Aa.com Question
 

Why do people say they joined AA.com in 1969? Is it some inside joke or is AA.com some hippie 60s cult? biggrin:

Thats because we did join in '69. You probably weren't born yet !!

hippie cult, u nailed it right on

testament to bads.

Were just l337 like that. biggrin:

I have 13 nipples. Praise me.

me bows down.

The 1969 join date is often regarded as the "vets" of AA. These are the guys who have been registered the longest.
But as with all the join dates and post counts, it really means nothing in terms of the charicter of the person in question.

There was some crash, and all members already registered it set their join date to December 31, 1969. They werent "Given" this. Its all a result of a fuck up of the server

Truth is, it has nothing to do with post count or being special. One day the forums messed up, php error, and it gave bunch of us that date.

no scooter i will not give you any passwords.

Anyone registered 2 days before my join date got this...I came in right after.

nice sig on ya Arkan biggrin: biggrin: biggrin:

we're l33t... bow before us the_finger:

the reason most of them have it is because they are the ones with the least amount of life biggrin: , theyve been here for so damn long.

I joined in 1983, the day I was not born.

[quote="Duke_of_Ray":dbb1f]I joined in 1983, the day I was not born.[/quote:dbb1f]

stfu

[quote=Tripper]stfu[/quote:2eea7]
hes a nitwit folks biggrin:

[quote=Milla]hes a nitwit folks biggrin:[/quote:f3001]

1ST ID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 :D?

pvt jacks0n!?!!? 101st RANGERS?!?!

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82nd aibroen garnear priv garurner

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aimbotting bastard!!!

snipes0rz fagg3rt!

If you guys just wanted a short answer skip to the last two paragraphs, else read:

This forum used to be hosted on a perl version of ubb, Ultimate Bulletin Board.

As you may know, ubb ultilize something called a flat-file database (if you dont know what it is take a look <a href=http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/F/flat_file_database.html>here</a>, if you're too lazy it's just kinna like a huge excel spreadsheet); and at one point the site traffic is so heavy, about 20x more heavy then the current load I would say, that no machine in the world (or that I could afford) could handle that kinna traffic with a ff db powered forum.

The solution is to move from ubb perl/semi-colin seperated text file to phpBB php/mysql. But at that time there were already thousands of members registered, and some of the more dedicated members swore that they would hire a hitman to "deal with the situation" should I decide to remove all records and start over again.

Back then I had little knowledge and patient on the phpBB db structure, so I downloaded one of those database converter script and decided to try my luck. All goes well, except that the "join date" column on the user table did not get imported at all, so the default value 000000000000 were used instead.

Now the zero(s) value in the timestamp would actually correspond to 00:00:00 1 Jan 1970 GMT; EST is GMT -5 and therefore all EST systems subtract 5 hours from that day so it became 31 dec 1969.

Basically, every member who registered before the migration would have 31 Dec 1969 as his/her join date.

So there ya go.

[sarcasm]Who the **** are you!?[/sarcasm]

oOo:

The mystery is now over, all hail Badscript biggrin:

he ruined it

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lol Zoner