and that’s looking using the Wayback Machine. I mean, it has the precise date he wrote that “Music: Where The Hell Is It Heading To Today?” essay that everybody snorted at him for, but not when he added Babble. I could have sworn I’d seen news of an addition of Babble somewhere.

I came here in 2002; I know I visited the site in high school, because I found it looking for reviews of the Renaissance song “Northern Lights” and his site had a Renaissance page, but I was definitely not posting on Babble in 2001 because I wasn’t here for when Samuel Day Fassbinder (sic?) apparently posted the most offensive thing ever on this board that wasn’t trolling, which was on 9/11 when he did a post entitled “How sad. A bunch of people died today” and apparently got run out on a rail worse than anyone else who’s ever posted here, E and Auberon Suger included.

Someone here, probably Paul C, knows the precise date.

I followed those update archives all the way to the back…so George started his site with the review of the first Rolling Stones album? He was 22? Christ, look at how quickly the updates were happening–I forgot how he was totally blowing through all those reviews at warp speed!!! No wonder he changed his mind so many times when he did the second version of the site!