Who is the oldest person regularly posting on ILX?

1961--I know of one person older for sure, expect to learn of many more.

one day i will be the only person posting on ilx, because everyone else will have left. at that point there will be some big changes, including the founding of a "secret borad of complete solitude and reflection"

1970 represent

What if we weren't born but we're always here

I am extremely old. As undeniable proof, I present you all with this candid photograph of yours truly:

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5467/13985248011_1351356ed9_o.jpg

To determine my exact age, just add six months to the number of years since it was taken.

that was back in the days when they'd enter baby cribs into the pinewood derby

(puts teeth back in) That's right, sonny!

I was born in 1955, in the middle of the boomer years, and came of age in the 70s. The media called us the “me generation”. They used that label because they thought we were spoiled, but I was sure it was just because we expressed a confidence they didn’t think we should feel. I knew I was gay at a very young age and that I was going to do everything in my power to escape my conservative rural community.

Man, growing up gay in a 1960s rural community must have been an epic struggle, respect.

1970, ILXOR since August 2001. I think I stopped maturing in 2001; not sure if it's all collective-your fault or not. (It is.)

my name's taylor, and i was born in nineteen eighty nine

hey I missed the cut off by 1 year I guess that means it's not me

Born 1984, posting here since 2006, with a long break from 2012- 2018 or so, during which time the site changed a lot. still glad i’m here, much more informative and funnier than most other places i go on this damned world wide web

Born a week before Christmas 1971, so count me as 1971 or 1972, however you feel about it.

67

1976. Been lurking here since 2003ish

1960 vintage. At 62 currently, I am not the oldest one here.

what is the median age of ilxors these days?

Are we voting the year we were born, or the year we think the oldest poster was born?

voting for our opinion about a year that has no way to verify it seems like an odd thing to poll

"I have seen the sun made and set in the sky / and I will never pass, I will never die"

like every other trans person i told myself that i would never pass but in retrospect apparently i passed pretty much instantaneously. i guess that cuts me out of this poll.

what interests me more is who the _youngest_ regular ilxor is

what interests me more is who the _youngest_ regular ilxor is

otm. a counterpart poll is called for.

hello from team 1972

iirc crut was the youngest ilxor forever, and did the position proud

but now he's like 35 or something

the oldest person posting regularly to ilx is your mom, and she may be "old" in numbers, but she's "young" at heart

Born in 1974, showed up here in 2002 or 03. Weird to think I could have relived my entire life from birth to college in the same amount of time I've been Johnny Fever.

1980 but weirdly I'm 96 years old

lol map

1962, which makes this the last year when my age is less than my birth year (in YY format obv).

1974, been on ILX since 2007.

When I first posted here I was John Nettles in his final flourish on The Liver Birds. Now Bergerac has come and gone and I’m established in Midsomer.

My age is, “Bergerac was in The Liver Birds??”

“You askin’?”

though I am not eligible to vote in this poll I do look forward to the day when I can explain to the younglings what FAP meant via neurolink or whatever bizarre dystopia we arrive at in the 2040s

I am ageless.

rereading the "bombadil is evil: oldest and fatherless" essay before i place my vote in this thread

1970 represent

Chock-a-girl clocking in.

Started on ILX with one name, then left because of Unpleasantness, then came back to chat about television programmes because this is the best place on the Internet to talk about television programmes.

got my first real spit stain
threw up just before nap time
slept beside my parents' bed
it was the autumn of '69

(oo-ooo)

yeah I was a baby in '69

1960, loitering here since 2003, shocked to realize I might not even make the top five most elderly ILXors

I'll turn 60 this year. Been here roughly 1/3 of my life.

I first joined in the fall of '02 I think. So about 40 percent of my life at this point. If I'm still an ilxor in 2035, it'll be half my life.

And I will be bumping this thread to mark the occasion, I'm sure. (Hi, senior citizen me!)

Born 1975, here since ... '03?

