In early 1997 I discovered Realdolls using a search engine and landed on the RDOL ( Realdoll Owners and Lovers ) website created by Dr. Goldfoot. Realdoll owners would send photos of their doll to Dr. Goldfoot to get them posted on the RDOL site.
You had to request membership by email as I recall but there was no forum when I found the site.
One of the RDOL members created a forum sometime in mid 1997 so folks could share information. I met Jerry in October 1999 on the RDOL forum and we became friends. I retired from AT&T in November of 1999. Things went well until Dr. Goldfoot lost interest in dolls and the high traffic closed the RDOL site sometime in late 2000. I think it was a real girl issue.
I had visited Jerry in St. Louis many times and on one trip we decided to start a forum for all dolls so I purchased the domain names and server space. Jerry started building The Doll Forum in May of 2001 but I don't recall when we went live....maybe July 2001. We had a test member, then Jerry and me.
The Doll Forum is managed by volunteers and all money goes toward the server and bandwidth. I sure couldn't do it by myself and there have been difficult issues to solve along the way. Mytime saved our butts by moving TDF to a new server when Ishtaria died taking most of the account access information with her....a very close call on that one and a lesson learned. Vanessa saved the Matrix when Jackrabbit just walked away. We have been lucky in finding good people to manage TDF and they are at their best when things seem to be the worst.
Retirement is good.
Here is the thread where Bill's quote originated:
http://dollforum.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... DF+History
Jerry
This is the first thread started by Jerry and contains his first post and the first post by a member on TDF:
http://dollforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1107Here is a new silicone doll from Germany. I have not seen a real one yet...
Jerry has contributed 2338 posts to date
Bill
This is the first thread started by Bill and also contains his first post:
http://dollforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=262Here are four of my girls:...
Bill has contributed 6371 posts to date.
You guys created something special. It has changed many lives for the better. When people come here just looking for dolls and then end up making it a home you know it is something special. You have brought together good people that end up having lifelong relationships. It is special. Thank You!!!
Slate and Ishtaria were loved by this community and are missed not only for what they have contributed but how they were as people. They should be mentioned before anyone else on this list. Rest in peace. You are not forgotten but are the spirit of this community. We love you.
The rest of the list contains first posts and first threads of top posters of this community with 1000 or more posts. Thanks and keep on posting folks. We love you.
mytime
http://dollforum.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... 541#p15541Hi xxxtoytech.
I have studied your great parallel PC interface, and the devices you want to control with it.
But I have some questions about it.....
Inkling
http://dollforum.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... 6705#p6705RealDoll web site has doll taking a bath.
If one "cannot submerge", does that just refer to the head?......
itsme
While his first post isn't that significant,itsme brings much humor to TDF
VanessaI see her on e-bay
Vanessa maintains The Doll Matrix
http://dollforum.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... 823#p89823Hey !!!
My name is Vanessa Realdoll and I'm just another cute Realdoll out there. Well, to be honest, I didn't even enter production yet. But anyhow my friend finally managed to get sure about my stats.....