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Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
I've decided hijacking that other thread was a little rude. I'm gonna use this one instead. I was looking through a lot of the profiles and have come across some interesting stuff (well, to me anyway). I'll start making mention of my finds here.
 
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
 
Like?
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
First impressions:

No one is currently in control of user #0. Their profile is gone. Many of the users have no profiles, and I believe they are the ones that probably never posted, since I have never found a listing for a Hatracker with a zero post count. Some may also be deleted for other reasons. The lowest number with a name is #1, who is Aaron. He is not necessarily the first or second poster. The listed names preceeding May 14, 1999 are not in registered order. They follow an alphabetical sequence. But they are seperated into two alphabetical segments. The first group is from 0-89. The second group is from 90-121. It may be safe to conclude that any user in those groups will find it difficult to claim rank with each other.

Among the names in the first 121 are the following who made over 100 posts: #31 Jacob Porter , #41 JohnHansen , #54 Matthew , #55 Mike , #83 Troubadour , #84 Wendybird , #89 Yozhik , and #121 yossarian .

(This research is proving my nerdiness)

[ March 22, 2003, 11:50 PM: Message edited by: Khavanon ]
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
The growth rate of Hatrack:

The first 121 names were registered before May 14, 1999. Hatrackers had actually been around for a while, since it seems that many were able to use the old forum names. I don't know that all of them were transfered over though, so it would be difficult to esimate how fast names had been coming in, but as I remember it was actually quite slowly.

From 122 to 300 was before August 28, 1999 (107 days). The growth rate was 1.67 users per day.

The 500th was registered November 11, 1999 (76 days after #300). The growth rate at that time was 2.63 users per day.

#1000 came before June 11, 2000 (213 days after #500). The growth rate then would have been 2.33 per day.

#2000 came June 1, 2001 (355 days after #1000). Growth rate: 2.82 users/day.

#3000 came January 31, 2002 (245 days after #2000). Growth rate: 4.08 users/day.

#4000 came August 14, 2002 (195 days after #3000). Growth rate: 5.13 users/day.

#4925 (Kira, our newest member) came today March 22, 2003 (220 days after #4000). Growth rate: 4.21 users/day.

We've dropped off a bit lately.
 
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
 
Yeah, but registration was turned off for a couple months. You don't account for that.
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
Good point, I just came across that. There was a gap between September 28, 2002 and December 27, 2002 where nobody could register. That takes away 90 days. Which means the difference between #4000 and #4925 is 130 days. The growth rate of Hatrack in that time period is actually 7.12 users/day. Holy cow.
 
Posted by Javert (Member # 3076) on :
 
So, instead of carbon dating should we call this "racker dating"?
And just for fun, I'd like to see what .12 of a Hatracker looks like. Hmmmm...
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
It may be important to speculate that Cedrios might actually own about 1/5 of the usernames since March 26, 2001. [Wink]
 
Posted by Polemarch (Member # 3293) on :
 
Many usernames are in fact owned by the same person. For example, I also own the Darth Vader name.

[ March 23, 2003, 02:17 AM: Message edited by: Polemarch ]
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
Hatrack tripled its registrations per month over the summer months of 1999, and from there had a slowly decreasing trend all the way through 2000. It hit a boom in January 2001 (251% over Dec 2000, which itself saw a minor increase over its previous month), then steadily increased through the summer of 2001. Around the September 2001 terrorist attacks registration dropped dramatically, and didn't see a significant increase in trend until the summer of 2002. It would seem that the summer months tend to attract more users (when they ought to be outside), excepting 2000.

This January holds the record for most registrations at 225, the first full month after the registration lockout (the last five days in December 2002 had 60 alone). But this month is projecting to blow it away.
 
Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
 
Yes, and I own Procrastination and JumpingReallyHighButNotReallyFlyingSheep (no lie).

And although I'm a cow, I am not holy... I wonder if Papa Moose's eyebrows would rise if people started saying "holy moose" instead. [Razz]

Is there any way to get a true count of users, based on IP address or something? I don't even want to know how many hits the site gets in a day... that number would be staggering.
 
Posted by Tristan (Member # 1670) on :
 
A good guess would perhaps be that the registration rate peaked significantly during periods of Mafia games.
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
Some user's IP address' change over time, some more rapidly than others. In this case, it would be nearly impossible to know the exact number.
 
Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
 
I was also wondering about the Writer's Workshop side of things... is there any data on that?(though it doesn't seem as though the new setup applies over there). I'd imagine there would be few (if any) users with multiple nicks.
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
We have about four different forums where you'd need an additional name to use. None of the other ones are updated yet.

[ March 23, 2003, 02:31 AM: Message edited by: Khavanon ]
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
I started running into zero post counts in the 300's.
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
This may be the point where some of you might take some interest (particularly Xavier).

These are account names that were created in 1999 (including Troubadour, which was created in 1998) that made a significant contribution to Hatrack, some of which older Jatraqueros may not have seen in some time. It was pretty cool for me to discover them as I went. I set the post count at 500, but if I get enough requests I may research lower numbers since the earlier days weren't quite so postful, and there have been some colorful personalities that have spent a brief time with us.

10,000
TomDavidson

4,000
aka

3,000
Slash the Berzerker
mackillian

2,000
Lissande
Hobbes
Jettboy
Scott R

1,000
martha
dean
^Saudade^
Xavier
Bokonon
KarlEd

500
Troubadour
Richard Berg
amira thirani
Ayelar
Brettly10
unicornwhisperer
masteroftheobvious
Carrie
KEGE
Justin Pullen
jd2cly60
sarfa

Note that everyone who disappeared from Hatrack that shows up on this list has an email address to contact. [Big Grin]

[ March 23, 2003, 03:43 AM: Message edited by: Khavanon ]
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
This is a person (her name is HowieDC on the board) who came in to Hatrack, made one post, and disappeared. She has a webpage and a journal, and you can see at what point in time in this person's life, what was going on, when she actually showed up to Hatrack. She found Hatrack important enough to drop in at least once. Now it's history to her, but she continues to go ahead in her life and update her audience about what's happening to her. This just blows me away.

[ March 23, 2003, 04:06 AM: Message edited by: Khavanon ]
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
Okay, the following list is of every 1999 account that had posted more than 100 posts that were not already included on a list above. I'm not linking them because that's just a hassle, but I provided their member #s so you can look them up yourself if you're interested. I won't be doing anything less than 500 for any other year. I may pick a number like 250 or something for 2000. I choose 100 posts for this list because I figure that's pretty comprehensive, and if anyone didn't meet that mark then nobody probably cares anyway.

122 dmichael
125 Uncle Moose
135 Fractured
161 Hazen
163 Barb
169 moonflower
181 pwiscombe
186 IanO
187 xnera
192 Mazer
195 shimmercat
200 kacard
206 Jake
233 Survivor
242 edgardu
273 Zak
295 Annie
370 Hegemon
381 T. Analog Kid
399 Thomas J
401 Brian Worth
447 userAnnie
451 ducky
458 draz
460 Samuel Bush
482 Sharpie
530 Piman
533 Mefaithiel
539 Alvinender
551 ARobinson

(Nobody had the time to request this, but I did it anyway).

