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Mina Posted Apr 28, 2004
Count Zero - not a bad guess! Thursday 09 September 1999, 16:25 GMT 
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Baron Grim Posted Apr 28, 2004
That was a banner day. 35k plus signed up the same day. What was I doing at home at 10:25 GMT-6 on a Thing?... I had a job... I can't think of any holidays then... Labor day is on a Monday...
Well anyway, I'm sure it had something to do with the launch of the Starship Titanic.
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Little Mischief Posted Apr 28, 2004
Yes, but I didn't realize there were quite so many people registered on Titanic's website 
. I arrived on the same day 
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Witty Moniker Posted Apr 28, 2004
Jim, you said: "so when people who had given us their email address previously came to the site and signed up, they got one of the pre-registered accounts, and a spuriously early sign-up date."
I'm crushed! So may I assume that I registered on the launch date, then?
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Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Apr 28, 2004
Your registration date is 19th march 1999
It is just a computer, perhaps a bug?
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Witty Moniker Posted Apr 28, 2004
Yes, I know, Traveller. Jim's post #10 in this explains why certain researchers had pre-assigned U-numbers that are dated prior to April 28, 1999.
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Baron Grim Posted Apr 28, 2004
I still think it's neat that I and so many others officially logged on on 9.9.99!!
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Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Apr 28, 2004
Traveller in Time 
in the history books
"Indeed, evon on the records you are the first of the pre registered using the account, next is 'Oscar' < U168512 > (pending moderation apparently a Rupert rupture)"
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Dr E Vibenstein (You know it is, it really is.) Posted Apr 28, 2004
I've been here since 24th May 1999, and I don't intend to give up now. 
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Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Apr 28, 2004
Traveller in Time beeing newbee on this thread
"And we are glad about that"
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Hati Posted Apr 28, 2004
So many 5-digit people here!
I am getting to feel myself old on h2g2 these days but here I am still a baby.
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Deek Posted Apr 28, 2004
Five years eh, Don't time fly?
I too signed up on the evening of the Tomorrow's World broadcast and have been checking in fairly regularly ever since.
Happy birthday H2.
A.M.
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Lentilla (Keeper of Non-Sequiturs) Posted Apr 28, 2004
I can't figure out exactly when I signed up, but it was somewhere in 1999... Probably July or August. I found it by clicking on the babel fish link in Alta Vista... and to my delight, this site popped up.
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Amy: ear-deep in novels, poetics, and historical documents. Posted Apr 29, 2004
Actually you signed up nearly a year later - 13 July 2000.
(see http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/NewUsers?unittype=month&timeunits=46&skip=520&thissite=1&Filter=haveintroduction if you don't believe me 
)
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Lentilla (Keeper of Non-Sequiturs) Posted Apr 29, 2004
Neat! I wondered how the ACEs knew when the new guys showed up... So I guess the SEF graph is inaccurate then.
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Orcus Posted Apr 29, 2004
*raises another hand*
I might change back to frames just for old times sake.
Same h2g2 registration date as Mina by pure coincidence, 16th September 1999. Many things have changed both here and IRL since then 
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Hati Posted Apr 29, 2004
I am always having problems remembering when I signed up, may 2000 it was... Usually I ask Ottox if I need to know, he knows that stuff. 
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Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Apr 29, 2004
Nephew Who
(newbee having 'connected' to the site in the early days but not even managed to register due to -bad provider, -hence unstable email address, -big telephone bills )
"Working on a 'honourable' list of 'oldies' < A2555589 >. Give me a day or two to complete it."
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GreeboTCat Posted Apr 29, 2004
Is me an 'oldie'??? Me thinks not... but me seems to of been kicking around for a long , long time... ~grin~... though not literally of course...
Greebs..xx
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Baron Grim Posted Apr 29, 2004
From your U# I can tell that you signed up just before me on 9.9.99, so I would definitely say you are an "oldie".
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- 23: Little Mischief (Apr 28, 2004)
- 24: Witty Moniker (Apr 28, 2004)
- 25: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Apr 28, 2004)
- 26: Witty Moniker (Apr 28, 2004)
- 27: Baron Grim (Apr 28, 2004)
- 28: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Apr 28, 2004)
- 29: Dr E Vibenstein (You know it is, it really is.) (Apr 28, 2004)
- 30: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Apr 28, 2004)
- 31: Hati (Apr 28, 2004)
- 32: Deek (Apr 28, 2004)
- 33: Lentilla (Keeper of Non-Sequiturs) (Apr 28, 2004)
- 34: Amy: ear-deep in novels, poetics, and historical documents. (Apr 29, 2004)
- 35: Lentilla (Keeper of Non-Sequiturs) (Apr 29, 2004)
- 36: Orcus (Apr 29, 2004)
- 37: Hati (Apr 29, 2004)
- 38: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Apr 29, 2004)
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- 40: Baron Grim (Apr 29, 2004)
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