Any old Dyestat posters still around? (Or alive?)

Tennessee had a lively board back then. I was ORXCCoach.

King99 knew a lot...about everything.

jwaksman's predictions about nuclear fusion reactors being just around the corner are just not holding up well.

Malmo was there as well. I was as well.

The Dyestat forum was the best. Classic example of a big corporation absorbing a small venture and ruining it.

Dyestat was ok 04-06.

Best running boards:

LRC 2001-2004

Run-Insight.com, '02-0'6

MensRacing.com- I learned more about running history there than any other resource (books, mags, etc)

And my all-time favorite: collegerunning.com

Outlaw wrote:

Dyestat was ok 04-06.

Best running boards:

LRC 2001-2004

Run-Insight.com, '02-0'6

MensRacing.com- I learned more about running history there than any other resource (books, mags, etc)

And my all-time favorite: collegerunning.com

But Dyestat had a community feel to it. Everyone seemed to interact with everyone else. There were fights, people getting banned then reinstated, the moderators were as much involved in the topics as were the posters.

It was very much involved in the high school runners becoming more nationally recognized. Many national meets were created during it's heyday.

I am still around

JMysterio wrote:

yoyomama wrote:

I loved the passion of King99. The only two great state boards were Jersey and Illinois. RIP Homeless!

Did he die?

Offed himself, I believe.

JMysterio wrote:

Outlaw wrote:

Dyestat was ok 04-06.

Best running boards:

LRC 2001-2004

Run-Insight.com, '02-0'6

MensRacing.com- I learned more about running history there than any other resource (books, mags, etc)

And my all-time favorite: collegerunning.com

But Dyestat had a community feel to it. Everyone seemed to interact with everyone else. There were fights, people getting banned then reinstated, the moderators were as much involved in the topics as were the posters.

It was very much involved in the high school runners becoming more nationally recognized. Many national meets were created during it's heyday.

The passion around the first NTN meet was epic. Almost all the NE guys annointing Fayetteville the greatest team ever based on their Manhattan performance... then having to eat crow after York stomped them. Great stuff.

Sadly, yes... wrote:

JMysterio wrote:

Did he die?

Offed himself, I believe.

Oh, I am very sorry to hear that. We had some good exchanges and I used to press his button on purpose just to get him all fired up. Once I predicted Matt Withrow would run 13:36 for an upcoming 5k his freshman year at Wisconsin. I really wasn't sure if he would but gave all sorts of out of the box "proof" that he would.

King went nuts. He led a posse of posters lambasting me, but I kept doubling down even though I really had nothing to indicate he would run it.

That weekend he ran 13:35. Then King really flipped out. He was practically sputtering platitudes about my lack of knowledge, etc. All I could do was laugh.

I still liked him. Peace be with you, King.

I was on Dyestat in 2000-2002. I don't remember my username.

Migrated to this place in 2002, when I started college. Can't seem to leave.

Steeple923.

I miss Dyestat everyday that I come look at this mess.

My power is still over 9000, with over 1 billion rep points

yoyomama wrote:

I loved the passion of King99. The only two great state boards were Jersey and Illinois. RIP Homeless!

Homeless, Chris Phillips, was a lovely guy and he's missed every day.

NJ human wrote:

yoyomama wrote:

I loved the passion of King99. The only two great state boards were Jersey and Illinois. RIP Homeless!

Homeless, Chris Phillips, was a lovely guy and he's missed every day.

Wait, are we talking about the same guy?

JMysterio wrote:

NJ human wrote:

Homeless, Chris Phillips, was a lovely guy and he's missed every day.

Wait, are we talking about the same guy?

Homeless = Chris Phillips. Sadly, he's deceased.

King 99 = Marty Liquori...he's still with us.

Actually, King99 isn't Liquori, that's just a longstanding joke.

All Hail The King wrote:

JMysterio wrote:

Wait, are we talking about the same guy?

Homeless = Chris Phillips. Sadly, he's deceased.

King 99 = Marty Liquori...he's still with us.

Actually, King99 isn't Liquori, that's just a longstanding joke.

Yeah, I remember the Liquori myth. Glad to hear he's ok, but still tragic about Homeless.

Outlaw wrote:

Dyestat was ok 04-06.

Best running boards:

LRC 2001-2004

Run-Insight.com, '02-0'6

MensRacing.com- I learned more about running history there than any other resource (books, mags, etc)

And my all-time favorite: collegerunning.com

Yeah i got on Dyestat and Letsrun both in 2002-2003 when I was a JR in HS. Dyestat was small, but growing at that point. Letsrun was much smaller group, but blew up quickly. 2004-06 was prime Dyestat and coincided with continued growth and success across HS running. Letsrun became the cess pool it is now about that time, and by the late aughts, had more non-running content then running content.

Shoutout to Quenton Cassidy/mikeoh, watchout, mrr82, ScribeReb, and many others. For better or worse, I likely spent more hours on Dyestat/Letsrun as I did training in HS and College. And sh.t, I'm still here 15+ years later, and I don't really even run!

Could have written that post myself, or pretty close. Good times, with a community feel on Dyestat and more of a free-for-all here. I kind of miss the more local internet memes of those days -- there was culture unique to each of the sites I'd frequent. Now everything is cross-pollinated by the major social media sites, and a lot of forums have gone away and they or their equivalents only exist on Facebook or maybe Reddit anyway. Globalization of the internet, perhaps. (Yes, I know people have complained about "damn normal people with no respect for internet culture invading our internet" many times before, and well before I ever got access to it either.)

DyeStat's prime, I think, was at a low ebb of thought policing between the PC of the 1990s and its resurgence as the SJWism of the last 10 years or so. Maybe that's just my nostalgia talking, though.

I posted as Zatopek.