Happy Birthday, TFP!
 

By my count, today is the TFP's 5th birthday. On this day in 2002, I submitted a link to Fark.com to drive traffic to my dead little forum. The link got posted and hundreds of people started coming to the TFP. I then used the traffic and shaped a community out of it and this is what we have 5 years later.

I'd like to thank everyone for their role in making this the great site that it is today. From the moderators who put in a great deal of their time to making sure this site is top quality, to the donors who have helped me keep this site afloat throughout the years, to the contributors who give this site it's unique flavor, to the lurkers who have the potential to be another great member. Thank you all.

In "celebration" of this lil event, I've created a Wikipedia page for the TFP. Tilted Forum Project. Feel free to fill out the page with whatever information about the site you'd like to add. I simply wrote up that little ditty just to get the page up there.

Anyways, here's to another five years. Hopefully we can expand some more and grow with the new age. After all, that's what evolution is all about.

This is awesome!
Happy Birthday, Tilted Forum Project!

Aw man, and I was thinking about writing a wikipedia entry just for the 5th anniversary!

Oh well, happy 5th, TFP!

Five Years?

Wow! That's practically ancient history in internet years...

Well done TFP.

Well done members.

But most of all, well done Hal. :thumbsup:

Happy Birthday, TFP!! My home away from home! Thanks, to Halx for creating this worldwide COMMUNITY and it's member's for a great place to unwind and and
communicate with such a diverse a audience!

Cheers TFP!

Wow. I can't believe it's been five years.

Congratulations everyone.

Happy Birthday, TFP! Wish I had met you earlier. :)

Happy Birthday!!

Very cool. You, in particular, should be very proud of what your creation has become.

Wow, hard to believe it's been that long. I'm a bit hesitant about adding anything to the wikipedia page since I don't want to put any misinformation down, but I was thinking about putting down info about each version as far as dates, etc. However I only really know about the end of 3.0 before the hard drive crash and 4.0

Ah, it's been a long road... so fun, though... and there's so much more to look forward to. :)

Happy birthday, TFP. :)

Congrat, Hal! Happy b-day TFP! And thanks to everyone, for giving a geezer a cool place to hang!

happy,happy TFP............been a fun ride so far.

I think that the "notability" of TFP may get challenged by the wikipedia community, and the article may get nominated for deletion. To help prevent the article from being deleted, we need something that argues for its notability.
Anyone any ideas?

I fixed a typo...changed "fourty" to "forty"....I'm compulsive that way, eh-heh.

Happy birthday TFP--my work away from work. :D I love this place!

Happy Birthday! Best place on the net! A toast to Halx!

Happy birthday TFP and congratulations to you Halx!

I don't know what I would've done without TFP at my side. Thanks a ton Halx for creating this wonderful place. Also, does this mean we all get cake in our face or only just Halx?

Woohoo! I havnt been here for all 5 years, but I have been around for a while.

Dang time flies.

Happy Birthday to us!

Yay! What a great day it was the day I found TFP, and I'm so glad I've stuck around :)

Happy f'ing birthday!

I doff my hat to Halx.

I wonder how TFP will be doing in five years from now at it's 10 year birthday? Can we take TFP out drinking on it's 21st?

Happy Birthday, TFP, many more.

yay! 5 years.

thanks for the memories.

Like I said, if you have more to add, please do. I have 2 references, but it doesn't seem like they work... if someone can get them working, that would be great. I built the writeup based on Fark.com's entry.

sweet! This place is incredible!

Five?
*goes out and buys TFP a super-soaker and some "break-your-own" geodes

This is quite possibly the greatest, and coolest, five-year-old ever.

Happy Birthdayand many many more......

I feel old.

happy anniversary everyone. Here's to five more years (who am I kidding, here's to 50 more years)!

/me lights his lamp beside thy golden door...

January 02... Wow. That was a long time ago. Nearly 1/4 of my life ;)

You're 12?
...wait...

So TfP is finally off to kindergarten.

I hope it gets to join the coolkids club and stays away from the sewing circles.

...too late, again...
happy to have found you, anyway, happy birthday, tfp.

Happy Birthday TFP!
Five years old and already so much sex talk....TFP is cool. :thumbsup:

I'm glad that I've found it and wish I could give as much back to it as it has given to me. :)

It's five years ago. 5 x 4 = 20, last time I checked. I'm a little past that :P

Happy Birthday TFP!

I haven't been here for all 5 - in fact, I lurked for my first 2 years. :| Here's to an ass-load of more years.

Halx, I salute you.

So, is there cake, or pie? I'm hoping for pie.

Thanks for having such a great site Halx!!

Pie is good!!

Thanks Halx!

Cheers to all the members!!

Here's to lurking and posting a bunch one month and disappearing the next and knowing it will be here when I get back!! ;)

Found this place on Fark, and then TFP pretty much replaced Fark for me. Haven't been there in months. But I check in here nearly each time I'm on the internet.

Thanks to all that made this possible.

ive been here for about 2.5 years now, so im middle aged in terms of TFP years. came onto TFP by accident through google, and have found this place to be a beacon of information and a great melting pot of many views and ideas. i love this place and log on everytime im online.

think i've been here about 2 years now...it's been absolutely the best online experience i've ever had. meering all you guys, getting to know you guys and making friends that i feel that i've known forever and havn't even met YET...

thank you to all who make this possible and thanks to all members for just being who you are,for giving me something i don't think i'll ever beable to let go of,something i'll never forget and the opportunity to meet people that i really look up to and admire.

Happy Birthday TFP...

Any place that you can say that you've made friends that live around the world... It has to be fuckin' cool.


Not to mention it's gotten me laid.

I was just over at Wikipedia, and saw that they are proposing to delete the TFP entry. here's what they said:
It is proposed that this article be deleted, because of the following concern:

non-notable Internet forum

If you can address this concern by improving, copyediting, sourcing, renaming or merging the page, please edit this page and do so. You may remove this message if you improve the article, or if you otherwise object to deletion of the article for any reason. To avoid confusion, it helps to explain why you object to the deletion, either in the edit summary or on the talk page. If this template is removed, it should not be replaced.

The article may be deleted if this message remains in place for five days.Prod, concern: non-notable Internet forum This template was added 2007-01-23; five days from then is 2007-01-28.

If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article so that it is acceptable according to the deletion policy. Nominator: Please consider notifying the author(s) of this page using

{{subst:prodwarning|Tilted Forum Project}} ~~~~

I don't have much to do with Wikipedia, so can anyone fix this?

Typical wikipedia... no sense of scale.

Well, the only way to fix this is to prove TFP's notability. I am not sure that this can be done. As internet forums go we are pretty small (598th by post count according to this site). The fact that TFP is the GREATEST forum on the internet would unfortunately not considered be considered neutral and objective by the wikipedians! :(
So unless we were mentioned in some print publication or something like that then I don't think that there is much that we can do to prevent this article from being deleted.

there isn't anything that could or should be done
wikipedia has a criteria for articles about websites, and it's posted:

TFP has been a lot of things for me, and I'm pleased to be a member, but it doesn't warrant a wiki page.