ILX: What year did you start posting?

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Inspired by my recent discovery that I started posting just a little bit after HOOS, LJ, and contenderizer...guess there was a huge influx of Googlers round then? Anyways what year did you start posting? (Hope this hasn't been done before...?)

Poll Results

Option	Votes
2001	44
2004	43
2003	37
2002	35
2005	27
2000 (OG status)	20
2006	19
2007	17
2008	10
2010	5
2011	5
2009	2

― taking drugbs (to make music to take drugbs to) (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:26 (fourteen years ago)

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

― you're in the club and the light hits your ass like pow (Laurel), Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:29 (fourteen years ago)

2004.

Are you sure about 2000?

― Mark G, Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:29 (fourteen years ago)

spring 2002, but i was lurking before that.

― i'm on a mexican (get bent), Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:29 (fourteen years ago)

October 2002. Gosh.

― Also unknown as Zora (Surfing At Work), Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:31 (fourteen years ago)

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)

― taking drugbs (to make music to take drugbs to) (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:31 (fourteen years ago)

Jan 2004, with a Rough Guide to Frank Zappa

lol, nothing changes

― Mr. Patrick Batman (WmC), Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:32 (fourteen years ago)

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

― taking drugbs (to make music to take drugbs to) (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:32 (fourteen years ago)

2005. Still feel like a newbie.

― StanM, Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:33 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― you're in the club and the light hits your ass like pow (Laurel), Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:33 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Also unknown as Zora (Surfing At Work), Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:34 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Mr. Patrick Batman (WmC), Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:36 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:36 (fourteen years ago)

2004.

― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:37 (fourteen years ago)

'01

― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:38 (fourteen years ago)

(oh btw I started in 2006)

― taking drugbs (to make music to take drugbs to) (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:39 (fourteen years ago)

Jan 2010

― i wanna be yr rhizome (seandalai), Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:39 (fourteen years ago)

2000

― Michael B, Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:39 (fourteen years ago)

2001... feels like loooooonger..

― kind of droll but mostly rad (Kerm), Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:40 (fourteen years ago)

'01

― emil.y, Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:41 (fourteen years ago)

2002, lurked in '01.

― polyphonic, Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:42 (fourteen years ago)

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, 23 June 2011 21:43 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Euler, Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:44 (fourteen years ago)

late late '03

― 69, Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:44 (fourteen years ago)

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...

― lol j/k simmons (history mayne), Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:45 (fourteen years ago)

2005
believe it

― heartbreak beet (La Lechera), Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:45 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Alpaca Lips (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:45 (fourteen years ago)

04 technically, though only regularly in 07

― SBing crosby (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:46 (fourteen years ago)

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

― backlash stan straw man fan (m coleman), Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:47 (fourteen years ago)

Nov 2004

― Ktulu says, I've come to hate my body (wk), Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:47 (fourteen years ago)

i think I posted once as Bootney Leaf Farnsworth

― SBing crosby (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:47 (fourteen years ago)

definitely 01, maybe 00

― bnw, Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:47 (fourteen years ago)

'04 I think or '05

― in an arrangement that mimics idiocy (Michael White), Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:49 (fourteen years ago)

07 i think, maybe 08.

― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:50 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:50 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― iatee, Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:50 (fourteen years ago)

ten fabulous years in the gulag archipeLOLgo

― brazenly alive (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:51 (fourteen years ago)

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

― iatee, Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:52 (fourteen years ago)

apologies if someone's already made that joke.

actually let me just apologize for the last decade.

― brazenly alive (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:53 (fourteen years ago)

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

― remy bean, Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:54 (fourteen years ago)

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

― remy bean, Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:55 (fourteen years ago)

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

― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:55 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Lamp, Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:56 (fourteen years ago)

link plz

― taking drugbs (to make music to take drugbs to) (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 23 June 2011 22:00 (fourteen years ago)

link plz

― taking drugbs (to make music to take drugbs to) (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 23 June 2011 22:00 (fourteen years ago)

link plz

― taking drugbs (to make music to take drugbs to) (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 23 June 2011 22:01 (fourteen years ago)

2001.

― Melissa W, Thursday, 23 June 2011 22:01 (fourteen years ago)

link plz

― taking drugbs (to make music to take drugbs to) (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 23 June 2011 22:01 (fourteen years ago)

sorry bout that x4

― taking drugbs (to make music to take drugbs to) (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 23 June 2011 22:01 (fourteen years ago)

link to...? the games poll?

