Who has been a member here the longest?

[myputer]

Just curious......

 

[warcleric]

My guess is Anand

 

[konichiwa]

Most of us who came over from the old board signed up on the day Fusetalk was implemented, which was October 9th of 1999:

NFS4: October 9, 1999 10:50AM
Russ: October 9, 1999 2:12AM (Russ was a beta tester...)
Red: October 9, 1999 2:39PM
John: October 9,1999 6:28AM
Compuwiz1: October 9, 1999 9:37AM
konichiwa: October 9th, 1999 12:41PM

 

[markjrubin]

I came in right before the buy.com monitor fiasco.

 

[prodigy]

Zuni

 

[urbantechie]

I just joined.

 

[Pocatello]

I was here during the buy.com hitachi monitor thingy.

 

[Rio Rebel]

Assuming you mean Anand's site in general, and not just this board...

There are several members who even pre-date my crowd, which is Russ, Harvey, and LED. I know Bighammer and Red Dawn have been around a long time, I just can't remember if they date this far back or not.

To me, AnandTech time is marked by several big events. The first one which really got the members coming is the great Harvey - Tom Pabst war. That one raged for a little while, until Harvey finally just let it drop. Tom continued to take cheap shots at Harvey on his own site (much like he did with Anand, and many others he feels threatened by). I understand Tom go into it with a Quake3 developer, or something...I had long since stopped going by Tom's at that point.

The next event in AT forums history is the forming of "off-topic". Up until this point, AnandTech forums were all under a single general board. The spark which formed "Off-Topic"? - RELIGION (surprise, surprise.) And here's surprise #2 - I was outspoken, along with Harvey, *against* the religion discussions. On the other side was Netopia (Joe), and NWM (can you believe it?) back when NWM was trying to convince himself/herself to be a Jehovah's Witness. Red Dawn was in there, but I can't remember where he stood on all of it. In the end, Off-Topic was formed, and here we are.

The third big boom for AT forums was the "Hot Deals" section. This was, and is, the most dangerous forum we have...because while it attracts many great new members, it also attracts some very self-centered and difficult people who don't have much interest in our "community". Another 'believe it or not'...Hot Deals was formed over ONE SINGLE ITEM...the great Buy.com Hitachi monitor "crisis". So many people were upset about it, and so many people wanted updates and organized response, that a new forum was formed. Now it has changed quite a bit, but the origins are there. If you're new, ask someone what a "WMC (Wounded Monitor Child)" is...you'll get a kick out of it.

Well, that's AnandTech History 101. I may have stumbled on a fact or two, but that's it to the best of my knowledge. If anyone wants to add, it may be interesting.

 

[kranky]

I signed up here on FuseTalk day one (October 9, 1999 9:32 PM), but was a lurker only on the UBB board. Hmmm, with the new version of FuseTalk, looks like you can't easily find your ID number any more. Mine is 1616.

 

[Ranger X]

I signed on, forgot about the forums for several months, and then really started posting/contributing after that long period of no posting.

 

[konichiwa]

Rio Rebel

Good to see you! I haven't seen you posting around here much...lurking and finding the good ones, eh?
I think you pretty much summed up the big events. I remember when all those damned religious posts were clogging up the main forum. What was that damn guy's name...I can't remember it now, but the one that essentially created the OT forum because of all his crazy rants. Can't believe I'd forget the name of someone so annoying.

EDIT

You forgot to mention RipRidah and the now-infamous Staples Is Suck.

 

[Total Refected Power]

I was here during the UBB days and posted a bit. READ a ton. Was away during the switch-over and signed up Oct 13.

SO I have seen a lot!

 

[Asha'man]

I was a little late when the switch was made but anyway;

You have been a member of AnandTech forums since October 15, 1999

gee that's really late by these standards

Asha'man

 

[Ladies Man]

October 9th, 1999 9:29 PM

that's me!

man look at all the posts i've done too. I've been a senior member for like 4 days

 

[Valhalla1]

I was out of town during the time the new board was implemented, so I missed it by a few days. but I was on the UBB for anandtech for a little over a year before fusetalk

 

[Schola]

Well I was here in the old UBB days but was more of a lurker then. I signed up as soon as the switch happened on October 9,1999 6:04PM.

 

[Schola]

doh, double post

 

[guyver01]

i have the longest member... oops wait.. that wasn't the question...

i've been a member since... uhm... this year?

nope..

September 25th, 2000 12:13 PM

 

[kranky]

Rio modestly omits the valiant battle he fought against those who were converting OT into a chat room.

And relative to the WMC saga, Carolyn posted here not too long ago (under a different handle). That was just starting when I found AnandTech and that's what got me hooked.

The board would only benefit if people like Rio posted more. (hint)

 

[Adul]

I remember being here under the old UBB days. I posted rarely those days, I think I had a total of 15 posts or so. Then fusetalk came around, and I signed up at that stime has well. I really didn't post a lot untl around march of last year. (what happened tome :Q)

I remember coming to anandtech three site design's ago. How have things changed since then.

What's up Rio?

Date Joined: October 9th, 1999 4:46 AM

 

[kami]

I've been here since the day they opened too...Oct. 9th, 1999. At 11:48AM.

 

[GT1999]

Date Joined: October 10th, 1999 7:40 PM

I browsed Anand's site for quite a while before I actually joined. Anandtech Forums is my favorite place on the web. I've had the forums as my home page for I can't remember how long.

 

[ultravox]

I read alot on the Anand tech site for months before noticing the forums. I saw Anand on Screen Savers or some show when they first started. When I finally did come to Off Topic some of the names here were

Konichiwa
Harvey
Russ
Rio Rebel
NowhereMan
Pimp Daddy
H8tank
Sorely Boy
Hippy
Lord Evermore
Led
Cobainist
Yawmark
Susan
just to name a few.

 

[Sacotool]

I was a member on the old UBB boards, but I lurked on Fusetalk for a few months before I registered.



Date Joined: February 26th, 2000 6:45 PM

 

[Rio Rebel]

Thanks, Kranky, that was very nice of you to say.

Hi, Adul

If this helps date me around here (AnandTech goes back considerably further):

I found AnandTech when I was trying to decide how to upgrade my Cyrix PR200. Several of us would post both here and CPU Central around that time(I wonder how Sunil is doing these days...). The raging debate was whether the Pentium 233 was really better than the AMD K6 233, or if the software was just "optimized" for it. Kind of like a 'chicken or the egg' argument...

Within a few months of that, I remember buying a Matrox M3D because the computer store said "It's the same as the Monster 3D". LOL. I ended up getting a rendition V2k, and sticking with it long after 3dfx had won over the market...

I actually built and sold systems for a while, getting my parts from Josh (forgot the name of his company...I bet Harv or Russ remembers). That was the good old days, when you could build and sell a Pentium II system cheaper than the stores, give people a much better machine, and actually make enough to justify warranting the parts. So much for the good old days...now I have to be content benefitting as a consumer.

Sorry for the nostalgia...that's about all I'm good for, other than a good flame war.