How long have you been here?

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.

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

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.

Too long.

i have posted over 15.5k times i am a monster

11-12 years and i have posted 17k+ shitty, useless posts under this username

I thought it was just 11 years or so, but it turns out I was ginning up ILX Literati tournaments in 2001.

February 2004, almost 5800 posts - probably 70% in I Love Cooking.

feeling like this about ilx right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My2FRPA3Gf8

[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.

oh wow, i must have forgotten that era.

what a question

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.

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.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v365/fredleo1/OldVet.jpg

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.

August 2006 which feels like 5 years ago but my research bears out that its actually almost 10 years ago...????????/

I used to post under another user name, but I can't remember what it was. So, long enough to forget.

...which works out to about 15 years (I just remembered).

Is I Hate Music still there? I remember stumbling back across it way after I stopped posting there and it was still running.

Ten years ago last January. 86,970 posts.

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.

btw your post count only includes posts made after the site redesign + relocation

will be 8 years this friday. yikes

and that's just since my first post, i was lurking for a while before that

December 14, 2003 appears to be first post

so uh, 11.5 years or so, jeez

My first post -- Nov 27, 2002 -- was apparently about the B-52s.

june 2001, had lurked previously having clicked a link to the "simon reynolds is a gobshite" thread from rockcritics.com

11 years

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)

it'll be 10 years this December, wow

I was here for the poxy fule era, and maybe greenspun? was that when there was a w3hrd.ilx or whatever, two separate URLs?

Just over 11 years, apparently, between this and my prior login. Christ.

greenspun.com felt like an artifact from an ancient internet even then. i still use old.css tho

I've always bee here
http://biffbampop.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/delbert.jpg

feb 7, 2007 as Z S
Jan 19, 2004 under another name

october 2001, maybe slightly before, def greenspun at the start. first post i find was jan. 2002.

i've had three usernames i think
this year is my 10th anniversary of posting but i lurked for a few months before that

For me it'll be 8 years come September.

If I include lurking than just over 8 years as of now.

Too long/not long enough

First post was 8/30/2000. But then I stopped and didn't really start again until the later half of 2001.

oct 19, 2002

too long! i don't really have too much fun here anymore, but i guess i can't stay away. sorry! i would stay away if i could. i'll try harder, i promise.

I enjoy yr rambling fwiw

never enough scott

i still use old.css tho

The first thing I remember seeing on ILX was Momus's penis, so whenever that was.

12 years, that's almost a third of my life! Though I still sometimes feel like a newbie, the whole Greenspun era is a myth to me. I remember poxy fule though, and the days of anonymous posting. Remember what a furor there was when some folks dared to suggest posting on ILX should be allowed for registered users only? Such simpler times!

Ive been reading/posting since 2003-2004 but I cant prove it =\

Or, you know, whatevs the correct math is 🎃

I think you posted a 10%/100% which means lurkers are 100% and we are the posting 10% which seems about right