― Also unknown as Zora (Surfing At Work), Thursday, 23 June 2011 22:02 (fourteen years ago)

Skipping 285 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

...sad, dry sponge :)

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 03:05 (fourteen years ago)

*cries*

― Waiting around for something to happen (poppy), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 04:03 (fourteen years ago)

'04

― butt ass nerd (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 04:15 (fourteen years ago)

there, there, poppy...

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 04:17 (fourteen years ago)

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

― C-L, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 04:21 (fourteen years ago)

2001

― piscesx, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 05:31 (fourteen years ago)

2005, I think, under previous username.

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

― *sad hug eomticon* (Control Z), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 05:50 (fourteen years ago)

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")

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 08:02 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 09:52 (fourteen years ago)

spring 2001

― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 10:02 (fourteen years ago)

some time in oh three iirc

― do the hypnic jerk (c sharp major), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 10:08 (fourteen years ago)

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

― ☆, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 10:16 (fourteen years ago)

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

― System, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:01 (fourteen years ago)

That's a lot of votes.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:21 (fourteen years ago)

we takin over

― butt ass nerd (roxymuzak), Thursday, 7 July 2011 02:20 (fourteen years ago)

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

― los blue jeans, Thursday, 7 July 2011 02:52 (fourteen years ago)

more like when did you start imposting

― mods did fake marissa (buzza), Thursday, 7 July 2011 03:01 (fourteen years ago)

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 (fourteen years ago)

this place is turning into Children Of Men

― Cosmo Vitelli, Thursday, 7 July 2011 07:02 (fourteen years ago)

a lot more og'ers than i expected

― Ste, Thursday, 7 July 2011 08:37 (fourteen years ago)

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".

― Mark G, Thursday, 7 July 2011 09:37 (fourteen years ago)

.. 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..

― Mark G, Thursday, 7 July 2011 09:38 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Bloompsday (Trayce), Thursday, 7 July 2011 10:38 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 7 July 2011 10:41 (fourteen years ago)

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

― ledge, Thursday, 7 July 2011 10:42 (fourteen years ago)

facebook launched in 2004

― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 7 July 2011 10:44 (fourteen years ago)

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

― thomp, Thursday, 7 July 2011 11:00 (fourteen years ago)

need ILX: What year did you stop posting? poll

― conrad, Thursday, 7 July 2011 11:02 (fourteen years ago)

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

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

― thomp, Thursday, 7 July 2011 11:04 (fourteen years ago)

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

― SB OK (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 7 July 2011 11:05 (fourteen years ago)

It flattens out exactly when I left. QED.

― Mark C, Thursday, 7 July 2011 11:41 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 7 July 2011 11:57 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― some dude, Thursday, 7 July 2011 12:06 (fourteen years ago)

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

― DJP, Thursday, 7 July 2011 12:55 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Matt DC, Thursday, 7 July 2011 13:01 (fourteen years ago)

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?

― thomp, Thursday, 7 July 2011 13:06 (fourteen years ago)

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 (fourteen years ago)

It's all just buffy gifs instead.

― online pinata store (Nicole), Thursday, 7 July 2011 13:29 (fourteen years ago)

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

― DJP, Thursday, 7 July 2011 13:33 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Matt DC, Thursday, 7 July 2011 13:38 (fourteen years ago)

i assumed it was something to do with brodie.

i was wrong.

― SB OK (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 7 July 2011 13:39 (fourteen years ago)

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

― love in a grain elevator (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 7 July 2011 13:44 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― online pinata store (Nicole), Thursday, 7 July 2011 13:44 (fourteen years ago)

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

― SB OK (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 7 July 2011 13:45 (fourteen years ago)

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

― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 7 July 2011 13:46 (fourteen years ago)

Your kid is obsessed with Mary Louise Parker?

― jaymc, Thursday, 7 July 2011 13:49 (fourteen years ago)

you need to update slang.xls

― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 7 July 2011 13:50 (fourteen years ago)

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

― online pinata store (Nicole), Thursday, 7 July 2011 13:52 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Matt DC, Thursday, 7 July 2011 14:17 (fourteen years ago)

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

― thomp, Thursday, 7 July 2011 14:27 (fourteen years ago)

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