ILX: What year did you start posting?

I voted. I think. Is it still possible to find your first post, since the sign-in system got re-jigged?

2004.

Are you sure about 2000?

spring 2002, but i was lurking before that.

October 2002. Gosh.

xp not at all. I search'd Ned's first post & it said Feb 2000 so I went with that (but it's hardly reliable)

Jan 2004, with a Rough Guide to Frank Zappa

lol, nothing changes

(xp for instance search function tells me Tom's first post was Aug 2000 but that hardly makes sense)

2005. Still feel like a newbie.

Rats, I voted wrong -- search says I started in 2002. I'm positive I'd been reading it for some time by then, tho -- I was just too intimidated to write anything.

Re-reading your first post is like opening an old diary. Shuddery.

Some posts are misdated -- I have some that are dated 2001, but I didn't even find the site until late '03.

Beginning of 2007. A bit shocked to see that almost in the middle of the poll options.

2004.

'01

(oh btw I started in 2006)

Jan 2010

2000

2001... feels like loooooonger..

'01

2002, lurked in '01.

No wait that 2002 date is impossible because I remember posting on 9/11. I think?? Jeez.

2005; I must have lurked before that because I didn't think I'd been here that long.

late late '03

No wait that 2002 date is impossible because I remember posting on 9/11. I think?? Jeez.

― you're in the club and the light hits your ass like pow (Laurel), Thursday, June 23, 2011 10:43 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

yeah, well, there's a lot that doesn't add up about 9/11...

2005
believe it

2002 using my real name. Since 2003 as Johnny Fever.

04 technically, though only regularly in 07

early 2004 as lovebug, began lurking while bored during the 2003 holiday season

Nov 2004

i think I posted once as Bootney Leaf Farnsworth

definitely 01, maybe 00

'04 I think or '05

07 i think, maybe 08.

I'd like to know when I started lurking. I think it was for a while, but I used to browse the web tons and can't remember when ilx became a habit. Nowadays it's all I read.

my bloody valentine "sugar"?

that was my first post, so technically 2003. genuinely have no idea how long I had lurked before that / can't even remember how I found the site.

started posting w/ this username in 2007.

ten fabulous years in the gulag archipeLOLgo

I think that makes my lurking-only period about 5 years? which is...weird, in retrospect.

apologies if someone's already made that joke.

actually let me just apologize for the last decade.

2002, but 2004 as x j e r e m y and i took 2008-09 off

i was homeless for 2 months and still managed to post once, too.

Mostly lurking and occasionally posting since 2004. My mind = blowed.

my first post is early 2009 but i forgot abt the site for a couple of months and then started posting more often through 09

if it hadnt been for dom's videogames poll i would not be a poster here

link plz

link plz

link plz

2001.

link plz

sorry bout that x4

link to...? the games poll?

Lurked for ages, posted one time in 2005, lurked again, started posting again 2007.

just 2010 i think but i remember reading this thread way before:

Haruomi Hosono

essentially i joined because of that thread

I joined because of a Smiths thread. Hardly an exclusive club, I'd imagine.

i apparently started in mid 2006, almost exactly five years ago. which is long enough, but not quite as long as it seems. abt 14,000 posts in that time, which works out to a little less than 8/day. i can do so much better.

first checked ILX out because someone on another board had complained that ILX was a sexist boys' club and not a friendly environment for girls interested in music, which made me curious as to whether you all were really so horrible. of course you were and are, so i stayed.

i'm almost positive that there was some other, forgotten (and likely best forgotten) username that i used briefly in my earliest days, but god knows what it might have been...

11 years of this shit. Found Freaky Trigger searching for stuff on My Bloody Valentine, and started lurking and occasionaly posting on ILM when it began.

Tom used to delete threads in the old days. I can remember him deleting a Slowdive thread once, and posting his dislike of the idea of the thread too. :D

early 2002, but lurked ilm for a few months.

some days i still wish tom'd listened to our repeated requests to delete the whole site

march 2003

other days i remember the wacky cast of characters i couldn't live without

2001

link to...? the games poll?

