[Cadaverous Pallor]

MousePlanet was around long before, but MousePad started the same time DCA did, I believe - February 2001. I joined in August of that year.

Regarding the distinctive decades discussion, we've already beaten this debate to death in another thread not too long ago (which I'm too lazy to look up) but for me, a 1990's party would be very easy to throw.

Grunge, MC Hammer and LL Cool J and C&C Music Factory, Pop Tarts and Bagel Bites, a "coffeehouse and bagel shop" with open mic poetry...throw in a little Bush Sr/Clinton White House and you're set.

I can spout some things off the top of my head that made this last decade distinctive...Emo, Backstreet Boys/Britney Spears, Reality TV, Dubya, Harry Potter....but it's still too soon.