"1980 but weirdly I'm 96 years old

― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal)"

that's just queer time. personally, as a queer woman, i measure my age in terms of the lyrics to the boards of canada song "aquarius", which means i'm seventy-four this year. i'm looking forward to turning sixty-seven in a couple months.

"I was born in 1955, in the middle of the boomer years, and came of age in the 70s. The media called us the “me generation”. They used that label because they thought we were spoiled, but I was sure it was just because we expressed a confidence they didn’t think we should feel. I knew I was gay at a very young age and that I was going to do everything in my power to escape my conservative rural community.

― Dan S"

i was just writing about the "me generation" on my blog the other day, my take is that wolfe was observing a genuine phenomenon but that part of being queer is being, you know, not like the others. i also think that calling narcissism a _generational_ phenomenon is overstating it a little. my mom is definitely a woman of her generation, but she's also her mother's daughter, you know?

Is it strange that this thread is making me feel bad for yelling at some of you over the years? Like damn, there I was just yelling at some retirees on a quirked-up message board.

I first joined in the fall of '02 I think. So about 40 percent of my life at this point. If I'm still an ilxor in 2035, it'll be half my life.

There is highly embarrassing evidence of my teenage presence here dating back to '03 (e.g. my first post was to ask Momus to rate my livejournal) well over half a lifetime for me and I am so grateful that this place still exists and looks exactly the same, ilx is so good thank you to everyone involved

voting for our opinion about a year that has no way to verify it seems like an odd thing to poll

I thought it was a “guess the number of jellybeans in the jar” scenario, where the answer would be revealed in the end.

you should always feel bad about yelling at me is how i break it down to an extent

OH YEAH?

I will cross the “half of my life” threshold in 2027, when I turn the big 4-4

I started posting regularly in January 2005.

Like damn, there I was just yelling at some retirees on a quirked-up message board.

https://media0.giphy.com/media/9VcH46NJtByo4D25xZ/giphy.gif

My first post was April 12, 2009 (not counting a few earlier posts under my own name).

Days living before my first post: 17,335
Days living since my first post: 5,061

Percentage of my life posting: 22.6%

1980 here, though I don’t regularly post and when I do it’s pretty low content

I hereby dub you "Low Content Willl."

born in '68.
signed up here in 2001, started posting in 2003 once i found out re the Lynx web based browser as it meant i could lurk-n-post using somthing that didn't raise alarm bells at work as Lynx looked like a telnet/unix window as opposed to Netscape web browser etc.

Who is the youngest person regularly posting on ILX?

1972 here, which I suspect is the median age of posters these days. I think I signed up here in 2001 or 2.

Is it strange that this thread is making me feel bad for yelling at some of you over the years?

It made me feel bad for earnestly trying to understand Dan S’ position on politics threads, when I could have just yelled at him for being too old to change a two-party brain (luv u Dan)

lol

1972 here, which I suspect is the median age of posters these days

We did "how old are you" polls on the same day in January in 2008, 2011, and 2016. Each time the median age corresponded to a 1979 (or very early 1980) birthday. It would be interesting if the median age has increased since then.

I was hatched in 1968. Gratifying to know that I’m on the old person spectrum. I assume that the 1955 cohort are the oldest people here, with all due respect (?)

i know this is veering off-topic but somehow i think i've been here longer than some of the old schoolers. i always think of myself as showing up around 2005 and then being ignored for a few years (ilx tradition), but my first ilx post was Aug 2003

which also means that i will reach the 50% of my life threshold later this year, when i turn 40

I reached that threshold in August 2017 😬

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqjFzBpflVE

1958 here. Been here since 2004, so pushing 20 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgLMGG0teak

as time progresses, the % of time on ilx approaches 100%

I'll reach that 50% threshold in 2057, when I'm 96. I still plan on italicizing titles.

i think we actually lost a fair number of younger posters who aged out to social media and hung on to a bunch of people who use ilx as social media

my stats are the same as dan peterson's. if i had logged on earlier i might have posted that same song.

I think forks is otm and also of course old-school message board format is not exactly calling out to anyone much under 40 I wouldn't think. (I love old-school message board format, don't get me wrong.)

