1969Was lurking in 2001, first posted 2005, strictly ILM for the longest time, only recently started checking out SNA...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Friday, 24 February 2023 18:28 (one year ago) link
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.
― nickn, Friday, 24 February 2023 21:31 (one year ago) link
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
― Dan S, Saturday, 25 February 2023 02:45 (one year ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 26 February 2023 00:01 (one year ago) link
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!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 26 February 2023 08:23 (one year ago) link
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
― H in Addis, Sunday, 26 February 2023 09:01 (one year ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 27 February 2023 00:01 (one year ago) link
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.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 27 February 2023 00:12 (one year ago) link
1940 was CerebralCaustic, iirc.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 27 February 2023 00:16 (one year ago) link
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
― z_tbd, Monday, 27 February 2023 00:17 (one year ago) link
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.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 27 February 2023 01:27 (one year ago) link
Not sure I buy the two from the '40s. Definitely not 1940.
― clemenza, Monday, 27 February 2023 02:05 (one year ago) link
these mf’s peering at the pixels through their bifocals, trying to determine a ‘shop
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Monday, 27 February 2023 07:38 (one year ago) link
They're laughing at all the boomers on this site
― Nabozo, Monday, 27 February 2023 09:01 (one year ago) link
shaking their fist at the fancy new "stereo" music fad
― StanM, Monday, 27 February 2023 10:53 (one year ago) link
Anybody got kids posting here
If they get grounded do you make them post here as punishment
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Monday, 27 February 2023 14:04 (one year ago) link
96 votes? You whippersnappers and your shenanigans!
― Brad C., Monday, 27 February 2023 14:12 (one year ago) link
― System, Sunday, February 26, 2023 6:01 PM
Nice.
― pplains, Monday, 27 February 2023 14:58 (one year ago) link
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
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 05:25 (one year ago) link
― Brad C., Monday, 27 February 2023 bookmarkflaglink
A few trolls.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 16:30 (one year ago) link
Anonymous internet polls are notorious for attracting joke responses
― sarahell, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 16:54 (one year ago) link
though maybe if we count the "thread where we post like our momz" then there would def be a 1945 and probably older
― sarahell, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 16:55 (one year ago) link
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.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 16:56 (one year ago) link
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.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 19:19 (one year ago) link
You starting a "seventies" thread next year?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 20:30 (one year ago) link
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.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 20:32 (one year ago) link
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."
― Dan S, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 01:24 (one year ago) link