Happy Birthday ILX

The person who first dragged me onto ILX (Elvis Telecom) is still posting. I kind of hate him for ruining my life.

(ha ha, not really.)

Yeah, I don't see how anyone can hate Elvis Telecom.

happy 10th ILX!

happy decade, ilx!

Jeez I've only been here since Summer 2006, I feel like such a babby.

i've been here 8 years. lucky you guys!

Nine for me. It was only recently that I started feeling like an old regular.

Yeah, I still feel like a n00b after eight years.

I had a quick look earlier and couldn't find any birthday threads. Now I see there are two. This is obviously what stopping posting regularly has done to me (i.e. made me into some kind of blind-ass dick).

Anyway. Was it 2004 I started posting here? It must have been. I'm genuinely not sure how I ever found the time, but I still keep saying I'll make an inglorious and unnoticed return one day.

Happy birthday, ILX. Felicitations, ILXors.

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seven and a half years "on" here for me. oh woe.

Man, I've been around for a while, haven't I? (Though not much lately.)

I first posted at the back end of 2001, and I've been a regular since, ooh, early 2004 probably? Happy birthday ILX!

Time for another look at It's the ILE Trivia quiz!

nine years of my life. good lord.

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/images/a/6343.jpg
A little older, a little more confused

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happy birthday ILX! ive enjoyable wasted countless hours of my last six and a half years here, and made some really really sincerely great friends.

nine years of my life. good lord.

― strongohulkingtonsghost, Thursday, 26 August 2010 18:10 (3 hours ago)

I couldn't have put it better! I'm amazed, to be honest.

Been here since day 1, I s'pose. It's been sidereal.

happy birthday! don't post as much as I used to, but will always have an ILX place in my heart

TEN!

I've just picked up some champagne and am looking forward to celebrating ten years of ILX and nine years of me wasting my life and annoying everyone on it.

That quiz, I know one, have a reasonable guess at two, the rest I have no idea.

Morning all.

Over the last year I’ve been content to be a very occasional lurker and even more occasional poster. The preceding eight years certainly had their ups and downs, and yes, if I had them over again I wouldn’t have said maybe 98% of what I did say here, but then I think about where I might have ended up if not for the roads, actual and otherwise, which ILX opened up for me. I spent most of my time here as a grieving widower and/or confused, furiously self-projecting fuck-up but all I can do is thank everyone who did stand by me and/or stand up for me when things were at their worst. These days I twitter, comment on Popular and blog on Then Play Long and that’s enough for me. Just over nine years since I thought life was over for good, I find myself back in the life I used to have before I came to ILX, before ILX even existed, with the benefit of not-making-these-mistakes-again wisdom, and that’s fine by me. But without ILX I doubt I’d ever have found my way back home.

All good wishes to everyone on ILX, even (especially!) if they can’t stand me, and enjoy the next ten years, as I’m sure I will.

Hey Marcello :)

And happy 10 years y'all! Wow, I can't believe even I've been here seven and a half years now and I felt like I was a latecomer to the borads. It's been a great ride - I've come and gone from other forums, but this place has always stuck with me like a big, bad felafel.

Huzzah!

Hi everyone and happy birthday ILX. Sorry I missed the FAP (as per). Here's to the future!

Awkward air-kisses and embarrassed man-hugs to one and all.

(and hi Marcello - hope things are going well for you!)

Wow, my first post was on the 11 March 2001. I don't just feel old, I'm trying to justify what I've been doing with my life these last 9 and a half years.

happy birfday ilx
wow, tho dont post that often nowadays just checked and abt 8 years since first post, where did the time go?

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Where did the years go? Why did the years go?

About 'justifying' time spent here and all (and don't worry dog latin, I'm not singling you out or anything!):

In a segment of the interview series I did with Scott Woods the other month I predicted there would be some 'argh where did the time go' handwringing of sorts -- not the most radical of predictions and I'm sure a number of posts like that are functioning more in a sense of 'wow time did fly' or light humor rather than deep angst or anything like that.

I'd simply suggest this -- ILX functions as a constantly archived mass conversation, but at base is just that, a conversation. It is no more something to justify than the conversations we all have with others who inspire, amuse, engage or even annoy us in any number of contexts. For some it's a necessary outlet when no other one seems available, for others it's just part of how we communicate with others in general, there's no one answer.

And as such, these conversations are part of how we learn and reflect and act, continually. The archiving may be new in terms of human history, the many distances crossed similarly, but it is simply a continuing of that which has been a hallmark of language and humanity in general. It's only something to justify, or a waste of time, if you think it needs to be.

There are plenty of things I've regretted saying or writing or thinking over all my years on this planet, there's plenty of things I'm proud of. There are arguments and discussions I wish I hadn't been caught up in, there were others I was thrilled by and wished wouldn't end. ILX is just a subset of that -- and on balance, it's a damned good one, a resource, a comfort zone, a chance to connect, more besides. People stay in conversations and discussions, people leave them, people leave and return and leave...that's no different from the rest of life. Neither are the sometimes wonderfully ridiculous in-jokes.

I think that's all the justification anyone needs, really.

well said hippy ; )

That's well-spoken hippy to you, punk.

The tressed one speaks great wisdom that is balm to the soul of the weary poster.

good post, Marcello

(and Ned, too -- seconding cozen with the "well said")

Hello Marcello. Hope things are good with you.

Just over nine years since I thought life was over for good, I find myself back in the life I used to have before I came to ILX, before ILX even existed, with the benefit of not-making-these-mistakes-again wisdom, and that’s fine by me

very pleased to read this. hope you're well.

also: happy birthday, ilx.

1st post was 3rd December, 2000. good god. happy birthday ilx.

Don't forget.. on August 26th 2000, 15 years ago today ILM started

musical memory jogger of that year, that was then...

rym top albums of 2000
https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/2000

rym top singles of 2000
https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/single/2000

aw quinceañera

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Happy BDay ILX ...

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Happy birthday ILX!

i wish i remember what brought me here in 2001

I can't remember what brought me here, but I know it took me ages to register.

I came to ILX for the waters