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