Happy Birthday ILX

And yes, reading about hearing "Bombs Over Baghdad" for the first time seems the best way to celebrate ILM's fifth.

(hbilm!)

Hey-ooooooooo

Woah, it's almost ILX bday time.

This thread was started on the first day I was at college. Freshman year. Insane.

That's cute. So I was right that you graduated this year, ksh?

Yeah, this May!

Welcome to ILE, big man.

I think this is still on ILM, Hoos?

The idea of this place being ten years old next year is a little nuts.

Yeah, we're on ILM.

Yeah, Ned. What's weird is thinking that I've been around for nearly 75% of the board's existence.

I was there since day 1! So was Dan and DJ Martian, I think.

Looks like Tim Finney and Alba and Sundar and Ally all posted in the first week as well.

Does Tom even still post here anymore?

Well that's embarassing.

xpost Very rarely, but he did a few days ago:

This is an interesting topic for me cos I just finished a big "decade in pop" essay piece for P4K (look out for it next thursday 'popism' fans)

Two things seem obvious to me. 1. No music now is as popular as some music used to be. 2. Some music now is still a hell of a lot more popular than other music now. I don't think (1) means (2) isn't interesting.

― Groke, Friday, August 21, 2009 12:46 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

he posts as "cankles" these days

All is love, JS.

Yeah, Tom checks in here and there but he's mostly busy with Freaky Trigger, Pitchfork, his regular job and raising his kids. Not necessarily in that order.

Thanks, jaymc & Ned. Still learning who's who.

the "name that song/mp3" game is one of my earlier FT/ILM memories.

I was there...that first day ILM started.

And I can hear the drums now.

also remember Ned and Dan schooling me on wax trax era industrial in a.m.a., just as I was feeling like i was gonna drop mad knowledge. still bitter.

The B.C. era, if you like.

Oh, I meant to mention you, Mark!

But unlike almost everyone else in those early months, I didn't know anyone from Usenet. Somehow I started reading Freaky Trigger/NYLPM a few months before, and then a post mentioned the board.

So we've about a year to organise that big 10th anniversary WorldFAP then?

TuomasFAPWAF will have to do.

Hmm, search tells me my first ILM post was in December of 2001, but that was by an a-hole who liked to go around pretending to be other people. I actually showed up in May of 2002 to call shenanigans, and have hung around ever since (originally posting with my real name). "Johnny Fever" was born in September of 2003.

I take this place for granted most of the time, but I've really had a good time here the last seven years. And I've learned a hell of a lot.

Happy birthday you dear old thing. And a massive thankyou to Keith & the backroom people for making everything so much smoother and more usable without losing its essence at all.

(I find ILM too addictive and tempting to even lurk mostly - I rely on people to pass the good stuff on - but I've been enjoying the P2K reaction threads.)

The idea of this place being ten years old next year is a little big nuts.

The idea of this place being ten years old next year is a little big nuts cajones.

T**t, the Spanish Balt.

Happy Gonads to ya too, Sir!

Sheez, everybody's got an August birthday (mine's tomorrow)

I was still young when I found out about this place ! But ILX has aged a lot better than me.

But ILX has aged a lot better than me.

debateable.

10 bloody years.
i think i first found this place by accident about 9 years ago.
not sure i should celebrate it, gien this thing has at times nearly lost me my job.
of course, i jest. bravo to all those that keep the machines a ticking.

Here from very nearly the beginning - I posted on a thread called The UK Music Press: Has It Ever Been Good? on Aug 31, 2000. It wasn't a very good post but Stevie T made a better one immediately afterwards to which I responded "I agree with Stevie". I should have mostly stuck with the latter approach.

Needs Stevie to say something first though.

Not really.

I agree with Stevie and Michael Jones.

also remember Ned and Dan schooling me on wax trax era industrial in a.m.a., just as I was feeling like i was gonna drop mad knowledge. still bitter.

hahaha good times

I was scanning back through AMA via Google Groups a few years ago and realized exactly how many of those folks made the jump over here; it was kind of frightening! (Also made me wonder what happened to folks like ML Compton and Mark Bartlam.) I also stumbled across what was probably my first Usenet post, back in September 1991 on rec.music.industrial... and it was answered by donut bitch!

ML's still around, just saw him earlier this year at Sparks.

About the only a.m.a. regulars who never turned up besides ML and Mark were Persi and G*ndola B*b.

hahaha oh the reflexive googleproofing

Did JackieBlue come over here, too?

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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