― katie (katie), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 08:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 09:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― smee (smee), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 13:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 13:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 13:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 14:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 17:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
today is my 10th year anniversary of posting to ILX and this post is my 35,827th post
― Mordy, Sunday, 26 April 2015 22:56 (nine years ago) link
how do you figure out how many posts you've made?
― the late great, Sunday, 26 April 2015 23:01 (nine years ago) link
listed on the boards page
― Mordy, Sunday, 26 April 2015 23:04 (nine years ago) link
Really not sure. I think its been pretty consistently since I googled Emanuelle Parenin a few years ago. But have come across a couple of things that made me wonder if I had been on earlier, around the milenium. I was doing a lot online around that time.Think there was probably another Stevo here too. I don't remember the 2lp vs thread with MBV that I saw yesterday.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 26 April 2015 23:12 (nine years ago) link
in 3 days, it will be my two year anniversary with this dn. first time i tried posting was in july 2011 but i was scared off that time.
― Treeship, Sunday, 26 April 2015 23:16 (nine years ago) link
april 26th 2015 is precisely my 8 year and 9 month anniversary
― carles the jekyll (imago), Sunday, 26 April 2015 23:28 (nine years ago) link
still feel like the new kid in town some days
ive been here too long. ian or ferg can remember better when we first arrived
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Sunday, 26 April 2015 23:30 (nine years ago) link
2001 i think
4/25/2005, 11,233
― sleeve, Sunday, 26 April 2015 23:34 (nine years ago) link
my first post was 12/3/2003; only 1,501 posts so far, damn
― Brad C., Monday, 27 April 2015 00:00 (nine years ago) link
I think its been pretty consistently since I googled Emanuelle Parenin a few years ago.
<3
I first posted here on May 21, 2006 and started posting regularly in September. since then I've made about 9,380 posts (8,470 as unregistered and 910 as...registered). I probably ended up here by googling the Olivia Tremor Control or Mark Lanegan or whatever indie rock bands I was listening to as a college freshman. the second thread I ever started (a shameless piece of clickbait) has gotten more replies than anything I've started since.
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Monday, 27 April 2015 00:10 (nine years ago) link
i started lurking in spring of 2004, tipped off by friend and former ilx regular, chris p. don't think i started posting regularly until maybe 2007ish, mostly about basketball. not much has changed in the interim.
― Clay, Monday, 27 April 2015 00:19 (nine years ago) link
i started reading ilm in 2005, in autumn probably, as i was new to my freshman dorm at the time. only 2000 or so posts, i've taken a lot more than i've given back, sorry ilx
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 27 April 2015 00:26 (nine years ago) link
pleasing symmetry of 9.5k posts in 9.5 years, i should aim towards hitting 10k on my 10 year anniversary in november. i have no recollection of how i ended up here, my best guess is via the plan b magazine forum.
― cis-het shitlord (Merdeyeux), Monday, 27 April 2015 00:28 (nine years ago) link
Too long.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 27 April 2015 00:30 (nine years ago) link
i have posted over 15.5k times i am a monster
― Clay, Monday, 27 April 2015 00:30 (nine years ago) link
11-12 years and i have posted 17k+ shitty, useless posts under this username
― computer champion (harbl), Monday, 27 April 2015 00:32 (nine years ago) link
I thought it was just 11 years or so, but it turns out I was ginning up ILX Literati tournaments in 2001.
― WilliamC, Monday, 27 April 2015 00:48 (nine years ago) link
February 2004, almost 5800 posts - probably 70% in I Love Cooking.
― Jaq, Monday, 27 April 2015 01:29 (nine years ago) link
feeling like this about ilx right now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My2FRPA3Gf8
― Treeship, Monday, 27 April 2015 02:11 (nine years ago) link
[trís] wrote this on thread The trouble with genre on board I Love Music on 11-Apr-2012
does the "genius" feature of itunes make their playlist based on genre tags? i use that sometimes, but my genre tags are all over the place because I never edited them.