Born in 1965. Started posting here in 2001 after folks left alt.music.alternative.

1961 here, post pretty infrequently but do take a look at the ILM/ILE new answers board every day. First post I can find via search is July 2001.

I like the expression "long in the tooth". It is an acknowledgement that we all clench our teeth when we sleep, driving our upper teeth into the maxilla where bone is resorbed, and with it our upper gums recede over time

I have been wearing a night guard to arrest this, it is uncomfortable and creates too much saliva, and I've only been able to wear it when I wake up around midnight and am mostly asleep so can put it in

this is an old person post, but many of you will also face this

oh christ don't make me build a night guard thread

my back hurts all the time!

bought some compression socks the other day

my back hurts all the time!

I saw an advertisement for a T-shirt that reads MY FAVORITE CHILDHOOD MEMORY IS OF MY BACK NOT HURTING and laughed.

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/455/504/6b5.jpg

1964. Found ilx in 2007. Thankfully the enshittification of social media (Cory Doctrow’s phrase) hasn’t visited ilx.

oh christ don't make me build a night guard thread

Please do. I am evangelical about night guards. I love mine so much. Completely cured my sensitivity to hot and cold foods. If I'd got one sooner, I might never have had to have those bloody root canal procedures.

Born in 1965.

The year of Sandy Koufax's perfect game and the Watts riots representing.

My 12 year old son and I went to the park to play pickup basketball yesterday. I am paying the price today, and it was totally worth it.

Oh I should say I'm 1961 which is um, I forget.

1968.

first posted in 2002 after lurking for a year or so. so, about 40% of my life.

Born in 1974, showed up here in 2002 or 03. Weird to think I could have relived my entire life from birth to college in the same amount of time I've been Johnny Fever.

― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Saturday, February 18, 2023 10:52 PM

https://i.imgur.com/7MjdYzS.png

Early 70s genXer here. And this month is my 20th anniversary on ILX, fuck me.

Checked one of my first thread starts .

Nineteen years ago.

Actually, 2003 was my first actual posting

Yeah I lurked for months before I posted, but I recall starting to read here around Fen 2003. 'twas at the point the Connor smedley stuff was in full bloom. arooooo.

actually I remember the person I came here to specifically troll was Geir because another ilxor I knew from another message board told me what he said about Schoenberg

1967. in my cradle I suckled a copy of VU & Nico with the sticker still on it

Very intrigued about how people found out about ilxor? I stumbled here from a Jim o’rourke google search when I was deep diving in his work. Remember being shocked at this archive or people posting things like “yeah chatted with Jimmy boy last week at a party after he hooked up with my girlfriend. Mega tool but damn gastr del sol know how to write a hit”! Or the like, and realised if found a very unique and interesting corner of the internet.

a few people from the site I wrote for at the time (Satan Stole My Teddybear) used to also post here.

one of them said everybody here was stupid and he was done posting here and the other said it was cool but Geir was hilarious.

the one that said everybody here was fucking stupid is the person who started the "hip hop taken to new levels" thread, lol. cool guy, but lost track of him as he shut down his social media I think.

one of my earlier attempts at a troll: rap should be extinguished

Very intrigued about how people found out about ilxor?

- read an article about music blogs that mentioned The Church of Me in one of the local alt-weeklies
- searched for more writing by Marcello Carlin and found it here

Lol at that thread. Were you the original poster under a different alias Neanderthal? Also lol at John darnelles posts. Any other “celebrities” that showed their face around here? Momus, soft pink truth guy, final fantasy guy right?

are there any "random Googlers who were maaaaad about something someone wrote but decided to stay" here?

besides AlexinNYC that is

xpost yeah it was back in the no-registration required days and R0llie Pembert0n had just pissed me off in the Beastie Boys 5 Bouroughs thread, so I decided to fuck with people for a few hours.

this was me, sorry everyone

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I’m def not the oldest - but have been around a while. I think I started posting around early 2001.
I found the site while trying to make sense of why Andrew WK was a thing and even tho ilm didn’t help me a lot there, I did like the place and decided to stick around.

