the 1970'sers

[DrSpike]

To all apolytoners more learned (read decrepit ) than I. What's the deal with people having apolyton joining dates of 1970? Are they the forum originators or something? I've been meaning to ask for months.

[Dis]

they have no life.

I remember all the flame wars back then when people were discussing whether the vietnam war was the most effective way of deterring communism. Oh those were the days.

[Hueij]

Originally posted by Dissident
they have no life.

I remember all the flame wars back then when people were discussing whether the vietnam war was the most effective way of deterring communism. Oh those were the days.

So that's why it says Feb 2000 under your name? Newbies...

[Lefty Scaevola]

Edit: MarkG explains the rest better below.

If you set your time zone in the control panel to any west of GMT you will see their date become 12/31/1969. To put the real joined dates in would require manual editing by the administrators.

[Dauphin]

Someone called?

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola
When two existing prior sites joined in 1999, the existing posters of the two forums were tagged in the data as from the beginning 1999.

1) apolyton was formed in 1998
2) no membership info from the two sites was merged
3) since day 1 on apolyton(and until last may) we used UBB. ubb didnt log the registration date in the member profiles until a version that we installed in the spring of 1999. that's why people registered prior to that date have an empty registration date field. php, used by vB, by defaults translates that to the unix "start of time", 1/1/1970

[Dauphin]

I thought there was away to set a default of "pre-XX-XX-XX". That is what used to be said on the boards.

[DrSpike]

Many thanks, one more mystery solved. Say, you don't know where all my socks go do you?

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Many thanks, one more mystery solved. Say, you don't know where all my socks go do you?

Not sure, but the holes in your socks come out as fluff in your belly-button

[Dis]

technically, I have been on these forums since SMAC came out. That was under a now inactive login. I didn't know this place existed before then.

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Say, you don't know where all my socks go do you?

Check in the garden, it worked for my family.

[Alexander's Horse]

1970 rego indicates alluminati status. We have our own secret forum.

[*End Is Forever*]

Well, we did until you told the mods...

[*End Is Forever*]

We should've kept that forum accessible but locked, there were some classics in that...

Word association - usual rules apply, except that you have to post five times before anyone else can

[ixnay]

I always find it amusing that I've been on these forums almost twice as long as I've been alive...