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12-29-2001, 12:15 PM

euroderf's is pretty cool - 47. Though he doesn't post here. Heh. Anyway. 972, eh? When did you register? I'm trying to figure out where my UID would be if I registered when I started reading, which was in August of 1998.

Ardax · 12-31-2001, 02:53 PM

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I'm trying to figure out where my UID would be if I registered when I started reading, which was in August of 1998.

You'd be pretty far up there. I'm 46,000 something and I registered in early '99 if memory serves. I can't remember though, I was in college, so lots of things are blurry, like my breakfast.

12-31-2001, 03:37 PM

Remember though - Slashdot got big in late August/September/October of '98 and continued into '99. The actual date I started reading was August 6, 1998. The Linux explosion happened shortly thereafter, and that's when everyone started joining. I think it's pretty hard to gauge what my UID would likely have been without first finding someone that registered in early August of that year.

Tony - when did you join Slashdot?

Undertoad · 12-31-2001, 04:06 PM

I have no concept of that whole time frame! All I know is that it was no longer called "Chips and Bits" or whatever it was originally called. I started before they even HAD numbers, I think, and just got lucky that I was refreshing it when number-fication came around.

12-31-2001, 04:11 PM

Man. You're getting close to 1,000 now. Word.

Chips n' Dips, it was.

I remember when it actually used to be a cool little discussion forum. I remember when everyone used to actually like Jon Katz - partially 'cause he was a celebrity that had stumbled upon this small place on the web. I dunno. I miss that, but it still was never as cool as the Cellar is, and it'll never be there again anyway...

jaguar · 01-19-2002, 12:46 AM

aaarrrrrrgggghhhhhhh
I offically give up on slashdot, after reading the comment for nearly an hour (kinda bored) i nearly ripped my eyes out, there are so many MORONS who have bene MODDED UP!
BY OTHER MORONS
*cries* oh for the days of a a half-decent slashdot..... THe register just doens't have the same feel, although i like the smartarses that write it, they're almost equally cynical about everyone.

01-19-2002, 09:51 AM

Good man. Good good man.

01-19-2002, 12:46 AM	#36
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	aaarrrrrrgggghhhhhhh I offically give up on slashdot, after reading the comment for nearly an hour (kinda bored) i nearly ripped my eyes out, there are so many MORONS who have bene MODDED UP! BY OTHER MORONS cries oh for the days of a a half-decent slashdot..... THe register just doens't have the same feel, although i like the smartarses that write it, they're almost equally cynical about everyone. __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

12-29-2001, 12:15 PM	#31
dave Guest Posts: n/a	euroderf's is pretty cool - 47. Though he doesn't post here. Heh. Anyway. 972, eh? When did you register? I'm trying to figure out where my UID would be if I registered when I started reading, which was in August of 1998.

12-31-2001, 03:37 PM	#33
dave Guest Posts: n/a	Remember though - Slashdot got big in late August/September/October of '98 and continued into '99. The actual date I started reading was August 6, 1998. The Linux explosion happened shortly thereafter, and that's when everyone started joining. I think it's pretty hard to gauge what my UID would likely have been without first finding someone that registered in early August of that year. Tony - when did you join Slashdot?

12-31-2001, 04:06 PM	#34
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	I have no concept of that whole time frame! All I know is that it was no longer called "Chips and Bits" or whatever it was originally called. I started before they even HAD numbers, I think, and just got lucky that I was refreshing it when number-fication came around.

12-31-2001, 04:11 PM	#35
dave Guest Posts: n/a	Man. You're getting close to 1,000 now. Word. Chips n' Dips, it was. I remember when it actually used to be a cool little discussion forum. I remember when everyone used to actually like Jon Katz - partially 'cause he was a celebrity that had stumbled upon this small place on the web. I dunno. I miss that, but it still was never as cool as the Cellar is, and it'll never be there again anyway...

01-19-2002, 09:51 AM	#37
dave Guest Posts: n/a	Good man. Good good man.

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