[Nigeopire]

I basically lurked a few times for Civ2 but didn't actually register until I heard CTP2 was coming out.

[HaseBeceDeemy]

I have hated Apolyton since 1998, but not enough to register until whatever it says under my name, when I assume Ming's moderation became so intolerable that I felt it righteous to register and troll.

SP

[CitsMoise17]

Holy crap, 10 years here....mmmm not really sure how to feel about that one.

[lkastonidwedsrer]

Boris:

There's a bunch of the Dec. 1969 join date guys but who knows when they actually joined. Turns out that anyone who joined before March 1999 ended up as Dec. 1969. So someone like me or Plomp just barely missed it.

Well, I was already a member of the Ultimate Civilization site, I just somewhere during the merger lost my credentials, and decided to make a new account on this new Apolyton site.

I think I was browsing the Ultimate Civilization Site (one of the 2 sites that merged into Apolyton) (Apolyton = ultimate in greek) since 1996, grabbing new units and buildings etc.

[xLQLRcXh]

Ming has 1969. He posted in this thread.

I know if you registered sometime before March 1999, that you're one of the 1969'ers. I know that much. I registered March 4, 1999 and I remember that when the 1969 thing happened (it used to not say 1969; it used to say things like Nov 1998, etc.), the cutoff date was just before I registered. I think it was Feb. 15 1999 or March 1 1999 or something around there. I just remember thinking I just barely missed it.

Still clueless as to why that was even instituted to begin with.

[Zoxeeoy]

Yup, that has something to do with it. I logged off and checked the dates again. Ming, Theben and I all have Dec 1969 when I'm logged off. It changes to Jan 1970 after I've logged in...

Same thing for you?

Carolus

[skupaemauto]

Still clueless as to why that was even instituted to begin with.

It had to do with the software being used. When "start date" was added as a record, the site didn't have the records for all those that had registered prior to the software upgrade, so it just filled in the field with that arbitrary date (why 1969, who knows, it was the default) There had been some discussion to use/create a "hack" to change that date to at least something closer to the actual creation date of the site. But general apathy won out, and nobody wanted to spend the time to create the hack and install it.

[Eromaveabeara]

Is Jan 1st 1970 not the default start date on unix or linux systems or something? I'm just blindly repeating something I may have heard some day.

[v74ClzKY]

lol nerd math