I've been on UMD for 26 years.

I remember the early days when Messy Girl was Leah and her web site had to be accessed via dial up

Who can beat that?

I think i must have been on here about the same but only setup a profile around 18-19 years ago.

I remember the old crazy girls live streams (again on dial up) and have a tiny low res image that used to refresh every few seconds. Not quite the HD live streaming of today but think the times were much more fun

Yeah I've been here 26 years as well, the amazing days of dial up, where even a small download (in today's terms) took forever.

When proper broadband came in, the speed gave you nosebleeds , And a live stream, was a thing with water in

When dial up was via your land-line

People saying my phone was engaged for 2 days

Another around the 25 years mark despite the profile info!
Those happy days of Aquantics weekends, the launch of Splosh magazine, VHS Videos, and WSM being fairly new, some of the memories.
Happy, hassle free days.

Absolutely, what a time that was.
Also Messy Fun in the US.

I remember a Messy Fun trailer for 'At The Movies' that was about 16meg in size and it took about an hour to download.

I do truly believe that without them, sploshing/WAM wouldn't have gone on like it has (just my opinion).

When a Web site took sometimes over a month to be updated and only with one new photo

The Mothership as well

I've been here since the very start, when the original UMD was just a plain white screen with a list of blue links to a dozen or so wam sites. Back then search meant Altavista, there was no Google, no micropayment systems, no Ebay, no social networks, and buying WAM scenes meant sending a cheque off through the post, by air-mail, waiting over a month for the recipient's bank to process it and take off the hefty currency conversion fee, and then a VHS cassette would come, again through the post, between six weeks and two months after you'd placed the order.

The internet really was the Wild Wild West back then, beyond the reach, or even knowlege, of most officials or law enforcement. It's really spectacular how it went, in just 25 years, from being something of interest only to uber-geeks and techies, to something that's absolutely integral to almost everyone's lives.


Have to agree with that. The quality of Rob Blaine's productions, especially to those of us who'd only ever had taped-off-the-TV clips until then, was mindblowing, and a huge influence on everyone who came after.

LOL re an hour to download 16 meg, I remember those days well too, and how we were all constantly searching for space on the tiny storage systems of the time. The other day I bought a 2TB external SSD drive to copy files off an old laptop onto. It cost £135. Back when UMD started, if you'd wanted 2TB of storage you'd have needed a large room full of spinning disks, an industrial-grade mains power feed, and the costs would have been on a par with buying a Ferrari.

I've also been here for 26 years, and I remember all that you've mentioned. Met a lot of people, and still loving it.

I dont know how long but I remember when UMD was a bravenet forum.

I've been here for 26 years too. I remember those days as well.

I've also been here all 26 years. Gods, I feel old.

A fellow 26 year veteran here too, found this site after chatting to a lass watching some stuff on a crazy girls cam one Sunday night, an Aussie lady called Jacinta. Never looked back.

Yep, 26 years too but took me a few months to get an account (was wary of the internet and my kinks...now just wary of the internet). The post that brought me out was about putting mess in balloons, no one had a way so I 'had' to post my method.

Dang. 98 or 99? I found messy fun and splosh earlier or around the same time, when I got to college and experienced the blazing fast power of a T1 line. It was a time of lawless scrapping for Wam Alerts.

25 years for me...this and Doctor Splash were the first two website I looked at. I remember looking at the Messyfun website as well!!

Good to see so many long timers still here.

Who was relieved to discover that you weren't the only one!

I'd forgotten about Jacinta! Wow...that brings back some memories - the Sunday night Crazy Girls show, too What was it...one still image slowly downloading every one or two minutes?!

Browsing the pics here was the most wam stimulation I got along with praying something would show up in yahoo groups. Only been here for almost 22 years.

Been around since the beginning. Back then, Messy Toni was my second sploshing partner in life, and my first foray into posting stuff online (thanks to a lot of help from Messmaster )

-JD

Another 26 year vet. I recall discovering Rob Blaine's site and seeing a link to this at the bottom. So the first couple times I came to the umd I went through Rob's site. Then I wised up.

26 years. Back then, I used to wear an onion in my belt because that was the style at the time...

And nickels had pictures of bees on them. Gimme 3 bees for a quarter you'd say! Of course we didn't have white onions, because of the war

I've been on here off and on for 22 years

Those are my memories as well.
Splosh magazine
Aquatics
WSM

Online - Messy fun

Who said Altavista. i even remember that.

First saw sploshing in Escort magazine.

I've been around here since the beginning as well.

26 years and counting!!!

Also been around since the beginning.... Even before the UMD existed?!? Definitely assumed I was the "only one" until stumbling onto Rob's MessyFun site in 1995.

Anyone else remember the alt.sex.fetish.wet-and-messy newsgroup? It was the first "messy forum" long before the UMD. I remember a guy who'd shown up at one of Mark & Lenny's Florida shoots to help and taken some pics, which he uploaded to the newsgroup. I have to assume these were like 240x240 resolution.... And took approximately 22 minutes to download.

After that, we all went down to the corner store to play jacks!

Also been here from the start but deleted my account a few years back and then rejoined a couple of weeks later. Anyone remember World Wide Wet I think it was called?

Where you Richie Stilscream in a previous life?