7th year in VCA, Just renewed membership

[WANTED]

Wow how time flies. I wonder if the 7 year itch means time for a new Viper, lol.

HOW MANY YEARS HAVE YOU BEEN IN THE VCA ?

 

[RevHeat]

1st year in the VCA, just joined today!!!

 

[Detlef]

This will be my 6th year.

 

[V10SpeedLuvr]

Just joined for my 5th year last week. Holy-moley time flies when speeding

 

[dave6666]

I've been a VCA member for about 15,000 years.











WHAT???








Just look at my post count! That took a while!

 

[Chuck 98 RT/10]

Since 99 I think. And I hope it lasts for the next 30 years.

 

[Sellshomesdrivesviper]

5th and counting.....

 

[ViperGTS]

2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
...

 

[Gus Strakes]

11 years and counting.

 

[Bob D]

2000 for me and only .05 posts per day. That has to be some kind of record!

 

[GR8_ASP]

Since it started. Back in 1995 I believe.

 

[viper k]

two days for me

 

[HI-NOS-Viper]

For those of you that have been a member before 2000, why does it just show you have been a member since 2000? I know of one that it shows since 1997, so why does it not go back that far for you?

 

[HI-NOS-Viper]

2000 for me and only .05 posts per day. That has to be some kind of record!

I think you are on the same pace as dave6666 Oh and to answer the original poster, just 2 years.

 

[kcobean]

For those of you that have been a member before 2000, why does it just show you have been a member since 2000? I know of one that it shows since 1997, so why does it not go back that far for you?

The join date listed is the forum join date, not their club join date. The club existed before the website.

 

[HI-NOS-Viper]

So why does one that I know of show since 1997?

 

[kcobean]

So why does one that I know of show since 1997?

There are lots of folks who were VCA members before they registered on the website.

 

[HI-NOS-Viper]

There are lots of folks who were VCA members before they registered on the website.

Ok I am tracking now. Thank you I will blame the beer

 

[kcobean]

And as an interesting FYI, the VERY first post on the forums was made Friday, 5 December 1997, at 8:20 p.m. by a user account that no longer exists. That gives JonB the oldest join date of December 8 1997, 12:57 PM.

 

[HI-NOS-Viper]

And as an interesting FYI, the VERY first post on the forums was made Friday, 5 December 1997, at 8:20 p.m. by a user account that no longer exists. That gives JonB the oldest join date of December 8 1997, 12:57 PM.

Wow that is a long time ago. He was the one I was referring to with the join date of 1997. Way to go JonB

 

[kcobean]

Wow that is a long time ago. He was the one I was referring to with the join date of 1997. Way to go JonB

And he is the only one with a 1997 join date. The next join date is several months later and belongs to Packetjunkie.

 

[GRNBGON]

Member since 2001. Wish they had a Life Membership. I would be all over it.

 

[mike & juli]

2000 for me and only .05 posts per day. That has to be some kind of record!

Since 2005, posts per day, 6.92~! DAVE6666 is double my posts per day~! AND, he joined.....uhhhh......when????? 2007! ~juli

 

[GR8_ASP]

And as an interesting FYI, the VERY first post on the forums was made Friday, 5 December 1997, at 8:20 p.m. by a user account that no longer exists. That gives JonB the oldest join date of December 8 1997, 12:57 PM.

Ah, but since there was no connectivity between the old and current boards for user names how would they know who had what forum name. I do not recall having to state my real name or anything back then. As an FYI I was a member of the original board. I have no idea when I started on it but I know I was active well before the VOI at Vegas, as we had a mini forum gathering before VOI in the casino. I would guess that I was a forum member in 1997 as well based on that.

 

[Y2K5SRT]

And as an interesting FYI, the VERY first post on the forums was made Friday, 5 December 1997, at 8:20 p.m. by a user account that no longer exists. That gives JonB the oldest join date of December 8 1997, 12:57 PM.

Actually, that was a manually set date that I did for Jon B to acknowledge his history when we switched to the new forum software. I did that for him and I think Michael (PacketJunkie) changed his own (correctly), otherwise there are very few that show prior to July of 2000 as that is when we migrated to the new software. Heck, I didn't even change my own Join Date, although I started posting here in early 1999 - I just wanted to make sure JonB was taken care of.

There were others before JonB on the forums and some still post here under different User ID's as GR8 suggested. Jay Herbert founded the site and started the original BBS forums. JonB was post #28 - and it was suggesting ways to improve the site, of course. He was also our very first paid advertiser. I went ahead and adjusted Jay's unofficial join date to 12/7/97, the date of his first retained post - several others were lost in the archiving process. Anybody else prior to 2000 remember their original user ID and approximately when they joined? Happy to change yours as well...

 

[Joseph Houss]

Hmmmm, just looked at some old membership cards "member since 1997". Not sure when I first accessed the OLD website...

Maybe they should just laminate "VCA old fart" to mine!

 

[GR8_ASP]

I can only recall a few names from back then. Jay of course. Wingking, as he organized of a pre-VOI gathering (in Boulder City). That puts the database use somewhere in the Dec 1997 to April 1998 timeframe. Seems there was some kind of AOL forum prior to that as well. But years have clouded the memories too much.