01-06-2002 15:56									#1
	This site sets a record! Support Apolyton

This is the oldest site on the internet. Some users have been registered since 1970! Wow!

That is so pathetic. Why would someone hack this site just to get a stupid "king" title. Even MarkG has that Jan 1970 on his profile. Ugh...

I know this is really OT, but how do you do this?

	01-06-2002 15:59									#2
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Server flaw.

	01-06-2002 16:00									#3
	Inflate your Upload Space

My king title was earned through hardcore spamming, not hacking, thank you very much.

But I think the posters that show a registration date of 1969 have been around since 'the big change over', or something, and they...


hmm, yeah.. I am not sure why.

	01-06-2002 16:09									#4
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It's a bug in vBulletin, and the 1969/1970-thingy depends on your timezone.
And if I could hack my account, I would have set myself to Deity

	01-06-2002 16:20									#5
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Unix systems count time in seconds since Midnight of January 1. 1970 GMT.

From which we can conclude that when moving people from the old board to the new, their registration date was set to 0, which is interpreted as 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT.

Depending on your time zone this date will be either Dec 31 1969 or Jan 1 1970.

	01-06-2002 17:31									#6
	Inflate your Upload Space

I didn't even know they had the Internet until 1996. I was born in '80.

But then....I don't know a lot of stuff.

	01-06-2002 17:49									#7
	Suffering from ads?

The only record this site has set is number of enraged single-posting Finns.

	01-06-2002 17:56									#8
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization III: Complete

They have the Internet since the early '60s IIRC. But it was only opened in 1991.

	01-06-2002 19:11									#9
	Put an end to popups!

AOL started the internet craze. 1996 was when the real internet appeared. Not 2 mainframes playing pong in the 60's.

	01-06-2002 19:13									#10
	Get a bigger avatar today!

Ah. So it wasn't "real" until it had big corporations involved?

	01-06-2002 19:45									#11
	Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

The internet used to be a big military secret. AOL brought it to the people

	01-06-2002 20:13									#12
	Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

Then charged them a ridiculous amount of money to have the slowest connection in the western world, enough "services" to slow your PC to a crawl, the godawfulist IM in the world, more disconnects, line failures, loss of connection and unable to dial-ups than any other IP with more than 3 customers, and Connie, the ginger-haired bint who should be tied up and shot through her keywords.

	01-06-2002 20:16									#13
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that's very bitter, IW. are you still suffering from personal experience?

	01-06-2002 20:21									#14
	Full PM-box? Change here!

I'm better now. The doctor says I can go home soon.

	01-06-2002 20:50									#15
	Full PM-box? Change here!

AOL has actually been proven to be a reliable, if slightly expensive, ISP for people that don't have cable or DSL available where they live

Other ISPs are unreliable, AOL isn't going to go under like the 20,000 other ones since the tech companies all died. For an ISP in this economy, AOL is holding together very, very well in both its service and its company.

	01-06-2002 20:58									#16
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

quote: AOL has actually been proven to be a reliable, if slightly expensive, ISP for people that don't have cable or DSL available where they live

I suggest you talk to faded glory about that one...

And I've also tried AOL, and by the end of it, I was limited to 15 minutes of online time at 28kbps before being disconnected, and then having to restart my PC before I could reconnect. AOL would be more reliable if they replaced their entire staff with monkeys.

	01-06-2002 21:06									#17
	Got spare money?

I'm pretty sure they've already tried that.

	01-06-2002 21:06									#18
	Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

I use 56k, and I took me 6+ hours to download a half life patch. I had no problem getting the patch, and I have no problems playing half life. I just can't use the rocket launcher or grenades. It's still fun without them. But thats my 56k, not AOL. It has been a very reliable service to me. Plus, all my friends are on AOL! It's just convenient and easy to use.

	01-06-2002 21:07									#19
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That sounded like an ad. Do you work for aol or something?

	01-06-2002 21:09									#20
	Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations

it would take a million monkeys quite a while to get a coherent AOL ad, so its unlikely.

	01-06-2002 21:13									#21
	Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

quote: I use 56k, and I took me 6+ hours to download a half life patch. I had no problem getting the patch, and I have no problems playing half life. I just can't use the rocket launcher or grenades. It's still fun without them. But thats my 56k, not AOL. It has been a very reliable service to me.

the 12 meg patch, or the 74 meg patch?

	01-06-2002 21:14									#22
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Nope, actually all of my friends do use AOL. Because all of their friends use AOL. And it goes on.

AOL got on top by being the best ISP early on. After getting a ton of subscibers, it could get away with an occasional mistake. But not nearly as much as some other ISPs do.

In fact, I am moving twice as fast on the internet, and I get 1/3 as many disconnects since switching to AOL. My old ISP was Netzero and I now see why everyone loves AOL.

	01-06-2002 21:20									#23
	Increase Your PM Length

Because their friends all love AOL.
Like why everyone loves Microsoft.

Since switching from AOL, I get 1/1000 as many unscheduled disconnects.

	01-06-2002 21:23									#24
	Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

You must have a faulty modem. They recommend you restart your comp after you lose your connection. If you take good care of it, it won't fail on you.

It was the 72 meg patch. I had to get it from this ghetto German web site

It took much longer than it should have taken...

	01-06-2002 21:27									#25
	Inflate your Upload Space

Are you on commission?

	01-06-2002 21:29									#26
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quote: You must have a faulty modem. They recommend you restart your comp after you lose your connection. If you take good care of it, it won't fail on you.

My arse. My modem's fine with every other ISP I have ever used. If by "they" you mean AOL, yeah, they recommend that because of the memory-intensive way in which the sofware connects you. Its overkill. I've been on and offline 6 times today already without restarting once.

72 megs in 6 hours? Thats pretty good.

	01-06-2002 21:31									#27
	Put an end to popups!

I use Verison.net. I'm online for hours at a time, and it never disconnects if the line (56K) is being used (that is, if I get up now and leave the computer alone for the next twenty minutes, I migtht be disconnected, but never, say, during a download).

I've played sixteen-hour sessions of Diablo II online without a single disconnect.

Not getting on in the first place simply does not happen.

	01-06-2002 21:47									#28
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

Thats right. 72 megs in 6 hours. AOL might be a little less stable, but it has a real speed advantage in many cases. And when you lose your connection, it usually is your modem. It's probably because I still use 6.0, but I'm too lazy to change

	01-06-2002 21:57									#29
	Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

Alexander's Horse is the only one with a false time of joining.

	01-06-2002 22:04									#30
	Remove this text

Ok, so tell me how he has a rigged up record? I want to say I'm here since 1853 or something