5 Year Anniversary

[DarkBlood]

Well, since I joined in August 2002... I'll be having my 5th year here at Freewebspace.net's Forums this August. Since it is a multiple of five, I'd thought I would do something special. However, now that I've thought about it, there's nothing really I can do around here being a lowly member. I could go make you guys a good banner, but I'm not at home.

I've made 1,760 legitimate posts (Counting this one) (That's about 1.01 posts per day)

Any ideas for what I should do for Freewebspace.net? Also, look what I rassled up (http://web.archive.org/web/19990422092715/www.freewebspace.net/cgi-bin/mb/freewebspace.pl)! Apparently in May of 2000 is when Freewebspace.net got a hold of a copy of vBulletion (v1.1.3)

[Keagle]

You could delete your account. Do us all a favour.

































Just joking!

Congratulations! :) 5years! I'm not even on my year yet. Nice :)

[iBrightDev]

You could delete your account. Do us all a favour.

































Just joking!

Congratulations! :) 5years! I'm not even on my year yet. Nice :)

lol, no you're not. you dont got to lie to kick it Kurtis. :p

[DarkBlood]

lol, no you're not. you dont got to lie to kick it Kurtis. :p

Hey! No wait...

HEY! No wait...

HEY!

Anyway, you should check out the archive.org sections for some interesting FWS history. Although I didn't join until after they changed to vB2 (Before vB3.) Or wait, did I join when vB1 was around? I can't remember.

[stuffradio]

Only 3 years and I'll have been here for 5 years :p anyways grats iyeru42 in 3 months

[DarkBlood]

Only 3 years and I'll have been here for 5 years :p anyways grats iyeru42 in 3 months

Thanks stuff. Jan, you could give me some images for some noteworthy members and I could make a FWS 10th anniversarry poster for you people.

[themoose]

Build a working time machine.

[Johnson]

Way to celebrate almost 3 months early.

[Nick]

n00bz...

[Bruce]

n00bz...
/me bows before the master ;)

[stuffradio]

n00bz...

Pfft,

as if you can talk! You've only been here like.... 7 years!

[iBrightDev]

i second that notion Carl. ;)

[Nick]

Heh, what's up Bruce?


Pfft,

as if you can talk! You've only been here like.... 7 years!

Longer than that, it's just that we've only had vBulletin for 7 years.

[stuffradio]

Longer than that, it's just that we've only had vBulletin for 7 years.

I rest my case.

[Kwek]

I have been here for 3 years, but I only have 500+ posts. :(

Anyway congratulations iyeru42. 3 more months before it's official, but early is good!:beer:

[Matt8]

I hate admitted how long I've been anywhere. Makes me feel like im not going anywhere in life.

Congrats!

[Jan]

Heh Matt, I feel much the same, I just passed my sixth anniversary at my first forum.

[iBrightDev]

i am only coming up on year 2. :p

[Darknight]

I tend to crap on alot 5.5 posts per day or something
:x
anyway - Why post this 3 months to early :S?

[iBrightDev]

damn, maybe if i stayed out of LTE a little more, i could have more than 3.53 posts per day. oh well, such is life. :D

[DarkBlood]

damn, maybe if i stayed out of LTE a little more, i could have more than 3.53 posts per day. oh well, such is life. :D

It's very doubtful, if you've been to one place for too long... you get kind of attached too it.

[LeX]

I like orange juice, apple juice, and all things nice.

[Keagle]

Haha! What the hell LeX! :P

[DarkBlood]

I like orange juice, apple juice, and all things nice.

Then you deserve this.

http://www.orangeart.co.za/imageroot/juice/apple.jpg

[iBrightDev]

i like beer. can i get one? :P

[DarkBlood]

i like beer. can i get one? :P

Whatever, but don't blame me for getting drunk. :devious2:

http://beer.thetazzone.com/images/drinkBeer9.jpg

[iBrightDev]

sweeeeeeet. mmmmmm, i love beer. --> me after drinking the beer :lamiendo: (got to clean the face up.) :D

[oates151]

Congrads on year 5! Many more happy ones to come!

[Kwek]

Congrads on year 5! Many more happy ones to come!
I wonder who is next on the list? :P

[DarkBlood]

I wonder who is next on the list? :P

I think the members list has an option to sort by join date. If not, that'd be awful. I haven't been on it in a while, so I don't know. Also, I've gotten my post average up by .03 since I posted this thread.

