Board Member

[BLB27]

What is "Board Member" in the information given on the right side of member postings?

[DanTreace]

That should be " Board Member Since" and is the 'date' of the persons first use on this Forum Board, some go back a decade or more.

[Wayne Sheldon]

Unfortunately, those dates/years for most of us may not be anywhere near correct? Original signups have been lost at least twice to system crashes or upgrades. For awhile, years given were fairly recent. I am not sure where the years given now came from. Maybe the admins found a way to recover them?
There are quite a few people still here that have been posting here for twenty years or more! A few, including myself, also reregistered at some point or another. When I first started here, my family was so scared of the internet, they insisted I register under a pseudonym. I can't even remember what it was that I used at first. After a few years, I reregistered under my own name because I am an antique automobile and model T person and would prefer to be known as such.

[MichaelPawelek]

Agree with Wayne. I found and posted on the original forum the second month it started back when you could go to a search engine that would only come up with 3-5 pages on the results. Found out right away the correct oil to use in a Model T!

[Matt in California]

Here I thought a board member was someone elected in the MTFCA!

Matt

[DLodge]

I have no idea any more when I discovered this forum, but I know that Gus Stangeland was running it at the time. I suspect that makes me somewhat of an old-timer here.

[MichaelPawelek]

Most were on a “dial up” connection and it would take minutes to download someone’s post if it included a photo!

[KWTownsend]

Since the original forum was back in the days of dial up modem that tied up the phone line, my internet time was after 9pm.

[Mark Gregush]

I don't know that the, when we first signed up way back in the internet cave man day was found, so some of us ballparked it. The current number of post shown, for the people that signed up back then, is low. Those early post counts were lost when things were changed.

[david_dewey]

Mine say I've been here since 1999-- Wayne's is a few years newer, but I think he was here back then too.
As for dial-up-- I'm STILL on it!! Where my house is there is no cable, no cell coverage, just copper wires to the substation. From there, I don't know--but they did run a fiber optic cable across the south side of my property--but it is dedicated to a 5G transmitter up the hill that doesn't reach me. AAAUGH!!
So, half the time I don't get to see the pics as my connection when good is at about 33K, sometimes I get almost to 48k! Most of the time I wait until I'm downtown and connect on my laptop to someone's wi-fi.

[paulgriesse]

Yah---I was showing more than 900 "posts" before I had to do a "new" sign up which only displays recent posts ----It would be nice to be able to retrieve some of those old posts.......But i will say The Forum works MUCH BETTER today than those old "dial up " days......Paul

[MichaelPawelek]

Even dial up was a huge bonus for getting information and parts. I rebuilt my first Model A back in 1988 before the Internet with pictures from one parts catalog and a book from the library. Took me 5 years by the seat of my pants and lots of mistakes…..

PS- And those first 5 years or so on Ebay with tons of NOS parts and accessories at really cheap prices. Bought my first Stromberg OF for five dollars. The problem was placing a bid 2 minutes before the auction ended to make sure the bid on dial up actually went through on time.

I lost a bid at $150 on a hand crank coil tester because my Windows 95 software froze on me and by the time I re-booted and got back on the Internet by dial up the auction had been over for 10 minutes.