What are the "eras" of ILX?

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Serious question. You're old ILX: when did you feel your time had passed?

Passed? Blueski is like mouldy cheese: getting bettah and bettah as the decades pass.

honestly i was never that hungry

Shall I compare thee to a Ole ILX? Thou areth more temperate, you know.

Dom, haven't you learned nothing in History 101: it's never clearly defined.

how does Dom manage to successfully reinvent and adapt himself to the coming of each new ILX era?

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Time tried to pass me but I diverted it to Mitcham.

By not being like Madonna?
xp

I'd say Mr M2nni0n was more mid-ILX. I view "old ILX" as pre mid-2001. Mid ILX as mid 2002 onwards. Nu ILX as mid 2003 onwards. Post ILX as mid 2005 onwards. Not sure where we are now.

Those are totally arbitrary and not considered, btw.

London FAP Era

2000-2002 -- british people
2003 -- americans
2004-2005 -- wobbly commune
2006-2007 -- explosions
2008 -- remnants

never felt like there was a british majority here, looking at late 00/early 01 threads.

Key ILx moments that defined eras:

Formation of the noize board
Hillary Duff thread
Birth of meta
Dude throwing a glass of wine over someone at a wake

What else?

Too many Poles round the parts these days, Englanders??

early milestones:

August 2000 - June 2001 - Early days of ILM, concept developed and actioned by mr t ewing

March 2001 - AlexinNYC summoned by my call of action to honour the fire of killing joke on ILM

June 2001 Start of ILE - too much non music on ILM, concept proposed by DG

the biggest event of the millenium, September 11th 2001 - citizen journalism in action

Move from Greenspan to new ilxor Servers - August 2002

Formation of the noize board

The Golden Age of Aja/Dante was 1000000x more important than this.

the biggest event of the millenium, September 11th 2001 - citizen journalism in action

^^^quoting this

Dom you're just reducing ILX history to key incidents in the same way your adversaries have done with punk. Graham = Grundy etc.

Key ILx moments that defined eras:

Formation of the noize board
Hillary Duff thread
Birth of meta
Dude throwing a glass of wine over someone at a wake

What else?

-- Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 12:39 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

the only one of these four things that means shit is the formation of the noise board.

the 2 defining changing-type things for me would be 1/google indexing everything and 2/calum arrives/calum wars

I'm trying to create an ILX "roadmap", so to speak.

DEMEANING SIGN OF THE TIMES OF 1999

... the line in LFO's "Summer Girls" that goes "I like girls who wear Abercrombie & Fitch". Somehow I can't imagine Smokey Robinson or Al Green dropping a namebrand reference into one of their songs-they'd have thought it beneath them.

"the biggest event of the millenium, September 11th 2001 - citizen journalism in action

^^^quoting this"

Well, there were at least two ilxors who witnessed it and posted live or very shortly after. Sadly the timeline for those 9/11 threads is missing, so can't really see the urgency with which events unfolded that morning.

Geir finds ILM - 2003? reunited with 1990s veterans of usenet

Anything to do with the Noize Board is far far overrated in history. Nobody will care in 1000 years time when digital archivists sift through this data looking for posts from "the bloke who was the cousin of that bloke from Del Amitri".

And let's just hope they don't go looking for any posts from Aja/Dante, hey?

is calum still considered the most memorable ilx troll?

Anyway, back to the original question

2000-2002 - Earnest discussion
2002-2004 - Lists
2005 - Picture threads
2006-now - Polls

I remember there being a sensational amount of butthurt in 2004/5

makes me feel saaad for the rest...

is calum still considered the most memorable ilx troll?

-- blueski, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 13:00 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

Who else could ever have come close, really?

I remember there being a sensational amount of butthurt in 2004/5

but back then there was no handy buzzword to describe the taking of things so serious

True, but by the same token there was so much butthurt that a buzzword wouldn't have got through anyway.

Who else could ever have come close, really?

-- Pashmina, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 14:02 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Scottish guy, one eye, like Wu-Tang was for the children, forget his name.

i liked ilx more in 04/05. just my personal opinon4u.

i miss momus like ppl miss carmody

i liked ilx more in 04/05. just my personal opinon4u.

-- blueski, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 23:07 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

It was certainly busier (and funnier). Today's not as dynamic or engrossing, but everyone's generally calmer so it's nice.

