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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: Gurtie on September 03, 2015, 06:35:09 AM

Title: scary
Post by: Gurtie on September 03, 2015, 06:35:09 AM
google logo change >> click through to puff piece >> first line says Googles been around 17 years.

which means I have known (or known of) most of you guys for 18 years. Brad, I think you were the first person to say hello to me on an SEO forum - I blame this all on you :)

Aaahh, alta vista...
Title: Re: scary
Post by: Rumbas on September 03, 2015, 08:08:00 AM
>alta vista.

Hotbot, Northern Light, Lycos, Snap and Inktomi

We're getting too old for this sh!t.
Title: Re: scary
Post by: JasonD on September 03, 2015, 09:12:33 AM
getting? ;)
Title: Re: scary
Post by: Mackin USA on September 03, 2015, 11:56:17 AM
We're getting [ARE] too old for this sh!t.

Do you remember "Michael Martinez" ? OR Jim Wilson after a night out on Saturday ? GOOD TIMES
Title: Re: scary
Post by: Brad on September 03, 2015, 12:06:35 PM
That is a heck of a long time.  Gurtie, I take the blame, but you far surpassed me about 5 minutes after we we met!  :)  

As far as folks here on Th3 Core, I've known Gurtie, ukgimp and later Rooftop the best, although I've known of or bumped into many of you from your postings on old WmW.

I feel old.

>Northern Light

I never figured out how to spam NL.
Title: Re: scary
Post by: rcjordan on September 03, 2015, 12:23:19 PM
I use the line "My first 4 domains were free.  There was no ICANN, no registrars." to date myself.  You'd be surprised how much this confuses even tech people.  But I spent my first years on domaining and commercial content development, not seo.  I really didn't pay attention to engines until AV started crawling.

>Martinez

Fastest typing forum member I've ever known.  Seemed like he could blow through 500 words in seconds.
Title: Re: scary
Post by: Gurtie on September 03, 2015, 12:31:08 PM
>> Martinez

yes, and who was the guy who had a fixation with Shakira?


I still miss Lots0 :(
Title: Re: scary
Post by: JasonD on September 03, 2015, 12:51:52 PM
> I use the line "My first 4 domains were free.

I remember those days well, but it cost me a fax machine and huge international fax bills to get them! If only I still had those old great domains.
Title: Re: scary
Post by: Brad on September 03, 2015, 01:17:33 PM
>>Martinez

First webmaster to chew me out. :)  Later, we were admins together on Spider Food Forums.  Still debate things via Twitter now and then.

>Lots0

His strafing runs to get the folks at IhelpYou forums on the warpath were most entertaining.  I think he peaked when he baited GoogleGuy to personally threaten him several times in public on SEW forums but in doing so Lots0 proved that warm fuzzy G had a lot more information about SEO's than they ever let on.  Good times.
Title: Re: scary
Post by: littleman on September 03, 2015, 03:43:37 PM
My memory may be faulting, but I remember NL liking a lot of text with heavy kw density.  I love those days by the way, it was so much fun to have the traffic come from multiple search engines and to see how many of them you could be on top of.
Title: Re: scary
Post by: Rupert on September 09, 2015, 05:19:30 AM
WOW.. I never realised we had SOOO many old timers here.  ;)

I am a real Newbie. I didnt build my first site until 1999. And then I had someone else build it for me!

I guess I was first online before then, but I would count the minutes, because dial up was so expensive. I guess that was from 1995. Cannot remember what I was doing.  Certainly not getting to know anyone. That was a really weird thing to do back then. 

Title: Re: scary
Post by: Rooftop on September 09, 2015, 10:07:42 AM
WOW.. I never realised we had SOOO many old timers here.  ;)



It's why I come here.  It's the only part of the internet that makes me feel young :)
Title: Re: scary
Post by: littleman on September 09, 2015, 03:34:27 PM
>Martinez

He(?) was the original articlebot.
Title: Re: scary
Post by: grnidone on September 14, 2015, 08:09:21 PM
Isn't it great to have known really good people for 18 years?
:)
Title: Re: scary
Post by: littleman on September 15, 2015, 03:47:08 PM
Yes it is, and we are all still in the game in one way or another.  Which is pretty extraordinary considering everybody thought this gig was transient.