I've been on since around 2000/2001. I started expanding my music interest, primarily because of Master P.'s West Coast Bad Boyz II. I liked a lot of the artists on there who I had never heard of before because I was brainwashed and only knew what was on the radio, although the radio wasn't as horrible back then as it is now. I did a search on Google for Hi-C- Skanless CD and there was a link to someone selling that CD in the BART Trades & Deals forum. I clicked on the link and was just overwhelmed by all of the information about Northern California artists, so I immediately signed up.
This used to be my primary place to buy CDs because there were so many people that lived locally and had easy access to bay area music. I remember participating in so many auctions on here run by layziemarv, 5.0, etc. Now, nobody sells shit anymore, not even on Ebay. I primarily buy most of my Northern California CDs from Rapbay now.