[ March 23, 2003, 05:19 AM: Message edited by: Khavanon ]
 
Posted by Jeni (Member # 1454) on :
 
Khav is bored. [Smile]

ARobinson! He left in a big huff, if I remember right.

I think I may drop masteroftheobvious and KEGE an email.
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
Whew, I went through the first 1000. I have other things I ought to get done. I'll finish the year 2000 later today (I actually bothered to get the 100 poster's as well).

Heh
 
Posted by aka (Member # 139) on :
 
I think I will add my own memories to help flesh out the historical picture. The new forum came into being several months before we actually switched over. So there was probably a flurry of registrations while we tried it out and gave our opinions. My #90 username ak dates from then. But people stuck with the old one. We didn't actually make the switch until the mods announced that we were changing over, probably early May of 1999, when I re-registered because I lost my password. Then the old forum stayed up for a long time after that. Some of us even were beginning to migrate back to it when it was closed to new posting. This was a long time (maybe even a year or more) after the main body of hatrack was on the ubb. I still have nostalgia for the old BML forum software, though it was buggy as all get out.

Of those early posters, dmichael was the most prolific on the old bml. Richard Berg I'm surprised has less than 1000 because he had at one time the second highest post count after me. <laughs> I remember we used to think a few hundred was a high post count and I was asked to give a speech when I passed 300. <laughs> I never felt proud of my high post count, though, because it mainly means, I think, that I have no life. <laughs>

In the BML the topics stayed in the same order always, so the old stuff was at the top and the newest stuff at the bottom. People posted generally longer posts then, I'm not quite sure why. It was a lot more formal. We only had only a few fluff threads. One cool thing was you had to come up with a tag line for each post, and hatrackers were generally very creative as you might expect, and these tag lines were often clever and piquant.

I think those of us who posted on the BML should be assigned negative user numbers. [Smile] I know I predate several people with lower user numbers. Of the people still actively posting, only Saudade has been around longer than I. [Smile] My daughter does everything first! <laughs>

[ March 23, 2003, 09:15 AM: Message edited by: aka ]
 
Posted by aka (Member # 139) on :
 
Uncle Moose was Papa Moose before the Mooselet was born, of course. Jake was Noemon. I remember all those people, and count many of them my friends. I wonder where some of them are now? I wish they would come back!

[ March 23, 2003, 11:12 AM: Message edited by: aka ]
 
Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
 
Where do I fit in to all of this?
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
You'll be in the next report, the one for 2000.
 
Posted by Jeni (Member # 1454) on :
 
Khav - HowieDC is still around as Erin Howarth or some such variation of that name.
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
Interesting. Maybe I'll come across it. Heh, making an ass out of me...
 
Posted by Jeni (Member # 1454) on :
 
http://www.hatrack.com/ubb/cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile;u=00001143
 
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
 
I just want to say, more important than the smallness of your number, is the fact that your number could make a nice poker hand. Anybody beat 3 3's.
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
That is pretty sweet. I only got a pair of 9's.
 
Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
 
The Sherriff has a high straight: 2345
shiva the destroyer has a lower one: 1234

evc_hl has the reverse straight: 4321
as does ObiWanKenobi: 3210

somedeadgirl96 though, has four 4s, Hatrack's best hand so far: 4444
Stanlie has the threes: 3333
aspectre wins out of the people with more than 1000 posts, with her twos: 2222
Atragon rounds it out with the ones: 1111
 
Posted by KEGE (Member # 424) on :
 
I'm REALLY impressed with the research put into this thread! I had no idea that I'd had so many posts in my "heyday" or that I'd registered here so long ago.

Everyone on the list from Tom Davidson down used to post lots and all during the same time frame. MOTO (master of the obvious) had great puzzler threads going and Hobbes was so cute with the high school goings on. AKA was practically a moderator because she knew everything about what was going on, who was who, and still had time to rescue stray cats.

I wonder where they all are now ..... (kind of like that sappy TV star show but without all the schmuck). Thanks jeni for reminding me about Hatrack. It's time to start check in again.

BTW - for a long time MOTO and others thought i was a big scary macho man. Not so. [Wink]
 
Posted by Jeni (Member # 1454) on :
 
Yay! [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Jeni (Member # 1454) on :
 
As to where they all are... The only people on that 500 and above list who don't still post are MOTO and yourself.

Edit: Er.. And Richard Berg and dean, sorry.

[ March 23, 2003, 07:19 PM: Message edited by: Jeni ]
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
Welcome back. I don't think I've actually met you before. I'm glad I could help get some people to come back. Ever since the update all this information became available. We used to post about some of the people who've come and gone, but we've never been quite so able to do anything about it. [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
 
This is a great thread, Khav...

One problem, though. I registered in September of '01. However, at some point or another, I asked the board admins to delete my account. I wanted to quit Hatrack (it was a mad addiction at the time- I had one of the highest post/day counts,) but I needed some help. So, the board mods did. Then celia re-registered the Perelandra account and started posting as "me"- much to my "amusement." So, you'll probably encounter it in the 3000's even though it should be in the 2000's.

Soon after, I came up with "Primal Curve," and returned temporarily. I posted quite a bit, but eventually, I got tired of it. I then took a break. That break was exactly what I needed. Now, instead of thinking about Hatrack every minute of the day, I really only think about it when I'm in front of the computer. I can also live without opening every single thread.
 
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
 
How? [Eek!]
 
Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :
 
I made my first post on the old forum around June 1997. Until the archives disappeared a few months back, doing a search on my real name turned up a scathing diatriabe on the lack of religious change as pertaining to society's obession with having children, posted at that time. *shrugs shoulders*

I posted a bit on the old forum, started posting a bit on the new one, got into a fight with someone over something stupid (one of the traditional trouble-making threads, as I recall.... abortion or sex before marriage or something) in '98 and left. Completely my fault, I was an ass.

I came back on May 22, 2000 as TooTrueTroubs and managed to rack up 300 posts under that name, because I couldn't remember my old password, and my email had changed and I couldn't access or even remember what my email address would've been.

Eventually I decided I wanted to go back to Troubadour - as much as I liked the TTT handle (but the Lord of The Rings thing had my eyeballs twitching) - so I asked the mods if I could have it back, and voila - my old handle was back.

I live in lurk mode here most work days, but don't really have time to contribute much.

Still love it tho! [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Godric (Member # 4587) on :
 
Wow... Khavanon: the Hatrack Archivist! Great thread!

From what I understand (please correct me if I'm wrong) the original board was on AOL. Would any of that been logged at the web Wayback Machine?
 
Posted by Chris Kidd (Member # 2646) on :
 
i remember posting on BML back in 97 before i became an addict to the VBS furom.

