I've never met any of these people in real life, although I have spoken to quite a few on the phone.

I almost met Jafo once........................but luckily he didn't spot me and I escaped! Phew!!

G'day again Jerry

EventHorizon... "real life"? wassat?!?!

ok, seriously... I live not very far from MadIce and plan on one to visit him, but don't tell him
And on a longer term, me and the misses are planning a trip to Australia to hazzle a bit with Jafo, Transmutate, Grimspoon and all the other mad Aussies

But I haven't met anyone as of yet :/

Oh, Snowman! We better coordinate this because PK and me were planning to go over at your place. We should not end up visiting each other at the same time and miss each other because of it.

Jafos an aussie?

/me is overcome with all the nostalgia

Names I haven't seen in donkeys ... months ... popping up again.

Ah the good old days (that I only came into in the waning months of skinz)

http://web.archive.org/web/20000229191247/http://skinz.org/ - a little skinz.org nostalgia

lets try that again: http://web.archive.org/web/20000229191247/%68%74%74%70:/skinz.org/

nope.. sorry well, just goto the link and type www.skinz.org in the bar at the top and chose a date

EventH...yes, I'm an Aussie..

As is Transmutate and Grimspoon...both I've met in real life[tm]....yep, real people do exist...

So what's this about a skin suite? I have some free time to dust off photoshop and contribute..

OMG! Hell Dragon I have seen that link before but I actually got into a thread this time! hehe
yikes time machine warp...

*cough http://www.skinz.org cough* it's still there

Tananda.. wow, first time in a couple of years I've seen that name anywhere....

Actually, all these names are two people with multiple personality disorder chatting with each other. For instance, someone like Jafo and his spell obsession can't be real. And neither can Doreen. No sane person "hehe"'s that much.

Or perhaps it's just one person doing it.

Anyhow, it explains why they know each other so well, but have never met.

Wow, so good to see old names.

Snowman, yes, I saw you're an admin there now. Good for you!
But frankly, I dunno. After all that's happen, that site kinda feels spooky. It's like visiting an old friend's grave.
But hopefully, it will resuscitate and become something good again. Best of luck to you.

Tananda! Great to see you! You've been away for a long time, probably about due for a new skin.... your offer to join the historical suite project should be enough to get it started.

Heya Grim, how's it going?

hehe Hi David dont know about that but I'd love to work with some of the old school people again. working on a skin, just finished a contest piece over at devart. May 21 will be two years since I've uploaded a new skin. Maybe I can get something out by then to mark the date.

Response from Martin (fearoffours):

"Grrrr.

Failed to post longer msg correctly cos of bad cookies.
In brief:

Yes I'm here, very well thanks
Started teaching in January, work keeps me away from computer.
WC profile reflects correct email now, feel free to contact me.
When I do have time, I'm on the devteam for ToME, a roguelike computer game.
( http://www.t-o-m-e.net/ ) - a variant of angband
http://www.thangorodrim.net/ , http://angband.oook.cz/ ).
Might skin more in the summer. Esp now I have nice shiny computer with
broadband "

Disclaimer: The above has been tweaked slightly to correct spellings.

»"Snowman, yes, I saw you're an admin there now. Good for you!
»But frankly, I dunno. After all that's happen, that site kinda feels spooky. It's like visiting an old friend's grave.
»But hopefully, it will resuscitate and become something good again. Best of luck to you. "
Well paxx, it IS kinda like a grave atm... virtually no-one visits the site, especially the oldies!!

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Nice move Phil!! It would be nice to see some more fab work from FoF!!

pj : I would like to see that gear-menu in action, You remember ?

What exactly was Skinz.org in all its former glory? Why did it die? (This was all way before I got into skinning)

c242: Which one? Cogs n Gears DX theme from over a year ago?

oops. Seem to be hijacking thread.
If you wanna start a new thread I can discuss it with ya.

/me ponders how to get back on topic.

EventHorizon: Skinz.org was and still is a skinning site. To many posting here it was THE skinning site to go to and hang out, chat on the messageboard and generally have fun.
I had been going there for many months but only found the messageboard quite late on. But once I found it I read almost every single thread.

Doreen was notorious for taking it off topic and Doreenosis.
Jafo was just Jafo and did Jafo type things.
Frogboy posted in the news about upcoming cool stuff Stardock were doing.
People came on asking for warez and got short shrift.
Buzz Hog threw figs around.
The idea of the CommunitySkin was started by Crumbut over there.

Many other people touched my life in a way they will never know while I was there.

Come to think of it it's not that different from here

It was taken over by E-Front who ran it into the ground eventually and became largely inactive when the regulars there moved to other places, DeviantArt, Deskmod and here many taking their skinz etc with them. In many ways this site came about because of skinz.org's demise.

Skinz.org is no longer owned by e-front and back now with Snowman (who is of the old school) as one of the admins there. Pop in and have a look around.

Many people have good memories of it in it's hey-day but also have bad memories of it when it started to decline.

For me wincusto is my new home and that is where I mostly go.
If you want to 'see' some of the regulars of skinz.org and the skinning community in general visit:

http://www.angelfire.com/nj2/mttraulsen/Pictureland.html

Yes. Not off topic at all.

Good round up pjpowell

hehe... skinz was also the home of ''''Shoggot'''' the 8 armed admin who moderated all the wallpapers on skinz, he became famous for his tough rules and moderation guidelines... basically if you could get a wallpaper past him you knew you were doing ''''something'''' right, and this often forced a lot of people to try harder and come out with better and better work.

Sometimes people used to argue about the moderation and what was considered ''''art'''' and so forth. Messageboard threads were always entertaining and interesting reads, due to all the colourful characters and their personalities.

The site also had a ''''Top 5 daily downloads'''' that was quite popular and always an honour to get in, and get that little extra exposure - if that''''s what you were looking for.

The site was brown in colour, and at first you thought ''''ewww... what were they thinking?'''', but it quickly grew on you and a lot of people thought of it as their home... a cool place to hang out, chat, upload skins and interact with other like-minded people - the community was a lot smaller back then, something like 15 to 30 new uploads a day or something, and most got at least 1 helpful comment on from someone out there.

It was also a great place for skinners to help out ''''developers'''' in the community... software developers would come to the messageboard and discuss an app and whether it would be useful, then the skinners would skin the app and the admins would create a new category for this up-and-coming app, and so it was born. ColorPad and a few of the 545 Studios app were born in this way, among others.

Skinz was a great place, which unfortunately fell from grace and slowly sunk into corporate greed and was eventually destroyed in the way we knew it, but by that time Deskmod & deviantART (and a little later Wincustomize) were on the scene and people began to slowly disperse away into the other sites.

The skin & graphics community has changed A LOT since those days; things are much much bigger now, and it''''s often hard to get that small-community feeling on places like deviantART for example, but each site does offer it''''s own flavour of what skinz.org once was, and we are all still out there somewhere - we will always remember the days of skinz.org
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