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ATRL: Happy 15 Years ATRL (A walk down memory lane)
ATRL Senior Member
Member Since: 11/14/2008
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Happy 15 Years ATRL (A walk down memory lane)
February 26, 1999 - Present
In the spirit of our new upgrade to come and the site celebrating 15 years two months ago, I thought I would take members down memory lane.
Let's begin with the classic Absolute TRL home page, which served us well from 1999 to 2005...
In 2005, the forums took over the entire site, blowing out the main page. Here's the history of the forums...
Finally, here are some of our old TRL fan site friends, Unofficial TRL and TRL by Sarah...
Download everything in high-resolution at http://www.atrl.net/img/10years/... I hope you enjoyed the tour!
Also, here is a flashback note from previous Admin, TC, when we celebrated 10 years back in 2009.
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If our memories and calculations are correct, ATRL began exactly 10 years ago: February 26, 1999. That's just ridiculous! Today is February 26, 2009, so we've reached a full decade. How did we ever get this far?
Back then, of course, it was Absolute TRL, a very simple fan page for Total Request Live in its early days. I wasn't around when the site began, but I think the forums didn't even launch until about a year later.
(EDIT, 10/7/2010: Joe has posted some more information about the very early days of ATRL; check out that post.)
Joe is probably the only person still around from 1999. He started this site and kept it running all this time. Another guy, Wendell, was also responsible for updating the main site for some time until 2002.
So how did I get here? I joined the Absolute TRL forums as a member in 2000. Back at the time, I was a contributor and moderator at the popular site, TRL by Sarah. I became an administrator at Absolute TRL in 2001, after TRL by Sarah merged its message board with Absolute TRL. Now, in case you didn't know, TRL by Sarah was so popular because Sarah appeared on TRL for a week in April 2001. Thanks to the merger, Absolute TRL gained tons of members.
TRL by Sarah closed down in 2002, but Absolute TRL lived on and continued to gain new members, even as TRL slowly faded away in popularity. Some time around 2004, the Absolute TRL forums took over the entire site.
In 2006, we thought TRL was old and busted, so we changed our name to Popfusion for a while. In 2007, we all realized that name didn't really work, because no matter what, everyone always called us "ATRL," so we changed our name again to just simply ATRL. Not "Absolute TRL," mind you, because we were no longer a TRL fan site. We're just ATRL.
Since then, TRL itself was cancelled in 2008, but ATRL survives as an independent community, despite the demise of the original TV show that brought us here in the first place. That brings us to today... 10 freakin' years.
How long will ATRL be around? Joe says he'll keep paying for the site as long as enough people still visit. He might have some more ideas to celebrate our 10-year anniversary over the next few weeks and months.
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*Credit for all material in this post can be credited to TC.
Post by Joe (site owner) 5 years ago:
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Originally posted by josephs911
We had a history of ATRL floating around here somewhere, maybe try and search for it. I created the site back in 1999, at the time though it wasn't called ATRL. I started a TRL site to track the results daily. I then meet a another fan that started the same thing shortly after I had. He was tired of doing it, and was willing to merge with my site. Thus ATRL was born. At first we only kept track of the countdown wasnt much of a community but over the years it changed from a tracking site, to a community forum. I brought TC on board after a while and he has been a great help. He maintains the site mostly, I fund the site, and help with the Software. You can check out kinda what we look like here. |
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The Absolute TRL days look like college websites. 
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Absolute TRL (in 2006) and The popfusion days 
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Absolute TRL look like **** sites 
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SLAY TRL 
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ATRL Contributor
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Flawless discography. Her next album is coming for all our faves. 
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I think I joined during this era :
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Some of those old designs are such eye sores. The upgrade that's coming is v cute though!
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Originally posted by Vato
I think I joined during this era :
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Ancient Legend!
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Wow 
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The nostalgia 
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Some of them look real nice
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Since then, TRL itself was cancelled in 2008, but ATRL survives as an independent community, despite the demise of the original TV show that brought us here in the first place.
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That's so crazy, but actually really cool.
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ATRL Senior Member
Member Since: 11/14/2008
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Oh and on 02/26/2014, ATRL made 15 years in the game
I first seen the site in 2003, but frequently browsed from '05 - '08 as a guest and then eventually joined in 2008, when the Circus comeback started to kick into high gear.
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Wait, that burgundy theme from around 2001. 
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This is so cute
Thank you for this !!
I am so glad that i stumbled upon this mad house (accidentally). I think my thought process had become so liberal after joining this forum and by interacting with the amazing and some not so amazing members
Threads like the credit card girl thread, your crush thread and all the other messy **** that all of us shared as memeber never failed to make me laugh and will always be ICONIC
Thank you AGAIN !!
Just feeling a bit HAPPY today 
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