I might have posted under the names of

Chris Kidd
Silk

Ps.
I think Saudade might remember me from VBS. for disrupting Raptor barracks on a few occasions. when she was commander.

I hope I have the right Saudade ?

[ March 24, 2003, 05:15 AM: Message edited by: Chris Kidd ]
 
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
 
AOL era stuff you'd have to talk to JohnHansen about, or the 1 or 2 others from that era here.

The first board, that I remember, was from 1996, pre-BML, and was similar threading to BML, but not as many features. I think I posted maybe once on that, and I'm pretty sure TomD was there, and I'm sure there were others. Then the BML came up (which I remember with a little regret, since OSC posted on the very first boards fairly often, he'd do bursts of activity for a few days, and then lurk). I posted on BML, with others. When we moved over to this, I know I registered once, but I think I had the mods delete it when I lost access to my college email address. I forget the login too [Smile] So I hemmed and hawed about re-registering, since I'm a semi-lurker type anyway, but bit the bullet finally, probably to post something dumb [Smile]

-Bok

EDIT: The "pre-BML" forum may have been BML, but in an early version. I do know that there have been 3 different layouts (4 now, I guess) of the forums.

[ March 24, 2003, 10:04 AM: Message edited by: Bokonon ]
 
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
 
Just a side note to bring up the 4 horsemen of the apocolypse thread that probably played a big part in the high registration numbers this month. I loved that thread. [Wink]
 
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
 
I thought I'd also mention that my post count is actually somewhere in the mid-2000's... I was approaching 2000 when I had my old account deleted. So, I'm in the club, I just have little proof.
 
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
 
If there's anything more annoying than watching people try and prove how long they've been around and/or lurking, I'm not familiar with it. [Razz]
 
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
You're just jealous, Frisco. [Wink]
 
Posted by KEGE (Member # 424) on :
 
I think the last time I was around Tom Davidson was getting married. How long is that? And how goes it?
 
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
 
There he goes with the winking smilie thing again!

I'm almost insulted that you think so little of me to assume that I'd need a joke flagged in that manner!

:hits Tom with stick:
 
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
 
Aw, Glynn remembers! How sweet. [Big Grin]

Who is member #4078? I'd like to know who my double is [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
 
Celia's double

[Embarrassed]

[ March 24, 2003, 02:51 PM: Message edited by: Kayla ]
 
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
 
My double.

Oh, the irony.

[Embarrassed]

Two in a row with a UBB mistake!

Hope I got it right this time!! They say, third times the charm.

[ March 24, 2003, 02:56 PM: Message edited by: Kayla ]
 
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
 
yup. he appears to be a DaOSC guy. hardly a worthy opponent.

2038 has never posted and 2040 does not exist.

how does 2040 not exist? banned? perelandraed?
 
Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :
 
My double's just some guy named "Ryan" who made four posts then disappeared.

How disappointing.

Although if you multiply my user-number by 20 you get snowden

At least I remember him.

[ March 24, 2003, 06:38 PM: Message edited by: Troubadour ]
 
Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
 
My double is LockPW, who's relatively new, it seems.

...at least I've been around long enough to *have* a double. [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Badhousewife (Member # 4934) on :
 
So does this mean you could find my previous IDs? I tend to forget them. I think I've only had two, one of which was in Battle School so I have no idea if it's all one deal. I only made a couple of posts with the second one, which was right after EnderCon. I did write down this ID and password in my journal. [Razz]
 
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
 
Wow.. amazingly enough, I'm the double of Jesus Returns who is the double of Bblloodd.

So, when jesus returns twice, you'll get me.
 
Posted by ^Saudade^ (Member # 175) on :
 
Chris, I do remember you.

This ID is actually my second ID on the "new" forum. I registered Saudade before, but I lost my password.

I arrived on hatrack somewhere in 1996 if my memory is correct.
 
Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :
 
In fact, you were number 72

Damn you.

Another one earlier than me... lol
 
Posted by somedeadguy (Member # 3759) on :
 
*blinks* there's a dead girl? With a better poker hand then me even... All the sudden this alias seems cheap and violated. [Frown]

Atleast their registration number is later then mine, I was the first deadperson™. I think I'm gonna drop them an E-mail and find out who the mysterious minion is.

Also, to maybe help out in this historical archive:

quote:
...and didn't see a significant increase in trend until the summer of 2002.
Summer of 2002 was Endercon. That probably explains atleast some of that spike. I know that's why and when I registered...(has someone already mentioned that?)

[ March 24, 2003, 09:18 PM: Message edited by: somedeadguy ]
 
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
 
Okay, talk about fascinating... Too bad I should be writing a paper now [Smile]

I have 11 multiples (n›1), and have seen the profiles of each of them [Smile]

2 = Lotus, with a grand total of 11 posts.
3 = Stradling, with 5. This one is actually crazy, because he's a Physics grad student (poor soul) here in Madison who did undergrad at BYU. He probably knows one of my favorite professors here, too [Smile]
4 = Dominix, with 7.
5 = Violation, with 2.
6 = GhostofJohnKeats (2)... wonder who that is? [Wink]
7 = Quinn, with 0. Didn't he post?
8 = Rajani, with 75.
9 = Kit_Fisto, with 0, that crazy Jedi.
10 = Kimberly Silva, with 19. I remember her too.
11 = :God, with 1...
12 = elisheva's_mom, with 6.

That adds up to... 128 posts for my multiples.

My half... is siddhartha. With one.

This is too much fun; I need to stop.

[Edit to correct math. Stupid me.]

[ March 24, 2003, 10:06 PM: Message edited by: Carrie ]
 
Posted by ^Saudade^ (Member # 175) on :
 
And that's because I took my sweet time to register onto the new forum too.
I could have done it earlier, but I was too lazy to.
 
Posted by Jeni (Member # 1454) on :
 
http://web.archive.org/web/20020203032701/www.hatrack.com/forums/old/main/t1.cgi?m=1003&t=1000

Too bad it doesn't completely work. I would have enjoyed reading some of the discussions.

[ March 24, 2003, 10:32 PM: Message edited by: Jeni ]
 
Posted by Jeni (Member # 1454) on :
 
http://web.archive.org/web/19981202133419/www.hatrack.com/ubb/cgi/Ultimate.cgi

We didn't get a neat seperate forum asking us how we liked our new software! [Wink]
 
Posted by Pepek (Member # 3773) on :
 
Meep!- How do I find out who my half is!? I'm a stupid non-multiplier...

~Sir Montague
 
Posted by Zevlag (Member # 1405) on :
 
Haha!

Time to do some interesting math with my number...

My double is almost exactly one year later than I, has not posted any...

[ March 24, 2003, 11:44 PM: Message edited by: Zevlag ]
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
Double = DragonRank Master (#1858)
Triple = deerpark27 (#2787) [Razz] Hehe
Quadruple = goth lebowski (3716)
 
Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
 
Well, Pepek, if you divide yourself by 7, you get 359, which is alvinender... if that's any consolation. [Big Grin]
 
Posted by JohnHansen (Member # 41) on :
 
For some reason I think my post count stopped incrementing a long time ago.
 
