I was hoping for this to happen ON PC's 5 year mark, but I guess a few days late can't be helped. It is kind of funny. I mean if you're an old old PC member you'll know how PC has had probs and always went down (you newer members have got it good). So in a way it's like a birthday gift... in a strange messed up way. XD
Here's a little fun fact for all of you new members out there. PC (this one) only has 2 Staff members that's still on the Staff that was on the Staff on the old PC (not counting Steve and Kwesi). Them two fine people would be Erica (Lightning), and Andy (Arcanine, aka me XD). We have been a Staff member for over 4 years. How's that for time?
PC has been here for 5 years. Everyone needs to step back and think about how long PC has been around. When PC was started Ruby and Sapphire wasn't out (not even in Japan), since then we've gotten Ruby/Sapphire, Emerald, FireRed/LeafGreen, Diamond/Pearl. The GameCube was less then 1 year old. And more then a few PC members has went from high school to college. PC has been around for a long time.
And there has been times where PC has had some very very hard times. Community Sites leaving, PC restarting, PC being down for a month (this was back in March of 2003, PC was down for over a month), lots and lots of server and DB probs, and other hard times. But in the end, PC has lasted the test of time, and is one of the oldest and largest Pokemon forums around.
For a lot of us older members, it means something for PC to have lasted this long. I've met so many of my closest friends on here. I've grown close to the forum and what it's become. I've seen the forum go from 1,000 members on the old PC to over 34,000, and to over 3,000,000 posts. Many of us older members have seen this forum grow and become what it is today. So it does mean something for us to see that PC has lasted for 5 long years.