What is your oldest post you can still find in an online forum? I don’t just mean here at the SDMB, but anywhere on any message board, newsgroup, discussion list, whatever. My oldest post that I could locate dates back to April 14, 1995 in the rec.pets.herp newsgroup (a pet reptile forum):
Nigel was one of my favourite pets, I had raised him up from a 6 in. baby to a 6 ft. adult myself. He also liked to watch cartoons. I still think it was the bright colours and probably the sounds that got his attention. Sadly, he passed away a couple of years ago.
There are probably older posts from me floating around in some USENET archive but I couldn’t find them. This post dates back to my junior year at college, but I first discovered USENET when I was a freshman. I don’t remember what handle I was using at the time, though.
Google Groups shows a post to net.micro.cpm I made on June 17, 1986. I remember some earlier posts, but they seem to have been lost in the mists of antiquity.
My oldest post anywhere on the net is here on the good ol’ SDMB. You can check out the moment when I first started droning on about my friend, The Earth, here.
Mine would be waaaayyyyy back on the old Prodigy network on a Msytery Science Theater 3000 forum. Probably sometime in 1991. Unfortunately, I have no way to retrieve it.
Here’s the oldest I can find (by searching for my old e-mail address) April 30, 1998
There are probably a couple from 1996 when I connected for good. But back then I mostly chatted (which I believe is only rarely logged) and surfed around.
It’s too bad I wasn’t more exploratory with computers when I was a kid in the early 80s when my dad worked the computer lab at UH Hilo. I just wanted to play Aztec. That would have been relly cool to find somethings I had written 17 years ago.
Holy Flurking Shnit. I had completely and totally forgotten about my first post ever on Usenet, just days after losing my Internet virginity. Went by a different name back then.
I believe this is the oldest I can send you to – actually it’s a link to a reply to a post that I’d made, but it shows the date of my OP which was December 12, 1991.
However, my email outbox contains this:
At 1:24 AM -0400 7/11/91, Allan Hunter wrote:
That was to a moderated email digest, does that count?
The oldest I’ve found was on a mail list in the summer of 1996, and it’s under my real name, so I won’t post it. The oldest message board message I can find is from 4:00 AM (!!) on 11-26-98 at Hardware Central.
My first message board posts were on a message board for the company I worked at, back in 1995. Can’t remember what the first was, we discussed all kinds of odd things like breeding gorillas with humans, opening Snapple bottles on a moving elevator to determine the altitude of the bottling plant they were made in, etc. I think my first posts on a public message board were at www.mrcranky.com, in the Event Horizon forum. It’s erased now, but I was basically just trolling to start with, posted a bunch of offensive Mexican jokes in a thread where someone was complaining about another poster’s racist comments.
At Buffalo State College, a group of close friends and I formed the
“Porter Hall Thieving Society”, and one activity of the group was
discovering and exploring tunnel systems, wherever they are.
At Buff State, there were several tunnel systems. The oldest connected the three initial buildings on campus. The original access doors were blocked off during renovation, although from Rockwell Hall two of the tunnels were accessable through small doors about four feet off the floor, not designed for pedistrian use.
The second system linked the Student Union with three other buildings. These tunnels are still in existence and can be seen lit up behind glass doors, but they have long been closed. Supposedly, during the Vietnam War, protesters made fires in the tunnels (how many ULs are connected with Vietnam, anyhow?), and Administration decides that Buff State students could endure the cold, after all. The trick to getting into these tunnels was hitting them after maintainence people left them, or forgot to lock them. You have to try and try at these tunnels. Incidentally, there was a sub-basement at the Student Union which is kind of interesting. Someone drew a security camera at the winding stairwell that leads there, and wrote all sorts or security precautions on the wall for tunnelers.
The third system led from the Physical Plant building to the old, now abandoned psychiatric hospital across the street from campus. The Parasian sewer-type passageway was a favorite with students, since this was the most extensive, and fun tunnel system under campus. There were lots of smaller passages off the main passage, and some from the basements of these Victorian era buildings. Many passages supposedly led to the older parts of the Buffalo Sewer system, but we never got that far.