― Also unknown as Zora (Surfing At Work), Thursday, June 23, 2011 6:02 PM (19 minutes ago)

yeah sorry but I found it and bookmarked on my crappy Opera browser

Jan or Feb 2004, I think

31/8/00. OG.

some days i still wish tom'd listened to our repeated requests to delete the whole site

I can remember once writing him an email saying he shouldn't delete the site. How wrong I was. -_^

Pretty sure it was early 2008, although I'd been lurking for a while the year previoiusly, and the mysterious lowercase 'alex in montreal' had been posting way longer than that. I've never figured out how 'Alex in Montreal' was approved by the system and I haven't gotten around to politely changing my user name. :S

no idea there had been two Alex in Montreals

2k3

― Andrew, Wednesday, 4 April 2001 00:00 (10 years ago)

search says my first post was in 2007 but I'm sure I started lurking in 2003 or even before that maybe.

xxp lol re Alexes in Montreal - I also missed that!

actually i think i posted once or twice in 2002... iirc you didn't have to register back then?

no it was a lot more wild west in the old days

a murder every day and all the gold you could eat

this place was all homesteaders and toothless religious zealots from obscure sects until aught six.

dipped my toe in the xword thread in 04

don't we currently have a jeff and a Jeff?

2005

xp not at all. I search'd Ned's first post & it said Feb 2000 so I went with that (but it's hardly reliable)

There was a weird glitch at one point that misdated a bunch of posts, but August 2000 is when ILM began.

February 2003 for me, btw!

apparently april 2002 (Taking Sides: Gold Teeth Thief vs 2ManyDJs fandom decidedly not held in check). had been lurking for a very long time before that - i remember reynolds and momus both mentioning it alot so was probably aware of it from them but what got me to actually check it out was matos mentioning it constantly (or maybe just linking to it) and from there seeing that the handful of ppl who i 'followed'(?) on art of the mix were here AND more to the point that there was a tie-in to freakytrigger, which i know i discovered thru matos and love(d). was still very wary of actually posting here, truth be told thought ppl who posted on messageboards were losers (still think there's a large degree of truth to this), quit working at a record store in feb 2002 and my guess is by april 02 was actually in the mood to engage in conversation about music again only instead of having to resort to real live ppl in town and fake my way thru conversations about moldy peaches or whatever i could talk about stuff i wasn't tired of talking about and was much more interested in ie mashups.

don't we currently have a jeff and a Jeff?

Indeed.

aug 2002, but i'd been lurking for a bit - fellow user thomp introduced me to the forums/freakytrigger when we were both in HS

I always love hearing about the ones who were posting on here since high school; I think if I had the internet and had been on ILX high school would've been a lot more tolerable (but my grades would've been way worse probably)

okay so I know I was here in at least 2001. I feel like it was 2000 but I can find no proof. this seems to be my oldest post - stupid kid using her real name, talking baout slutty things! pfft. but yes. right at the end of high school.

Events marked with songs

2005

awww! I had it on thread titles, not posts. October 2000!
Songs About Quitting Your Job?

but I already voted for 2001 :( someone who started in 2001 please vote 2000 for me! ta!

Since 2002, on and off. This place seems so polite and well reasoned these days. What happened?

20003? 2004? Subjectivisten 4 life innit

not sure

sidebar topic: how many ppl accidentally/stupidly posted first under their real names?

('not sure' xp to V Plain)

the outloud.fm ilx room: when did you... wait what

lol

how do i get on there? :(

2011

valuable new poster

200...4? got into it when i wrote for stylus for all of 3 seconds, posted under my govt name until 07.

03 I think. Might have been late 02. Definitely lurked in 2002.

early 2003. ESOJ had been kvetching elsewhere about B3cky Luca$ and my curiosity was piqued so I came over to see what the dillyo was. Read/lurked in bemusement for a while then started posting on ILM. Then pretty much ceased bothering with ILM and stuck to ILE/x for whatever reason.

2006, I think. I heard about this place on Philaflava from Rollie Pemberton/Cadence Weapon. Started out as Mulla Atari but lost my login info.

2005? i guess? posted under my govt name until some sock accused me of statutory rape. good times.

HI DERE is to blame for me, so

posted under my govt name until some sock accused me of statutory rape.

waht

i believe it was during one of the wild and wooly mod battles back in the day, it was really fucking odd tbh. swift lesson tho!

01.

2002, like summer or fall? There's no way I'd remember except that I know I wasn't even lurking on 9/11, and had been here for a bit when I moved out of New Orleans in 03.

00.

I think I posted with my real name once or twice, but anyone with the Google skills of a third grader could figure out my real name based on my ILXor handle, so whatevs.

2007 or...'08 at the latest i think? i am not seeking out my early posts.

