Just how old is TDR anyway???

[Cattletrkr]

For fun I went looking for my info under "members". I found another user witha similar username, "Cattleman". Here's some of his info.

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #a3a4a6 1px solid" width="100%" colSpan=2>Cattleman Offline
Inactive
</TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD> </TD><TD class=smallfont vAlign=bottom align=right>Last Activity: 12-31-1969 07:00 PM
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He's had 0 posts, which is surprising... but the real shocker is his "last activity" date. I didn't know Al Gore had invented the internet by then.

 

[Vaughn MacKenzie]

LOL Cattletrkr

This website dates to August 1999, started early August and I was around the 25th person to join (coming over from CDW - Cummins Diesel Website).

Vaughn

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

and boy how it's changed over the years!! Check it out - Internet Archive Wayback Machine . You can see the site as far back as January 1999 - there were no forums then. The magazine goes back to 1993, btw.

 

[rkressg]

Wow,
It is amazing how much has changed over the last few years. I have completely forgotten how the TDR use to look.
Looking at the Message Board Load, it was a good day back in 2001 when 200 people were online, now the highest load is over 3,300 people. What a change.
You can also see the names of people that have been gone for a long time.
-Rich

 

[bighammer]

I think I got my 94 in December of 93 and my dealer told me about the TDR. I signed up a shortly after. I let the subscription go for a short bit but signed on again when the website was going. Sorta wish I had saved those early issues, but I tend to read them and pass them on to people I meet who seem interested.

Wow, I just realized I've had 4 different addresses in that time. (each one further north)

 

[sdstriper]

and boy how it's changed over the years!! Check it out - Internet Archive Wayback Machine . You can see the site as far back as January 1999 - there were no forums then. The magazine goes back to 1993, btw.

Wow, This was a great topic to bring up Cattletrkr! Steve, that wayback thingy is awesome...

 

[Bill Stockard]

I think I got my 94 in December of 93 and my dealer told me about the TDR. I signed up a shortly after. I let the subscription go for a short bit but signed on again when the website was going. Sorta wish I had saved those early issues, but I tend to read them and pass them on to people I meet who seem interested.



Wow, I just realized I've had 4 different addresses in that time. (each one further north)

I have all of them in my "TDR Library" beginning with Issue No. 1.



Yep, the magazine has changed a lot from those early editions. In the early days, Robert Patton was the writer, editor, and publisher working out of his home office and holding down his day job at a Cummins distributor.



I noticed Steve's join date is the same as mine. Evidently he too got "dumped" when the original TDR web site went down and many of us had to "re-join". I also was a member of the previous Cummins Diesel web site.



Bill

 

[bmoeller]

I first heard of the TDR in the '97 sales lit I got at the '96 Farm Progress Show.

I guess my '97 was providential. :-laf Was funny to find the sales lit again after buying the truck, and them both being from the same model year. Been a GREAT truck.

As the site goes, I think I had first tried to get online about when the site was down. The banner would pop up, and nothing else.

I didn't register onto the site til about 6mths after getting the magazine. This site sucked for a 14. 4 or 28. 8k modem. Painfully slooooooooooooooooooooooooooow. :-laf

 

[Bob Wagner]

Every year just keeps getting better. Thanks to everyone at the TDR.



Travel companion is still working great!



A member makes a post for help and can't belive someone is offering help so qiuck :-laf



Then they ask is this ___________________



I love it!

 

[GIT-R-DONE]

I have been a member since 96. Got a puter in Dec 99 and been online since Feb 2000. Great site to be a part of, even better to get to meet and talk to some of it members. Its just another family in many ways. Looking at the archives brings back the " WOW " we used to use THAT?:-laf

 

[Highfinance97]

Any clue who were the first couple two tree members are??:-laf









Michael

 

[Joe G.]

The TDR forums started in August '99. TDR bought the old dieselram.com forum. When we switched over there were about 200 forum members.

 

[Bill Stockard]

The TDR forums started in August '99. TDR bought the old dieselram.com forum. When we switched over there were about 200 forum members.

Yep, Joe I was a member the old dieselram.com forum. I met the owner of that forum at the National TDR Roundup and Rally in Columbus, IN in 1999, if I remember correctly. I think his first name was Gary, but I don't recall his last name. Shortly after the Rally, the TDR bought the dieselram.com forum.



Bill

 

[Joe G.]

The previous owner was Rob Spading. He started up dieselram.com again. It has been sold to Rob Wakins and is still going.

 

[Bill Stockard]

The previous owner was Rob Spading.

Joe,

Yep, that's who I was thinking of. Thanks for clearing the "cobwebs".



Bill

 

[TowPro]

I think I found it through the Cummins Website back in 1999.

 

[Vaughn MacKenzie]

I did some digging and found the original URL for the CDW site was http://38.164.60.219/CumminsHome.htm

Then in Feb. 1999 Rob Spading changed it to DieselRam.com to be easier to find.

I did find one Wayback page with the CDW site but it doesn't load very well
Cummins Diesel Website

Here's a post Rob Spading made about CDW on some Ford board
http://www.datenetpersonals.net/archives/abol/PWRSTRK7/messages/$WEBMSG0000000006125B00179.htm

Much of the CDW site had been archived and was saved for a few years but then accidentally got deleted. Don't remember if that happened here or on Rob Spading's site.