16-05-2003 07:43									#1
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I'm curious. I see some users who have 1970 as there "join date".

Is this the earliest anyone has registered? Is 1970 the year Apolyton was created?

	16-05-2003 09:37									#2
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when the old forum merged with the new form, the old members got a fubar registerred date.

	16-05-2003 10:40									#3
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Apolyton is actually run by a small group of Illuminati with access to a time machine.

	16-05-2003 11:26									#4
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Actually it's a rest from the first forum software which didn't record the registration date. During the time of UBB these users had a registration date stating before some day which I don't remeber, but since the upgrade to vBulletin they have had the registration date of the dawn of computertime.

	16-05-2003 11:36									#5
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...which is the 1st of January 1970. Any 1969 join dates you see are because of time-zone differences, where a few hours have been taken off.

	16-05-2003 11:38									#6
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Is this the official moving avatar thread?

	16-05-2003 11:44									#7
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Animated Civ3 avatars are so passe...

	16-05-2003 15:56									#8
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Actually the Unix era started at 18.00, on 31st December 1969, to be precise.

* Rasbelin goes back to his lurking corner with Gopher and Archie.

	16-05-2003 19:26									#9
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All you really need to know is that us posters with these really early registration dates are very important and are to be highly respected.

	16-05-2003 19:35									#10
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While reg dates are important, there are other things I find more important in regards to keeping my respect (you don't need to earn my respect it's given, but what you do may cause you to lose it).

quote: Originally posted by Ixnay Animated Civ3 avatars are so passe...

I wholeheartedly agree

	16-05-2003 22:14									#11
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badams:

What is your opinion on animated Civ2 avatars?

	16-05-2003 23:09									#12
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quote: Originally posted by obiwan18 What is your opinion on animated Civ2 avatars?

I've only seen once
the trirreme sunking...

	17-05-2003 01:18									#13
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The actual date was Feb 15, 1999. Apolyton had been run on the free version of UBB, and when they decided to ante up for the pay version with more features the registration dates weren't carried over. DanQ changed his date but admins had no interest in changing ~2000 registrations extant at the time.

	17-05-2003 01:24									#14
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I could have been one of the 1970 posters, it was just a matter of days...

	17-05-2003 03:43									#15
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Will someone fix the Y1.97K bug that the server move caused? I was suddenly several years younger, and I can't change it. Join date is when I deserved it, which is exactly when I registered...

	17-05-2003 04:28									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Rasbelin Actually the Unix era started at 18.00, on 31st December 1969, to be precise. * Rasbelin goes back to his lurking corner with Gopher and Archie.

Holy Crap! Someones watching me!

	17-05-2003 04:54									#17
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quote: Originally posted by Apocalypse All you really need to know is that us posters with these really early registration dates are very important and are to be highly respected.

	17-05-2003 05:15									#18
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So, I guess the answer to my question is that users who subscribed to Apolyton before the forum program switch were assigned a date of Jan. 1970?

Because that was a date chosen by who?

To represent the dawn of the internet?

I'm not all that savvy about UNIX and such.

Was it due to the Y2K thing?


On another note, when exactly WAS Apolyton created?

	17-05-2003 08:12									#19
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quote: Originally posted by obiwan18 badams: What is your opinion on animated Civ2 avatars?

civ2??? damn, I thought it was an image of a galley from civ 3. As for animation...well, I'll let you be the judge of that.

	17-05-2003 08:34									#20
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The Y2K bug and the beginning of time bug both stem from how the date is stored internally in computers, but are different.

As a side note, my Tandy 1000's date function was killed by the Y2K bug. It won't accept any new dates put in, and I don't think it even counts seconds any more. Thankfully none of the software on that computer needs to use the date.

	17-05-2003 12:48									#21
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I see the spam sharks are feeding

Question asked and answered... all of us old farts that had memberships before the upgrade show as either 1970 or 1969... not true, but we are still the old farts