Member # 12

[Clarkmeister]

Who are the other 11? What's your #? Is there forever a line in the sand between those who registered on 09.02.2002 and those who registered later? Random thoughts after reading yet another repetitive immaterial post in some random forum.

Mason is #3
Sklansky, M is #4
Sklansky, D is #5
Ray is #6
Chuck is #7

They all registered on 08.28.2002, 5 days prior to the software change. So there are 2 names that Chuck created that we don't know about at #1 and #2, and maybe more between #8-#11.

[jakethebake]

I'm guessing #1 & #2 are some anonymous sysadmin types that they had set it up originally.

[mason55]

You can just change the number in the url.

#1 is deleted
#2 is "admin"
#8 is Mike Gallo
#9 is MS Sunshine
#10 is adios
#11 is Dolores

[Jeffage]

Number 69 here.

Jeff

[Clarkmeister]

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You can just change the number in the url.

#1 is deleted
#2 is "admin"
#8 is Mike Gallo
#9 is MS Sunshine
#10 is adios
#11 is Dolores

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Nice job!

I can't believe MK420 and Tom Haley beat me in. /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Nick B.]

number 24. I think all those threads about how awful the new software is should get a bump.

[Clarkmeister]

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number 24. I think all those threads about how awful the new software is should get a bump.

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The biggest debate, and it was a huge one, was whether or not the default should be for threads to be "bumped" to the top of the page with each new response. Prior to the software change, threads just naturally died as they fell to the bottom, always beneath and new thread that was more recently posted. It took about a month to finally sell to Chuck that the threads should be bumped to allow quality discussion to continue and to force the garbage to the bottom.

And then there was the whole flat/threaded mode debate.

Good times.

Edit: Don't forget how upset everyone was to actually have to register. Before you could just type in a name and post.

[spamuell]

5053 is still pretty low, right?

[Clarkmeister]

I think it's near 25,000 right now.

[spamuell]

From the index page:

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32857 Registered User(s).

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So it could be worse.

[tbach24]

I'm 24084.

[jakethebake]

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I think it's near 25,000 right now.

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How could that be? I'm number like 8k or something and that was just over a year ago.

edit: must be the recent explosion in bad gimmick accounts. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Clarkmeister]

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From the index page:

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32857 Registered User(s).

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So it could be worse.

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To think that I only own like 7 of those. /images/graemlins/smirk.gif

[razor]

#472

[Clarkmeister]

The 2nd to last person to register on 09.02.2002 is my man Uston. MMMMMM was the first person to register on 09.03.2002, member #196 overall.

[jakethebake]

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From the index page:

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32857 Registered User(s).

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So it could be worse.

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At least she didn't sleep with the livestock.

[Ulysses]

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The 2nd to last person to register on 09.02.2002 is my man Uston.

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What about 9/01?

[Clarkmeister]

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The 2nd to last person to register on 09.02.2002 is my man Uston.

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What about 9/01?

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Absolute Nuts was the last to register on 09.01.2002, Dynasty, member #36 was the first to register on 09.02.2002.

I used 09.02 because that's when the bulk registered. Really though, anyone who registered in that month could be considered truly old school. 769 total prior to 10.01.2002.

[Clarkmeister]

Also of note, Majorkong (later to be renamed the rather pedestrian "Ed Miller" is #43.

[Nick B.]

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The 2nd to last person to register on 09.02.2002 is my man Uston.

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What about 9/01?

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Absolute Nuts was the last to register on 09.01.2002, Dynasty, member #36 was the first to register on 09.02.2002.

I used 09.02 because that's when the bulk registered. Really though, anyone who registered in that month could be considered truly old school. 769 total prior to 10.01.2002.

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According to Las Vegas time. I registered 12:50AM est. on 9/2/02.

[Clarkmeister]

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According to Las Vegas time.

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I figure Vegas time is the right time to use as a benchmark since 2+2 is HQ'd in Vegas. Nice member number of 24 Nick. Mad props my old school brotha.

[Nick B.]

I did notice looking from your member number to mine, that only 1 person doesn't post regularly anymore. Which is pretty amazing since it is 2 1/2 years after.

[Clarkmeister]

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I did notice looking from your member number to mine, that only 1 person doesn't post regularly anymore. Which is pretty amazing since it is 2 1/2 years after.

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So of the top 24, two don't post anymore (#11 and the one you saw), one is a generic admin account (#2) and one was created and deleted by Chuck (#1). That's not bad.

[razor]

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Really though, anyone who registered in that month could be considered truly old school.

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whew, that's a relief! /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[Clarkmeister]

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Really though, anyone who registered in that month could be considered truly old school.

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whew, that's a relief! /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

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You are in.

[Randy_Refeld]

I registered on 9-2-02, but I remember not registering for a long time. Were there 2 software upgrades? For anotehyr thread I found my first post in 98.

