Way back in the day, some people urged me to
register on "that other site" and I resisted for almost a
year because to my mind at the time, web sites that wanted you
to register were lame and a bad idea. LOL, how quaint.
Now not only do they want your email, they also want your phone
number, missile address, mother's maiden name, and detailed
information about the timing and location of where you lost
your virginity and/or why you haven't lost it.
So anyway, I didn't figure we'd ever have such numbers
but it was just a bit of an opportunity to muse over what might
have been on the other site and I lucked in to a pretty good number
here--it was... as easy as my number.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday December 16 2022, @05:17PM
(4 children)
I had a really low /. user number (how low? I forget, to be honest), then _stuff_ happened like children being born, cross country relocation, etc. and I just didn't use the account for so very long that I either forgot the password, or they expired it, or both - unimportant to me at the time.
I signed up again a couple of years before Beta, and really didn't understand the "Geek Value" of the low numbers, I mean, I'm one of "those guys" who will stop the gas pump when the bill is something like $43.21 just because I can, but making a big deal out of sequenced user ID numbers as some sort of social pecking order thing? Sorry, I see no value in the fact that "you were there in the early days," relative to what have you written lately?
My UID at the old site was five digits. I was 12 or 13 when I signed up.
Unfortunately, I did something to piss off CmdrTaco or one of the other mods, because for the next decade, everything I posted would automatically start as -1, Troll, even though I would usually end up +5, Interesting.
I've posted there once in the past decade. It's really weird to go back and read the old comments, and realize how open we used to be with our thoughts and ramblings. The Internet has really changed.
>how open we used to be with our thoughts and ramblings. The Internet has really changed.
Yeah, now it's not just teenaged geeks being open with their thoughts and ramblings, you've got most of the population out there with the mouth running but the brain out of gear.
I remember trying to sign up to slashdot a day or so after they started to create accounts, but I didn't have an e-mail address I could use at the time. Their sign up system tried to validate the address, so no-go with a dummy address. Didn't try again until a year or so later with a new e-mail. What things could have been....
(Score: 2) by istartedi on Friday December 16 2022, @03:36AM (5 children)
Way back in the day, some people urged me to register on "that other site" and I resisted for almost a year because to my mind at the time, web sites that wanted you to register were lame and a bad idea. LOL, how quaint. Now not only do they want your email, they also want your phone number, missile address, mother's maiden name, and detailed information about the timing and location of where you lost your virginity and/or why you haven't lost it.
So anyway, I didn't figure we'd ever have such numbers but it was just a bit of an opportunity to muse over what might have been on the other site and I lucked in to a pretty good number here--it was... as easy as my number.
Appended to the end of comments you post. Max: 120 chars.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday December 16 2022, @05:17PM (4 children)
I had a really low /. user number (how low? I forget, to be honest), then _stuff_ happened like children being born, cross country relocation, etc. and I just didn't use the account for so very long that I either forgot the password, or they expired it, or both - unimportant to me at the time.
I signed up again a couple of years before Beta, and really didn't understand the "Geek Value" of the low numbers, I mean, I'm one of "those guys" who will stop the gas pump when the bill is something like $43.21 just because I can, but making a big deal out of sequenced user ID numbers as some sort of social pecking order thing? Sorry, I see no value in the fact that "you were there in the early days," relative to what have you written lately?
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(Score: 1) by Cyrix6x86 on Saturday December 17 2022, @02:07PM (2 children)
My UID at the old site was five digits. I was 12 or 13 when I signed up.
Unfortunately, I did something to piss off CmdrTaco or one of the other mods, because for the next decade, everything I posted would automatically start as -1, Troll, even though I would usually end up +5, Interesting.
I've posted there once in the past decade. It's really weird to go back and read the old comments, and realize how open we used to be with our thoughts and ramblings. The Internet has really changed.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday December 17 2022, @02:16PM
>how open we used to be with our thoughts and ramblings. The Internet has really changed.
Yeah, now it's not just teenaged geeks being open with their thoughts and ramblings, you've got most of the population out there with the mouth running but the brain out of gear.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 1) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday December 28 2022, @02:18AM
What, you couldn't manage to get a +5 Troll mod? That takes some remarkable troll skillz!
A MAN Just Won a Gold Medal for Punching a Woman in the Face
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Monday December 19 2022, @02:05AM
I remember trying to sign up to slashdot a day or so after they started to create accounts, but I didn't have an e-mail address I could use at the time. Their sign up system tried to validate the address, so no-go with a dummy address. Didn't try again until a year or so later with a new e-mail. What things could have been....