2002, believe it or not

i remember my first encounter w/ Ned in 04 when I was acting like a prick, he told me to "chill the fuck out".

tbf I totally deserved it tho! :)

WDYLL: what year did you start posing?

things that have happened while i posted on ilx

taught 5th grade in boston
lost 30 lbs
moved to la
gained 40lbs
got an mfa
lost my house
lived out of my car
moved to sf
moved to seattle
fell in love
lost 40 lbs
moved to boston
got an m.ed
gained 50lbs
taught 6th grade

2003, I think

2004, should have lurked a few years tbh

Posted on the very first day in August 2000, haven't stopped.

posted sporadically since 2003? think i found ilx via freaky trigger in '02 but didn't really check it out.

it's never too late, dar

i think i jumped right in with wdylls to various "uh who are you"s under the impression that that was some sort of introduction thread. later i found the actual introduction thread.

i think i started in 2005? coincidentally i was very unemployed for a lot of that year.

first posted: 2008
first read the site in December 2005 but I thought it was really confusing and went away for a while

2001...BCE!
Shit!

oh wait, nevermind. my first post was in 2009 but i had been lurking for a few months before that

i missed OG status by a year :(

none of you have Hurting beat btw

Little Miss Sunshine must be the best movie ever made, right?

things that have happened while i posted on ilx

man really don't want to think about this for myself

Yeah, no kidding. A lot has happened in 7 years, but I'm not in an appreciably different/better place in my life. Sheesh...

January 2002, age 15!

-lived in four different states
-held six different jobs
-went through three different relationships
-gained/lost/gained/lost/gained 30-odd lbs
-aged terribly

xpost -- you infant

man really don't want to think about this for myself

I don't either, probably for the opposite reason.

http://tvmedia.ign.com/tv/image/article/109/1095877/futurama-season-6-20100609103054764.jpg

"Good news, everybody! I moved my office from this room over to that room!"

-fathered three children with three different women
-entered and won arm-wrestling contest in keokuk, iowa
-found missing reels of magnificent ambersons but lost them again in trailer park fire
-ate whole horse, lived

lol

2010. I've got 1,985 posts and that surprises even me as my fixes on ilxor tend to be sporadic one-week-on-2-months-off stints.

what % of the years in your life have been ilx-reading/posting years?

if I found the site in 2002 (again not sure) and just count reading I'm at...36%

2006 btw

- dropped anvil on toe, which swelled and pulsed
- blew my feathers off with an ill-timed shotgun blast, revealing pink spotted boxer shorts
- invested heavily in Acme products
- ran loop-de-loop on pursuit of damned bird, right into a drawing of a tunnel through a rock

less than 15% of my life, so at least there's that

--graduated college
--worked at Best Buy for a year
--farted
--got current job
--farted
--have driven three different cars
--lost my grandmother and aunt
--parents moved out of state
--farted
--performed in about 25 theatrical productions

snuck in right at the end of 2002. ha ha, one of my earliest posts is from 2003 and complains about how broken allmusic's interface is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HDM3eYp4KQ

-read all 26 volumes of the warren report
-beat the original mega man after 20 years of failed attempts
-worked as snake wine bottler in vietnam
-sold fake autobiography to knopf entitled "i eat children: the true story of a cannibal" under the name "ned raggett"

Ya bastid.

the audiobook is phenomenal, and melodic, though

and Geir-approved

2004, dang

me too, dang!

i've always been stumbling across ilxor threads for years but seem to have been convinced for years that i was looking at an archived forum, sans graphics and exclusively text (for "saving space" storage reasons). took me a while to realize, when i noticed the bizarre extra usernames, that this was actually it.

2004 (as pullapartgirl)

don't we currently have a jeff and a Jeff?

Update your xls - Jeff and I are married. He's been around since 2000 or 2001 (he just said he posted when the board was hosted by Greenspun), but he didn't rope me in until we moved to Chicago and I met ppl in real life.

you are married to Jeff, but not jeff amirite

WILL when first posting to ILX
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/189728_4478563577_516053577_33035_4783_n.jpg
met and broke up with a few dudes, moved four times, got engaged, changed my job, bought a dog, cut my hair off and dyed it orange, let it grow and get redder, smoked almost the whole time ;_;

i've always been stumbling across ilxor threads for years but seem to have been convinced for years that i was looking at an archived forum, sans graphics and exclusively text (for "saving space" storage reasons). took me a while to realize, when i noticed the bizarre extra usernames, that this was actually it.

yeah, i can't remember when i first came across it, prob 2000 or 2001. but i thought the same kinda thing. couldn't figure out where the original conversations had been posted and what "greenspun" was

some days i still wish tom'd listened to our repeated requests to delete the whole site
― brazenly alive (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 24 June 2011 08:20 (4 hours ago)

Posted on the very first day in August 2000, haven't stopped.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 June 2011 11:43 (1 hour ago)

^pvmic

iirc occasional lurkreading from 2002, started posting (also occasionally, prob ILM-only for a long while) late 2003

Yes, Jenny is married to uppercase Jeff. And I've been around for a long time.

A couple months ago I was able to register under a new email address with exactly the same user name that I currently use. I never used it though, because I didn't want to deal with missing all the bookmarks.

