UXN turns twenty!

[Dean Clayton]

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But can you name the comics/issue numbers these panels are from?

[WorldWideWade]

Happy birthday UXN! Is it a coincidence that this is your 5000th post!?

[EvilMonkeyPope]

Many happy returns!

[EphemeristX]

Awesome! I can't believe it's been 20 years.

[Spectral Knight]

20 years? Wow... there's probably forum members and certainly X-Men readers younger than you lot have been at this.

Happy birthday. Hope the Juggernaut doesn't pop over to deliver the birthday beats

[Dean Clayton]

Happy birthday UXN! Is it a coincidence that this is your 5000th post!?

maybe... happy coincidence!

So to Celebrate the Sites Birthday we humbly apologise for flooding your social media with our special 20 for 20 extravaganza! We will be posting an update related to each year that the site has been in existence. Technically you are getting 21 updates from us today as this is just the announcement of our plans, but we thought we would highlight a screenshot of what the site looked like back then on day 1

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I'll update this thread as we go.

[Dean Clayton]

For those not following along on social media, we will be posting the updates into this linked article which may include some extra reveals: https://uncannyxmen.net/gratuitous-self ... ars-of-uxn

[Blackcyclops]

I’ve literally been here since 2002...happy birthday my favorite website on the entire internet.

[Anna Raven]

I registered sometime after December of 2001. That's when X-Treme X-Men #33 came out, in which it was revealed Rogue was going by "Anna Raven". I might not have posted until 2002 though. Thanks for being here for me all these years UXN!

[Trevor Cates]

Happy Birthday guys so proud of you all. Thank you for almost twenty years of knowing you.

[Dean Clayton]

Honestly I'm personally humbled by the fact so many of you have stuck around for so long!

Today on the sites OFFICIAL ITS REALLY TODAY NOT WHAT IVE THOUGHT FOR THE LAST 10+ YEARS BIRTHDAY, we'll be doing the next batch of Twenty for Twenty posts, starting with 2005
https://uncannyxmen.net/gratuitous-self ... n/page/0/1

[Cable]

I've been a daily visitor since about 2006. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the site over the years and you especially Dean for its genesis; X-Men has meant a lot to me in my life and the site has made the understanding and enjoyment of that fandom so much greater.

[Spectral Knight]

I definitely remember reading the Onslaught Event Month as it was live meaning I get my 15 year award - had to go through the site logo design retrospective to check though. I forgot to mention in my feedback, I loved all those themed logos, wish there was an update to this page

[Gremlin]

Been a member since 2006 and contributing since 2012. I can't believe how the time has flown and how much the site has expanded

[ev82]

Wow. I think I joined the OG forum sometime in 2004/2005? Congrats!

[medium13]

20 years is remarkable. Congrats on building such an informative, collaborative, and enduring resource.

[P-90]

Though I've only been on the forums since 2014 (wow, even those six years feel like they've flown by) I've been regularly visiting UXM since long before that. It can't have been that long after the site first went online that I first found the it.

[Douglas Mangum]

P-90, that's a great question that we didn't think to include in the survey. How did you find the UXN? Just a Google search on an X-Men related subject and followed a link?

[P-90]

P-90, that's a great question that we didn't think to include in the survey. How did you find the UXN? Just a Google search on an X-Men related subject and followed a link?

TBH I can't remember, but yeah it probably was either a google search or a link from another site.

[Dean Clayton]

For the final Twenty (one) for Twenty upate I thought I’d take this moment to talk about our byline; For the Fans, By the Fans.

In 2000 I had no real plan other than creating a space to share my love for Marvels Merry Mutants, a group of individuals that became a family (warts and all) who influenced my younger self. I’ve already regaled a little about those early days and once the seed was planted, I was, and still to this day, amazed that others have joined this little adventure. Many have come and gone over the years and a few still haven’t left (believe me, we’ve tried to get rid of them, they just don’t go). I guess you must be wired a certain way to want to contribute; Whether writing articles or helping with image work, No one gets paid for contributing to UXN, it doesn’t make you insta-famous and it can feel a like a chore having to re-read X-Men: Time gliders for the 4th time. We do this for the fun, for the satisfaction of creating a resource that others will enjoy or find helpful
I never expected that UXN would become what it is today. I cannot and do not take any credit for that, all the praise deserves to go to the individuals that have contributed their time and effort to produce the content you see, this labor of love that is UXN.

So as I close this Birthday celebration week, please raise a glass to those selfless contributors that for 20 years have week in, week out, that do this for us, the fans.

[Peacock1976]

Congrats and cheers to the future. Keep up the good work.