What happened before the Pumping Reboot?

I did my first jelqing excercise in October 1998. My erect penis was at that time 17.0 cm long and 12.5 cm around the middle of the shaft and 13.5 cm at the base.

In January 1999 the erection was almost 18 cm long, the circumference was unchanged though.
Then I started to hang a weight of 0.5 kg for about 15 minutes one or two times a week. In addition to jelqing, of course.

In July 2000 my erection was exactly 18.0 cm long, 13.0 cm around the middle and 14.0 cm around the base.

Then came a three year long break from jelqing and hanging weights

In Februari 2004 I started jelqing again, after four days of 100-200 repetitions a day I measured my erection, it was 17.5 cm long, 13.0 cm around the middle and 13.5 cm around the base.

In June 2004 it was 18.0 cm long, 13.0 cm around the middle and 14.0 cm around the base. Since Febuary I had been milking about 200-600 repititions once a day, three or four times a week.

Then followed eight years of very sporadic jelqing, stretching and squeezing. No notes of measurements during this period.
Eventually the slumbering PE interest started to wake up. In late 2012 found this site and begun to wonder if I might try to buy a penis pump since I for a long time have been curious about what it might feel like. And maybe I would be able to gain some girth with a pump.

Note: I made the above measurements without knowing anything about BPEL and similar methods/abbreviations. Now I would say that the length measurements were NBPEL since I regared pressing the ruler agains my body would be cheating. Now I more or less regard it as a PEGym measurement standard method.