I can't remember actually. I do remember that I used to visit both this site and the TMF at one time, when this place was in its infancy. I started to come here much more frequently, and less so to the TMF, because all the posted images/clips etc were hosted 'locally' here, so you were always sure of getting them.
The fact that the TMF used to be exclusively external linking could be very frustrating when every second link would be a link to a tripod-hosted image (that was blocked) or another free provider that had had the account's bandwidth exceeded.