Posted by JohnHansen (Member # 41) on :
 
Then again, maybe not. I haven't been able to make sense of how it works.
 
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
 
John! It's good to see you. When I came back to the board last summer after my mission, you and aka were the screen names I missed seeing the most. [Smile]
 
Posted by Feyd Baron (Member # 1407) on :
 
My multiples:

2814 - Ela* - 0 Posts
4221 - Sugarspun - 4 Posts

For a grand total of Four posts...

Slackers

Feyd
 
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
 
I couldn't find my half or my double, but my triple , 3283 is Sunflower with a grand total of 8 posts! [Wink] Then there's the quadruple with 3 posts...but then it's Ralphie's clone, so I'm not going to complain.

[side note]it seemed that I had to try every search twice to get results. Is that just me?[/side note]
 
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
 
Especially since I am Ralphie Clone [Wink]
 
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
 
Hmm...

1441 LenaWessel 8 posts
1442 ieboy 0 posts

[ March 25, 2003, 04:38 PM: Message edited by: TheTick ]
 
Posted by KEGE (Member # 424) on :
 
Khav,

I tried the links but they are only for the old AOL forum. I still don't understand where you went to see the forums from 1999 and forward in order to amass all your data! Can you point me to those old discussions?

Thanks,
KE
 
Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :
 
my descendants are Dobie and Borommakot.
[Smile]
 
Posted by Chris Kidd (Member # 2646) on :
 
I wasn't trying to impress anyone just wanted to see if suadade remembered me is all. also to see if she was the suadase from the old VBS.
 
Posted by flyby (Member # 3630) on :
 
Wow, Hatrack has been around a long time. This is cool. I like learning the history of our forum.
 
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
 
Where are the archives from after the forum got moved? It seems to stop at Dec. 1999...was there a gap? Where is 2000-2001? I'm curious and can't find them myself.
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
KEGE,

Actually, all the data I collected are in the records for registered members that carried over to this site. I don't know exactly how many of the people on the old board had their names moved, some or all of them maybe. I know a lot of them were deleted for one reason or another. The easiest way to rumage through the records is to go into a person's profile, look at the URL, and modify the member number. You can also do a search, though I think it'll only pull up people who've posted in threads that still exist.

Narnia,

I'll get a list for the 2000 people pretty soon. I'm actually a couple of hundred names from being done, I just have to do it.

[ April 02, 2003, 04:06 PM: Message edited by: Khavanon ]
 
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
 
<--*Is incredibly impressed with all the work that's gone into this* [Big Grin] [Big Grin] [Big Grin]

Hobbes [Smile]
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
quote:
For some reason I think my post count stopped incrementing a long time ago.

Then again, maybe not. I haven't been able to make sense of how it works.
In case anybody hasn't noticed yet, the post count you have listed in a thread will not change until the thread is updated (posted to). It will be up to date in your profile.
 
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
 
<--*Didn't notice that*

code:
2*:  BF_Blitzkrieg       (2 posts)
3*:  KeolinPortara       (1 post)
4*:  miriku.kami         (2 posts)
5*:  TheBlueFairy        (36 posts)
6*:  JK                  (39 posts)
7*:  harkesy             (0 posts)
8*:  Thread Killer       (11 posts)
9*:  SIash the Berzerker (3 posts) (Note:there's an I instead of L in Slash)
10*: rothko              (3 posts)
11*: Lovemyspirituality  (0 posts)
Hobbes [Smile]
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
I forgot my quintuple, which is ForgottenCreature #4645.

my 2x has 0 posts.
my 3x has 129 posts.
my 4x has 10 posts.
my 5x has 3 posts.
 
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
 
Khav, where are you getting this list? From the archives or just from the membership numbers? Are the archives from 2000 and 2001 lost? *sniffle* I hope not!! 2000 is when I registered and there are some great things from that year! [Wink]
 
Posted by KEGE (Member # 424) on :
 
Khav,

I tried to follow your directions, but .... back in 1999 MOTO had to work extensively with me before I could even [Smile] !!!

Like Narnia, I'd like to read the discussion threads from late 1999-2001. But embarassingly, I need something akin to a clickable link [Roll Eyes]

Now of course I can just click on an "Instant Graemlin". Now THAT is progress.

PS Narnia, I think I remember you a bit because I loved your name. My daughter was way into the Chronicles of Narnia about that time and whenever you posted, I always pictured Aslan.
 
Posted by Wendybird (Member # 84) on :
 
I originally registered in Nov or Dec of 97 when I first got online. I mostly lurked then, even more than I do now [Big Grin] I remember the BML. I joined shortly after the switch from AOL.
 
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
 
KEGE!! I remember you! You were on my favorite books thread back in the summer of 2000. [Wink] I'm baffled about WHERE they're hiding the archives from that year? Do you know where it is and/or how to get there? You mentioned that you were attempting it and I have no idea how. I'm computer inept. I'd love to see them though.
 
Posted by Jeni (Member # 1454) on :
 
I tried finding KEGE's thread about aka's asteroid destroying planning, but I guess it is long gone. [Frown] It was probably one of the most-bumped threads though.
 
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
 
One of my most favorite threads of all time was the "www" discussion thread. We were trying to figure out ways to say "www" in a more efficient way...and the resulting discussion was one of the highlights of my Hatrack experience. I even printed the whole danged thing out and referred some of my non-Hatrack friends to it so they could read and laugh. I would love to find it in its entirety.
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
quote:
Like Narnia, I'd like to read the discussion threads from late 1999-2001. But embarassingly, I need something akin to a clickable link.
All those threads are extinct. The only thing left of the older posters are their profiles. Hatrack has gotten so big that they've had to cut the forums down to the last few months. You come in and see there are some hundred thousand posts listed in this forum, but there have been far more than that over all. Unfortunately, the forum doesn't keep the post records. They do manage to give us the topic numbers though.

So I can only give you the links to the profiles.
 
Posted by Jeni (Member # 1454) on :
 
The best you could do is try taking some times to look through the internet archive. Even there most of them don't work, though.

Narnia - I remember reading that thread. Whether I was just looking back at old threads and found it or whether I was actually here for it, I don't remember. [Wink]
 
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
 
So, let me try to understand. They have the threads from the old board, but since they switched over to the current UBB board, the threads haven't been saved anywhere? So that was January of 2000 or thereabouts...and NONE of the threads have been saved since then? Once they fall off the cue on the main page they're gone forever? *dramatically puts her hand to her forhead and faints* That is truly a shame. [Frown]
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
A lot of us thought so. But I guess little could be done. There were probably close to a half a million posts overall (average 30 posts per thread according to the count in the forum contents, 14,500 threads since the start).
 
