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I don't want to appear stupidbut have a couple of questions on members join dates.
This is an online forum isn't it?
The IBM XT PC came in sometime around 1983 and people used Bulletin Boards for functions like this AULRO site.
The internet didn't exist till the early 1990's or become popular till the mid to late 1990's.
How come some people have join dates that pre-date any of these dates? (Like Jan 1970)
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Wizard
SubscriberNoticed that myself Lotz-a, and figured that either (1) they had a big club recruitment ahead of my birth in 1971 or (2) this was a feature added to the program sometime after the forumk started and so earlier members all got a default setting.
Steve
ChatterBox
In January 1970, a group of Land Rover enthusiasts got together to form theis forum.
Yes it was before the advent of the home PC or internet.
We used to meet correspond via post.
A topic would be posted to incisor and copies sent to each other members address. They would then respond to each member and incisor and so on.
Mail was heavily censored and regualated in those days, so the content was pretty lame & the then PMG (aus post) were the original moderators.
Quite amazing really.
It's also a total crock of sh*t.
The jan 1970 date happened when the forum got changed to a new format earlier in the year!
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exactlyOriginally Posted by FenianEel
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Da BogMeisterBut we could argue that the internet unofficially went live in 1969
The USSR's launch of Sputnik spurred the United States to create the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA, later known as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) in February 1958 to regain a technological lead. ARPA created the Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) to further the research of the Semi Automatic Ground Environment program, which had networked country-wide radar systems together for the first time. J. C. R. Licklider was selected to head the IPTO, and saw universal networking as a potential unifying human revolution. Licklider recruited Lawrence Roberts to head a project to implement a network, and Roberts based the technology on the work of Paul Baran who had written an exhaustive study for the U.S. Air Force that recommended packet switching (as opposed to Circuit switching) to make a network highly robust and survivable. After much work, the first node went live at UCLA on October 29, 1969 on what would be called the ARPANET, the "eve" network of today's Internet
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the date is the default date for anything unix.
the import of the old database to this new software went west in 2 fields, the passwds and the dates joined, as they were in totally diferent formats, and i had very limited time to get it back online.
why 1/1/1970 i hear you ask?
1/1/1970 is 0 (epoch) in unix (posix) date format, which is represented as the number of seconds since then. In 2038 unix will have a rollover problem.... hope they are working on it :P
more info for the curious is available http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time
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Yeah, maybe so - but I think my fairytale was more amusing
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your always more amusing than me.........
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"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." -- a warning from Adolf Hitler
"If you don't have a sense of humour, you probably don't have any sense at all!" -- a wise observation by someone else
'If everyone colludes in believing that war is the norm, nobody will recognize the imperative of peace." -- Anne Deveson
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” - Pericles
"We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” – Ayn Rand
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." Marcus Aurelius
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hehe
informative no, amusing - i do my best
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