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This is a good question -- as a relative newbie to the community, I've often regretted that this is the standard acronym. It's pronunciation is unclear; I've heard old AFOLs say anything from "A.F.O.L." (i.e. just spelling it) to "A-full" (long (...) (19 years ago, 25-May-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)
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(...) My earliest post was 29 Nov 1995 - good grief! .s (19 years ago, 25-May-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)
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(...) mmmKay, whatever... I DID say ****IF**** I remember correctly. Oh well. (19 years ago, 25-May-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)
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(...) A "vet" compared to me, Dave! It appears my earliest post to RTL was October 3, 1998 (Yes, it was regarding LEGO trains:-) I discovered LUGNET in Jan '99.... JOHN (19 years ago, 25-May-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.faq, FTX)
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(...) The emails matched up, so I would assume that was him. (...) Hey, I'm even newer! I started reading sporatically in early '99, and started posting in... The summer of '99 sometime. I believe someone was just talking about how there was (...) (19 years ago, 25-May-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)
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(...) Was Jeff "Nephilim?" There were giants in the earth in those days. Wow. June 1995. I'm a newbie--I only started posting to RTL in January of 1998. Dave! (19 years ago, 25-May-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)
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(...) Heh, not according to Todd :) (URL) got it right-- Jeff Thompson appears to be the first one who used the term "Adult Fan Of Lego" on RTL (June 13, 1995), and Matthew Verdier first brought light to the acronym in reference to Jeff's post (June (...) (19 years ago, 25-May-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)
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(...) IIRC: Todd, Here, a long time ago. YMMV. (19 years ago, 25-May-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)
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(...) I did some looking around via Google's newsgroup database and found reference to the term in RTL back in June of 1995. (URL) about the long link) I also tried searching under "adult fan of lego" and got much the same as above but I like what I (...) (19 years ago, 25-May-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)
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Hi, Yes, of course I know _what_ an AFOL is. But: Who created this term? When? And where? The r.t.l. FAQ does not mention the term (and I never read it "back then", IIRC), so it could be newer. Other FAQs only give "AFOL=Adult Fan Of LEGO". Any (...) (19 years ago, 25-May-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)
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