Thermo Thinwall won't stop posting.

I'm not the longest tenured ilxor. That might be Ned or DJP. My first post on Search says April of 2002. The majority of my early posts were on Ask A Drunk, which was my playground for as long as it was active. I loved that forum. It helped me stay sane through some very trying years.

I'm happy to see a couple of 1955 babies uncloak themselves. I was born late in 1954 (November), so they are nearly indistinguishable from my age. Once you've crept this far into old age a matter of months is trivial. I still hope to see someone older than me 'fess up. I keep thinking a lurker beyond my years will show themself. Hasn't happened, yet, but it could. In theory.

Lol, Jesus Clem. You’re going to get us in trouble again

It scanned so well, I just couldn't resist.

one of my earlier attempts at a troll: rap should be extinguished

― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal)

This is like the mona lisa of trolling, i'm extremely impressed

me when i got to the part where you caved and said Slipknot suck:

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/the-wiki-of-everything/images/7/79/Buzz-Lightyear-Noooo.gif/revision/latest?cb=20180215024518

oh well.

NOOOOOOO.gif

dammit, why'd you have to go and break character like that

actually I remember the person I came here to specifically troll was Geir

― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Tuesday, February 21, 2023 8:29 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

one of my earlier attempts at a troll: rap should be extinguished

― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Tuesday, February 21, 2023 9:04 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

uh wait a sec

this is the only trolling i wound up doing to Geir I think: Which ILM Poster am I?

I think I followed a link from rockcritics.com sometime in 2002. It coincided with me moving to NYC, so I spent a lot of time lurking and then eventually posting on NYC threads. I especially loved the Noize board in its ridiculous heyday. (I haven't looked at it in forever, so props to those keeping it going.)

lol @ gastr del solpost

I was googling "Charalambides", then for like 6 months I thought the "New Questions" board was the only board, then I found New Answers (there was no SNA back then) and it all started to make sense

xxxp oh well, trolling Geir was never going to work

I've reached a milestone in ilx-ing in the last week or so. for the first time since i registered, i had a dream involving an ilxor. shut up, it wasn't that kind of dream. in the dream, i rented a room in a house that the table is the table was moving out of. now, i don't know the table is the table's real name, or what he looks like, so this is kind of strange. i guess the person in the dream was *my idea* of the table is the table. we didn't interact all that much, but he was 'around'. i should probably quit ilx.

I randomly Googled Laurie Anderson's 'O Superman' one day and a thread came up. In fact I'm surprised at how often ILM threads come up in my Google searches

Started a blog in autumn 2001, which led to me hopping around people’s blogrolls, which led me to here. First posted here January 2002, on a Kevin Ayers thread.

I think I came to this joint to create a thread praising Dirty Work.

looking it up, it looks like my earliest post is in 2005, which is earlier than I remember. I came here from another music discussion message board and ultimately found I liked it more here than there, but I think that took a couple of years, so for a long time I would just check things out here every once in a while.

(This place always seemed a bit intimidating because everyone seemed to be so knowledgeable about seemingly everything while I never really developed a good vocabulary for explaining why a certain piece of music or whatever else is amazing or bad. I just like some stuff and dislike other stuff for the most part without totally figuring out why.)

I think only around 2010 or so did this place become my main messageboard hangout, though always more as a lurker than a poster.

You made a thread to praise Dirty Work
Oh yeah
I hope you don't want to praise Dirty Work
No more

Remember being shocked at this archive or people posting things like “yeah chatted with Jimmy boy last week at a party after he hooked up with my girlfriend. Mega tool but damn gastr del sol know how to write a hit”!

C'mon, hstencil wasn't that bad

I haven't been here that long--a year or so?--and I have zero recollection of what brought me here.

One of the big downsides of aging.

Wow, I'd been assuming you were an old poster with a new name.

same!

Maybe I was, but I don't remember.

