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[Team Discovery New Members Only] How did you hear of TD?

Re: [OT] New Members: How did you hear about TD?

I was trying to get a Gmail account when they were at a premium and AndrewJ made a deal with me that he'd send me an account if I agreed to crunch. Looking back I realized I was coerced.

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I'm not all that new ... but for me it was 'word of mouth' ... my big brother would bug me every once in a while, and i finally downloaded the software and started crunching ....
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reply to babacher
I came across dslreports.com and just happened upon TD. Then I saw the need to crunch.

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I believe that I first saw a seti globe and did a little bit moer digging and found this forum and the rest is history. I can here to find out about broadband and ended up trying to find a cure.

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I humbly suggest that all members share their stories as well if babacher doesn't mind.

A close friend informed me of the concept behind SETI and I thought it was absolutely intriguing. A few months later, I found that DSLR had a SETI team. When I looked further, I was surprised to find that there were other DSLR DC projects out there as well.

Soon I found Team Discovery, and decided to join because I supported and respected its goal. That was almost four years ago, and I certainly haven't decided to give up!
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Discover a cure!

That means I have to think waaayyy back to when I was just a lad... hmmmm...

I crunched for Team USA with UD at first because I couldn't find a more appropriate team for myself since I didn't really do much "chatting" online... I think I was just looking through the forums here because I had just hooked up with DSL and found these "Clubs"... sounded fun and the people were nice.

Never thought I'd end up making friends, building stats, and becoming addicted to crunching for the cause!
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What else would you do?
There is hope!

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I humbly suggest that all members share their stories as well if babacher doesn't mind.

reply to babacher
I forget...dohhhhh..lol

I think I just stumbled upon it here. I also think I was curious on what the spinner was all about.

I'm glad to be here!
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Put your PC to work!-Xplornet Ka-band 1mb/256kbps-3 XP PC's-WRT54GS

reply to babacher
I was also intrigued by the spinner and the rest is history.

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The Spinner Made Me Do It

I initially came to BBR, then DSLR, in a work related capacity helping customers in the 5-state area with DSL connection problems. I joined because it seemed like a good idea and the cool spinner was a bonus.

Shortly after joining I was diagnosed with malignant melanoma. The support, thoughts and prayers I received from the members was phenomenal. When the biopsy came back benign, my doctor was completely shocked. He said, "I would have bet one hundred dollars it was cancerous." Thanks, Doc.

I believe this team's support played no small role in this. It convinced me that this is a group of very special people and maybe there was another reason why I found myself here besides just a silly little spinner.
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Team Discovery/Project Hope/Feel Your Heart Race

reply to babacher
It's been so long, I had to go look what I put last time.
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Team Discovery Project Hope

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I was introduced to here by my buddy slash and I will never look back !
(thank you John !!!)
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I was updating my dslreports network setup in my account, and somehow stumbled onto a section with a couple (3) crunching teams.
Read about the purpose, and put my extra cpus to use!

reply to babacher
I'm not all that new. I crunch and lurk more than anything . I stumbled into TD by chance. I'm glad I am here to help what I can. I know a lot of people affected by cancer and I know every cycle I crunch is one step closer to ending it.

-South
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reply to babacher
I believe i heard about distributed computing like SETI and UD on The Screensavers in 2001. It sounded interesting, distributed computing, so i decided to check it out. At that time, i thought to myself, "Finding aliens? Sounds stupid, and a waste of resources", so i went straight for UD. So then i ran UD for a few months, and after numerous plugs by Leo on TSS about DSLR, i finally joined this site. During the first few months, i went around the forums and noticed that there were DSLR DC teams. I was pretty sure that 1 team was for UD, but i was too lazy to read around so i put off joining till sometime after. I'm guessing around 5 months after joining DSLR, i read the DC forums and saw that UD had a team here, so i joined.

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reply to babacher
Like many others I was curious about the 'spinners' I had seen. Once I was sure that I wasn't compromising my computer I was hooked. Everyone helped me get up and running and I was off to the races so to speak.

I dropped out after many problems with O/S's and many re installs I went a long time without any crunching on my machine. Luvfishin 's father died of cancer and was motivated to reload everything again.
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reply to babacher
iam just such a geek i had to, seems like the thing to do:)

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Gosh, I cant even remember what I did last week, and you want to know about something so long ago?

I'm not sure what got me to try it the first time, but I know the storm lady kept after me when the original HD I installed UD on died within hours of the install. I tell ya, Lisa is nothing if not persistent.
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Son, you got a panty on your head!