Indeed. My name is Nick, and I would pay for that UID. How much? Probably not much. But it's pretty sweet. My original handle had a UID in the five digits.
Everybody probalby thought 1200 users was a lot for the site back then.:) Once past 10,000 someone started saying how there are too many people and/. had lost its edge or wasn't cool anymore. Then around 90,000 people started registering for the low uids. Obviously I'm not a joiner.;)
Back at the time, I actually purposely avoided signing up because it was right at the time that web accounts were ballooning and I didn't want to add to my set of disjointed accounts. Now I'm kind of sad that my uid is so high.
When Slashdot finally implemented user accounts, there was a bit of paranoia about people losing their anonymity and I held off joining until finally one of the features was too juicy to have...I think it was one of the ways to sort posts:)
Back then, or a little before, you could essentially read every post every day without it taking TOO much of your time. LOL.
Clearly I had more willpower than you did. And yes, I too was mighty annoyed at every other site wanting me to give them my full name, home address and my mother's first cat's favorite color just to access anything.
It's insane the number of people here now. Please note my low ID:)
I never think of mine as low, but the ones being given out now are over 3x mine. I think I got mine in '02 though, so that seems to scale if the rate the ids are given out remain static.
What's the turn-over? How many old timers are still active or even lurking on here? Life and career are so busy for me now I barely have time to read the headlines on here.
I started reading late '97 but wasn't convinced to actually sign up until sometime in '99. My guess is that you signed up early 2000. There were a lot of people who lurked and posted anon back then rather than sign up, so slightly higher IDs aren't really an indication that people missed the early days.
I started reading in '98 (started a degree in compsci) but didn't create an account for years. I tried to go back through my posting history to find the oldest post I made. Didn't find my first post but did notice that spell check in web browsers improved my posting quality dramatically. Some of those early posts make me cringe now.
I started reading late '97 but wasn't convinced to actually sign up until sometime in '99. My guess is that you signed up early 2000. There were a lot of people who lurked and posted anon back then rather than sign up, so slightly higher IDs aren't really an indication that people missed the early days.
Something like that. Although with me it was probably first lurking, then registering, and only much later posting.
There was a moment in the early days when the site went through some technical difficulties and everyone who wanted to post had to re-register. I think that I did that the same day that it happened. I got a much lower user ID when I had re-registered than what I had had before.
Being a Star Wars fan, I wish that I had registered only a fraction of a section later...
There were a lot of people who lurked and posted anon back then rather than sign up
Yeah, it was all "anonymity on the Internet forever!" until Slashdot was like, "oh, but you wouldn't have to Preview anymore," and then we all just handed over our data.
There were no registered accounts in 1995 or 1996 since, you know, the site didn't even exist. There is also no way you registered in 1997 since the site started in September and there were not 200000 registered users since user accounts didn't exist until after the 1998 rewrite.
Your id isn't from 97 as some others have already pointed out. I think it was late 97 early 98 when the registration system was implemented. I think I waited a while before registering and still have a four digit one. People liked the anonymity of the original site, heh.
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User ID vs year joined? (Score:5, Interesting)
Is there a way to see when I joined based on my ID? I think it was some time in 1997.
It'd be cool to see how membership has grown....
User Ids:
1995 : 0 - 1000
1996: 1001 - 50000
1997; 50,000 - 200,000
etc...
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It's insane the number of people here now. Please note my low ID :)
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Wow. 109. You should eBay that sucker. :-D
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Indeed. My name is Nick, and I would pay for that UID. How much? Probably not much. But it's pretty sweet. My original handle had a UID in the five digits.
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Everybody probalby thought 1200 users was a lot for the site back then. :) Once past 10,000 someone started saying how there are too many people and /. had lost its edge or wasn't cool anymore. Then around 90,000 people started registering for the low uids. Obviously I'm not a joiner. ;)
Re:User ID vs year joined? (Score:4, Insightful)
Some of us would just visit the site daily without siging up until a couple of years later to be able to submit stories, post or moderate.
