07-09-2002 21:23									#1
	What's the deal with "Registered: January 1970" ?? Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

It seems to happen with people with high postcounts...

	07-09-2002 21:45									#2
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Back in the "old" days, the software didn't keep track of your registration date. On Feb 14, 1999 new software was used that did. People with the January 1970 or December 1969 designation are people that registered before that date... The dates shown are the default dates in the software package for people that don't have a registration date.

The only exception I can think of is DanQ, one of the owners of the site. He went in and manually changed his to read 1/08/1998

	07-09-2002 22:26									#3
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If they can be changed why don't you change yours back to some date in the Ming dynasty?

	07-09-2002 22:32									#4
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My guess is that the vBulletin software doesn't support dates prior to 1969, except birthdays.

	07-09-2002 22:36									#5
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Ras is right... I though really wonder, Ming, why don't you change it 26/06/98...

	07-09-2002 22:51									#6
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quote: Originally posted by Solver Ras is right... I though really wonder, Ming, why don't you change it 26/06/98...

First... many of us were members of the two individual sites long before the merger.

Second... some people joined after that date but before Feb 14, 1999.

Third... it's not my call to make. It's up to DanQ and MarkG.

	08-09-2002 04:27									#7
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Why change it to 1998 or 1999 when you can have 1969/1970.

Actually I like the fact that a lot of the old timers have all the same date. So I'd keep this date even if offered to change it to the real date.

Rich

	08-09-2002 14:24									#8
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It also makes you look more like a real net veteran when you have been around here for over 30 years.

	08-09-2002 15:22									#9
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Yeah, Rah was one of the guys that came here when UNIX was just born .

	08-09-2002 15:40									#10
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quote: Originally posted by Ren It seems to happen with people with high postcounts...

This should be in the FAQ.

	08-09-2002 15:47									#11
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True. It is asked frequently.
The answer could even go on to explain why the 1st of January 1970 is the dawn of time, and why some people were registered before the dawn of time.

	08-09-2002 23:17									#12
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Warvoid has a 1998 date, IIRC- or perhaps it was War4Ever or DarthVeda... I'm not sure- but more people than Dan have 1998 dates

	08-09-2002 23:34									#13
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quote: Originally posted by Rasbelin It also makes you look more like a real net veteran when you have been around here for over 30 years.

And being registered several years before you were born.

	08-09-2002 23:36									#14
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And being registered several years before you were born.

My parents believed in the importance of early exposure to computers.

	09-09-2002 00:48									#15
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quote: Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin And being registered several years before you were born.

Indeed, indeed...

	09-09-2002 01:18									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Solver Yeah, Rah was one of the guys that came here when UNIX was just born.

One of the guys? So rah wasn't the only one? I need to check that.

*uses his brand new time machine from Rasbey Tech*

*sets the destination as Stanford Research Institute, January 1970*

*appears in the computer centre in SRI*

*looks for the Honeywell 316 connected to ARPANET*

*finds it and starts mixturing*

Heureka!

*manages to establish a connection*

Let's see... It should be apolyton.arpa.

*on a TV monitor appears a message that a connection has been established*

Command: go forums

Screen: Welcome to the Apolyton CS Forums!

Looks promising...

Command: message name: Rasbey title: This place sucks! body: This place is awful. There's no graphics. No avatars. You can't send PM's. You're fookers!

Screen: "This place sucks!" by Rasbey: This place is awful. There's no graphics. No avatars. You can't send PM's. You're fookers!

*waits for any response*

Screen: "Case closed" by Ming: Alright. That's enough. Off you go. That'll be two weeks in Mingapulco. Case closed.

Damn !(")()(??%%# Ming!

*exits the service and prepares for the return to 2002*

*gets back to Tampere, September 2002*

Yeap, looks like rah wasn't the only one who was around here in 1970. You should be called more like the real pioneers of the net. The only bad thing is that I was sent to Mingapulco.

Sidenotes: all the techinal details weren't correct or real, as ARPANET wasn't that sophisticated at the time. For those interested to learn more about ARPANET, I recommend all the links available on dmoz.

	09-09-2002 01:33									#17
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What's the deal with "Registered: January 1970" ??

The original mebers of this site were a generation before their time. They put the site in limbo in 1970 and went into cryonic supesion for 27 years.

	09-09-2002 02:08									#18
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The deal:

The first forum software used by this site didn't log registration dates. When later the forum was updated to a software supporting registrationdates the imported fields were left empty.

On the old forum software they got "before 02-15-99" as the the time of registration. Now with vBulletin there is no hack that changes the display of the users without logged registration time.

	09-09-2002 03:24									#19
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Time MACHINE Dec, 1969
You would have seen me using a keypunch machine and learning how to program the cardsort machine by hand wiring the control boards. I had just started learning programming. Sad to say, even back then I was a techno geek.

	09-09-2002 03:36									#20
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At least when we were at the U of I in the 70's, we had access to Plato. We were able to play online games like air fight and moon wars with people from all over the world. And needless to say, since we were playing from the home of the system, our response time was FAR better than everybody elses

	10-09-2002 06:37									#21
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quote: Command: message name: Rasbey title: This place sucks! body: This place is awful. There's no graphics. No avatars. You can't send PM's. You're fookers!

Wow. You might have traveled back to 1999! Or even 2000 and said the same thing

	10-09-2002 10:59									#22
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Perhaps I should havecome straight here and registered instead of at Firaxis and later Sidgames when that dived.

	10-09-2002 20:06									#23
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I missed the opportunity of having a 1969 or 1970 date for a few days. Oh well...

	10-09-2002 20:12									#24
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Poor you...

	10-09-2002 20:49									#25
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Looking back, I'm glad I registered when I did, even if I didn't post for a few years.

	10-09-2002 20:57									#26
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I could also have easily gained that 1970 status, but I didn't surf the net for Civ II stuff right from the beginning in January 1998, when I started to use the net more actively. Dumb me.

	10-09-2002 22:24									#27
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quote: Originally posted by ixnay37 Looking back, I'm glad I registered when I did, even if I didn't post for a few years.

You mean you registered and then let the account be to at some time in the future get back and find it?

	10-09-2002 22:30									#28
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quote: Originally posted by Gramphos You mean you registered and then let the account be to at some time in the future get back and find it?

Sometime in the future? Approximately 30 years later...