Used to read this forum several times a day in the late 90's, early 00's. Got me through many loooooong and boring conference calls. Inspired me to fill up (and I mean FILL up) a bedroom which has given me a quarter century of some of the most pleasurable moments of my life. Much of what I have in my little music room is a direct result from the advice from posters then and their review of gear. Some of it worked out great (Anderson guitars) and some not so much (Eric C. Brown guitars). Got shelves full of pedals (almost a full wall), boxes of multi effects, a couple of amps (remember that TE Vellocette thread?), synth modules and CD-ROM's for the Akai, all from that era that I still use to this day.
My covid project has been to try to put together a nice mix for recording CD's. Much of it is still H-C; most of the rack, the C-M compressor, Clyde wah, TCE SCF all came from those days. The newest additions, a SA Ventris and the DD-200 replaced H-C pedals. We've come a long way from Danelectro Convertibes into a Univox Fuzz into a Kustom amp, no?