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
 
Oh. Ouch. I was hoping that I was WRONG in my conclusion, but you just confirmed it and now I'm crushed. Forever. And it's all your fault Khav. *slumps*
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
I live to make people cry. [Wink] Actually, I'm saddened as well. <sobs>
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
If anything, I wish we could have voted for threads that could be immortalized. That would have been a good trade.
 
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
 
Oh, can you imagine that? That could have turned ugly really quick...people canvassing for votes to keep a particular thread alive...yeesh. [Wink] I am just blown away that we don't have any of those threads any more. I had no idea that they were just...gone....*starts sobbing again* I've got to stop thinking about it. *sniffle*
 
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
 
That's why I only post on the BTQ thread. That bugger will be around forever.
 
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
 
Yeah, if we keep that thread alive, we'll all become immortal Jatraqueros. *goes to post on BTQ*
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
If we keep that thread alive, we're gonna run out of Hatrack.
 
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
 
That was ae's secret plan all along...to take over the board with 1,427 pages of BTQ.
 
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
 
My first posts on the BML forum, under the name MorganMajors, were in November of 1996. My early stuff was mostly in the virtual Battle School, where I made myself quite obnoxious and created my own army. Shortly thereafter I began contributing diatribes to our fun political and religious debates. If I remember correctly, everyone was talking about the recent switch from AOL, so it couldn't have been that much earlier. The only folks I remember from way back when are John Hansen, Martha, Saudade, aka.. and was Amira around that long ago?

Anyway, I'd be interested to see how many early versions of the forum there were.

Is this reminding anyone else of the Foundation series?
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
I would just like to point out that March set the new record for sign ups with 250. Of course, this was "create a misfit personality" month.
 
Posted by PhantomBumper (Member # 4957) on :
 
Which is so much cooler than "National Oatmeal Month" in January.
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
I'd also like to congratulate Jon Boy on grabbing #5000, as well as crushing Pat's dreams, destroying the very fabric of his being, drifting him to the threshold of questioning his own existence. Way to go, Jon. [Wink]
 
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
 
I was looking forward to Pat getting it. Pat makes his pseudonyms with care and humor...and usually for a purpose.
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
All right, this is the list of accounts for the class of 2000. I'm not making note that certain accounts have other usernames because I don't know all of them. Again, this is to give you guys a chance to check out some names for people who've disappeared, and some who are still around. I don't know what kind of impact this has had. Anyway... Here's 2000:

9,000
Bob_Scopatz

6,000
Doug J

5,000
katharina
Olivet

4,000
David Bowles

3,000
Pod (3955 posts)
Tresopax (3999 posts)
JohnKeats (3998 posts, what's with this trend here in the 3k club?)

2,000
AndrewR
Ophelia
ClaudiaTherese
Khavanon
porcelain girl
pH
Ela

1,000
The Rabbit
Amka
twinky
Chaeron
Destineer
Ethics Gradient
Marce al'Meara
Geoffrey Card
ladyday
Noemon
Dobie
Chris Bridges
Yebor1
Everard
Zevlag

500+
Ele
OlavMah
dspeyer
ginette
Pat
Rook
Jenny Gardner
Dante
cyruseh
Miro
wordman
jRc

The rest I didn't link because there's just too much. I hope I don't hurt anyone's feelings. [Razz] I did leave member numbers so you can check them out.

250+
699 A Rat Named Dog
741 DSH
807 ssywak
839 Taalcon
855 pYx
862 IdemosthenesI
956 TooTrueTroubs
964 Theo
1055 Grasshopper
1071 Narnia
1131 docmagik
1214 HonorDB
1316 Psycluded
1334 popatr
1407 Feyd Baron

100+
655 Galadriel
656 Machiavelli
672 Emily Milner
676 scottneb
700 AnthonyP
714 Freckles
740 mek
773 Pascal
789 Masdibar
810 Thor
850 Eirenical
886 JanusAurora
905 Fokren
918 Lead
936 Socrates
946 Caleb Varns
950 jacare
986 VidRoth
1056 General Sycophant
1116 MattB
1129 Stanton
1143 erinhowarth
1193 oneluckycricket
1249 Kalena
1357 Zyne
1385 lightpaths
1408 Paercival
1411 Jane_n_Ender

[ April 04, 2003, 06:39 AM: Message edited by: Khavanon ]
 
Posted by KEGE (Member # 424) on :
 
Khav,

Now I understand! [Frown]

I too was hoping that Narnia was wrong. Some of those threads deserved saving! I'd completely forgotten about aka's asteroid destruction plans! I wish I could read that one again.

It seems like they could have been backed up and archived somewhere? Oh well ....
 
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
 
On the old forum, the suicide thread was near to my heart. That's where Saudade and I became friends. And there was a religion thread there where Amira and I met. I really do wish all this stuff were being archived somewhere. Can we start doing it on www.jatraquero.com maybe? Just archive the all time favorite threads like Original Potry, etc.?

The asteroid project is still languishing for lack of more funding ideas. You guys need to get to work! [Smile]
 
Posted by Yozhik (Member # 89) on :
 
One thing I liked about the old forum was that we could post under different names without having to reregister a new identity. I remember posting as "Bad Hair Yozhik" in Annie's "700 Club" thread.
 
Posted by Zevlag (Member # 1405) on :
 
Many of the old threads are archived here http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://hatrack.com
 
Posted by Obi Jon Boy Kenobi (Member # 5000) on :
 
quote:
I'd also like to congratulate Jon Boy on grabbing #5000, as well as crushing Pat's dreams, destroying the very fabric of his being, drifting him to the threshold of questioning his own existence. Way to go, Jon.
Once again, I'd like to thank the other 4999 Hatrackers that I stepped on to snatch #5000. This one's for you, Pat. Except that it's not actually for you, 'cause it's for me.
quote:
I was looking forward to Pat getting it. Pat makes his pseudonyms with care and humor...and usually for a purpose.
Oh, ouch! Once again, Frisco's stinging wit has shamed me! [Roll Eyes]
 
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
 
Zevlag, I could have kissed you when you posted that link, but when I went to look at some of the threads listed, they don't work. [Frown] But thank you anyway, I was able to re-read the home page for Charlie Ben right after he died and that was really good...there are other interesting things to see, but the threads won't open. (and there still seems to be a huge gap in time...from May-October 2000. Does anyone notice that? The threads that are labeled "July" open up October threads. Bizarre.) Thanks for the link though Zevlag, there's still lots of fun browsing to do.

We are all in mourning, we should have some kind of memorial service for our favorite lost threads. [Wink] But I did like the idea of backing up a few of them on Jatraquero.com. The landmark posts are already being backed up there, aren't they?
 
Posted by Wendybird (Member # 84) on :
 
I remember the asteroid destruction thread! Just thought I'd point that out, cuz I really have been here that long! [Eek!] [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
 
Excitement!!! I found my printed out version of the WWW thread and for archive purposes and information, I'm going to post some of it here. It was started by a Rat Named Dog...(btw, where is he? Is it someone still on Hatrack under a different name?)

