June 17th, 2007. Welcome to TCTI. When TCTI began, many of the people didn't expect to stay around very long, or for the thread to become a home, rather than a counting game. The first creator, viridian doubletongue wasn't really that enthusiastic about making the thread. He appeared and reappeared, but didn't choose to stay around. Hakeen/Forever was the second poster in the thread, and after all this time, despite being inactive a few times has stayed around for the entire three years. Some of the original posters would reappear later on, instead of just posting randomly at the beginning..., such as Inugami/Wish, beauty. proletariat, Signomi (although she only originally posted warning posters to post four words), RYOUKI... and more, although by today's standards, only Signomi and RYOUKI can be counted as regulars. At the start, we used words to describe the numbers such as "140 times I have danced around the garden", instead of being a chat thread, like it is now. In its early stages, many people didn't know much about TCTI, it was just a random thread. Nobody would have ever assumed that it would be OT's DCC. About a month after TCTI began, Went made his first post, who has grown, along with the thread, and been around ever since.