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#277201 - 10/22/15 02:11 AM Re: Wow. 12 years! [Re: ki4buc]
Greg_Sackett Offline
Enthusiast

Registered: 12/14/01
Posts: 225
Loc: KC, MO
I'm member number 58, from way back in 2001. Hard to believe. Definitely learned a lot here over the years.

Props to Doug for running such a great site.

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#277214 - 10/22/15 03:09 PM Re: Wow. 12 years! [Re: ki4buc]
M_a_x Offline
Veteran

Registered: 08/16/02
Posts: 1203
Loc: Germany
I got user id 126 back in 2002. Back then it was primarily about surving aircraft crashes. It already provided lots of useful information.
Some of the old users are no longer around, some new users came. The focus shifted.
I do not think that the small corner contributes much to the way people interact here. I think itīs partly the mods and partly the breed of people who are attracted enough to stay (or are not politely asked to move on ;)). Last but not least this is not a survivalist site.
When I joined, GPSr was not available with useful accuracy and only few civilians used it. Today itīs a common item with good accuracy.
I changed too. Some things that were inspired by ETS are:
- a Ham license
- reloading
- celestial navigation
- my EDC
- making bread from scratch (i. e. from grain and water)
- making sauerkraut in a couple of varitions

I got some good advice on equipment and techniques here. Recently I took up CAS.

Thanks to Doug Ritter for providing and maintaining this site.
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#277219 - 10/22/15 04:54 PM Re: Wow. 12 years! [Re: M_a_x]
Jeanette_Isabelle Offline
Carpal Tunnel

Registered: 11/13/06
Posts: 2946
Loc: Nacogdoches, Texas
Originally Posted By: M_a_x
I got user id 126 back in 2002. Back then it was primarily about surving aircraft crashes.

Interesting you bring this up. I found this site doing research on aviation safety.

Jeanette Isabelle
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#277229 - 10/22/15 09:26 PM Re: Wow. 12 years! [Re: ki4buc]
RayW Offline
Addict

Registered: 12/06/01
Posts: 601
Loc: Orlando, FL
#52 From 01. Hard to believe that its been that long.

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#277230 - 10/22/15 09:41 PM Re: Wow. 12 years! [Re: ki4buc]
benjammin Offline
Rapscallion
Carpal Tunnel

Registered: 02/06/04
Posts: 4020
Loc: Anchorage AK
My user # is 488 from 02/2004, and I am slowly creeping up on post # 4,000. I wouldn't exactly call it a legacy, but it is something. Surreal.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
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#277233 - 10/22/15 10:22 PM Re: Wow. 12 years! [Re: Greg_Sackett]
hikermor Offline
Geezer in Chief
Geezer

Registered: 08/26/06
Posts: 7705
Loc: southern Cal
Will complete a decade next year. This is a great forum with lots of useful information and respectful discussion. I miss many of the old timers (like Tom Ayers) who are now silent, but the tradition lives on....
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#277238 - 10/22/15 11:13 PM Re: Wow. 12 years! [Re: ki4buc]
ki4buc Offline
Old Hand

Registered: 11/10/03
Posts: 710
Loc: Augusta, GA
It's interesting to see the small "explosion" of users in 2 years from 2001 to 2003, but I think the monthly new users now must be well over that.

I think I first came across this site looking for stuff related to C.E.R.T. and in the days that Google actually gave you exactly what you were looking for, this was near the top.

When was the big server meltdown? I don't recall that.

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#277243 - 10/23/15 05:06 AM Re: Wow. 12 years! [Re: ki4buc]
JohnN Offline
Old Hand

Registered: 10/10/01
Posts: 966
Loc: Seattle, WA
Noobs.

-john

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#277246 - 10/23/15 07:08 AM Re: Wow. 12 years! [Re: ki4buc]
katarin Offline
Member

Registered: 06/29/06
Posts: 127
Loc: Ca, usa
Wow, next January it'll be 10yrs for me. I cannot even remember why I signed up for this site. I am mostly a lurker. But have learned lots of interesting things over the years just by reading others posts.
=^.^=

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#277284 - 10/26/15 03:54 AM Re: Wow. 12 years! [Re: ki4buc]
jshannon Offline
Addict

Registered: 02/02/03
Posts: 647
Loc: North Texas
Member #: 194
Total Posts: 548 (mostly lurker ; ))
Registered on: 02/02/03 11:58 PM

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