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Yea, 90k is when it all went down hill.
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Back at the time, I actually purposely avoided signing up because it was right at the time that web accounts were ballooning and I didn't want to add to my set of disjointed accounts. Now I'm kind of sad that my uid is so high.
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When Slashdot finally implemented user accounts, there was a bit of paranoia about people losing their anonymity and I held off joining until finally one of the features was too juicy to have...I think it was one of the ways to sort posts :)
Back then, or a little before, you could essentially read every post every day without it taking TOO much of your time. LOL.
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And now we Google Plus with real IDs to fix all those disjointed accounts!
*ducks*
*ducks lower*
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Clearly I had more willpower than you did. And yes, I too was mighty annoyed at every other site wanting me to give them my full name, home address and my mother's first cat's favorite color just to access anything.
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I guess I had just a tiny bit more willpower than you. :-)
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Low ID? :D
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Hahaha, yes. You have me beat :)
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I was actually reading slashdot back in the 90s. But I didn't angry enough to subscribe until later :-)
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It's insane the number of people here now. Please note my low ID :)
I never think of mine as low, but the ones being given out now are over 3x mine. I think I got mine in '02 though, so that seems to scale if the rate the ids are given out remain static.
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1227 is truly impressive
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What's the turn-over? How many old timers are still active or even lurking on here? Life and career are so busy for me now I barely have time to read the headlines on here.
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I'm still around but barely. The content has become too mainstream, stuff that I can find anywhere so I've subscribed other more specialized sites.
I only frequent this site when I procrastinate now.
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You didn't get yours in 1997. That is 15 years ago.
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I got mine at the end of 1998
Re:User ID vs year joined? (Score:4, Insightful)
I started reading late '97 but wasn't convinced to actually sign up until sometime in '99. My guess is that you signed up early 2000. There were a lot of people who lurked and posted anon back then rather than sign up, so slightly higher IDs aren't really an indication that people missed the early days.
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Something like that. Although with me it was probably first lurking, then registering, and only much later posting.
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There was a moment in the early days when the site went through some technical difficulties and everyone who wanted to post had to re-register. I think that I did that the same day that it happened. I got a much lower user ID when I had re-registered than what I had had before.
Being a Star Wars fan, I wish that I had registered only a fraction of a section later ...
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There were a lot of people who lurked and posted anon back then rather than sign up
Yeah, it was all "anonymity on the Internet forever!" until Slashdot was like, "oh, but you wouldn't have to Preview anymore," and then we all just handed over our data.
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There were no registered accounts in 1995 or 1996 since, you know, the site didn't even exist. There is also no way you registered in 1997 since the site started in September and there were not 200000 registered users since user accounts didn't exist until after the 1998 rewrite.
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Three cheers for 15 years of pedantic trolls like you who fail to understand context and higher-level thought patterns!
Hip hip! Yawn....
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Cue up a lame pissing match where people compete for the lowest number UID.
Oh, and mine is lower than yours. :)
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i assume you saw the ID of 53 a few lines above. 53.....now thats low.
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I can't remember what this topic was about. Oh, well, my rocking chair is nice.
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I remember chips & dips. And when the admins made us create users on the system to control the comments! :)
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Ahh.. yes I remember chips & dips.
I can't think of any other site that I've visited literally daily for that long of a period of time,
barring vacations and other RL reasons for AFK.
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Good point...looks like I must have registered about the same time as you.
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Is there a way to see when I joined based on my ID? I think it was some time in 1997.
It'd be cool to see how membership has grown....
User Ids:
1995 : 0 - 1000
1996: 1001 - 50000
1997; 50,000 - 200,000
etc...
Me too
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You signed up in 1999 or 2000. I know, because that's about when I signed up.
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Your id isn't from 97 as some others have already pointed out. I think it was late 97 early 98 when the registration system was implemented. I think I waited a while before registering and still have a four digit one. People liked the anonymity of the original site, heh.