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Reply #15 - Mar 11th, 2002 at 9:05am

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That looked like a trip back into the past!!

Too bad I wasn't involved with add-ons yet at the time. Came only when "The Strip" got the name "Simviation", and I believe I found this wonderful place when I typed "F-104" in Altavista seach.....

What did I find?? I found loads and loads of high-quality files found nowhere else, of course a lot of good friends.
 
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Reply #16 - Mar 24th, 2002 at 5:25pm

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Ah well, all things start from somthing small dont they? Grin
Pete maybe renaming to 'when you first found simviation' would sound better, seems that everyone is talking about when they first loged onto the site... and  im no exeption...hehe
Must of been about this time last year, work experiance at RAF Shawbury. I was complaining about an add-on that had 2 2k aircraft and cost about £30. One of the guys mentioned your site and i found myself a few 747's, a spit'IX and a C-17 Smiley...
...Then i went to South Africa for 3 weeks and completely forgot about it Roll Eyes
Next time i was here was to log on to the fourms, about half way into september. the day after i registered the forums got buged and had to regester again Angry lol
 
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Reply #17 - Mar 24th, 2002 at 9:26pm

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Hey All

I didn't find this site in such a poetic way either.

I was bored at college one day and decided to take advantage of my only acess to a high speed internet connection. I was attacking the search engines to find information on a 747-400 that I was considering as my final, end of year project.

I came across the aircraft information part of the simviation site first, and almost immediatly dismissed it as I followed a link on the page to a different site.

When I was done with the other pages I looked for other links on the simviation page and was completley swallowed in by it, and I haven't really left since.

And thats how I discovered simviation.com

So thank you Pete for running up my phone bills and giving me square eyes from staring at VGA's all day long  Wink Smiley Grin j/k

Wee Davie

P.S. I didn't continue with the 747, it's now a P-51D I'm making.

 
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Reply #18 - Mar 24th, 2002 at 10:36pm

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I discovered simviation way back in the late months of 98 when a member of a VA is was in at the time gave me the url.  That night I probably stayed up to 2 a.m. downloading planes, learning new techniques, and checking out everything the site had to offer.  Still to this day I have'nt used any other sites on the web for my flight sim downloads except for the rare occurence when the site does'nt have something I'm looking for.
 
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Reply #19 - Mar 27th, 2002 at 12:01pm

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I found "The Strip" while doing a search a couple of weeks ago!

It looked a bit familier in layout, but at the time I couldn't quite place it.

I almost had a heart attack when I found out it was yours there Pete!
 
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Reply #20 - Mar 27th, 2002 at 2:55pm

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1999 I think I found my second home here............Funny thing is, when I had a go of 98 after looking through the old download pages, I found i still had most of the planes and panels installed on my machine. Just wish I had found the forums earlier. Everyone (or most) are brilliant and I thank you for the early days of my FS world.

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Reply #21 - Mar 27th, 2002 at 5:00pm

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I found "The Strip" while doing a search a couple of weeks ago!

It looked a bit familier in layout, but at the time I couldn't quite place it.

I almost had a heart attack when I found out it was yours there Pete!

hehehe ... I hope you are joking - ...
'the strip' isn't on the web except on a folder at this site & if you found it through a search engine I'd be both astonished & puzzled. I've yet to know any search engine that is more than 6 months up to date on this site!!! I only put 'the strip' up a couple of weeks ago .....
'Google' for instance is way out of date in referencing this site.
 
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Reply #22 - Mar 27th, 2002 at 5:11pm

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Hey pete... www.archive.org Smiley
I also found this little something there too remember your page in 1999? well here it is http://web.archive.org/web/19990508053948/http://www.simviation.com/
 
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Reply #23 - Mar 27th, 2002 at 8:55pm

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Thats an interesting site!!! I'm going to try find a few of my own there....

And Simviation doesn't look bad!! 2 years ago? Whew!!
 
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Reply #24 - Mar 27th, 2002 at 9:20pm

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me too! Wink
 
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Reply #25 - Mar 28th, 2002 at 12:04am

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I remember that one, it sure brings back memories.  Smiley
 
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Reply #26 - Mar 28th, 2002 at 6:24am

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Hey pete... www.archive.org Smiley
I also found this little something there too remember your page in 1999? well here it is http://web.archive.org/web/19990508053948/http://www.simviation.com/

Hey Ace - thanks for that - that was really interesting -  Grin
 
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Reply #27 - Mar 28th, 2002 at 9:37am

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Dare we ask WHAT were you searching for that you got "The Strip" as a 'hit'???  Wink


If Pete started "The Strip" does that make him the original "Stripper"  ...  If his name were Jack, do we call him "Jack the Stripper" ???





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I found "The Strip" while doing a search a couple of weeks ago!

It looked a bit familier in layout, but at the time I couldn't quite place it.

I almost had a heart attack when I found out it was yours there Pete!

 
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Reply #28 - Mar 28th, 2002 at 7:17pm

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Hey Ace - thanks for that - that was really interesting -  Grin
  No problem guess I just have way too much time on my hands  Cheesy
 
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Reply #29 - Mar 31st, 2002 at 9:32pm

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I say post it up.  Althouh I have only been going to this site since last summer, This has Simviation has been my main stop for anyth FS and I would really like to see how simviation started out
 
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