20 Years on the SDMB - almost half my life

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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We used to do “post parties” a long time ago, but they got stopped a long time ago. However, I just thought I’d post a little mundane thought about the fact that April 2020 is my 20th anniversary on this specific message board. Truth is, I was over on AOL as well and somehow didn’t register here from March 1999-April 2020, but was here the whole time.

I’m 41. Was 21 when I signed up. Almost half my life and certainly more than half of my remembered life.

It may seem silly, but it’s been a great place online for me and many others. Thanks, everyone!

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That’s amazing! Happy Dope-birthday!!

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Hey, you joined a week after I did. I’d been lurking without registering for a good 6 months.

But for me, that 20 years is less than a third of my life. I joined at age 42.

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I worked it out and I’ve been here just short of 30% of my life.

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A little over 26% of my life so far.

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I’ve been here 2-1/2 years. But my post count is high. I feel so old:(
(It seems I need to get a life:))

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Mine’s just under a month away. Happy Dope-Burfday!

I was on the Innerwebz, but didn’t sign up until late. I think I was in Dayton, OH when I finally bit the bullet.

Tripler
Late-sign-er-upper.

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In a few years it will be half my life myself. But what really baked my noodle this weekend was thinking about how ancient the American civil war seemed when I grew up, but World War 1 was still in living memory with lots of vets still around talking about it.

Now, in a few years, World War 1 will be as old as the Civil War was when I was growing up, and while it doesn’t feel wrong intellectually - after all it is going to be firmly out of living memory by decades by then - it feels wrong era-wise since World War 1 seemed to be the start of the “modern” era. I’ve already experienced this with WW1 versus WW2 and that didn’t seem as much of a shock.

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Only 20 years? :wink:

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Newcomers.

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I was on AOL too, but didn’t register for a while. I think I remember threads about Y2K.

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Is there a way to see your exact join date?

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I’m still a 15 year (!) newb. Someday I’ll learn to fit in here.

:slight_smile:

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Congrats! I’ve been here for over a third of my life. Holy mackeral! That’s over 20 years. Mostly, I just observe. My new job is so intense, I barely make it here once a week. But I’m here.

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You joined 04/24/2000

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It’s in your profile. Click on your username, it’s the first option. Or click on User CP on the menu bar, the profile link is on the upper left. Note these are options for the old user interface. I don’t know about the new one.

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Nice! You beat me by a year. I’ll be 42 when I hit my 20-year mark next August. I remember I had been reading the Straight Dope columns online for a year or so, carefully working my way down an archive list, clicking on each link that wasn’t yet purple. I decided to send a question in to Cecil and was told nicely that it wouldn’t be answered in a column but why not check out the SDMB? Being the good rule-follower that I am, I came and stayed. I don’t think I read anything but GQ for over a year.

So many boyfriends ago. So much life ago. Well, almost half a life ago! A couple things learned, here and there :wink:

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I’ve been here 19 years, 39% of my life(But I’ve been reading The Dope for 63% of my life). Do I get a prize, like a broken SDMB coffee mug, or a jackboot to the back of the head?:smiley:

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I joined 4/10/2000, 2 weeks ahead of you. But you are a much more prolific poster than myself.

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Happy Dopaversary! This post made me realize that this month marks my 10th SD anniversary. Although I’m not nearly as prolific a poster as the OP.