Actually I did use it a couple times, but then abandoned it.

Blue Man Group is the shiznit. They're not just "performance artists," they make kick-ass music. Audio is by far the greatest album ever made.
― Curtis Stephens, Saturday, October 19, 2002 7:46 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

October 2002

jesus were you ten

14!

2006 THATS FUCKED GET ME OUT OF HERE PLEASE

(only been unregistered since '08 though)

2007

i missed OG status by a year :(

― karma's ruthless invisible (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, June 23, 2011 9:51 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

yeah 01 over here too, there needs to be a name for us not quite OGs

UGs

i thought goons were unoriginal gangstas

if crut sticks around til 2016 he'll have spent half his life as an ilx poster

"long-suffering"

saying "shiznit" in your very first post is untoppable

i was really pleased to see my first post was something relatively clearheaded and reasonable about dancehall that i probably wouldn't be ashamed to post today

my second was some inane gibberish about indie vs. mainstream hip-hop that makes me wish i had a time machine to go slap 23-year-old me with a roll of quarters

in my first post i was overly literal and pedantic about the idea of something having to be either "classic" or "dud"

haha that's a great first post really

Hahah I was thinking about crut's blue man grp post just before.

saying "shiznit" in your very first post is untoppable

OTM

looooool

what was DiMarceau Fishpower's first post

my first post was a deranged rant about how much i hate(d) andrew wk
i've settled down a little since.

i've also moved 7 times.
been laid off twice and quit another job. nearly left my industry entirely.
been to all the continents except antarctica (after having started 2001 never having left n america).
started reading, turned my health around, quit the hard drugs.

also lost both my grandmothers and almost my mother.

I showed up because someone was posting as me and I felt compelled to set the record straight and unbesmirch my good name (despite only a couple people here even knowing who I was anyway). Then I hung around.

Holy shazbot, I've been posting here since 5/20/02. First post was about Global Communication.

4th post - 2nd day

The first four are the best and are probably a bit underrated on the rawk album sweepstakes.
Before I heard and found punk, Sabbath was the meanest of the music. The name alone used to freak out some kids.

Mind you this was back in like 5th or 6th grade in the early 80s, now these same kids today would probably be into Cannibal Corpse and downloading meth recipes off the net.

i'm glad "unbesmirch" found its way into this thread.

hm, looks like I had a habit of posting once or twice then forgetting my login details. Posted once in 2005, a few times in 06 then for srs in 2007.

posted first in 2003 right around my 21st birthday!

summer 2004

August 2001 here.

I think I started lurking earlier, but my first post is in 2003.

Lurking in early 2001 and then posting significantly in Sept. 2001

First post September 2004, think I lurked for a few months before registering though.

Oh shi 2003??

spring/summer 2004 iirc

2000 - think I'm a lifer now :/

I wonder how many OGs are still around? Ned and Dan, naturally. The Pinefox seems to be on the original thread of Songs About Quitting Your Job? though I don't remember him posting that early. Does sund4r still post on ILM?

2004.

Are you sure about 2000?

― Mark G, Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:29 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Oops, it seems 2003 was the right answer for me.

sund4r still posts!

Lurked from early 2007, first post September the same year.

2001. I was EIGHTEEN.

Ten years ago, ILXors were getting hammered on my roof and meeting a great deal of everyone else for the first time.

Um, that sounds like some sort of orgy

"FAP"

Resembled an orgy in that a few of us were in desperate need of the vomitorium by the end of the Picnic in the Sky.

Hmm, it's 10 AM and I'm suddenly into the idea of a white Russian milkshake or a Pimm's slushy for some bizarre reason.

My god I was a dork in 2003.

My first post was in reply to a thread on O Superman by Laurie Anderson in March 2001. I was probably one of the first random Googlers to hit ILX. Can't believe I've been on this thing over ten years! That's a third of my life...

aug of 05, philip sherburne's site led me here

2001, don't know what month though.

2003

2002, apparently. That's a worryingly long time. I was still in my 20s!

I have just looked back at old posts and wondered what on earth I was on about. It is horrible that all these anecdotes are long-forgotten in my head yet live on on the internet.

aug 2002, but i'd been lurking for a bit - fellow user thomp introduced me to the forums/freakytrigger when we were both in HS

― little dieter wants to FUCK (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 23 June 2011 23:06 (Yesterday) Bookmark

lol outed. apparently my first post was in 2003, though someone with the same govt. name contributed this the previous year on a thread about 'work it':

u are all dense u know! ever heard of a shitty little windows program called sound recorder?? well record the part of the song that u r all arguin about and then play it back using the reverse function........and it blatantly says: "I put my thang down flip it and reverse it" if u dont believe me try it....and listen to all the people that bin tellin u that the whole time!!
― Tom West, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 12:18 (8 years ago) Bookmark

I can't remember if the Jeff that posted on Songs About Quitting Your Job is me. I think so? Seems like something I would post.

