How...

[ColeDidy]

How do these forums go back till 1969?

 

[SKORPI0]

It's a glitch somewhere. This 2nd iteration of the forums started Oct 1999.

 

[shortylickens]

Show me the post you saw from 1969.

 

[Thebobo]

I wanna see

 

[BoomerD]

Red pill, Blue pill...you know the rest...

 

[Iron Woode]

is this some kind of troll thread?

I hate hit and run threads like this.

 

[Paratus]

I believe my mom may have been on the internet in 1969 or more likely the early 70's.


Edit - must have been the 70's since the first four nodes didn't start until Dec 69.

 

[ColeDidy]

No omg lol. I can't upload a picture, but if you go to off topic and go to the very last page, you will see. Where it says 1 . 2 and then shows like 3000 something. Click the last one.

 

[pcgeek11]

Yep it says Last message:

" Dec 31, 1969 at 7:00 pm " as a hot link that points to here: https://forums.anandtech.com/posts/0/

 

[Crono]

I blame the Y2K bug which, as we all know, completely devastated the planet in the year 2000.

 

[Azuma Hazuki]

The Unix "epoch" begins in 1970, IIRC, so a 1969 timestamp may be a way of saying "I don't have a clue when this was made."

 

[Thebobo]

Yep it says Last message:

" Dec 31, 1969 at 7:00 pm " as a hot link that points to here: https://forums.anandtech.com/posts/0/

Lies!

 

[Mayne]

Just so happens I was born in 1969.

 

[Crono]

Just so happens I was born in 1969.

We went to the moon in 1969

 

[Red Squirrel]

This forum was started back in the dark ages before the common internet, somewhere in the mid 1900's. You needed a phone and acoustic modem to connect directly to the server. This is before electricity was even invented, so you had to hand crank the computer to keep it running - it was all mechanical, even vacuum tubes were considered science fiction back then.

At some point when electronic computers came out a member here created a device to convert the posts from the mechanical format to digital. I believe they used a form of slate punch cards. If you notice in those old threads the first post is often missing. That's because when running a batch it would take a while for the fly wheel to get up to speed and it would miss some of the data.

The invention of the vacuum tube changed a lot. Until about a year ago the forum was still running on a vacuum tube based computer. It went down every night so they can change the blown ones.