RIP doompatrol

Key dividers:

- DG starting ILE
- Move over from Greenspun
- BurmaKitty/Aja pre-Christmas 2003 mentalism (I think this was the start of some of the originators going 'okay fuck this', more than Becky and Calum)
- Formation of Noize Board/ILX the book wars
- Spambots Attack! and subsequently going reg-only
- Nu-ILX code

In terms of sheer nastiness I don't think any period tops mid-2004, when Andrew shut the board down, and late 2001, when a lot of the original posters were just starting to realise how much they disliked each other. 2008 is quite tame really.

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I liked 2004/5. Sorry to burst everybody's bubbles but the various ers of ILX are marked by server breakdowns and post-sandbox exoduses

and late 2001, when a lot of the original posters were just starting to realise how much they disliked each other.

i wouldn't say it was 'a lot'

2008: WWE
2001: UFC
2004: LA riots

Christ is that burma kitty freakout nearly 5 years ago already.

2008 is quite tame really.

^^^

Okay some of the original posters, they made a disproportionate amount of noise anyway.

Okay some of the original posters usual suspects

more like it

Who else could ever have come close, really?

-- Pashmina, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 14:02 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Scottish guy, one eye, like Wu-Tang was for the children, forget his name.

-- Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 13:07 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

DENIED. Near-total lack of mega-meta handwringing over what to do about mo-mase shoots yr theory down, Dom.

max is even correcter.

I always thought it was Larry Bowa.

shit, I thought it was Long Blondes Zinging committee, we had a dude on the inside and everything

Is Louis still banned?

(or self-banned I mean)

Lou Bega Zubaz Collective

Little Boys' Zipper Contest

Louis Banned Zealot Committee

love being zo cunty

A+++

London Boris Tory Cunt

Let's Be Zingin' Custoses

For a long time, I thought it was a band I'd never heard of.

Custos' name was very much hanging ominously over this recent portion of the thread

Lords Epsilon Custos, not Lord Epsilon Custoses, surely?

2x Whoppers Junior

loners bring zero charisma

OG zinger brings the goods

wow, and to just think that lou13 jagz will be back in a coupla weeks, rising from the dead like jesus

I like that crazy kid.

louis back: zings! cripes

I'm an honorary Lol, Britpop Zing Crewer.

I love Louis.

Me heart him too.

I have nothing bad to say whatsoever about that jagaman.

me neither: i'm genuinely looking forward to his glorious return.

it's Lazy Zing Britpop Curmudegons for me

the return of LJ will make things really confusing for HOOS, he'll always think we're talking about his fish.

i imagine dom will end up as krapp.

end up?

Ling Bert Zing etc etc

(what I thought it was, for the 12 seconds that I cared)

I just can't wait to see my mans and them and see what their plans are, who they got...I'm not talking about those mans, I'm talking about my gangster friends. They got some instructions to follow out

gawker era,fin

The Golden showers of Internet comes to a close?

there are two eras of ilx btw: before jagger and after.

― chaki, Wednesday, May 7, 2008 11:44 PM (7 years ago)

do you see him as a christ-like figure?

there are two eras of ilx btw: before dr. morbius and after.

before noize & after

http://www.scribd.com/doc/21797466/Confessions-Of-A-Moderator

t's a bit depressing to think that I'm going to be the first person who has spent more than 50% of his/her life on ILX (presuming it sticks around for another 8 years)
-- Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, May 8, 2008 2:46 AM (8 years ago) Bookmark Link

^kinda hope i'm not around to see this revive

― J0rdan S., Thursday, May 8, 2008 5:50 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nostrosargeus.

an aside: it's interesting (and a little frightening) to realize that some of us oldsters have watched a bunch of ILXers grow up in our midst.

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That schematic omits the pencilsniffian era.

The era before Twitter was invented was pretty cool. I still can't get over the feeling that writing anything about a Tweet is perhaps the worst use of my limited time on Earth possible.

Seeing them used as news source items is particularly depressing. Youre professional journalists. You can do better than pasting what some shmo from Peoria thinks about the item in question.

bannet

The era before Twitter was invented was pretty cool. I still can't get over the feeling that writing anything about a Tweet is perhaps the worst use of my limited time on Earth possible.

yeah god imagine posting about a post

Lol @ vestigial post at the beginning there oops

xp that confessions of a moderator link was a good read

xps enlisting the opinions of randos to give a news story a bit of vague colour and idk relatability is a time-honoured practice tho. not to say that people don't abuse the 'here's what was said on twitter' option but at least now we can check it was something an actual human said

can't we do that LESS with tweets than…????