[Agum]

I have been here for 3 years, but I only have 500+ posts. :(

<-- 7 years+ and only 350+ posts :angel:

Oh, I too have been here before vBulletin; before the FWS.net-own-hosted message board, even. I've been posting since FWS.net was not on "freewebspace.net" and was using cgiforme.com message boards with the green background and all.

[stuffradio]

and what's with the random appearance and posting may I ask? :lol:

[Agum]

I still visit some of the subforums in Paid Hosting, Web Services and Programming, sometimes to ask a question and sometimes to reply to people.

Just saw this thread when I was browsing randomly in General.

[DarkBlood]

I still visit some of the subforums in Paid Hosting, Web Services and Programming, sometimes to ask a question and sometimes to reply to people.

Just saw this thread when I was browsing randomly in General.

Well, most oldbies (maybe, but that's what they said when I was new and asking about custom titles) talked in the General forum a lot.

[Ben]

I'm near my 6th year here.

I think FWS was one of the first forums I joined.

I actually remember where I was and everything the first time I came here: I had a very old Compaq with windows 95 (my dad wasn't exactly well off then (and still isn't, but things have gotten better); 2nd divorces do that) and dial-up set up in my Grandma's kitchen in south Louisiana one summer. I was working on my mad HTML skillz0z0z and building a DragonBall Z web site when I realized I'd need hosting. Which brings me here.



Phrozen used to beat me.

[Galaxy-Hosts.com]

In about 4 more years I will have been here for 5 years. :P

[stuffradio]

in 3 years I'll have been here for 5 years

[Kwek]

In about 4 more years I will have been here for 5 years. :P


in 3 years I'll have been here for 5 years
2 more years for me.

[themoose]

I'm near my 6th year here.

I think FWS was one of the first forums I joined.

I actually remember where I was and everything the first time I came here: I had a very old Compaq with windows 95 (my dad wasn't exactly well off then (and still isn't, but things have gotten better); 2nd divorces do that) and dial-up set up in my Grandma's kitchen in south Louisiana one summer. I was working on my mad HTML skillz0z0z and building a DragonBall Z web site when I realized I'd need hosting. Which brings me here.

Phrozen used to beat me.

Haha I learnt my first HTML on a Compaq running '95. Was yours one of those ones that had a monitor built in too? (like an emac but not pretty).

[stuffradio]

I learnt HTML in my Social Studies classes in High School rofl. I would look at someone elses other HTML code... copied some of it, saved it and saw what it did. By doing that I effectively learned how HTML works.

[DarkBlood]

Phrozen used to beat me.

Those were good days, good days. :lol: I also remember the time when Bruce requested the :lol: emoticon back as well.

[Bruce]

Hi HTML-Guru. :lol:

[Archbob]

n00bz...

Ah, an Elder.

[TSO]

Well, since I joined in August 2002... I'll be having my 5th year here at Freewebspace.net's Forums this August. Since it is a multiple of five, I'd thought I would do something special. However, now that I've thought about it, there's nothing really I can do around here being a lowly member. I could go make you guys a good banner, but I'm not at home.

I've made 1,760 legitimate posts (Counting this one) (That's about 1.01 posts per day)

Any ideas for what I should do for Freewebspace.net? Also, look what I rassled up (http://web.archive.org/web/19990422092715/www.freewebspace.net/cgi-bin/mb/freewebspace.pl)! Apparently in May of 2000 is when Freewebspace.net got a hold of a copy of vBulletion (v1.1.3)

Congratulations on that! :)

You should be made a mod. :)

[DarkBlood]

Congratulations on that! :)

You should be made a mod. :)

Unfortunately, there are people who would object to that. However, I was going to apply to be a moderator, but I missed the deadline due to school work that suddenly became more important. Although, I still would like the moderator position... I believe that "You only get what you actually try and work for."

Because I did not send a request properly, the trying part, the chances of me becoming a moderator was cut to about zero. However, I will try to work harder in the future so I can actually apply to be one.

Although, I am still hesitant on doing so, as I may become rather... "temperamental" depending on the situation that I am assigned to as a moderator.

