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.
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.