[Andhee]

Waheyyy, I joined a a year ago today! I just thought I'd share that with the community, so now you can all brag about how you've all been here about 20 years or whatever.

[rickey939]

Happy Anniversary.

[design219]

That makes me wonder who has the longest active membership.

[ghporter]

Congrats, Andhee!

The "longest active member" would be kind of complicated to identify. I think a lot of the earliest people wound up changing nicks a few times along the way, so that would make tracking them down a bit of a challenge-and I don't know how to do that.

[design219]

So when did the MacNN forums start?

[Footy]

Congratulation Andhee!

[residentEvil]

sometime in 1999 is when i first started "lurking"

[adamfishercox]

*Posts just so he can see his Join Date*

EDIT: Ugh.

[reader50]

The earliest valid account I can find is tfrantz, registered May 1999. All the early accounts were imported from UBB, and are not in consecutive registration order today, so take that with a grain of salt.

[LegendaryPinkOx]

I feel old.

[Chuckit]

If I recall, MacNN used to allow unregistered posting, so even if we had complete records, we still wouldn't know how long somebody had been here.

[Cold Warrior]

yeah. I used to post unregistered back in late 2000. Then finally signed up when they stopped allowing it (maybe Dec 00, Jan 01?).

[Chuckit]

I think it must have been sometime in 2001. I came here much less often back then, but I don't think I went a year between posts.

[davidflas]

Threads like this make me feel like a real old-timer around here. The oldest accounts that I still seeing being used on a regular basis are from 1999.

[sek929]

1999, hell yeah!

[turtle777]

Ah well, I'm not one of the first, but been here long enough, I guess.

-t

[design219]

So, party next year?

[Andhee]

Originally Posted by design219 

So, party next year?

I'll organize a rave.

[alligator]

I joined when we were still using typewriters.

[11011001]

I used to mail in hand-written letters.

[iranfromthezoo]

i started lurking towards the end of 2002 in high school...slacked off and now I am back. Ha

[davidflas]

Originally Posted by 11011001 

I used to mail in hand-written letters.

I used to send in my posts in the form of clay tablets on the back of a woolly mammoth! Later, when the pony express was around, the forums really became teh snappeh!

[vmarks]

I blew wind on a butterfly's wings, whose disturbance rippled outward, changing the flow of eddy currents in the upper atmosphere which acted as lenses for cosmic rays, which then focused on a hard drive at macnn's server, which flipped a bit that resulted in a post being submitted.

That was when I was in a hurry.

When I was in a leisurely mood, I simply set universal constants such that the universe evolved containing a forum named macnn, and a post within this forum containing the contents I wish it to contain.

[Railroader]

I joined Oct. 12th, 1999

Before MacNN was cool, then became uncool, then became cool again, then uncool, then cool, then became uncool, then became cool again, then uncool, then cool, then became uncool, then became cool again, then uncool, then cool, then became uncool, then became cool again, then uncool, then cool, then became uncool, then became cool again, then uncool, then cool, then became uncool, then became cool again, then uncool, then cool, then became uncool, then became cool again, then uncool, then cool, then became uncool, then became cool again, then uncool, then cool, and it is now what it is.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by Railroader 

I joined Oct. 12th, 1999

Ah, oldtimer. Do you happen to know a dude called Kilbey ?

-t

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by turtle777 

Ah, oldtimer. Do you happen to know a dude called Kilbey ?

-t

I am closer to him than anyone else. And I fear him.

[Laminar]

Originally Posted by turtle777 

Ah, oldtimer. Do you happen to know a dude called Kilbey ?

-t

Are you trying to get TEH BANNEDED!!1!1??

Hm...when did I first join?

[lothar56]

Oh, this is when!

[Gankdawg]

99er here.

[Mithras]

Wasting my time since 1999.

P.S. Apparently the earliest join date in the thread so far, which surprises me. I know there are a bunch of spring 1999 people.

[SSharon]

Every time I see a post like this I wonder why I didn't register when I was first introduced to macnn (by bstone) back in highschool ('99 or so). Instead I didn't register until a year and a half after I graduated.

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by Mithras 

P.S. Apparently the earliest join date in the thread so far, which surprises me.

WRONG! I beat you by two whole 24 hour long days!

[ghporter]

Am I the only person in this thread other than Andhee that's only had ONE nick on MacNN?

[adamfishercox]

*raises hand*

[davidflas]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

Am I the only person in this thread other than Andhee that's only had ONE nick on MacNN?

I'm far from a celeb on these boards, but I have been using the same nick since I first joined...

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

Am I the only person in this thread other than Andhee that's only had ONE nick on MacNN?

Nope. Not only is this the only nick I’ve ever had on MacNN, it’s also the only nick I’ve had on about a dozen other forums. The only places I’ve used different nicks have been places where ‘Oisín’ was already taken, or ‘spam forums’, where I really didn’t want anyone making a connection.

[olePigeon]

Originally Posted by sek929 

1999, hell yeah!

You beat me by a month.

[ebuddy]

Same nick here. same as Oisín, I use ebuddy as a username for pretty much everything.

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

Am I the only person in this thread other than Andhee that's only had ONE nick on MacNN?

No.

[starman]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

Am I the only person in this thread other than Andhee that's only had ONE nick on MacNN?

I created one other as a goof a few years back, but other than that it's all me.

[ryaxnb]

I'm a newcomer, I guess. :-) 2003! That's when I got my first Mac, too.

[Big Mac]

You just won 1 free year subscription to the MacNN Forums (valued regularly at $999)!

[design219]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

Am I the only person in this thread other than Andhee that's only had ONE nick on MacNN?

Count me in the 1 nick club.

[Cipher13]

Originally Posted by vmarks 

I blew wind on a butterfly's wings, whose disturbance rippled outward, changing the flow of eddy currents in the upper atmosphere which acted as lenses for cosmic rays, which then focused on a hard drive at macnn's server, which flipped a bit that resulted in a post being submitted.

There's an emacs command to do that.

Originally Posted by ghporter 

Am I the only person in this thread other than Andhee that's only had ONE nick on MacNN?

I also.

[villalobos]

Originally Posted by davidflas 

I'm far from a celeb on these boards, but I have been using the same nick since I first joined...

me too!!

[villalobos]

Originally Posted by Cipher13 

I also.

So you joined at the same time I did, but have about 10,000 more posts... I feel inadequate...

[ghporter]

Originally Posted by Cipher13 

There's an emacs command to do that.

True, but it takes a special combination of keystrokes that requires 11 fingers to be in use-all at once. It's daunting.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

Am I the only person in this thread other than Andhee that's only had ONE nick on MacNN?

Originally Posted by adamfishercox 

*raises hand*

Originally Posted by ebuddy 

Same nick here. same as Oisín, I use ebuddy as a username for pretty much everything.

Originally Posted by design219 

Count me in the 1 nick club.

Originally Posted by Cipher13 

I also.

Originally Posted by villalobos 

me too!!

You virgins

One day, you will wake up and grow some balls a second nick.

-t

[Cipher13]

Originally Posted by villalobos 

So you joined at the same time I did, but have about 10,000 more posts... I feel inadequate...

More like 25 000 more, but I lost count after numerous resets. >_>

Those figures speak more highly of you than me.

(Eh, I was at school when I started here, what else was there to due during lessons when I knew more than the teacher?)

[sek929]

I've also stuck with my original (and unoriginal in the same right) nick the entire time.