― LMAO. GOLD Chrisso. regards, REB (nakhchivan), Monday, 27 April 2015 02:14 (nine years ago) link
oh wow, i must have forgotten that era.
what a question
― Treeship, Monday, 27 April 2015 02:17 (nine years ago) link
According to Search function, I arrived in ILE on Sept 3, 2001. My first post was under another user name than Aimless. That was during the Greenspun era, when everything about a user's identity was as slippery as a greased pig. I drifted in from the Greenspun version of Ask A Drunk, which was my usual home.
― Giant Purple Wakerobin (Aimless), Monday, 27 April 2015 05:22 (nine years ago) link
My first post here was on May 12, 2002, after someone from the Fake Matador Bulletin Board migrated over here and began making nuisance posts as me. In September 2003, I'd hung around long enough that I decided I'd stay and I began using the name Johnny Fever.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 27 April 2015 05:40 (nine years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v365/fredleo1/OldVet.jpg
― j., Monday, 27 April 2015 06:36 (nine years ago) link
Surprised by that. I've had Feb 5 2011 returned from the search engine. Would have thought it was a while earlier than that but that's still 4 years. Did think it was the late noughties.
& the first message i find there mentions Emanuele Parrenin.
I know I was on I Hate Music for a while before that anyway. So maybe I'm just thinking of it as earlier here too.
I had been thinking that there was a point where I had to reregister because the database was being updated but I can't think when that was. O(r if i had been using a different sign in name than Stevo or Stevolende before that.
― Stevolende, Monday, 27 April 2015 17:37 (nine years ago) link
August 2006 which feels like 5 years ago but my research bears out that its actually almost 10 years ago...????????/
― the fuckin catalina wine mixer (sleepingbag), Monday, 27 April 2015 17:43 (nine years ago) link
I used to post under another user name, but I can't remember what it was. So, long enough to forget.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Monday, 27 April 2015 17:43 (nine years ago) link
...which works out to about 15 years (I just remembered).
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Monday, 27 April 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link
Is I Hate Music still there? I remember stumbling back across it way after I stopped posting there and it was still running.
― polyphonic, Monday, 27 April 2015 17:50 (nine years ago) link
Ten years ago last January. 86,970 posts.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 April 2015 17:52 (nine years ago) link
There was a Freaky Trigger blog called I Hate Music which appears to be no longer maintained but is still available to read. There's also a messageboard called I Hate Music which is completely unrelated to ILX.
― example (crüt), Monday, 27 April 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
btw your post count only includes posts made after the site redesign + relocation
will be 8 years this friday. yikes
― ciderpress, Monday, 27 April 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
and that's just since my first post, i was lurking for a while before that
― ciderpress, Monday, 27 April 2015 17:56 (nine years ago) link
December 14, 2003 appears to be first post
― ultimate american sock (mh), Monday, 27 April 2015 17:57 (nine years ago) link
so uh, 11.5 years or so, jeez
― ultimate american sock (mh), Monday, 27 April 2015 17:58 (nine years ago) link
My first post -- Nov 27, 2002 -- was apparently about the B-52s.
― polyphonic, Monday, 27 April 2015 17:58 (nine years ago) link
june 2001, had lurked previously having clicked a link to the "simon reynolds is a gobshite" thread from rockcritics.com
― adam, Monday, 27 April 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link
11 years
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 April 2015 18:10 (nine years ago) link
how many here remember the greenspun days or 'turn back you poxy fule' (which I never understood the nostalgia for as it was bloody annoying)
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Monday, 27 April 2015 18:12 (nine years ago) link
it'll be 10 years this December, wow
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 27 April 2015 18:15 (nine years ago) link
a little over 7 years, so about half my life
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:00 (nine years ago) link
November 7, 2004
I don't know how many posts though.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:04 (nine years ago) link
about 3.5 years of mostly reading but also posting about once every 4 hours on average
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:10 (nine years ago) link
but I just used to make up a different name every time I posted.
