I like to think of myself as the least-active active '99er 
Though I’m sure someone will come along and dethrone me presently…
Gundhilde, I can’t recall ever seeing your name, much less a post from you.
Well, my post was actually a small attempt to illustrate the hidden similarities inherent in these dis-temporal bits of board lore, in the cause of a unified board theory and the interconnectedness of all things generally. I looked at those two suckers side by side, “Manny peoples” and “Who’s Manny?,” and Viola! It takes only one small and, I think, rather elegant, Tug[sup]TM[/sup] to reel in the hall monitor too. Gotcha ya, you little buggers, now your references are pinned together on the thread search bulletin board for the duration.
Well, I think it’s you and me, Gus. I joined the AOL board in 96 (I think it was 96, anyway) and while TubaDiva and some the others were around, Tuba had not yet not been appointed moderator. I think this was within a month or two after the AOL board opened.
Ed was the only moderator, and within a couple of months after that he posted a thread about looking for someone else to help out. After a while it was announced that JKFabian would fill that role. A while later TubaDiva (all caps on AOL as you noted) became the next Board Goddess. After that it was Jill, Lynn and Dex, I think.
So I’ve been a continuous posting member since then, even if my average is only a few posts per month.
If there are any other non-moderator/admin posters who have been around since then, I’m blanking on them.
[Full-perpendicular hijack:]
I first learned of the War of Jenkins’ Ear about two weeks ago; I’d never heard of it before (and I’m pretty sure I’d remember, with a catchy name like that). And now here it comes up again, totally unexpectedly!
Isn’t it weird when that happens?
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So, you were just fiddling around?
Right you are RJ and I actually think you were at the old AOHell board a bit before me. As to the OP, I was responding to the web based board as a lot of the new folks do not realize there was an older board. Here I joined just before you as I’m #33 and you are #121. Does not really mean anything between you and me, as we are both from the old days. So yeah, I agree, you and me as continuous posters with no ‘time outs’ who are not nor ever were ‘admin.’.
There during the switchover to the web based board, both boards were still in operation and which day and hour we actually got officially onboard the web based one is kind of a fluke thing anyway.
I wonder if anyone else from early 96 or before is a continuous member and does not post much so we just don’t know it?
I know I miss some of the AOHell board members. That was a fun bunch.
Good to see you again.
Over on this thread, post # 6, he mentions that he’s 84 years old.
While your dog burns, Baby, while your dog burns.
I can’t remember when I joined the AOL board… '97 maybe? I know it was just after they switched to a new background on the boards there, with a pushpin sort of design. Remember old timers? Anyway, I don’t remember the pre-pushpin board, and the pushpin board was so new when I joined everyone was still bitching about it. Dopers then, as now, were not entirely fond of change.
I was active on some other AOL discussion boards before the pushpin era, so I remember what it was like (but I didn’t run into SDMB until after the pushpins).
There was no genuine threading. Instead there would just be thread titles and folks browsing the boards were supposed to recognize that threads with the same titles were continuations of the same discussion, and therefore keep the old title when replying so others would understand as well.
Although it was before my time, I think that explains how the “thread” originally titled “Titanic Wallpaper” got retitled “Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share” — I mean, one could not ordinarily retitle a thread, but back then it was just a matter of doing a reply and manually changing the title.
Heh.