I am quite a new member to find this site and have found it so useful, I guess that it has also developed a lot from when it started and I wondered how long it has been going for now.

I looked back to the first posts on a few sections to look at dates which were generally around 2005 but found this one http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTopic_20_35  which showed the firts two posts from 1970 .  Has it really been going so long ?

funny Can TC be older than the internet??? i am aware of the site for about 4 years

It must be some mistake and you will easily realize that if you open those two topics - one is from 2006, another doesn´t even exist.

The website has been founded in 2004, and Discussion forums added on September 9th with only a few basic threads for the beginning, as Language related discussions and questions, Biggest motivation, What is this forum for?, Difficulties in Learning Turkish ...

Forums have been developed in 2005 and later, getting new and new functions, and still develop, as you can see...

Maybe some older members can share some memories from very  first days of the website?

I am the member only from May 2005, but still remember the day when Forums got categories, then possibility to modify posts, to quote... Pictures of Turkey, which started as just loads of pictures uploaded, were later categorized and transformed to Picture Galleries as we have now. Members got possibility to add comments to pictures, and to essays, which motivated essay writers to post more. And Learn Turkish Section got new contents: after Admin´s lessons, we got lessons of other members, dictionary, stories... I remember those days as the time full of enthusiasm and wish to make this place better, with every improvement making us so very happy...

Anyway, I think admins can give you the most complete information about the beginning of the website. There was very nice explanation in About TC page, but I can´t see it anymore...

Wow, I can´t believe it´s almost 5 years that I´ve been here. I joined TC in May 2005 but I must confess I had read it a bit before

So many users over this time, so many great people and a few I greatly miss...

Türkçe öğrenebildiniz mi bari 5 yılda?

 +1

Can´t agree more

It´s just an uninitilised time value (time=0 ). It´s called Unix time and starts at 00:00 1.1.1970 and keeps the seconds in it since then.

I only joined 3,5 years ago and I´m pretty sure that if I´ve found this site earlier I would´t have made some stupid mistakes I did now.

And yes, I too miss a few people. 

3 sene önce öğrenmeyi bıraktım. Maalesef vakitim yoktu. Hani ummarim ki bir gün yeniden öğremeye başlayacağım

 Thank you. Im happy to know you too

 hehe

I think although many of us come here to learn Turkish, but we digress some by getting involved with other aspects of Turkishness..... like the culture.

I study the actual language, then take breaks.  I find unless I am able to actually use and hear the language it´s particularly dificult.  It´s probably similar for others.  It´s like learning to swim while sitting on a couch. You can learn a lot about the theory, but until you get in the water, it´s all mute.

I do think though, many of us probably really could spend more time in study of the language.  The actual classes have evolved a great deal in the last year.

- Loving someone in a foreign language

- Saying "I love you" in a foreign language

- Thinking in a foreign language

- Living your life in a foreign language

- Working in a foreign language

- Talking in a foreign language

- Debating/ arguing in a foreign language

- Making policies in a foreign language

- Marrying in a foreign language   

A person only thinks in their mother tongue and then tries to translate this thought into a foreign language. But this can never be completely translated. It is hard to understand a foreigner perfectly for everyone.

My opinion.

 And no doubt some people you don´t miss.

How ridiculous...Turkish Class has been around since the dawn of man/woman.  Catwoman and Admin put the first TC cave drawings in a remote cave in Turkey.  Thank Goodness that the internet came along!  Otherwise we would all be sitting in a cave right now!

Ahhh....those where the days....before the dawn of the dudu! 

Lisa, see, I found a picture from that time:

Yes, this is the story of our people....The TCians!  It tells the story of our domestication of the wild Turkish Turtle, our discovery of fire, the many battles with the barbarians from the Black Sea Gang, and finally, a depiction of our fiercly moutashed leader, Admin.  I had no idea that they survived the tranfer to cyberspace!  Thank the Spaghetti Monster!