Posted July 23, 2000 03:52 AM
quote:
I've been thinking for a long time that our culture HAS to come up with a better way of pronouncing the three doubleyous at the beginning of web addresses. I mean, how fun is it to say "doubleyou doubleyou doubleyou dot hatrack dot com" when you're trying to direct a friend to your favorite website? You could just leave the three doubleyous off (which is the most common shortcut), but then if your friend is an idiot (as most friends are), they will probably spend ten whole minutes trying to find the site without typing in the doubleyous.

So we have to come up with a way to say it without twisting our tongues. I have a few suggestions:

--I read once in WIRED that someone had coined the term "TRIPLE-DUB", but it never caught on. "TRIPLE-DUB dot hatrack dot com"

--We could always pronounce it as it is written. "OOOOOOOOOOOh dot hatrack dot com"

--Or (and this is my favorite) we could borrow a phrase from Downtown Julie Brown: "WUBBA WUBBA WUBBA dot hatrack dot com"

What do you think? Any more suggestions?

Dog
So what followed was a suggestion from EG and then aka started the HUGE argument with her simple two-word post:

quote:
Octuple you?
Then Olavmah got in, Pod, Tom, JohnHansen, Tresopax, sarfa and Rabbit came back with mathematically sound proofs of whether it should be sextuple you...or octuple you. It was truly hilarious. On my printout that ended three days later, a conclusion still had not been reached. I don't want to start it again, but I was just so excited to find this after my hopes of 2000-2001 archives were totally crushed. So, I thought I'd share with you the crowning post of this thread IMHO. It was Rabbit's and I still just die every time I read it.

quote:
You guys are looking at this all wrong, w is not a mathematical operator and www is not a mathematical expression of any kind. It's just 3 w's sitting in a row, like three apples in a row, three couples in a row, or three pairs of pants in a row. Now pants are the most similar to w's since one "pair of pants" is only one article of clothing and one "w" is only one letter. You can also make a "w" with 2 pairs of pants or if you bend them at the knee in the right way, you can make a "w" with 1 pair of pants, so it seems that "pairs of pants" are clearly the direct equivalent of w's. When you put three pairs of pants in a row, you don't get 8 pants, you only get 6(assuming 2 pant= 1 a pair of pants), so when you put 3 w's in a row, you should end up with 6 u's(assuming 2 u= 1 w).

So now since "jeans are clearly the most common type of pants on the planet, why don't we just say "3 jeans".hatrack.com. That should be completely clear to everyone and it's easy to say.

Or we could simply go with the german "w" which is only 1 syllable, "vay", Then we could call it "3 vay".hatrack.com, which is not only easy to say but sounds alot like "freeway" which seems fitting on the information super highway.
HA!! That's just so funny. Thanks for letting me share my happiness with you. [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Yozhik (Member # 89) on :
 
A Rat Named Dog is Geoff Card, right?
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
Yes.
 
Posted by Wendybird (Member # 84) on :
 
Thanks Narnia! Rabbits response was classic [Smile]
 
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
 
Wow. I never new that Dog was Geoff! That makes it even more hilarious!! [Big Grin]
 
Posted by KEGE (Member # 424) on :
 
Narnia,

The same thing happened to me when I tried to look at the old forum it always was on the same day and not the day I thought I was looking at.

So how did you find the www thread and get to really open up?

[Confused]
 
Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :
 
oh man, i so remember that thread!

good stuff, good stuff.
(and YES, i was registered under a different name, so no more wrinkled foreheads and sideways looks.)
 
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
 
KEGE, I...um...actually...I had the WWW thread printed out. (yeah, can you believe it? It made me laugh so hard that I printed it out back in 2000 just so I could keep it. I'm glad I did.) I can't read any of the threads from the net archive and the dates are misleading...they only give you threads from Oct. 25th 2000 or something like that...sigh.
 
Posted by KEGE (Member # 424) on :
 
Narnia,

[Big Grin] My first LOL all day today! I love it!
 
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
 
Sorry to bump an old thread, but I just realized today that there weren't two separate alphabetical segments back at the beginning -- there was only one. Capital letters come before lowercase letters in the ASCII system. I can't believe I didn't notice it before now.

--Pop
 
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
 
Yeah, this is a crazy old thread, but I really love it and I was curious...

So. Our fantastic mods have helped us with our archiving efforts with the landmark post section of the forum. 3 cheers for the mods!!

I'm an organizational freak and it just makes me get all teary when I think of losing some of the funniest conversations I've ever seen.

I am wondering if anyone else has done anything like Pop used to do to preserve favorite threads or parts of threads. I know that the majority of our threads probably don't need to be archived, but there are those choice few here and there....the 4 horseman of the apocalypse comes to mind as well as some others. Have there been any recently that we could try to save?

BTW I think we should have an international holiday the day that Begging the Question reaches 100 pages.
 
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
 
I just read in "Salmon of Doubt" what Douglas Adams said about www, which is that it's an abbreviation for world wide web that takes several times longer to say than the thing it's an abbreviation for. [Smile]

This is a hilarious book, btw. I can't believe I waited so long to read it. I keep laughing out loud while reading it in public places, and garnering "those looks" from the straights around me. [Smile]
 
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
 
aka, how did you get your registered date to read like that? Did the mods do that for you? It's hilarious!
 
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
 
I'm pretty sure the original slew of members all have the same thing. (Okay, not all of them, but a lot of them.)

http://www.hatrack.com/ubb/cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile;u=00000048
 
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
 
All those automatically transferred from the older system got "A long time ago," but some have since been updated. The following still show that as their registration dates (my list is as of April 8th, so updates since then are not reflected):Useless info? Yeah, probably. But dang if this list ain't gonna end up being useful for something.
--Pop
 
Posted by Jeff (Member # 4298) on :
 
Is it coincidence that the first 90 or so are in alphabetical order?
 
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
 
There are a lot of NON posters in that list! And, funny enough, the early group seemed to be a little older in general. Anyone want to fess up to owning some of these early user names, or are they all gone for good?

And you can be happy Pop that I had fun looking at all of those random profiles. [Wink]
 
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
 
What's weird is that if I'd only used capital letters, I'd have been member number 2 or something like that. <laughs> That would have gone too much to my head, though. Mwhahahahahahaaaa. All that power! That prestige! Even queens of the universe can't handle so much!

[ August 20, 2003, 08:51 AM: Message edited by: ak ]
 
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
 
Class of 2001

7000+

Kayla

6000+

Ralphie

Belle

Leto II

Baldar

4000+

Strider

Jacare Sorridente

Rakeesh

bonduca

3000+

Jeni

Cedrios

ludosti

Papa Moose

jeniwren

fugu13

TheTick

2000+

jehovoid

celia60

Patrick

Irami Osei-Frimpong

Toretha

enjeeo

1000+

jasonepowell

luthe

The Silverblue Sun

Otaku

aretee

Ronin

MrSquicky

ByuCnslr

The Pixiest

Paul Goldner

Jeffrey Getzin

Black Fox

JaneX

CalvinMaker

odouls268

aspectre

:Locke (:Locke has a nice profile, did I mention that?)

