I had an account I made in 2013, but deleted it after the site made the news. I used to peruse The Pregnant Community, Cheviot's Place, a couple of blogs like Mind The Bump and such, pregchan, the /preg/ board of bbwchan. I forget the name of the website, but I must have found it in the mid to late 00's, it had body/breast expansion, animal transformation, and pregnant expansions, all with (by today's standards) poor photoshop. That really set me on the path of "Oh shit, there's pregnancy porn on the internet"

Pretty sure I was around the site in 2014-2015 but I finally made an account in 2018 when I was 19. I’m more of a product of the “Golden Age of YouTube Pregnancy Vloggers”. Jesssfam, Amy D., Brittandlife, Britney Morrow, etc..

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I began admiring preggos as a wee lad but hardly knew my way around the family PC and had to rely on fakes on TV, commercials, and cheesy greeting cards for glimpses of excitement. Managed to stumble across candyk clips on Youtube c. October of 2008 by brute-forcing it with enough search term queries. Lurked Photobucket, flickr, and most notably YT for the next few years, wandering from blogger to blogger. Discovered the original Pregnant Community over the magical summer of 2010 and thoroughly plumbed its recesses, soon thereafter onto the likes of PG-13 (it was still up!), Outer Heaven/Bastion Works, and the wonderful world of DA. Cheviot's was actually a bit before my time, but Mind the Bump most certainly was not and actually introduced me to one of the foremost finds in my near-decade of surfing the 'gram. Not to mention The Bump Files!

I was aware of this place prior to joining in mid-2015, but it was still in a relatively primitive state at the time so I stuck closely to pregchan out of lack of interest...and boy, was I wrong. This site has grown exponentially since I joined up and I'm honestly proud that it's not only still going strong, but stronger than ever. We've made an enduring safe haven for admirers of mothers to be the world over and I hope it lasts evermore.

(May 14, 2024, 8:41 am)ValarMorghulis I haven't been here quite 10 years, I found it after EM had the (final) big sleep. I was always more into writing than photos: Pumpkinbelly's Patch, Bellius Maximus, Overflowing Bra, WISWRP, Expansion Mansion, MSGOTU, BlazeKnight's Vault, ASSTR, BEArchive, Cheviot's Place. I remember when people figured out you could mess with the URL for iFriends to access archived content and have all of CandyK's stuff kicking around on an HDD somewhere

Pardon the double-posting, but: dude, I was the OP of that pregchan thread in which candyk was rediscovered all the way back in 2014. Was not the absolute madlad who actually pulled it off, but I created the foundation for that event.

I'm from the old days too. How far back does pumpkinbelly go? It'll help me figure out how old I was, surfing fetish content on the family computer. Was it online pre 2000?

(May 13, 2024, 11:01 pm)chops79 I just noticed that I signed up for Preggophilia on June 12, 2013 and I can't for the life of me remember how I even found out about this place.  How many other 10 year+ members do we have ?  

I remember Cheviot's Place and Rene Ka's site.  I remember trolling around the various chans (4, 7, etc) and anonib for pregnancy content.

And if we want to go back even further I remember Usenet groups.  Downloading pictures very slowly on a 14.4K modem.  Even stitching together several files in MIME format only to find out the picture is nothing like what you wanted.  And videos?  Forget it.  240 x 180 resolution at about 10 fps.

Anyone else have any older timer memories?

I miss Cheviots Place. I remember those terrible clips but that was good quality back then and he / she did their best. To this day Im bummed that no one has any of their stuff backed up. That was a real goldmine for old content. I remember the first ep on one show called Daddio where the beautiful blonde wife was all but throwing herself at the husband. Or For Your Love where Holly Robinson Peete was preggo for an entire season. Even Girlfriends or Friends. Elizabeth Hasselbeck's multiple pregnancies that were chronicled back on SuperiorPics.com in daily clips or, taking it way back, Melissa Rivers pregnancy. There was so much content that has just been lost.

I know I got here from some other forum, but I can't remember it anymore. I think it was shutting down and we were all jumping ship.
EDIT: Oh yeah, it was Expansion Mansion. That's right.

I've been quite satisfied with the management of this forum, so it's all the same to me. The community can be truly awful sometimes which is why I don't really post anymore, but that's a problem across the entire internet.

I have been here since December 2012! Jesus where has that time gone to? I came here after Expansion Mansion and PregnantCommunity.org both fell apart and vanished. A massive shame to echo McKormick's post that so much content would have been lost. If we only knew eh we could have saved it.

Started on Stormrs Zone back in the mid 2000s I think. There were some OGs there like Cheviot and wrenspot and pumkinbelly. That closed or morphed into Expansion Mansion at some point, then I went on to Pregnant Community for a little bit and finally here. I have to say this site has lasted way longer than all the others before it and I'm actually kind of surprised by its longevity. Here's to a other fruitful decade!

A lot of these names are blasts from the past. I was never active in the online community beside uploading a few found pics to EM/PC.

I wasn't into porn so much as just hot pregnancy pics. There were also a lot of different sites to look for personal & professional pics before social media sites & apps took off. There were also a few tricks to get extra content e.g. guessing filename patterns on photobucket & southern charms, and as mentioned messing with the urls on ifriends. Google and other search engines used to actually be useful as well. I had hopes to recover an old archive from the old family pc and had my hopes up when the file was still listed in the filesystem but unfortunately it had been overwritten and was unrecoverable,  it would have made a nice snapshot of mid-2000s pics. Finding any decent pregnancy media offline was hard as hell; Finding new stuff online could be a challenge especially on a dialup connection.

The internet archive has a lot of the old sites saved but without the original urls idk how to find them on there, though I did find the last capture of http://wren-spot.com/guests/cheviot/. iirc Cheviot's place moved to a different url after that. Obviously the forums don't work and a lot of the images aren't available but it's still a snapshot of what it was like - expansion mansion on archive.org.