What's the deal with "Registered: January 1970" ??

[Rasbelin]

Originally posted by Solver
Yeah, Rah was one of the guys that came here when UNIX was just born.

One of the guys? So rah wasn't the only one? I need to check that.

*uses his brand new time machine from Rasbey Tech*

*sets the destination as Stanford Research Institute, January 1970*

*appears in the computer centre in SRI*

*looks for the Honeywell 316 connected to ARPANET*

*finds it and starts mixturing*

Heureka!

*manages to establish a connection*

Let's see... It should be apolyton.arpa.

*on a TV monitor appears a message that a connection has been established*

Command: go forums

Screen: Welcome to the Apolyton CS Forums!

Looks promising...

Command: message name: Rasbey title: This place sucks! body: This place is awful. There's no graphics. No avatars. You can't send PM's. You're fookers!

Screen: "This place sucks!" by Rasbey: This place is awful. There's no graphics. No avatars. You can't send PM's. You're fookers!

*waits for any response*

Screen: "Case closed" by Ming: Alright. That's enough. Off you go. That'll be two weeks in Mingapulco. Case closed.

Damn !(")()(??%%# Ming!

*exits the service and prepares for the return to 2002*

*gets back to Tampere, September 2002*

Yeap, looks like rah wasn't the only one who was around here in 1970. You should be called more like the real pioneers of the net. The only bad thing is that I was sent to Mingapulco.

Sidenotes: all the techinal details weren't correct or real, as ARPANET wasn't that sophisticated at the time. For those interested to learn more about ARPANET, I recommend all the links available on dmoz.

[Lefty Scaevola]

What's the deal with "Registered: January 1970" ??

The original mebers of this site were a generation before their time. They put the site in limbo in 1970 and went into cryonic supesion for 27 years.

[Gramphos]

The deal:

The first forum software used by this site didn't log registration dates. When later the forum was updated to a software supporting registrationdates the imported fields were left empty.

On the old forum software they got "before 02-15-99" as the the time of registration. Now with vBulletin there is no hack that changes the display of the users without logged registration time.

[rah]

Time MACHINE Dec, 1969
You would have seen me using a keypunch machine and learning how to program the cardsort machine by hand wiring the control boards. I had just started learning programming. Sad to say, even back then I was a techno geek.

[Ming]

At least when we were at the U of I in the 70's, we had access to Plato. We were able to play online games like air fight and moon wars with people from all over the world. And needless to say, since we were playing from the home of the system, our response time was FAR better than everybody elses

[DarkCloud]

Command: message name: Rasbey title: This place sucks! body: This place is awful. There's no graphics. No avatars. You can't send PM's. You're fookers!

Wow. You might have traveled back to 1999! Or even 2000 and said the same thing

[Qilue]

Perhaps I should havecome straight here and registered instead of at Firaxis and later Sidgames when that dived.

[Alex]

I missed the opportunity of having a 1969 or 1970 date for a few days. Oh well...

[Rasbelin]

Poor you...

[ixnay]

Looking back, I'm glad I registered when I did, even if I didn't post for a few years.

[Rasbelin]

I could also have easily gained that 1970 status, but I didn't surf the net for Civ II stuff right from the beginning in January 1998, when I started to use the net more actively. Dumb me.

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by ixnay37
Looking back, I'm glad I registered when I did, even if I didn't post for a few years.

You mean you registered and then let the account be to at some time in the future get back and find it?

[Alex]

Originally posted by Gramphos

You mean you registered and then let the account be to at some time in the future get back and find it?

Sometime in the future? Approximately 30 years later...