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

I can remember word for word my first posting *smug *

Mine's a bit confused; it was a long time ago (for me). But I do remember, early on, pretending to be a fundamentalist to Justin so he'd explain his world to me. Ah, good times.

I think I joined in September 2002. I saw a co-worker toting a copy of "Hitchhiker" and asked him if he'd ever seen the video. I loaned it to him, and he told me about this site.

In other news, Az, I wanted to be sure you saw today's front page. They have an entry on your buddy Tarantino.

hi Big Red,

So, a year and a half for you! Thanks for the tip - will have a look at the front page tomorrow. Now I REALLY need to sleep.


azzzzzzz

Iago,

You can remember your first posting??? Was it very short? What did it say?



Mal,

Did you find your date?


az

Are you kidding?! YOU try looking in a 15,000+ posts thread for one solitary post somewhere in the middle! But around april, may last year, though.

Apr 5, 2003 on thos thread F92252?thread=263615&skip=0&show=20#p3253571


Alji

is thos the past tense of this? No, typing in the dark!


Alji

Alji,

you are truly a !


az

(typos excepted . . .)

There's no magic involved az, just knowing how to look for the info!

eg http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/MP191670?show=25&skip=25

change the 25 on the end thus;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/MP191670?show=25&skip=250

If there are posts showing go forward to 500, 1000 etc untill there are no posts showing.
If there are no posts showing go back half way i.e. 125

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/MP191670?show=25&skip=125

If there are still no posts showing go back half way again i.e. 65

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/MP191670?show=25&skip=65

If there are posts showing go forward half way i.e. 90

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/MP191670?show=25&skip=90

Eventually you get to the first posts.


Alji

March 2000? What's that all about? I've been here since September 1999.

Congrats on making a year azahar. Your first post F110470?thread=252741&post=3061198#p3061198

hi Mina,

Eek - Feb.28??? How bizarre. I was sure that my first ever posting was on the god thread on March 2. Also I thought I saw the date I registered somewhere here recently. Oh no! I've been celebrating the wrong day! Well, never mind.

The important thing is all the wonderful friends I've met here.

So you *have* been here since the beginning, Mina.

az

Nearly, the site started was launched on the Beeb in April 1999, although there were people signed up here before that (Peta being one of them).

Yep, you've been a little late with your celebrations. You signed up at 2 minutes to 11, GMT.

See, you can't talk about me, but I will notice.

Actually Alji is not omniscient. He took the date of my first posting (June 13, 2002) from my old page (U196230), but in fact I was first aced on June 7, 2002 on my *new* page (U195809)(Compare the Unumbers), and I think my first post was a day or two before that.

Noggin

Well, Alji might not be omniscient but Mina sure is!

Was that two minutes to 11 am or pm, Mina? Presumably if it was pm you would have written 23? Hey that thread on phobias was also my first edited entry.

az

Sorry, it was PM. Probably nearly midnight for you in Spain?

Yes, almost midnight here. Which makes more sense since at the time I had an internet flatrate thingy for between 6pm-8am. I must have spent the evening lurking around before registering and posting. Just before midnight.

Now I have an adsl connection so when I'm home I just leave the computer connected so I can pop in here between classes or housew**k or whatever. It's a really a comforting sort of feeling. Like I am never alone.



az

az, my first post was actually on Talk Buffy but I treat it as the same, I swap between both Communities so frequently. It was about the Buffy musical episode, and I was saying what my favourite song was. The post said: "I think I'm Under Your Spell was such a beautiful song, who'd have thought Amber Benson could sing so well but it was heartbreaking when sung in the reprise, Tara was singing her heart out" and that was posted on the 11th of January last year

You actually remember all that, Iago???

Wow, you must be young!

az

Yeah and I have a scarily accurate memory