David Crosby album?

I came here in 2003 via a Google search for Pazz and Jop iirc. Just looked it up and my first post was 20 years ago this month.

xp Ned posted here literally from Day One.

xxp My life is slowly turning into a David Crosby album.

i found this place after i had registered ireallylovemusic in August 2000 as i then thought 'hang on ... what about 'ilovemusic' ? ', and boom, ended up here.

I found I Love Books in early 2004 from a Bookslut post. First posts in February as an unregistered user then signed up as Jaq. Poked around the other boards a bit, decided I didn't love music THAT much, decided I Love Everything was terrifying. Started meeting fellow ILXors occasionally in Seattle and eventually embraced the majority of the boards.

you also got an awesome logo out of it!

No idea how I first got here but probably because I was a hopeless Belle and Sebastian stan

I stumbled on ILM first, it took me awhile to realize there was other tabs.. but the first thread I really noticed was a streaming photo-thread of a guy having some kind of mental health episode on an alley roof in San Francisco, and we were getting photo updates every few minutes as the police tried to get him down.. I thought that was pretty darn cool

^^^^ this was maybe like 2002 or so

you also got an awesome logo out of it!

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, February 22, 2023 12:32 PM

Absolutely! I hope you're still involved in design work, because everyone deserves such awesome stuff!

i think i saw ilm on a list of interesting music websites circa 2006/2007. i believe it was in entertainment weekly of all places. i tried to find the article but not easily available online. wonder what else was on the list back then?

Started meeting fellow ILXors occasionally in Seattle and eventually embraced the majority of the boards.

Can't believe going to House of Hong with you, Mr. Jaq and Gravel Puzzleworth is still my only dim sum experience.

That was a meetup for the ages, truly!

Absolutely! I hope you're still involved in design work, because everyone deserves such awesome stuff!

Oh I am! Currently working on a mural in Calgary and recently did a bunch of branding work for a B&B outside of Toronto I’m very proud of!

My contibution to the Geir ragging bandwagon was Come to Hongro which I'm still quite proud of.

LOL And a google search shows me Geir uses it as his Twitter Profile pic. Thats hilarious.

Don't remember what google search lead me to ilm, but my first post was:

Eleven-year lurker posting for the first time. Ironically, this was the first thread that caught my attention on ILM, due to the "hobo" revelation.

― Andrew "Hit Dice" Clay (PBKR), Thursday, June 28, 2018 9:42 PM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

In re: whitesnake - 'here i go again'

Lurkers of the world, unite!

eleven-year lurker was my favorite underrated nü-pop metal act

don't lurk, just post, it's a fantasy world, nobody who matters in your life cares at all and you are free

I think you all already know that on some level

nobody who matters in your life cares at all

in the mid '00s if I was ~on the computer~ my flatmate would often ask "what's Tuomas up to today?"

That’s a name I have not heard in a while

I was afraid to post for a long time when I first found this website, but fuck it

no one here can tell you're naked

I found I Love Books in early 2004 from a Bookslut post.

― Jaq, Wednesday, February 22, 2023 2:26 PM

Same here. We're ILX twins! I lurked a few more months before posting, though. And I'm still mostly a lurker.

I Love Books has added much value to my reading life. I find it's the most reliable and consistent board on ILX, though I Love Hoops comes close.

xxxp oh well, trolling Geir was never going to work

I've reached a milestone in ilx-ing in the last week or so. for the first time since i registered, i had a dream involving an ilxor. shut up, it wasn't that kind of dream. in the dream, i rented a room in a house that the table is the table was moving out of. now, i don't know the table is the table's real name, or what he looks like, so this is kind of strange. i guess the person in the dream was *my idea* of the table is the table. we didn't interact all that much, but he was 'around'. i should probably quit ilx.

(e.g. my first post was to ask Momus to rate my livejournal)

Well did he??

where is the 'nae cunt knows' option

I haven't been a "regular poster" in a while, but I turned 53 back in November, and have been on since at least 2001, since I remember getting a lot of 9/11 coverage on here.