[Ben]

Haha I learnt my first HTML on a Compaq running '95. Was yours one of those ones that had a monitor built in too? (like an emac but not pretty).

Nope, I'll try and find a picture of it...

It looked something like this:
http://www.dansdata.com/images/snapgear/prolinea440.jpg
With a 15-inch monitor.

300Mhz I think? maybe 250Mhz?


I learnt HTML in my Social Studies classes in High School rofl. I would look at someone elses other HTML code... copied some of it, saved it and saw what it did. By doing that I effectively learned how HTML works.
I started off with http://www.htmlgoodies.com from when it was still owned by Joe Burns (and that hawt wavy brown border ... before he sold it off to internet.com or something like that). Then after I had a basic knowledge, I'd go to simple web sites and dissect their code and use it to figure out what it did.

[DarkBlood]

Although I despise Compaq for using inferior computing parts. I have come to realize that HP combined with Compaq, which is slowly making up for the problem. However, I have had some bad experiences with HP computing hardware as well in the past.

[Ben]

Although I despise Compaq for using inferior computing parts. I have come to realize that HP combined with Compaq, which is slowly making up for the problem. However, I have had some bad experiences with HP computing hardware as well in the past.

We had like 3 compaqs back then. They all died eventually. Conversely, I have a Gateway my parents purchased in 1999 that still runs. I think I have ArchLinux 0.6 on it with no GUI, but it's been 2 years since I booted it up. So actually I don't know if it still runs. Chances are the technology angels have taken several components to computer heaven.

[DarkBlood]

We had like 3 compaqs back then. They all died eventually. Conversely, I have a Gateway my parents purchased in 1999 that still runs. I think I have ArchLinux 0.6 on it with no GUI, but it's been 2 years since I booted it up. So actually I don't know if it still runs. Chances are the technology angels have taken several components to computer heaven.

How are you sure that there even is a "computer heaven"? We do not even know, even if a religious book says as such, if there is even a heaven to begin with. Although in culture, heaven can be referenced to the sky itself, rather than a place where the dead's souls go.

I am sorry if that made you feel strange, I am starting to think like this a lot rather randomly sometimes. However, I had a gateway 2000 (shell) once, and it ran smoothly. Until the button began to not work to turn the computing device on. We had to get a new system after two years with taping the back of the button to the shell.

[Ben]

How are you sure that there even is a "computer heaven"? We do not even know, even if a religious book says as such, if there is even a heaven to begin with. Although in culture, heaven can be referenced to the sky itself, rather than a place where the dead's souls go.

I am sorry if that made you feel strange, I am starting to think like this a lot rather randomly sometimes. However, I had a gateway 2000 (shell) once, and it ran smoothly. Until the button began to not work to turn the computing device on. We had to get a new system after two years with taping the back of the button to the shell.

Are you suggesting I launch non-functional computer parts into the sky?

I have a Radeon 9600 that's begging for some wings.

[Kwek]

HTML? My school only used to teach me Frontpage and Dreamweaver. :p

I just basically took a look at other people's code, and also at some tutorial sites so as to understand the basic functions, then I slowly improved. ;)

[DarkBlood]

HTML? My school only used to teach me Frontpage and Dreamweaver. :p

I just basically took a look at other people's code, and also at some tutorial sites so as to understand the basic functions, then I slowly improved. ;)

Hey, mine did too! What's wrong with Dreamweaver though? It's unsupported by most companies who tend to use MS Office products!

Also, for those who don't remember me from way back when, I'm DarkBlood.

[Ben]

Hey, mine did too! What's wrong with Dreamweaver though? It's unsupported by most companies who tend to use MS Office products!

Also, for those who don't remember me from way back when, I'm DarkBlood.

That name seems a lot more familiar than Iyeru

[themoose]

DarkBlood is a much better name than Iyeru anyway. A more suited name would be ThinBlood though ;).

[Galaxy-Hosts.com]

DarkBlood is a much better name than Iyeru anyway. A more suited name would be ThinBlood though ;). DarkBlood is a much better name. Colin... you have been testing the thickness of his blood alot lately :p

[Kwek]

Hey, mine did too! What's wrong with Dreamweaver though? It's unsupported by most companies who tend to use MS Office products!
It's so much better than Frontpage.