[Lawrence Ng]

I was surfing 2+2 at the beginning of 2000, then left because of the Abdul Jalib thing with Mason.. then came back. I'll never leave you guys again. /hug.

Lawrence

[David Ottosen]

#260 ... no one can take that away from me!

[Evan]

How do you figure out your number?

EDIT: I got it, forget it.

[Clarkmeister]

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#260 ... no one can take that away from me!

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Damn straight.

At least you still have the right handle instead of that silly other one. BTW, what ever happened to the rest of your brethren anyways?

[Clarkmeister]

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I was surfing 2+2 at the beginning of 2000, then left because of the Abdul Jalib thing with Mason.. then

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Yeah, that really sucked. So many silly ego-driven tiffs back then.

[Evan]

I'm #11,253. Can I still hang out with you?

[MMMMMM]

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The 2nd to last person to register on 09.02.2002 is my man Uston. MMMMMM was the first person to register on 09.03.2002, member #196 overall.

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And I believe it might have been earlier had the new system not screwed me by refusing to accept my old single letter username.

Seriously, what could be the point of requiring usernames to consist of multiple characters? Presumably the system holds as unique each registered username...I can't think of any good reason why it would be programmed to reject single character usernames.

Any ideas as to why floating around in that bright head of yours, Clarkmeister? (or anyone else too, of course;-))

It's fairly baffling to me. I used to do some forms programming and can't conceive of why the field would have to start with a minimum of more than one (or three, or whatever the minimum actually was) characters.

Hmmmmm, Clarkmeister...if you can't conjure up the reason maybe El Diablo can. But this may be beyond even his powers too (without finding out from the source why, if there even IS a why).

Left scratching my head in puzzlement,

M

[jakethebake]

...and the rtage comes flooding back... /images/graemlins/grin.gif

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And I believe it might have been earlier had the new system not screwed me by refusing to accept single letter usernames.

Seriously, what could be the point of requiring usernames to consist of multiple characters? Presumably the system holds as unique each registered username...I can't think of any good reason why it would be programmed to reject single character usernames.

Any ideas as to why floating around in that bright head of yours, Clarkmeister? (or anyone else too, of course;-))

It's fairly baffling to me. I used to do some forms programming and can't conceive of why the field would have to start with a minimum of more than one (or three, or whatever the minimum actually was) characters.

Hmmmmm, Clarkmeister...if you can't conjure up the reason maybe El Diablo can. But this may be beyond even his powers too (without finding out from the source why, if there even IS a why).

Left wondering,

M

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[MMMMMM]

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and the rtage comes flooding back...

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what is rtage?

[jakethebake]

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and the rtage comes flooding back...

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what is rtage?

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That would be typo-ese for rage. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Clarkmeister]

Did you ever ask Chuck?

[jacki]

#4857

meh.

[Clarkmeister]

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meh.

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One full year too late.

[ArchAngel71857]

#2406.

I remember how small it seemed back then with only ~2500. What the hell was it like here on September 5?

Clarkmeister: Hey Dynasty. How ya doin?
Dynasty: Good.
Clarkmeister: Sooooooooooooooooo, who would win in a hypothetical animal tournament? A tiger or a hippo?
Dynasty: What?
CM: Pretend there was an 8 animal tournamnet . . . so who would win between a tiger and a hippo?
Dynasty: Put down the bong, Clark.
CM: Oh, btw, Illinois basketball is going to be really good this year.
Dynasty: Yeah, you, uh, talked to me about this at the 20/40 game today. I still don't care.
MS Sunshine: Dutch Boyd owes me $56,000!
CM: Well, I just wanted to post it out there for discussion.
Dynasty: I'm signing off now. Good luck with your animal tournament. I hope the Hippo wins.
MS Sunshine: The Tiger would win!!! . . . . . . . . . . The Tiger! GRRRRRRRRRRR! . . . . . . . . . . . . . Guys???


-AA

[jakethebake]

AWESOME!!! I laughed so hard.... /images/graemlins/grin.gif

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#2406.

I remember how small it seemed back then with only ~2500. What the hell was it like here on September 5?

Clarkmeister: Hey Dynasty. How ya doin?
Dynasty: Good.
Clarkmeister: Sooooooooooooooooo, who would win in a hypothetical animal tournament? A tiger or a hippo?
Dynasty: What?
CM: Pretend there was an 8 animal tournamnet . . . so who would win between a tiger and a hippo?
Dynasty: Put down the bong, Clark.
CM: Oh, btw, Illinois basketball is going to be really good this year.
Dynasty: Yeah, you, uh, talked to me about this at the 20/40 game today. I still don't care.
MS Sunshine: Dutch Boyd owes me $56,000!
CM: Well, I just wanted to post it out there for discussion.
Dynasty: I'm signing off now. Good luck with your animal tournament. I hope the Hippo wins.
MS Sunshine: The Tiger would win!!! . . . . . . . . . . The Tiger! GRRRRRRRRRRR! . . . . . . . . . . . . . Guys???


