I think when Chloe, Sandy (through Chloe), CH_123, lowpoly (sofa king) and some of the others joined, it turned from being a place where you talk about cool keyboards we found to something more scientific and documentation-oriented. There was kind of a "golden era" where we were getting a lot of info from the Asian sites through Sandy/Chloe and all the European enthusiasts (sixty, webwit, sofa king/lowpoly mainly) were bringing over their vintage Cherry knowledge. IIRC, you showed up in the middle of all that. We had a lot of vintage connoisseurs back then, and for whatever reason they drive a lot of learning through the history of various switches/keyboards.
Then the OCNers came.
As much of a sausage-fest this place is, we had a lot of very good female members. In fact, I think they were a lot better than the male members we have now.
Chloe, cchan/Tales, Ms. Keyboard, etc.