted at 8am on the 7th Dec, the site shows it as 20:56 on the 6th. So 23:06 on the 29th December here would be 10:06 on the 30th for you as you are ahead of us.