-AA

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[HDPM]

183 baby. 10 something pm. Only 8 years and 5 or so hours after that last Marlboro on 9/2/94. But who's counting? Not that I miss that filthy habit or anything. (OK, OK, Murphy might have seen me smoke one since then but it doesn't count.)

[MMMMMM]

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Did you ever ask Chuck?

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I don't think I ever asked Chuck, although I did post about it at the time. But now it's too late anyway, and all that's left is the mystery. A mystery that perhaps may never be solved.

[Clarkmeister]

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Did you ever ask Chuck?

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I don't think I ever asked Chuck, although I did post about it at the time. But now it's too late anyway, and all that's left is the mystery. A mystery that perhaps may never be solved.

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Yup. Though there is a forum option to change usernames without re-registering so you might be able to do it without losing your outstanding member number.

[tbach24]

How?

[TimTimSalabim]

Funny, although to be historically accurate, these forums have been around long before 9/02, it's just that before then there was no registration.

[jdl22]

This is gone now but Mat said in a post in the zoo that they may bring it back soon.

[Clarkmeister]

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This is gone now but Mat said in a post in the zoo that they may bring it back soon.

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I really, really hope not. Chaos ensues. If someone wants to PM Mat to change it, fine, but random changings just mess with the whole fabric of the community IMO.

[Dynasty]

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Funny, although to be historically accurate, these forums have been around long before 9/02, it's just that before then there was no registration.

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9/02 was the date of the software change. For a couple months after that, you could still post as "Anonymous".

A 9/02 post is regularly bumped in the News, Vies, and Gossip forum.

[sam h]

#163. I was living in Costa Rica at the time and remember logging on in some internet cafe and thinking WTF is up with all these changes.

[nef]

#16

I liked the forum much better back then, hence the ~200 posts in ~3 years I guess.

[Ulysses]

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Really though, anyone who registered in that month could be considered truly old school.

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whew, that's a relief! /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

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You are in.

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That's not your decision, my friend.

razor, you're in!

[Ballgame]

I'm number 441 and this is only my 7th post. Go me

[timprov]

#20595

I'm thinking this doesn't make me 1716.25 times as good as Clark though. Hopefully not the inverse either.

[BradleyT]

First post in '98. My 2nd or 3rd post was about playing higher limits because the low limit games in Kansas City where 7-9 players called raises preflop were "un-beatable" lol. Ed Miller was a few years too late.

Quit job in '99 so took a poker hiatus till about 2003.

[offTopic]

1324, though the earliest post I could find was Apr 2001. You'd'a thought I'd've moved up in limits by now. /images/graemlins/blush.gif

[Mike Gallo]

I can't believe MK420 and Tom Haley beat me in.

Amazing. Whatever happened to Louie Landale?

[razor]

he's still around... looks like he posts mostly in Poker Theory. One of my favorite posters when I get around to reading the strategy forums (which is rare these days).

[Mike Gallo]

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You can just change the number in the url.

#1 is deleted
#2 is "admin"
#8 is Mike Gallo
#9 is MS Sunshine
#10 is adios
#11 is Dolores

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Nice job!

I can't believe MK420 and Tom Haley beat me in. /images/graemlins/wink.gif

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I camped out the night before.

[Clarkmeister]

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That's not your decision, my friend.


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Apparently you misread your member # Ulysses.

[Ulysses]

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That's not your decision, my friend.


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Apparently you misread your member # Ulysses.

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Just 'cause you registered early does not make you any less lame.

[Nottom]

I'm number .... 2068 ... not very impressive.

[Clarkmeister]

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That's not your decision, my friend.


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Apparently you misread your member # Ulysses.

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Just 'cause you registered early does not make you any less lame.

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True, but I didn't need to change my handle and don a mask.

[Ulysses]

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That's not your decision, my friend.


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Apparently you misread your member # Ulysses.

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Just 'cause you registered early does not make you any less lame.

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True, but I didn't need to change my handle and don a mask.

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I only have one login.

[ClarkNasty]

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That's not your decision, my friend.


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Apparently you misread your member # Ulysses.

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Just 'cause you registered early does not make you any less lame.

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True, but I didn't need to change my handle and don a mask.

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I only have one login.

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Whatever.

[ThaSaltCracka]

4715

[The Dude]

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I only have one login.

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Sure thing, PokerJo.

[Bulldog]

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I'm number .... 2068 ... not very impressive.

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C'mon, the four-digit range is better than most of these mopes. /images/graemlins/grin.gif