same for about 4 or 5 years much to the annoyance of mark s and tom :D
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:20 (nine years ago) link
tho i think i did an actual pfunkboy post in 2002
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:21 (nine years ago) link
2002 d k (i was in high school, ilm pop music theory was exciting, pharrell with his shirt off, ethan p imitations, getting my first blowjob while listening to freeway, any bumped thread from this period and i scan it already blushing for any embarrassing shit i said) 2004 william wiggins (like a stiff british music writer parody concept but then just talking about da band and cassidy singles in no caps, ten posts about nas in a row) 2004 cloverlandthug (ten posts about lil flip in a row, in hindsight chamillionaire sucked) 2007 dylannn (talked about china and working at a hotel, less interested in posting about music except nas and lots of posts with no responses or not very interested responses months later such as http://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=93677 and ITT -_------->>> pictures of william t vollmann (no shops allowed) and lethbridge and selected films of joey wong 王祖賢 1984 - 2004). roughly 5000-6000 across all four?
― dylannn, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:33 (nine years ago) link
i think i've been here under various names for eleven (!) years, and still never once been invited to the secret board :(
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:35 (nine years ago) link
Since the start of both, though admittedly I was initially grouchy about ILE.― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, December 2, 2002 11:33 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
― entry-level umami (mild bleu cheese vibes) (s.clover), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:37 (nine years ago) link
nakho's gonna have to do more than that to get me searching for phantom former accounts
― carles the jekyll (imago), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:50 (46 minutes ago)
there's nothing exceptional there so even in the unlikely event you discerned one, no chuffage would follow
― LMAO. GOLD Chrisso. regards, REB (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:38 (nine years ago) link
not the -age he's after iirc
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:45 (nine years ago) link
since 2002
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:53 (nine years ago) link
Fourteen years next month I believe.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:59 (nine years ago) link
5,000 users sounds like a lot to me, feels like there's only a few hundred regular posters
ciderpress wrote this at 2015-04-28 14:24:06.000
I'm pretty sure there's a post somewhere where stet broke down the entire ilx user base scientifically. I can't find it at the moment, but there's this:
the lurker pool for ilx is huuuuuuuuuuuuge-- strongohulkington, Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8:28 PM (5 months ago)(really, really huge. Scary huge)-- stet, Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8:36 PM
-- strongohulkington, Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8:28 PM (5 months ago)
(really, really huge. Scary huge)
-- stet, Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8:36 PM
― how's life, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 20:21 (nine years ago) link
I still long for the days of a screenshot of 1 Active Users (that isn't after an outage)
I remember ILE starting and never even clicked on it until 2004ish as i was only interested in reading about music (hence why people long for old ILE lol )
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 20:26 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I stayed on ILM for a while when I started. ILE seemed weird and scary to me. I did not love everything. I wasn't sure if I wanted to go to ILX Heaven.
― how's life, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 20:33 (nine years ago) link
been here since summer 2004. only posted a lousy 2,444 times.
― Darin, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 22:45 (nine years ago) link
12 yrs ffs
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 00:16 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I stayed mostly on ILM for years before dipping a toe into ILE. I think I migrated to ILNFL before I even went to ILE.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 00:25 (nine years ago) link
I feel like I read somewhere that lurker / contributor ratio on forums tends to be 90%/10%, so.... ~5000 posters, ~50000 lurkers...?
― Realhiphopshire (sleepingbag), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 01:28 (nine years ago) link
Or, you know, whatevs the correct math is 🎃
― Realhiphopshire (sleepingbag), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 01:30 (nine years ago) link
I think you posted a 10%/100% which means lurkers are 100% and we are the posting 10% which seems about right
― ultimate american sock (mh), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 02:20 (nine years ago) link