When/What is the official date that George first started Thai Visa.... and do we have other start up members still with us ??  Anyhow Happy Birthday.

Believe it was fall of 2002 as George was spamming USENET with invitations to join (USENET, being unmoderated, was getting useless for any discussions).  I joined in Feb 2003 and believe membership was about 300.

1 hour ago, lopburi3 said:

Believe it was fall of 2002 as George was spamming USENET with invitations to join (USENET, being unmoderated, was getting useless for any discussions).  I joined in Feb 2003 and believe membership was about 300.

That sounds about right. I signed up in August of 2003 and I had been lurking for about a year. It was a lot better forum back then. It seemed like people would actually try to help one another instead of just attacking them for trying to find a way to stay in Thailand when they didn't quite fit the rules.

Soc.culture.Thai newsgroup is still going...though there seems to be very few on topic posters left now just tons and tons and tons of spam.

I, too, joined in February, 2003.   Not a lot of the people posting at that time are still posting.  Of course they could be under a different name now.

Unfortunately a number have also probably passed on, given the demographic and 16+ years passed.