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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: Gridlokk on December 05, 2012, 03:05 am

Title: Does anyone know when SR was established?
Post by: Gridlokk on December 05, 2012, 03:05 am
Hey Fellow Silk Roaders,

This question has been on my mind for a while, When exactly was SR created?

Title: Re: Does anyone know when SR was established?
Post by: awesome1126 on December 05, 2012, 03:07 am
Either late 2010 or early 2011. I was here :) member # 836 on the original market FTW!!
Title: Re: Does anyone know when SR was established?
Post by: digit on December 05, 2012, 03:59 am
February 2011
Title: Re: Does anyone know when SR was established?
Post by: smeghead on December 05, 2012, 04:57 am
Still a wee baby.

 :P
Title: Re: Does anyone know when SR was established?
Post by: BruceCampbell on December 05, 2012, 05:05 am
I hear tale it was started by DPR as a place to sell his shrooms. All posts go back to 2/2011. I think there might actually be a history of silk road thread somewhere.

Title: Re: Does anyone know when SR was established?
Post by: nuyt on December 05, 2012, 07:49 am
I hear tale it was started by DPR as a place to sell his shrooms. All posts go back to 2/2011. I think there might actually be a history of silk road thread somewhere.

This is the story as I've pieced it together from various mentions on these forums (haven't found, or actually looked for, a dedicated thread, but I'm sure it'd be a good read). Before DPR was DPR, (s)he had a humble darknet site where he plied his trade. His alias on that first site was Silk Road. Eventually (assuming it's been the same person throughout), he stepped up big time and started this site, calling it The Silk Road.

I've only been here about a month, but that's the picture of the history of SR that I've been able to scrape together.