A fun little heads-up.
Some long-dormant muscle-memory just kicked in as I was entering this forum’s URL. So I falsely entered https://forum.processing.org. To my surprise, that page is live and points to ALL past forums.
Some are in archive mode, but it was fun going back in time – right back to ALPHA for me – and seeing OG names like fry, st33d, mflux, PhiLho and JohnG.
Also, cringing hard at my own posts from way back… 
When did you all get on board?
It’s a nice reminder of the long and valueable tradition we have here.
I always used the name Chrisir here and I seem to be aboard since 10/2013 at last.
Fully agree, not many a community I know is as supportive and knowledgable as this one. And open to newbies.
Though I’m a bit sad that all the years of knowledge is fragmented out over several locations.
Also, the proce55ing → Processing name switch. But I guess that was inevitable. At least it lives on with p5.js.
Going down memory lane some more, does anybody know if the original exhibitions sketches are accessible or archived somewhere? I loved those. Particularly the Wire Sculpture sound thingy by Amit Pitaru (?). And all the Complexification stuff by Jared Tarbell. Though those are still up and you can grab the source and mess around.
Oh, not to forget the sketch with the ice skating couple. So simple, so effective.
Yeah, I know that chessboard profile image for some time now. Always wondered if it was from of a thing you made.
All of them but this 1 are fully archived!
BtW, I’ve been around since https://forum.Processing.org/one/!
You can check that out at my forum name on the right-panel’s monthly reply “Leaderboard” at 2nd!
Indeed, I made a chess board with those pieces, it’s from Bauhaus Chess
One of my big life questions is finally answered!
Going on a fully new tangent; those naef wooden toys are a great – albeit eye-wateringly expensive – creative coding inspiration. I can’t look at one of the more geometric toys without having my mind packing the base elements into objects and algorythming them onto the screen.
when you look at the first second here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrCAhPaAqZ8
I joined early 2009 and my first library, G4P was released 22nd March 2009 so my earliest posts were on the beta forum and from that time I particularly remember PhiLho and jeffg.
PhiLho was truly awesome in the depth of his knowledge of Processing under the hood.
jeffg was interested in using G4P and peasycam together and was extremely helpful by testing G4P for me. Here is one of the earliest posts of mine that I could find.
In forum 1.0 my name changed to quarks because the forum had a minimum 6 character requirement. I notice I only made 4th position on the leaders board LOL. In the next forum PhiLho changed it back to quark for me.
Agreed.
Many forums, especially Stack Overflow, are very unwelcoming to newbies.
Processing Discourse has always been wecolming and receptive.