ILE - day 1 or 2...

ILM - 2000, I think.

summer 2001, so 10 years on and off

the first posts can/find remember are from 2006

~ i can find/remember ~

though they were on ilm only

19 Mar 01

Sure I posted on ILBooks when it did the rounds of the book blogs (2004 or so?), but can't remember name I used or what I said. Went away for a year or two, lurked for a year or two, started occasionally posting three-ish years ago iirc.

Found ilm in dec 2000. My first few years of posts are v cringeworthy - I was such a dumbass.

I was 21 when I started. Every single one of my posts have been hilarious.

HADDOCK ANYONE?!?!?!

my second post actually but I liked it better

2000 - think I'm a lifer now :/

This is a worrying thought!

i never knew ILB had 'done the rounds of the book blogs'

Yes, but when it was basically just Maud Newton, Bookslut and The Elegant Variation.

2003

can't remember how I stumbled in here, maybe following up on something I read on rockcritics.com

I debate with myself whether Zac and I should ever tell our kids that basically, they exist because of this place. Or maybe someday they'll search and so I'm telling them right now? Hey little dudes. Sorry you had to find out this way.

Gang of Four - Check.
A Certain Ration - Check.
One Step Beyond - Hang on, who put that in here?
― mark grout, Monday, 1 September 2003 14:34 (7 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

My first posting. from The Ratpure

nakh u dog, 2006. You were here for jol.

I posted intermittently for a year or so under my own name in 2005; I got into it with Morbius over The Godfather, and he wrote a post that went "And I see you're coming down Snot-Nose Avenue" or something like that! My first Clemenza post was in 2009.

wow, Kim. just tell them you met at the library.

...the ELECTRONIC library.

and maybe hide the ilx bookmark somehow. we do not need another aja!

(or do we?)

What?

(vg)

Aja was alright..

the Aja/Alex in NYC exchanges were amazing to watch unfold but I suspect that going back and rereading them would be really dull now

I met my wife on an internet radio chatroom

"daddy's name was mr noodles."

Did a search, got BLOCKED!!

Reason:
This Websense category is filtered: Illegal or Questionable.

URL:
http://ajadante.ytmnd.com/

I debate with myself whether Zac and I should ever tell our kids that basically, they exist because of this place. Or maybe someday they'll search and so I'm telling them right now? Hey little dudes. Sorry you had to find out this way.

Suggest Ban Permalink
― Kim, Friday, June 24, 2011 1:53 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark

dude, it could be worse: I met my fiance on LIVEJOURNAL :P
"Kids, your parents were... emo"

First post was "!!!" on the thread "hotly anticipating," February of 2003. Been posting dumb shit intermittently ever since.

I think it was a link or a mention on Simon R's Blissblog that led me here.

2002

most people I know who met on the net havent seperated yet!

it's because we see each other at our worst far in advance of people who meet face to face ;)

Late 2001, because Sinister was going down the tubes. Quit sometime in 2008. Don't really know why I'm here now.

it's nice to see you, mark c!

Hi Estela! You said hello in another thread and I cruelly ignored you. I'm sorry.

Jeff and I met on a web design message board and his user name was "corpse," which was part of the attraction tbh.

I kind of blame Sean C - he's the one who responded to something I wrote on a thread and talked me into actually hanging out with a bunch of guys I knew only from ILM. Zac and I found ourselves the last two standing on a couple of occasions where he walked me home, had a flirtatious and terrible game of pool, attended a Mean Red Spiders show at Healey's bar, broke up with significant others, had what we thought was rebound type hookup, got married in 2006 (ilxors in attendance - the awesome Scott Woods as wedding DJ) and now we have two kids. Could also blame Kate who brought Zac here (I think, anyway) oh life.

2003... just bits and pieces though, I think... think it was 2004 I got really stuck in

And you certainly did get stuck in :)

i don't remember that, mark c. were you mad at me for some reason or were you just feeling superior. xp

I'm surprised I was here before Mr. Grout tbh!

It was only a few days ago! I was just being spacey I think but I didn't want you to think I was being rude.

(xpost)

who do you all think of as the OG crüe?

Came tra-la-la'ing from the Silver Jews Bulletin Board on disc.server.com in 2003 after famous del griiifffith posted a link. My first post was about the airbrushed Moby Grape album cover. My first thread started was about Skid Row's Slave to the Grind. My first ILE post compliments gygax in the first sentence.

It would take forever to find my first WDYLL, but I suspect I've got a goatee in it.

