Since November twenty-stinkin'-oh-three?

[emmline]

Such interesting data. That's when I first logged on to the Chiffboard. November 3, 2003 at 11:33am.
Excuse me...I'm just having a moment...
Happy to have that date to serve as a bit of an anchor. I remember pretty well the general condition of bewilderment that enveloped my early Chiff days, so it's nice to have a date to put things in perspective. The timestamp, otoh, doesn't help much but it's interesting nonetheless.
So what is it almost...'12? oh gee.

[Charlene]

The time seems off. Mine says 6:22am. I wouldn't be filling out forms at 6:22am my time. At first I thought it must be Eastern time, but that would be 3:22am Pacific time, which is even more unlikely.

[Denny]

11:33 our time...

you can change the offset to show you the correct time, for you, at:
User Control Panel
Board preferences
My Timezone (what should be "UTC-8" now that we're off daylight savings)


dang Em, only been eight years!

[Wanderer]

It's a shame we don't have the login time for the few older board incarnations before we ended up on phpBB

Some of the older ones were pretty neat, allowing the direct recording of voice (or in our case, whistle playing) directly into the body of the message.

[Innocent Bystander]

2005 for me. 6.15pm, which is local time, I suspect. Thank you for putting up with me. Wow. Six years! I feel I've known some of you for lots longer.

[Denny]

It's a shame we don't have the login time for the few older board incarnations before we ended up on phpBB

It is, isn't it!

What were you doing for the three years it took ya to create an account here?

[Charlene]

11:33 our time...

you can change the offset to show you the correct time, for you, at:
User Control Panel
Board preferences
My Timezone (what should be "UTC-8" now that we're off daylight savings)


dang Em, only been eight years!

It's set to that and shows the correct time on the posts, just not on the time I joined.

Not that it really matters anyway.

[Denny]

seems odd..

Mine is reasonable enough and they move if ya change yer time zone.
(what means they're stored as GMT and displayed per user)

sure ya weren't up early?

[Charlene]

Not back in those days when I had dial-up and it took forever to do anything. Oh well. Is a puzzlement.

[mutepointe]

[MTGuru]

That reminds me ... I have to start saying "DYN-O-MITE!" more often.

As in: "Wow, Emm has been here for 8 years? DYN-O-MITE!"

Or: "You're going to X-ray my luggage? DYN-O-MITE!"

On second thought, maybe that last one isn't such a good idea.

[Dale]

I have a terrible memory and really no way I can think of to recall what happened before the phpBB board. For some reason, I want to say that the board went through 2 previous web-based boards. Was it Coolboards or something like that. Rich Lafferty, of course, stepped up and offered to put together the phpBB board and, of course, hosted it for some time. I can usually find email to remind me about different things that happened after summer 2004, when I started using Gmail. I probably do have my older email on some mothballed computer around here.

[Dale]

The newsletters may yield a clue. I have them archived at chiffandfipple and on yahoo.com back to 2000. I'm thinking we were on something called CoolBoards or EZboards and they got bought out by yahoo.com and the board existed, maybe, for awhile as a yahoo.com thing.

[Dale]

Looks like it was on something called egroups.com. It's clear that as early as 2000 there were a couple thousand members of the message board.

[Dale]

A note I found in a newsletter. At one time (2000), where ever the board resided, it could only display 200 messages at a time and it seems that old messages just went away...?