Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?

Subject: Purely out of interest
From: Mick Lowe
Date: 09 Mar 18 - 08:44 PM

Is there anyone here (apart from Joe of course) who was posting threads etc some 16 years ago?

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Mar 18 - 08:55 PM

You betcha, Mick. Bill_D (Bill Day of Maryland) is first and foremost in my mind.
I was on vacation when Mudcat opened in October 1996, and didn't find Mudcat until January 1997. There were a few other people who posted in those first few months, who still post here.
Big Mick Lane was one, although his presence is diminished now. Same with Martin Ryan.
But if your perameter is 16 years ago in 2002, there are lots of people still here who were here then.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest
From: Mick Lowe
Date: 09 Mar 18 - 09:07 PM

You've confused me now Joe.. I thought you were one of the founding fathers of this wonderful website. But I thank you for your help in getting me back into the community. Just wondering if the likes of Mick Brackn are still checking out the site.

Just wondering how many people still here remember "Prof's Pages"...

I know vanity on my part. But your comments are much appreciated.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest
From: Jack Campin
Date: 10 Mar 18 - 06:24 AM

I think I've been around that long.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Mar 18 - 04:53 PM

2000.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest
From: Snuffy
Date: 10 Mar 18 - 05:03 PM

Signed in from 2000, but a visitor in '98 & '99

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest
From: Kenny B (inactive)
Date: 10 Mar 18 - 05:06 PM

First post Dec 01

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 10 Mar 18 - 06:06 PM

1998! I mostly lurk now, but I remember some golden years, golden folks, now singing in the next room...

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest
From: fat B****rd
Date: 10 Mar 18 - 06:09 PM

November 8th 2000

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest
From: Joe_F
Date: 10 Mar 18 - 06:22 PM

2000. But it seems I am *mentioned* a couple of years earlier.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest
From: mousethief
Date: 10 Mar 18 - 06:34 PM

My first post appears to have been 29 August 2000. In which I made a fool of myself, so nothing has changed on that score.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 10 Mar 18 - 06:40 PM

I see that the first thread I put a tracer on was in January 1997, tho I didn’t post in it, so I’ve been around that long. I was first alerted to Mudcat while playing (harp) in a trad music session on the south coast of Ireland - I live here, tho I’m not Irish.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest
From: MudGuard
Date: 10 Mar 18 - 06:58 PM

my first posting is from January 15, 1999

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 10 Mar 18 - 07:25 PM

My first ever post here was on 3rd October 2000, when I requested lyrics for "Sam the Skull", of all things....and got them pretty quickly too!
It was a friend who was recording my son's (indie) band who suggested I try the site for folk song lyrics.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest
From: Jon Bartlett
Date: 10 Mar 18 - 11:19 PM

April 97
Jon

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest
From: Joe Offer
Date: 10 Mar 18 - 11:54 PM

My first post was 5 January 1997, message #1116 in Mudcat history. I spent months looking for the Digital Tradition after it was dropped from its Xerox site. I've posted over 30,000 messages - I think there are many who have posted more.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Mar 18 - 12:53 AM

It's interesting to look back at the first messages posted at Mudcat. For the first two weeks, Max was pretty-much alone in answering requests and questions, and then Dick Greenhaus took over. Bert and Susan Arnowitt were early contributors, and Susan of DT came on at Message #222. There's a "Peter," who might be Peter Timmerman; and an "Ed" who might be Ed Pellow. "Lindahl" comes in at Message 228, and "RS" was an early poster - haven't seen those names in years. Mary LaMarca first posted at Message 267, and continued posting until her death. Bob Schwarer was an early poster (#243), and he still posts occasionally. There were posts from somebody named "Bill," but I don't know what Bill that would be. Bill Day first posted 7 Nov 1996, post number 303 - he's been posting as Bill_D ever since. He's the first one outside the Max/Greenhaus/Susan/Bert consortium who's still posting regularly.

Here's the URL od the first post, which doesn't exist. The first post in existence is #4. Change that last "1" to a "4" and you can see it. Keep changing that last number to see other early posts. https://mudcat.org/Detail.CFM?messages__Message_ID=1

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 11 Mar 18 - 03:17 AM

my first post was in March 2002, but I did post twice as Guest, Sandra before joining.

sandra

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: vectis
Date: 11 Mar 18 - 03:29 AM

I first posted as me in Jan 2001 but had lurked and been a guest before that. I loved and still love the DT and use/d it a lot,

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Cool Beans
Date: 11 Mar 18 - 07:01 AM

I've been posting since 1998 or 99. Still here.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: MMario
Date: 11 Mar 18 - 07:20 AM

I started posting in'98.

But I was using the site before that. And I still do, though I don't post much.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: GUEST,Stu who was stigWeard who was Sugarfoot Jack
Date: 11 Mar 18 - 08:20 AM

Mudcat has been a major part of my online existence for nearly two decades. I too first posted in 2001, although I'm taking a break at the moment having become disillusioned by the bear pit that below the line has become and which seems to have a meanness about it that I don't need in my life at the moment. It was ever thus in a way, but it seems I don't learn much now whereas I used to learn a lot from people I never would have met otherwise. Some of my most fundamental views were challenged and altered as a result of these discussions.

I learn lots from above the line, especially in the early days as a fledgling bouzouki player seeking advice and the kindness and generosity of folk got me off the ground. The Cat was a place you could ask beginner's questions without being treated like a dullard, and this continues to this day.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 11 Mar 18 - 10:26 AM

Before 2000, I am pretty sure...

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 11 Mar 18 - 11:18 AM

how would one find out?

