Poll: How old is the DC community?

[BobTheWizard]

I'm 47.... and proud to have survived this long.

(also wonders what NEF means...)

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: BobTheWizard
I'm 47.... and proud to have survived this long.

(also wonders what NEF means...)

The term NEF originated a long time ago, as I've been told, by a particular forum user named NEF, who posted a ton of useless posts (IIRC they were just empty or contained smileys or something like that) all in one thread. He was so bad that the Mods banned him, and ever since then anyone who posts useless short messages is termed a NEF, and the act of posting said useless messages is canned NEFFING. Hope this helps to explain.

 

[deerslayer]

Originally posted by: RaySun2Be

Originally posted by: Engineer




The number of smilies above! ^^^ (and no, you can't use your toes and...ehem.......other body parts to count with other than your fingers! :Q)

That wasn't too hard. I remember threads like this from a few years ago, and we had some real die hard geeks, who would make you do binary, octal, or hexadecimal math to figure out their age. :Q

They dont teach that stuff in the US do they? I hope not, sounds difficult.

Some kid in my Engineering Physics class was wearing a t-shirt that said "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't."

I got confused

 

[GunDog]

Although, I no longer crunch for TA, I still consider myself part of the team. That being said I'm 47 years young.

Force

 

[RaySun2Be]

/me waves at GunDog! Good to see ya around!

They dont teach that stuff in the US do they? I hope not, sounds difficult.

Actually they do. Or at least did when I went through a tech school to learn programming. Our assembler (mainframe) teacher made us do hexadecimal math, addition, subtraction, multiplication. And we had to know binary and octal as well. :Q

I really liked that class, it was my favorite coding language!

 

[narzy]

17.5

 

[RustyNale]

110010

 

[optimistic]

I just want to see the results




yep.

 

[Wolfie]

If bianary is the way you want ages then I am 110000110111110011101100000000 sec old. Give or take a couple 1111000010011001110000000

Wolfie

 

[Confused]

Originally posted by: narzy
17.5

That's how much tax we have to pay on things over here in the UK!

Enough of my needless posts, and i'm gonna go edit my others for more meaningful ones


Confused

 

[steell]

Take me to dang long to post 51 smilies on here

 

[amok]

29 for the next few months. After January I will be one of the "old guys" in the 30 and above age group ;-).

Btw, hello everybody. Long time no see and all that.

 

[RaySun2Be]

/me waves at Amok!

 

[ViRGE]

Amok! Good to see you man.

 

[Assimilator1]

wow Amok!:Q ,longtime no see! ,welcome back

Btw I was just talking about you the other week ,this was in a thread about optical SETI that Smokeball created.I was referring to your & Hellburners discussion of optical vs radio SETI a few years back.The thread is probably still active if you can find it

 

[dmcowen674]

I'm 39 until next month.

 

[Actaeon]

16.925815 years old!

 

[kmmatney]

I just turned 32, and have been running DC projects since the early age of 30.

 

[Slahr Dzhe]

I will be 21 again next month.

SD

 

[Smoke]

Jeez, I'm still the only one in my category.

When I was young I used to hang around with an older crowd and now it seems I've flip-flopped. Go figure?

 

[amok]

Lol, Assimilator1, if you knew the amount of time I have spent digging through the archives because of your statement you would be laughing your head off.

I never did find the post you were referring to, but I decided I wanted to go back and read the original discussion between Hellburner and myself, so I more or less brought up every post in the archive with my name in it to see if I could spot it . While I never did find that one either, I did come across some amusing old posts! Hehe, I even re-read my infamous "separation" post. The funny thing is that its the 2 year anniversary of that post!

Edit: As a side note, I still have the same system I ordered that night as my home PC . I guess I'm long overdue for an upgrade...

 

[nagger]

I'm 27. Been playing around with computers since I was 9

 

[Assimilator1]

Here's the thread Amok.Like I said ,the thread is still live
And you'll see in there I have copied your old thread into it.

Hey I remember your seperation thread!..... vaguely ,I hope things are ok for you now.
You must of spent hours looking through all those threads!:Q lol ,btw I've got that old optical vs radio SETI thread saved .
Are you still running your own radio dish in your back yard for realtime SETI?
And what is your PC?

 

[amok]

The dish wasn't in my backyard, it was in a field out in the country surrounding the area I live in . It belonged to the SETI project I was consulting with at the time.

As for how things are going, I'm doing pretty good. Rather enjoying being single . Just been very time deficient since my father retired and I took control of his business interests.