The very first post ever made in these forums?

[Elixer]

I am just curious, given all these forum sections, what is the very first post ever made, and do we still have members from way back then that are still posting today?

Seems like there are lots of old posts from the default date of '01-01-1970 12:00 AM' and when you click on it, there is no content, so, I assume those got corrupted, like this one: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=191214 which is the oldest post I can find.

 

[Cappuccino]

free ipods thread i made was giving away free ipods and iphone 3's

 

[Strk]

doh, misread the post But I think it was what, 99 when they switched?

 

[christian1990]

This forum is about 16 years old.

 

[dank69]

I don't know what it was but I bet it was one hell of a troll post.

 

[brianmanahan]

i did some digging for the oldest posts a while ago: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2423479

i have done some cyber-archeology and i believe this is the oldest remaining ATOT thread:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=335330

"~~ROCK SOLID~~LEGION~~ROCK STABLE~~", by Johnlee, on 2000-05-22

and this is the oldest thread in any subforum: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=335328

 

[DigDog]

probably the forum owner (anand) typing TEST or something like that

 

[brianmanahan]

also here is a screenshot of some even older ones:

 

[Elixer]

also here is a screenshot of some even older ones:

Heh, nice find.

 

[MongGrel]

probably the forum owner (anand) typing TEST or something like that

Yeah, someone would probably have to ask Anand that one.

 

[MongGrel]

also here is a screenshot of some even older ones:

That's pretty epic, many things live on still I guess

 

[Ken g6]

Here's an archive of the oldest Distributed Computing post I could find.

 

[master_shake_]

found one from july 2 2001

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=2142375&highlight=#post2142375

 

[Cappuccino]

also here is a screenshot of some even older ones:

are they still alive lol? D:
https://i.imgur.com/YXgt5UJ.png

 

[Iron Woode]

some of us were posting as far back as 1998.

 

[Iron Woode]

here are some posts from 1999:

https://web.archive.org/web/1999090...=topics&forum=Distributed Computing&number=13

 

[Iron Woode]

off topic from 1999:

https://web.archive.org/web/1999090...=General (Non-Hardware Related) BBS&number=12

 

[brianmanahan]

off topic from 1999:

https://web.archive.org/web/1999090...=General (Non-Hardware Related) BBS&number=12

whoa, a post by anand?

 

[RossMAN]

Here's an archive of the oldest Distributed Computing post I could find.

Brings back memories, sometimes I miss former forum software (FuseTalk) and the avatars.

OfficeGuy6 > *

 

[boomerang]

I first went to the original AnandTech site on Geocities in mid to late 1997 when I first got online. Whether the forums were started in '97 or early '98 I don't recall. But it wasn't long after the site attracted national attention through a newspaper article which was in '97. I joined right in the beginning under a different username. I requested a username change and got no response so I just created a new one.

Someone would have to dig up forum posts from when it was on Geocities to have the "first" post.

 

[DrPizza]

*sigh*
You guys are supposed to be tech enthusiasts. Look at the URL at the top of this page. t=2,464,526. Think about it. Though, I'm not sure what happened to the posts from 1999 until 2000. The posts from the original site were (I'm led to believe) lost in the migration to Fusetalk in 1999.

 

[pcslookout]

*sigh*
You guys are supposed to be tech enthusiasts. Look at the URL at the top of this page. t=2,464,526. Think about it. Though, I'm not sure what happened to the posts from 1999 until 2000. The posts from the original site were (I'm led to believe) lost in the migration to Fusetalk in 1999.

Here here!

 

[squirrel dog]

I came here early on to overclock Celerons on abit bh/bh6 motherboards .

The good old days indeed . Then one day Anand redid his software , and we all started back at 1 for post counts .

 

[Homerboy]

*sigh*
You guys are supposed to be tech enthusiasts. Look at the URL at the top of this page. t=2,464,526. Think about it. Though, I'm not sure what happened to the posts from 1999 until 2000. The posts from the original site were (I'm led to believe) lost in the migration to Fusetalk in 1999.

came here to post this.
*hint* -- its #3

 

[DrPizza]

came here to post this.
*hint* -- its #3

Hint: because #1 and #2 were neffing or necroed posts or something, and are in a recycle bin that I can see.