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Mar 18 - 12:06 PM

Look at your post history.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Jim McLean
Date: 11 Mar 18 - 12:29 PM

I think I posted before 2000.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Felipa
Date: 11 Mar 18 - 12:44 PM

I've been posting on Mudcat most of this century, though not always as a Mudcat member. I think there are plenty of us longer-term participants still around.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Banjo-Flower
Date: 11 Mar 18 - 01:23 PM

16th August 2001

Gerry

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: GUEST,Ed Pellow
Date: 11 Mar 18 - 01:37 PM

There's ... an "Ed" who might be Ed Pellow.

Not me Joe. I was aware of the DT since the Xerox days. I can't recall if I contributed any earlier, but my first post under my own name was in July '99. I posted under various monikers until the 'Healing for a mouse' thread caused the login policy to change.

I'm still around (obviously) and look in most days. I rarely post now, but occasionally as 'GUEST' or 'GUEST,Ed'

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Helen
Date: 11 Mar 18 - 01:41 PM

Request for: Let us go to the valley by the ocean 27-May-97 - 10:35 AM, but I had been lurking for a bit before that and I've been here ever since, mostly.

Learned lots, searched for answers lots, found lots of wonderful Mudcat people to connect with. Mudcat has been my internet constant for nearly 21 years.

Thanks Max, Joe, everyone,
Helen

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Raedwulf
Date: 11 Mar 18 - 01:47 PM

I was! Sort of... Apparently, my first post was 22/8/02. I blame Tig. It's all her fault!

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: GUEST,khandu (cookieless)
Date: 11 Mar 18 - 02:55 PM

I first posted Aug.2000 for lyrics. Got them and signed as a member later that year. I posted often until 2008, sporadically since. Still a member but rarely post.

khandu

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Mar 18 - 03:22 PM

June 2000 for me.

Good to see you still about, Stu. We miss you but you have to do what is best for yourself.

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Mar 18 - 05:10 PM

I joined in 1999, after reading a thread about... aw, hell, here it is: Catspaw - The Recovery, Part III. A kinder, gentler Mudcat, full of friends (many unmet), and possibilities.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Mar 18 - 05:12 PM

"Joined" not being accurate, as there were no memberships back then. There was no need.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: selby
Date: 11 Mar 18 - 05:31 PM

2000 but as a guest for a while before that

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Mar 18 - 09:12 PM

Yes, I'm still here, though age and commitments have limited my **regular** participation.

My claim to fame is that I was in the room watching when Susan of DT and a non-member, Dennis Cook, were comparing notebooks of songs and thinking about merging their databases. Dick Greenhaus was there and soon worked up a way to transfer stuff to 5 1/4" floppys.. for a couple of years, the Digital Tradition was distributed that way.... then it was briefly hosted, as Joe Offer says, by Xerox... then Dick G found Max, and AWAY we went.

Has Bert Hansell posted recently? I see him on FB...

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 11 Mar 18 - 09:37 PM

I'm a newcomer, only here since December 2003.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Mar 18 - 09:50 PM

Gee, looking at these comments, I get the impression that some of us must be REALLY old! No wonder we're so crotchety...

I remember when Dick was still willing to distribute the Digital Tradition on single-sided floppy disks. How much data did those things hold?

I downloaded my first copy of the DT from the "files" area of Celebration Station, a dialup computer bulletin board (BBS) run by Noel Paul Stookey at Ellsworth, Maine. I think that was long before Dick moved to the Xerox site on the World Wide Web.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Stewie
Date: 11 Mar 18 - 11:20 PM

My first post was September 1999. I think I lurked for bit before that.

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Mar 18 - 12:02 AM

As a registered member October of 2001, as a guest some time before that, 2000, possibly 1999.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: GUEST,Martin Ryan
Date: 12 Mar 18 - 04:18 AM

Yes - I had submitted files to the Digital Tradition shortly betore Max took in that homeless wanderer.

Regards

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 12 Mar 18 - 04:36 AM

I am quite a 'Newbie' as a member - August 2002 , but was a guest for a while before that !!

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 12 Mar 18 - 04:39 AM

1998 under another "handle"
RtS

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: treewind
Date: 12 Mar 18 - 05:05 AM

First post April 2002.
I suspect, though, that many who were posting then aren't now. I don't visit Mudcat as often as I used to, and the list of recent postings is much shorter than it used to be.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Will Fly
Date: 12 Mar 18 - 06:32 AM

I'm just a baby - not yet into my teens. My first post was on 8th August 2008 - not quite 10 years ago - when I asked for info about the Robert Johnson who accompanied dulcimer player Roger Nicholson on their album, "Nonesuch for Dulcimer".

I got my information, and a very funny reply from a certain Greg Stephens (The Boat Band) - only to realise that it was the same Greg Stephens I'd played blues duets with back in the mid-1960s and lost touch with!

Such was the beauty of Mudcat then. I post far less these days, mainly because I have other things to do, but also because many of the people who posted then have gone from Mudcat - one way or another.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: GUEST,Mick Pearce, MCP
Date: 12 Mar 18 - 06:46 AM

Joined in 2005, but lurked and posted occasionally as guest from 2001.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: JennieG
Date: 12 Mar 18 - 06:52 AM

Definitely 2000, but not quite sure of the month.....May rings a bell. Still here, still reading, still posting from time to time.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Iains
Date: 12 Mar 18 - 07:07 AM

My first post was in '99. I made a request for info on two Irish Songs.
Despite my appalling "phonetic" irish mudcat members deciphered my request and responded in detail within 24 hours. Very impressive.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: rich-joy
Date: 12 Mar 18 - 09:14 AM

Under my moniker, from October 2001, but Guest-posted and lurked before that, encouraged by Stewie!!

Cheers!
Rich-Joy
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