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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 3304784, member: 40"]
I first "got" internet for my job, around 1995, and it wasn't long before I started poking around for SU sports related content.  At that time, the Syracuse newspapers published a weekly [or perhaps bi-weekly] separate publication focused on Syracuse basketball.  I used to get that every time, and read the recruiting section.  At the time, we were hot and heavy after Stephon Marbury, and Shaheen Holloway in the next class.

One of my friends who is a DIE HARD Syracuse fan [and a frequent lurker / infrequent poster on the various incarnations of the board] suggested that I check out the newspaper website for more in-depth, real time recruiting info.  So I checked it out.  And there were lots of kernels of info there, mixed in amongst the cesspool.

I remember pondering over the selection of a handle -- my first online "presence" of any kind -- it seemed like such a monumental decision!

I started posting a bit on the recruiting threads, and shortly thereafter rrlbees responded to one of my posts, suggesting that I check out a non-newspaper board where the quality of dialogue / info sharing was of much higher quality.  I don't even think it was called syracusefan.com back then, but I went over and was hooked.

The rest is history.  Hard to believe that was 25 years ago.  Time flies.
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