Sunny and I were talking about how convenient it would have been to have an OK Cupit profile back in the day, but being that we met on that Joos board and have been married for over six years with two kids, I guess we did okay without it.

My first post was about the airbrushed Moby Grape album cover

Bragging rights

anyway, it's good to see you mark c.

reading it 2006, occasionally vocalized lurker since 2008

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/birdnestsoup/Bill.jpg

^ my first wdyll iirc, 2004

2005

yikes

Boy you were young.

xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lE6Htee0sA

I remember when you first stared posting, Edward. I was like 'ooh, another Rhode Islander' but that was back when Jon could post, too.

Late 2001, because Sinister was going down the tubes. Quit sometime in 2008. Don't really know why I'm here now.

It seems lots of people who I thought had given up have somehow resurfaced lately.

March 05

internet romance is sweet as air suppli

Voted 2006 - that was my time writing for Stylus and I was sure that I had found ilx as a result of that although I forget the exact circumstances - but having looked it up my first post was in early 2007 so I must have lurked for a short while first.

voted 2005, on reflection i think it might have been 2006.

can't remember how I stumbled in here, maybe following up on something I read on rockcritics.com

I got here from there, too. (And I was 31 when I first started posting here.)

I started in 2004 when Jenny (who I knew IRL) alerted me that someone on a message board was holding forth on the quality construction and styling of H&M's clothes. I was like, WTF, I have to join this board so I can argue!!

2005: discovered ilx and posted a handful of times under my irl name & a few pseudonyms (not socks, mind - this was back when one's user ID could be changed as arbitrarily as d names nowadays); stopped posting for some reason, but frequently lurked; late 2007: started posting regularly in my current incarnation.

going w/ 2007

2000 - some pompous and ill-advised crap about the Go-Betweens, I think

Fapped 2002-2005. Played an ILX gig 2007. Now not really here much any more.

I was still in my flippin' 30's when I made my first post, now at 49 and a half that seems like a distant memory. I am a different person now, so much has happened since then - loved, lost and lurved again, got a posh job, very,very nearly died in 2009, stopped playing sport, had a parent die. Now I have sort of ended up as a very small time semi-pro musician (as well as having the posh job). Eldest off to Univ in the autumn.

I occasionally see an old post of mine and realise what an utter, utter, utter tool I was a lot of the time on here. No, I really was! (And still probably am). Still, ILX was a constant backdrop for my 40's - lots of amazing people and at least one friend for life came out it.

Good wishes to one and all :)

I'm glad I'm not the only one to look at old posts and think "who is this tool" only to discover it was me. Can't remember ever thinking you were a tool though.

I was!

Nearly 10 years ago: Sept, 2001

So, should I be proud or ashamed?

Go for proud. And hi there Dr. C!

been posting since 2001, but lurked in 2000. id be curious to know if i have the lowest years to actual posts ratio though!

found this place in 06, started posting in 07

2004, me. Posted for a while...retreated to lurking...posted again for a while...lurked again, and now here I am. I am herpes, hear me roar.

VegemiteGrrl

buzza

Feb 22, 2011

Something about Alice Coltrane, then something about E-40 the next day, then I found the ILH crew, then I found the goons.

aw you are but a wee babby! <3

then I found the goons

We hardly knew ye.

wandered over to ILM in 2004 from forks' blog. lol didn't actually realise there were other boards until a year later, didn't start posting regularly until a year after that.

just checked, first post in Jan. 03, after lurking a few months. first under my real name, then after getting a job switched to another name for a while, and then to gypsy mothra, and then to this. (i think tipsy was first introduced as a Sandbox variant on gypsy, and then i just kept it.)

all of my early posts are embarrassing, but so are a lot of the later ones.

Many people have come on here and talked about embarrassment over their earliest posts. I'm lucky in that I was well into my 40s (44) when I first posted; all that stuff you have to go through before you're comfortable with the way you write, that happened with me long before I arrived here. If my timeline had matched others here--say from my early 20s into my 30s--I'd have the same problem; I cringe when I think about stuff I wrote from about '85 to '93. Everything here's been me. Whether that's a good thing or not is another story.

That's why I'm lucky. Why I'm unlucky: I started old, now I'm even older.

xp

the oldest posts of mine I can find are in fact a discussion w/ a Mr G. Mothra, matos & others about a dave eggers review.

0.67 posts a day since 2005, ish

i'm embarrassed by all my posts equally btw

I was thirty. I've been looking at my old posts and they're not that embarrassing, most of what's written is me and that's fine. It's pretty rare that I'll go off on one, either in mood or topic or trolling, so I'd be happy enough for ilx to serve as a diary/epitaph if: (i) I had any time or inclination to reminisce; and (ii) I ever said much of consequence.