I remember getting a lot of 9/11 coverage on here.

Hmmm. Yes, I also remember this as true. What I can't recall is whether this was still the Greenspun Era, in which case Search may not be finding some of the posts from that time. It only finds me from April, 2002, but I'm fairly certain I took part in those 9/11 threads.

sure glad there was no social media during 9/11.

would have been blasted with ads like

"Mountain Dew is sad to hear about the tragedy today. Please observe a moment of silence as we forego doing the Dew in honor of our fallen soda drinkers"

I do remember the Onion headline about Americans longing to care about stupid shit again.

i spent most of 9/11 on mIRC, on DALnet, in #metal

not necessarily the most enlightened people to discuss it with but that's all I had.

kind of accelerated my evolution into a far left college kid

https://i.redd.it/vm1k56asntl31.jpg

haha table, you are one of my favorite posters on here (i think you're one of everyone's!) and my ideation of you was very cool, too. if anything, you're a reason i stick around. obv i was joking about leaving the site over this, just found it funny/horrifying that the messageboard has infiltrated my dreamscapes. it's all good involuntary thought fodder i guess but it forced me to admit to myself a level of personal involvement here that i hadn't acknowledged.

Mountain poll: Dewing the Do vs Doing the Dew

I need to correct my earlier assertion about 9/11. I was not near a computer on 9/11 or the following week. I do remember later reading those threads from the day of the attack in order to get a sense of how ILX reacted, but by the time I could have been participating it would have been later in September when everyone was speculating about further attacks and the US response or October when the Afghanistan bombings had started.

Are there multiple posters who remember the death of JFK? Or the Beatles on Ed Sullivan? Or another less shopworn historic event of that era?

remember JFK? they were posting during it!

President Kennedy Injured in Dallas?

I don’t. But I do remember that time a guy pee’d himself “live” on ilx

wait what

i need to pee. does ilx dare me to wet myself?

Someone with a better memory should probably sketch in the details

I am not multiple posters, but I was at school and in 3rd grade on November 22, 1963 and can recall a few bits and pieces of that day. Mostly being very uncertain what it all meant. I can recall even less about the Cuban Missile Crisis about a year before that, but some small scraps of those memories are still accessible.

I was just reading Brother Wayne Kramer's autobiography and he remembers being really freaked out during the Missile Crisis, because a lot of weapons plants were based in or near Detroit

My mother talked about being frightened during the Crisis about having to seek shelter with my two brothers, aged 6 and newborn.

That Hari guy is quite a big name in indie record label shit now, I hope his pee thread isnt easily found lol.

googlepissroof

xp Looks like he's working for Sony now. Anyway, the photo evidence appears to have vanished.

early 2000s exhibitionism was a thing. i remember two of my friends once taking advantage of their newly acquired webcams to start cam-sexin each other, and unfortunately one of the friends hadn't locked her door and her dad walked in while my other friend had his cock out, taking up the entire screen of the webcam.

cock-friend felt bad but also said seeing the bald dad come into frame was hilarious and he couldn't quit giggling after

I remember the 90s/early oughts dick sharing - when I first heard about Louis CK's #METOO moment, my first thought was 'shit, everyone of my skater buddies pulled their peckers out in front of girls at parties' but that of course ignores the power dynamic and overall creepiness of his behavior

Fortunately that fad seems to have died down

I'm sorry I missed this golden era of gayness

We had naked parties but I also went to Oberlin so

I was actually thinking about one of my friends from that time the other day, how cute he was— in a strange way I actually came to the realization that I had a massive crush on this guy about fifteen years too late lmfao, hope he’s doing well

also deflatormouse that was a v v sweet post thank you, please do stick around and i will try not to wind up in your dreamscape again.

i think the only ilxors who have showed up in dreams are Ned (who said something sort of zen koan-like in a very deep anxiety dream) and J0rdan S

i'm constantly dreaming I'm meeting ilxors in real life and they're screaming at me

i will try not to wind up in your dreamscape again.

aw, i didn't mean to make you feel unwelcome!

