h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Or, more precisely, I am.

2002 seems like a very, very long time ago...

B

I was half way through first year of college this time ten years ago.

TRiG.

Not half as long as it does to us!

Happy anniversary!

Gosh, if you're ten, that means I missed my birthday in December! Happy birthday to both of us!

Ten years ago I was finishing my A-levels. Come September I will have left home a decade ago.

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Youngsters.




Do I need to tell you to get off my lawn, or is this a case where I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling kids?

I was only a twinkle in his eye, then


Congratulations B!

*hic*


lil xx

I reached mine last year.... don't even want to think about the time that's passed...

But congratulations

Happy h2g2 birthday

Ten years ago, I would have been 16, revising for my higher exams and wondering what the hell I should apply to do at uni other than "art".

I would have been ten on here two years ago...so just under 12 years ago, I would have been just starting on h2g2 and would have been very quickly becoming an obsessed little 14 year old who was using this site as an excellent means of procrastination

God I feel old! But I missed my 10th...so does my 7 year hiatus mean I stay youthful?

Congratulations dear

I was 9 last week. Ho hum.

Ye young whippersnappers (apart from BG).

According to SEF A1155566 I signed up the week beginning July 30th 2000, so I'm going on 12

Gosho, according to your Intro Page (in Brunel), you opened your account on 3rd August 2000.

Indeed, you are almost 12 years old


lil xx

Gosho don't worry, I'm older than you by about three months But I'm sticking to the absence making me younger idea

Well, we've all passed a lot of water in that time...

I don't think I created my PS on the same day I signed up - I wandered around the place for a day or two, checking it out and getting a feel for it. I might even have a text file somewhere with the GML code for that first page Even if I don't, I think it might be on the Wayback Machine.

I lurked for a month before I posted anything here. That's what makes SEF's new user pages so handy. Of course, I'm sure that somewhere in the h2g2 database is stored our actual dates of signing on. Maybe when the new team has had a chance to fix some of the bigger issues, they might get around to making that little bit of information available on our user spaces.

That'd be really useful. I belong to a few other online communities which list your sign-up date on your profile page, and sometimes under your avatar.

One of these communities just had a little hiatus when the number of posts crashed the system which was never meant for so many people to be on there as the community has become more and more popular (BeerAdvocate.com, since you ask). The original was very similar to us in many respects - almost nowt in the way of bells and whistles apart from an avatar and a limited edit function (10 minutes I think). No text formatting, no lists, no 'like' button etc.

They've found a new solution for the forums but haven't integrated it into the old website yet, so it's a bit like the Noesis forums some of us were using while the team were getting this up and running, and it's interesting (and satisfying) to see that there's a similar dislike for for all the extra features and frippery, and a hope that we'll lose them when the forums get back to normal.

"I'm sure that somewhere in the h2g2 database is stored our actual dates of signing on." I'm sure it was on our secret version of the user pages. Of course things might have changed since then...

Shouldn't say 'our version' I haven't been an h2g2 italic for, er, a decade?

Secret versions of user pages?

I'm picturing MI5-style lists of infractions, near misses, personality traits, known associates, political affiliations, and the real and uncensored italic verdict on the researcher concerned.

I hope mine says "mostly harmless", but frankly I doubt it.

There's bog all on it, except a tick box of badges we could dispense out of the kindness of our whipcracking hearts, work for h2g2 damn you...