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?

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

xp

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!

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

― 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."