Zalmoxis

Krankykat

Yank

jebus202

advice for robots

MyrddinFyre

Anna

waltdisneysfrozenhead

James Tiberius Kirk

500+

1448 Nato

1562 stihl1

1629 Theca (969 posts)

1641 Unmaker (991)

1660 Snowden

1662 Turin_4

1663 Alai

1703 LisB1121

1831 kwsni

1912 Shlomo

2024 jkkirk

2120 Kasie H

2150 FlyingCow

2180 Diosmel Duda

2191 Panguitch

2275 Saruman

2295 NdRa

2296 BootNinja

2300 Magson

2313 Skywier

2393 plaid

2509 WmLambert

2559 slacker

2586 HollowEarth

2654 Punchdrunk

2815 Duragon C. Mikado

2865 Chuckles (999 posts)

2872 Ron Lambert

200+
1512 lost
1573 pepperuda
1578 Van Aaron
1612 Xaposert
1669 Al
1670 Tristan
1676 dangermom
1698 Daedalus
1705 Elysium
1707 Lime
1787 Lutya
1869 Haunted
1871 Tstorm
1880 IrishAphrodite19
1894 maui babe
1947 Ornery
1950 Ses Adoms
1971 firebird
1990 Doc Brown
2099 Jaiden
2125 IonFish
2195 Snorri
2199 Kwea
2221 larisse
2256 Ace of Spades
2264 bruinlawyer2002
2326 Livious
2361 cross
2375 Cookie Monster
2413 LetoII
2465 Severian
2468 Promethius
2512 dem
2558 kingofallcorgis
2626 Vaultgirl
2651 screechowl
2682 Dim Sum
2699 bicentennialman
2787 deerpark27

There were a few (maybe 5) people from Poland. None of them posted even once. [Confused]

Half of the 2001 names are Pat's clones. Honest.

And may I ask, Mr. Novak, were you spying on Hatrack a year before you joined?
 
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
 
::cracks up::

Theres a story behind that, one for a later date, perhaps. If I told the story now, there would be no suspense.
 
Posted by S. Claus (Member # 6025) on :
 
Was Pat some weirded out spammer or something?

[Eek!]
 
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
 
Still is, last time I checked.

Hey Pat, are you still a weirded out spammer!?
 
Posted by S. Claus (Member # 6025) on :
 
I guess my point is that it seems someone who registers half the names in a given year is doing a message board more of a disservice than a service.
 
Posted by JonnyNotSoBravo (Member # 5715) on :
 
Shoot! My old screen name only had 173 posts and so didn't make the 2001 cut...phooey. Atleast I'll make the 2003 cut. Unless they up the cut number because of the post whores...

quote:
Narnia wrote: That was ae's secret plan all along...to take over the board with 1,427 pages of BTQ.
Heh. Guess they didn't plan on a come from behind victory by the last post thread!

[ December 30, 2003, 04:42 AM: Message edited by: JonnyNotSoBravo ]
 
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
 
I don't understand that list. There seems to be a zillion people missing. Like Annie for instance...she's above 3,000...Hobbes...???
 
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
 
Narnia, I think it's only people who registered in 2001.

[ December 30, 2003, 01:55 AM: Message edited by: ak ]
 
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
 
Ah! [Blushing] Now I get it. Thanks ak.

I do love this thread though, I'm glad someone bumped it.
 
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
 
*bump in honor of some Khavanon posts this evening!!*
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
Wow, you guys saved it! I'm speechless. Thanks. I thought this one was history. This was probably my most famousest of threads.
 
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
 
My member number is only divisible by 5 and 1097...

Neither of them exist!

So I guess I don't have any hatrack ancestors.
 
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
 
What ever happened to jatraquero.com? There was someone in charge of it...was it you fugu? (that just totally rhymed!) *giggles*

I also just noticed something: When Narnia goes on a late-night posting spree, it be all the fluffy threads at the top of the first page. [Smile] It's not surprising actually.

[ February 28, 2004, 03:59 AM: Message edited by: Narnia ]
 
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
 
All this history! How wondrous! I want more stories from folks that have been around a long time! Preeeettttyyyy pleeeaassseee? [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
 
Errr... Could someone tell me how do i find the profile for a given number if that person has not posted at all ?
My user number divides with 5, 7, 163 so I tried to search for: #5, #7, #35 (5*7), #163, #815 (5*163) and #1141 (7*163) and apparently none of them ever posted or they didn't exist/don't exist anymore...
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
Click on your own profile and replace the number in the URL with a number that you want to find. It must be an eight digit number.
 
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
 
I still own the rights to jatraqueros.com and jatraqueras.com.

We all had issues with getting the naming to point to the right places (I've never done it before), and after inital excitement, the site hosted by some other folks died out due to lack of interest, I think.

-Bok
 
Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
 
thanks Khavanon...
and i call myself a *computer scientist*... [Roll Eyes]
 
Posted by cochick (Member # 6167) on :
 
I'm divisible by only 881 and 7 - neither of whom has posted. I guess I'm just gonna have to make it on my own in this big scary hatrack world [Cry]

Edit - see I can't even get to share a page with the rest of you [Cry] [Cry]

[ February 29, 2004, 08:29 PM: Message edited by: cochick ]
 
Posted by St. Yogi (Member # 5974) on :
 
*bump*

This is cool.
 
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
 
Well, I'm member #6742 - divisible only by 2 and 3371 (and no I didn't do the math all the way that far! I divided by 2 because I knew that was possible and then checked a list of prime numbers. LOL)

Neither #2 or #3371 are member numbers with posts... so I guess I'm without an ancestry as well.

Oh, and Cochick, I'm proud to share a page with you =)

[ November 04, 2004, 02:32 PM: Message edited by: Goody Scrivener ]
 
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
 
I have more children!

13: 5122, invisible robot fish, 10 posts
14: 5516, GUNN, 1
15: 5910, Stephy, 0
16: 6304, Kabederlin, 125
17: 6698, Meruhesae, 18

Woo! Welcome to the family!
 
Posted by Defenestraitor (Member # 6907) on :
 
Wow... cool thread.

No ancestors for me. Just my luck, I'm a freakin' prime number. [Grumble]

At the present rate of registration I won't have a child until 2011.

[Cry]
 
Posted by vwiggin (Member # 926) on :
 
Don't worry, when the movie comes out this place will be flooded.

Of course, your children will be named enderrawks!!!! or osc_stud_muffin. But hey, you take what you can get. [Smile]
 
Posted by Defenestraitor (Member # 6907) on :
 
::sniff:: poor kid. The cards are already stacked against him.

I can just see it now.

