Oh man. This is a trip. I'm sure my old account has been deleted, so I couldn't log in even if I knew the password. I recently bought the Halo: Master Chief Collection and mowed through the first three games — games I haven't played in over a decade, and that really got the nostalgia flowing. I started thinking about all the bad Halo fan fiction I wrote, looked it up, found it, read it (it's bad) and then popped over here. Saw this thread and decided to create an account and chime in. I was pretty active in this forum back when it was called The Flood from 2005 through about 2007. It was really the first time I was part of an online community, and when I stumbled upon it, it became my own little corner of the internet. I was here all the time. Everyone was into Halo 2, and when the first few teasers for Halo 3 came out, everyone weighed in with what they thought the plot would be and scrutinizing every frame of the first two trailers. People posted all kinds of things. One really popular thread was about users who experienced creepy or unexplained or paranormal things that happened to them. I remember another one where someone started things off with what was essentially a writing prompt in which the Flood was attacking, and people chimed in to continue the story, which lasted at least a few days. I remember topics like politics and religion were either banned or no one really brought them up, but I could be wrong. I don't remember any mods except for Shishka. A few of the more active users I remember were Iceman Assassin, Delta Archer, Reanimation, and Java. And that's really it. I remember it fondly.