Jeez, my early posts could be wordy though! Sometimes preachy too. I used to spend an age honing one only to find it'd been xposted thirty or forty times. No wonder I got few replies. Just a question of getting used to the format I guess - my previous board was all full of old folk, you get time to think with them.

(xp to clemenza I guess, no implications intended)

rafa out cured you of a lot imo

Just a question of getting used to the format I guess - my previous board was all full of old folk, you get time to think with them.

I'm all for the old folk. We're not nearly so ready to pounce with the sarcasm, with maybe one prominent exception noted.

buffmaxsmom

Think it was 04, under a different name.

I got a couple terrible trying-too-hard posts in the Greenspun era, and I doubt I can find them now because my handle then was the below-the-minimum-string-length for text searches.

Feb 2004 after some weeks of lurking - a post on Bookslut linked to ILBooks.

2005 marchish?

worthless poster since '03, here

07

was that legal in fla y/n

I posted in 2002 under a different name so that counts.

I find it difficult not to misread the thread title as: What year did you start posing?

same diff.

I only wish I had used the word "anus" more

http://images1.cliqueclack.com/tv/files/2010/10/community-e-pluribus-anus.jpg

You can search for the words you've used the most?

no, the words you've used "moist"

'05, yo.

still think of myself as a noob.

I only wish I had used the word "anus" more

ILX epitaphs

First posted January 6/04, in this thread

The New Christy Minstrels...buh

under my birth name, which I used for the rest of the month and never again thereafter (except once or twice). Not embarrassed by my first post at all, unlike the next thousand that followed.

'04

xpost oo are you really called Speedy Gonzales?

I can't find my first post for some reason but I'm 99% sure it was 2003

00. OG. Old Git.

I can't find my first post for some reason but I'm 99% sure it was 2003

― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:45 (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

9 Jan 2004, fuck it

June 2001, 10 years ago yesterday in fact. Life is unrecognisable now for loads of reasons - work, social life, family, everything. Although I've met loads of people through this site, the biggest difference has been the friends or friends of friends I've met through those people, to the extent that I have whole social groups of people who have never posted to ILX but who I would probably never have met had it not been for this this place. I think it's unlikely I'd have met my girlfriend either, although she's never posted here either.

I think the posting community has been generally consistent since 2006/07 or so? Most of the early doors posters who were going to leave had gone by then, and most other people have stuck around.

was introduced to ILM around 2002ish but don't appear to have posted anything before early '06

2003

MMV

(first posted in '07 as The Reverend tho)

2004? 2005? can't remember the pre-registration days that clearly

yeah, I can barely find anything from my first few years bcz posting unreg was so fun, you could say something obtuse about the subject of your post in the name field, then punchline it in the email field

all lost to code revision now

Sept 2001. Blame Ned.

I'm none of the Jeff's already mentioned.

Start of 2004, lurked. Have been lurking since with some posts here and there.

xpost -- All part of my plan.

Hello Ned. Re: a very old conversation. Did you know that there is a very good Chameleons tribute band playing in the Uk right now under the name of 'Chameleon Vox'? The weird thing is that now Mark Burgess has joined them as singer! I though you should know ;)

Also hello to the great Jeff W! I still remember fondly your parody post of me moaning about people at work not liking Toots and The Maytals.... or something :)

Re: Matt DC - yes the scism was 2007, wasn't it? Lots of cracking posters left then. Some urgent and key London FAP questions - did Dave Stelfox ever turn up to one or am I imagining it? Dave Q DID turn up to one and was EXACTLY like we imagined him - mad as a door. I miss mark sinker and think of him whenever pondering how prog happened or what bands were true punk and which were not. Best music thread was the 'Down in The Tube Station At Midnight' lyric-crit. Worst thread was the Killing Joke 'Honour the Fire' debacle in which I was a bit shit. I hope dear old Alex in NYC doesn't still have a curse on me!

I *think* Dave S briefly turned up at a Trig Brother I wasn't at, although I've met him in the pub a few times since then. Dave Q was also around for a bit up until about two years ago (he turned up on a few FreakyTrigger radio shows) and has kind of disappeared off the radar since. Mark S and most of the others are still on FT in various comments boxes and so forth.

Yeah, heard about ChameleonsVox and am pretending it doesn't exist...

'02

=(

2002. just did a search and was instantly transported back to a simpler time when I had hours to kill while working a weird campus job and would often spend them reading ilx while listening to cryptopsy and darkthrone and idm. have posted irregularly about dumb things since.

2007. I'm still mostly a lurker even after all these years.

(It could be worse. I've been reading the Snopes board since 1997-98, and I've posted there twice.)