I've seen a bunch of 20 year old threads where the OP was saying 'I couldn't find a thread on The Microphones, what say ye ILM?' followed by an irate post from Ned along the lines of 'There's such a thing as the search function, asshole. Use it!' which is very funny because it seems so out of character.

I feel like there's the integrated Ned who walks among us, and that guy is like, a playable character and then there are the dualities of Ned with impossible XP, one who visits you in dreams and yells and another who sits in a lotus position surrounded by an orb of glowing light and imparts sage advice. And those two are the final bosses of ILX.

i think he have a thread for ilx dreams, where Ned is a regular avatar of sorts

def not a regular poster, but been here on and off since May 2002 (and am a 1971 baby)

think once referred to Ned as ILX's Welcome Wagon, was def the first person to welcome me onsite

1969
Was lurking in 2001, first posted 2005, strictly ILM for the longest time, only recently started checking out SNA...

I'm 1957 vintage, and discovered itt that I'm not the 2nd oldest here (Dan S is). I've been here from the start, first encountering some of you on usenet in alt.music.alternative, and rec.music.misc even before that, though I don't post that much. Even met a few of the LA contingent at FAPs.

I feel like Morbs was my 'welcome wagon', he engaged with my earnest but naive original film opinion posts here and I was ever since in awe of him

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I have to ask, H - do you live in Ethiopia hence yr handle, Ive always wondered? I can't imagine we have too many people in the African continent on here!

Yeah, I live in Addis Abeba, actually have had meetups/drinks here with different ilx folx over the years

i cant be the only person from/on the continent, tho think the others i remember think dont post anymore

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

We have a 1940, a 1945, two 1950s, a 1951, and a 1952 who have self-proclaimed as being older than I am! Hurray! But they haven't identified themselves, yet. Time for them to step from behind the curtain and claim their prizes.

1940 was CerebralCaustic, iirc.

1940 was the earliest option as well, so that one might not be a real vote. But if it is, that's incredible and it's really cool that we get to have them here on ILX

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oh, that makes sense

Anonymous internet polls are notorious for attracting joke responses, but I'm thinking at least a couple of those answers I cited are legit, even if they belong to lurkers who aren't exactly 'regularly posting to ilx.' I'm curious if they'll come forward.

Not sure I buy the two from the '40s. Definitely not 1940.

these mf’s peering at the pixels through their bifocals, trying to determine a ‘shop

They're laughing at all the boomers on this site

shaking their fist at the fancy new "stereo" music fad

Anybody got kids posting here

If they get grounded do you make them post here as punishment

96 votes? You whippersnappers and your shenanigans!

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― System, Sunday, February 26, 2023 6:01 PM

Nice.

not a regular poster in fact not really any level or degree of poster these days but i usedta be (back as far as greenspun proto-ilx) & back then i felt like i musta been in the oldest 5%. 19-12-62 that's my number

96 votes? You whippersnappers and your shenanigans!

― Brad C., Monday, 27 February 2023 bookmarkflaglink

A few trolls.

Anonymous internet polls are notorious for attracting joke responses

though maybe if we count the "thread where we post like our momz" then there would def be a 1945 and probably older

I think I misread this and thought I was supposed to guess the earliest year. That means there should be one less vote for 1960 (I think) and one more for 1975.

I was hoping this poll would allow me to pass along the moniker of 'oldest known ilxor', but until somebody steps up to claim one of those birth years before 1954 I guess I'm stuck. And considering the many disparaging comments about old people I've read here over the decades, this title doesn't feel much like a position of honor.

You starting a "seventies" thread next year?

With a November birthday, it'll be awfully late in 2024 before I hit 70. And if I'm the whole show until Dan S shows up, then there's no reason to rush it.

you're only 7 months ahead of me, and I'm not sure I want to talk about my age in one of these threads. agree that "considering the many disparaging comments about old people I've read here over the decades, this title doesn't feel much like a position of honor."