ENDER WIGGIN 2011
Member
Member # 13814

I LOVED THIS MOVIE! I BET I LOVE IT MORE THAN ANYBODY HERE! OSC RULZ TOO PEACE OUT, YO.
-EW2011
 
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
 
My ancestors are some person that doesn't exist and #5.

quote:
The cards are already stacked against him.
Well, I don't think they'd take it personally.

[ November 04, 2004, 04:58 PM: Message edited by: PSI Teleport ]
 
Posted by xnera (Member # 187) on :
 
Ooo, cool bump!

Is Khavanon still around? I liked Khavanon.

At the time this thread was started, I had more than 100 posts but less than 500. Which means it took me nearly four years to accumulate the first half of my post count, and only eighteen months to accumulate the second 500. Yup, my posting frequency has definitely increased. [Big Grin]
 
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
 
Now I have a double...of course, it's someone who has never posted.
 
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
 
ancestors:
1: Aaron, 1 post
2: nonexistant
4: Belgarath, 14 posts
7: Chasm, 4 posts
8: Clifty, 9 posts
14: Dirt Doctor, 1 post
28: Irishmutt, 1 post
53: nonexistant
56: nonexistant
106: nonexistant
212: Third, 2 posts
371: nonexistant
424: KEGE, 750 posts
742: nonexistant
1484: A2SG, 0 posts

children:

5936: The One And Only, 1 post
 
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
 
1: Aaron 1 post
2: doesn't exist
743: TopStudent 1 post
1486: Stratego Autokrator 2 posts

children:
5944: Far 3 posts
 
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
 
Cool! I made a list! I started posting here on November 8, 2000 as jRc. That means I'm coming up on my 4th anniversary here. [Eek!]

I was hanging around Hatrack River for quite a while before I ever made it to the forums. Now methinks I should have just gone and registered a username earlier and secured my spot in the Anals of History. [Smile]
 
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
 
Do I have a future, or past? (No energy for maths. I's 1:15 here.)

Jonny
 
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
 
I was around for quite some time, but I didn't have a computer for the first 2 years I had registered so I used my parents computer....all the way down in RI (2 hrs away).

Since I got this computer, my post count has been rising steadily... [Smile]

I made the list, but just bately..adn I am quite suprised that I managed that to be honest.

Damn library computers wouldn't let me on sometimes...I guess OSC is too close to porn for them to let me back then... [Roll Eyes]

Kwea
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
quote:
Is Khavanon still around? I liked Khavanon.
I pop in every once in a while. Thanks for calling me out. [Smile] Some time next summer I'll have time again and I'll be back and strong as ever.

This thread is still kicking. That's awesome. Since you've recovered it now, I bet it'll still be around by the time I get back to being full-time Jatraquero. I'll start working on it again if it survives. We'll get some of these young bucks in here and make them a part of history.
 
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
 
Here are my children as it stands right now:

x2 1858 DragonRank Master - 0 posts
x3 2787 deerpark27 - 255 posts
x4 3716 goth lebowski - 10 posts
x5 4645 Forgotten Creature - 3 posts
x6 5574 PhineasNigellus - 4 posts
x7 6503 Joe Smith - 0 posts
 
Posted by Jacob Porter (Member # 31) on :
 
I've been noticed. <blush>

Ahh. Fond memories of the old Big Lion board.
 
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Look! It's a Venerable Lurker!
 
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
Lets kill him and sell relics!!
 
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
 
Icarus!!! You are bad.
 
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
 
Jacob Porter is REAL, even. He came to the very first hatrack picnic in SoCal that featured me and that newbie named Slash the Berzerker! [Smile]

Hi, Jacob!

As for ancestors and children, I'll have to work all that out later! ak is member 90 and aka is 130 or so, I think. ana kata I can't remember the member number of, and Tatiana is new enough that she surely has no children yet. This is a nice thread, though. [Smile]
 
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
 
Nah, let's not kill him, let's freeze him in carbonite and keep him in the Great Hall!
 
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
 
<Bump for reminiscence.>
 
Posted by Trisha the Severe Hottie (Member # 6000) on :
 
It does appear that all the screen names that never had a post under them are gone. So I only have 10 that I am aware of now.
 
Posted by xnera (Member # 187) on :
 
I was bored. Here are my relatives:

Ancestors
11 - No Profile
17 - Geier, 1 post

Descendents

374 - Kelson, 2 posts
561 - No profile
748 - No profile
935 - No profile
1122 - Loki 2, 1 post
1309 - No profile
1496 - imperatorFL, 5 posts
1683 - Gyre, 22 posts
1870 - No profile
2057 - llodlean, 2 posts
2244 - Safela, 6 posts
2431 - Anonyhatracker, 22 posts
2618 - GhostofDeadHorse2, 1 post
2805 - No profile
2992 - Confuzzled ( [Confused] ), 2 posts
3179 - Dalai Lama ( [Eek!] ), 2 posts
3366 - No profile
3553 - Eeth Koth, 8 posts
3740 - kaioshin00 ( [Wave] ), 1668 posts
3927 - olidus, 8 posts
4114 - jymis, 13 posts
4301 - bbbbbbb, 1 post
4488 - Don Driscoll, 93 posts
4675 - Zorro Enojado, 134 posts
4862 - Dystran, 13 posts
5049 - Sad girl ( [Frown] ), 2 posts
5236 - No profile
5423 - jontar, 3 posts
5610 - Erik Blackheart, 30 posts
5797 - NooB ( [Smile] ), 18 posts
5984 - No profile
6171 - stevenrushing, 0 posts
6358 - Eljay (!!! [Big Grin] ), 1508 posts
6545 - Sara, 0 posts
6732 - J. Alfred Prufrock, 13 posts
6919 - The_Grinning_Man, 0 posts
7106 - Leprechaun86, 2 posts
 
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
 
1871 was xi_wang_mu, 2805 was iwkyawy, 3366 was Daena, 5236 was Nada, and 5984 was Motham Momma. It's not important that you care about any of those, but I was pretty bored, too.

--Pop
 
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
 
quote:
So I only have 10 that I am aware of now.
Only ten! Oh no! [Wink]

My ancestors:

2512: dem (240 posts)
1256: Nihil (6 posts)
628: (No Profile)
314: matkat (42 posts- occupation listed as vagabond [Cool] )
157: Colonel (4 posts)
32: (No Profile)
16: Eu (1 post)
8: Clifty (9 posts)
4: Belgarath (14 posts)
2: (No profile)
1: Aaron (1 post)
 
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
 
I'm the product of three prime numbers:
1, 3 and 409

Member #3 and #409 do not have profiles.

Descendants:

enderlover 2454 (1 post)

SuperDan 4908 (10 posts)

SquirrelsRevolt 6135 (5 Posts)

[ December 22, 2004, 06:28 PM: Message edited by: Bob_Scopatz ]
 
Posted by KEGE (Member # 424) on :
 
If I make a post here will this thread come back to active?

If so it's a GOLD MINE for the nameology game!
 


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