(I don't believe you)

(Snopes might have an answer. Look it up.)

January 2002, on a Kevin Ayers thread. Then next to nothing until late 2003/early 2004, when the postings started to become more regular.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Hm, mid 2001 I think? I was one of the Sinister refugees.... Haven't posted much in the last few (5'ish) years?

Lurking for 9 years & 9 months, soaking ILX's collective wisdom in like a sponge

you must be ready to pop

...sad, dry sponge :)

*cries*

'04

there, there, poppy...

I posted a couple times at the very end of 2007. I had been lurking off-and-on since like 2002, though.

2001

2005, I think, under previous username.

(Delurking to air new display name. Thx, ice craem.)

xpost oo are you really called Speedy Gonzales?

― Mark G, Tuesday, June 28, 2011 6:14 AM

Depends how you define "really"! (Most people call me "Scott")

Mid '03 apparently. I do remember lurking for a while, having arrived via Momus's blog maybe a year earlier. Being a pretty irregular poster (mostly to ILM) I still feel like something of a noob.

spring 2001

some time in oh three iirc

found the place in late 2002, by altavista'ing "raggett main firmament" iirc, and started posting on january 7th, 2003.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

That's a lot of votes.

we takin over

huh, I'm right in the middle of the age curve but near the edge of the 1st post curve

more like when did you start imposting

I've just spent the last hour and a half reading all my old posts, mainly containing childhood anecdotes that I'd completely forgotten about by this point. When you can't depend on brain cells... depend on the interwebs

this place is turning into Children Of Men

a lot more og'ers than i expected

I've just spent the last hour and a half reading all my old posts, mainly containing childhood anecdotes that I'd completely forgotten about by this point. When you can't depend on brain cells... depend on the interwebs

― Waiting around for something to happen (poppy), Thursday, 7 July 2011 03:20 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This is very true.

I'd forgotten about
1) when one of the GTO 'Miss' girls emailed me to offer an Arthur Lee track for my album project (the "ILX has a bucket" compil), only to immediately email me back to say 'sorry, wrong number')... (I KNOW, HOW COULD I HAVE FORGOTTEN THAT HAPPENED? You may well ask, well possibly because both messages were in my inbox of a morning so my reactions at the time were "WTF?????" followed immediately by "oh".

.. and a whole host of Amber/Alice anecdotes, which I have been finding and telling the (now teenage or nearly) girls to their great amusement..

Yr girls are almost teens now? Good lord, time flieth by.

Dunno if you can read too much into this but there seems to have been a genuine drop-off in new regulars over the last few years.

maybe that's the 'lurk for a few years before posting' effect.

facebook launched in 2004

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5115/5911444343_218891f6cb_z.jpg

need ILX: What year did you stop posting? poll

yeah, i had that thought and then realised why it didn't work

obv the y-axis is ... not totally accurately named

i can only blame the decline on the loss of quality posters and the losing of the board's satirical edge

It flattens out exactly when I left. QED.

2007 actually is still relatively new, then? It's tracing a fairly neat downwards trajectory from 2001.

Is that a problem? I'd've thought new blood/fresh meat was essential to how these things function, but maybe not.

the overall activity of the board has never and probably never will drop significantly, though. some great newer people have come along over the years but i think the board culture is mostly enriched by having the same people hang around and know each other and get sick of each other for a decade or more.

The boards switching to registered-only should be factored into that curve as well.

We're still approving at least 10 new usernames a day though, probably closer to 20.

are there server records that would make doing a legit version of my graph easily doable? or would working out how many people were active at any time involve actual work?

I doubt there are any records that precede the move over to the new server and new code about three years ago.

It's all just buffy gifs instead.

you know, with the whole "brony" movement happening now I am forced to admit G was ahead of his time

I hate you for making me look up the word 'brony'.

i assumed it was something to do with brodie.

i was wrong.

I love you for forcing me to look up "brony"

I have watched every episode of that show multiple times! But that's because I have an almost 4-yr old obsessed with MLP, not because I'm a twee motherfucker.

i knew there was somebody on this board who wasn't a twee motherfucker

nicole is not now, nor has ever been, a twee motherfucker

Your kid is obsessed with Mary Louise Parker?

you need to update slang.xls

I would MUCH rather watch My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic than Weeds, I dodged a bullet there.

Is it true that My Little Pony pictures are one of two things that are banned from 4chan, the other being ch1ld p0rn?

I doubt there are any records that precede the move over to the new server and new code about three years ago.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 7 July 2011 13:28 (58 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah i figured this was the case, or something like it

there is that smart bit of code that retroactively linked user names to display names, though, so i wondered