25 Years of GreekChat!

[SigmaCat]

I lurked a long while before first posting in 2018 or so. I posted to one of the evergreen threads in my sorority's section, then got yelled at immediately and unnecessarily by a mod for bumping an old topic. Really nice, warm welcome. Love the rush threads and the weird rush stories, primarily. The fake ones were some of my faves.

[Honeykiss1974]

Hey yall! I just saw the anniversary email. After feeling old for a moment (because seriously....has it really been 25 years), I decided to join the reunion.

Hope everyone is doing well {{{hugs}}} Now where is the bar?

[aephi alum]

Originally Posted by Honeykiss1974

Now where is the bar?

We have a few here in New Orleans

[AGDAlum]

I'm grateful to Carnation (a friend IRL since 1976) for introducing me to GreekChat. I especially enjoy stories of fraternity history and the many rush stories. I appreciate IrishPipes for maintaining the list of NPC chapters and recruitment dates and LaneSig for the charters/expansions/closures list.

[carnation]

^^^

I LOVE this thread!

[*winter*]

I didn’t realize the extensive history of sororities until I found this website. Obviously I knew about mine, but not the NPC or NPHC. Reading Bound by a Mighty Vow was eye opening…as a woman, I definitely have a ton of respect for those that paved the way for us in higher education.

[John]

Originally Posted by carnation

^^^

I LOVE this thread!

I completely agree!

[Still BLUTANG]

Congrats John on providing this avenue to educate and celebrate our Greek ties! NPC, NPHC, Honoraries, Locals, you made us all feel welcome. Thank you.

[cheerfulgreek]

I just realized I was 16 when GC started.

[PrettyBoy]

I learned of this site looking for fraternity paraphernalia. I saw there were quite a few of my brothers posting, so I joined. However, I joined not knowing I’d end up meeting people here — having lunch with some members, pizza with one, and coffee with another. Definitely wasn’t my intention.

I don’t really have a most memorable thread, just memorable private messages that I purposely kept in my inbox all these years.

How did this site impact my life? It changed my life — hit me with a curveball that I never saw coming.

Today’s culture does not provide great encouragement for the nurture and development of deep, long-lasting, satisfying friendship. However, this site provided that for me. I now know that God will do more than what I could imagine when I simply release my faith in His Word. I’m glad I did.

[Phrozen Sands]

Originally Posted by PrettyBoy

I learned of this site looking for fraternity paraphernalia. I saw there were quite a few of my brothers posting, so I joined. However, I joined not knowing I’d end up meeting people here — having lunch with some members, pizza with one, and coffee with another. Definitely wasn’t my intention.

I don’t really have a most memorable thread, just memorable private messages that I purposely kept in my inbox all these years.

How did this site impact my life? It changed my life — hit me with a curveball that I never saw coming.

Today’s culture does not provide great encouragement for the nurture and development of deep, long-lasting, satisfying friendship. However, this site provided that for me. I now know that God will do more than what I could imagine when I simply release my faith in His Word. I’m glad I did.

Who’d you have coffee and pizza with? I know about the lunch outing because I read their posts about what you looked like, 2 pages long Lol!

[PrettyBoy]

Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands

Who’d you have coffee and pizza with? I know about the lunch outing because I read their posts about what you looked like, 2 pages long Lol!

That was around the time when I was somewhat of a new member here, 2007ish. I had pizza with DSTPhiloso4 (I think that’s the correct sp.) and I had coffee with CG.

[Phrozen Sands]

I feel like I missed a long party on here. I don’t recognize 99.9% of the folks everybody is mentioning in their posts.

[AlwaysSAI]

Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands

I feel like I missed a long party on here. I don’t recognize 99.9% of the folks everybody is mentioning in their posts.

Saaaaaaaaame.

Can't believe GC was only 2 years old when I first started posting in college. I'm more of a lurker now.

[John]

Originally Posted by honeychile

And then, there was the whole Prune Tacos scenario!

Originally Posted by *winter*

I didn’t even know about Prunetacos…one day I was randomly reading an article about Ivins and I saw “Greekchat!” It was a weird moment.

Originally Posted by Benzgirl

Prune Tacos was by far the Creepiest thread.

For me the prunetacos news was probably the absolutely most jaw dropping moment with GC.

I recall checking on things with GC after having not been on the site for a few days. Nothing was working at all. Not a single page or image would load.

So, I got ready to work on fixing whatever server problem was causing this. But, I couldn't even login via SSH to work on things. That got me thinking maybe it was some really bad hardware failure, maybe all the hard drives were trashed & irrecoverable or something like that.

I ended up having the datacenter pull the plug on the server to see if it would restart & get going again, which it did. Fortunately there was no major hardware issue to deal with that time. Looked like it was just a big traffic burst which completely jammed the server up for a bit.

After that had happened I remember thinking that maybe some major site linked to GC or maybe GC was just growing more site traffic wise.

Some GCer, probably a moderator although I don't recall who, mentioned that I need to search the news for GreekChat.

So I went to Google News, searched for GC and...



That was quite a shocking jaw dropping moment to see/learn that.

I recall there being close to 4000 news article results returned in that Google News search. Newspapers all over the US, probably mostly their digital editions, had short articles mentioning GC and referencing the larger story reported by The Washington Post. There must have been so much traffic from all those articles that it completely seized up the server for a while.