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June 12, 2002 here, but i was a pMachine user before that!

Well I’m 34 so I guess that makes me older than a lot of people on here

Wipe yer nose, youngster—I’m 46.

Then again, my first blog post using EE wasn’t until May 2004, so I guess I’d have to be considered a junior oldie.

January 25, 2006 10:15 PM but I think I had been testing and playing with EE for about 6 months before I joined the forum (I always try and work it out before asking for help!) - will have to go back and look at my old files.

Before EE I was using Coranto initially for one site, probably about 1999 and I jumped on the MT bandwagon fairly early on and watched that develop. Funnily enough I still have a couple of sites on MT and was working on one last night - 14,000 spam comments to clean out - none got as far as being published but annoyingly there were about a dozen genuine comments amongst them that had been filtered (oh joy!). I can’t be bothered to put the time and effort in to make that site more robust as it’s earmarked for migration to EE 2.0 in ‘Summer 2008’...

Well I’m 34 so I guess that makes me older than a lot of people on here

Wipe yer nose, youngster—I’m 46.

Then again, my first blog post using EE wasn’t until May 2004, so I guess I’d have to be considered a junior oldie.

I’m just shy of 54, and tryin’ to hang tough.  😉

I moved to EE from the original pMachine. This thread caused me to try to recall how I first learned about pMachine, but I guess that’s lost in the mists of my increasingly aged memory.

Joined March 2002 (pMachine before that), turned 52 yesterday - that makes me v3.0.creaky in EllisLab chronology.

I also remember Rick before he took the Montel photo-pose coaching class... 😊

34/46/52/54 - All just a bunch of wet behind the ears, young, snot-nosed kids 😊

I’m 44. 😊

I was trying to remember/look up when pMachine was first released, but I don’t have the info.

Rick?

As for ‘pMachine before that’ was that how it was? Or have we made up our own folklore with the passing of time. 😊

I was trying to remember if I had pMachine before I joined this forum. Don’t think so. I’m pretty sure that the original forums here (which were themselves only a cleverly tricked out pMachine frontend running on a stock backend pMachine install as far as I remember Rick saying at the time - I remember asking him where he got the forum software from and he said something like “Shh, but it’s not a forum, it’s pMachine tricked out to look like one”) were put up at almost exactly the same time as pMachine was released, as the original pMachine script, also if I remember correctly, was released by Rick via the forum URL.

I might well be wrong, it’s a long time ago now!

Mebbe Rick’ll stop by, sit down, light his pipe, kick off his slippers and tell us tales of pMachine yore with a little more accuracy. 😊

Anyway, pMachine/EE/EllisLab etc. has been quite a ride to hitch along with.

And it’s still the best CMS out there by a mile.

I’m not the longest serving EllisLab guinea pig though, by the looks of things in the members list. That medal goes to this guy;

http://www.rumproast.com/

Who, strangely enough, I have never heard of before. Mebbe it’s Rick’s alter ego. 😊

Holy Cow! Time does fly… Tomorrow will be the two year anniversary of my signed up in the forums.

February 09, 2004

And I was a pMachine user before that.

There needs to be an EE 2.0 contest and it needs to be a fixed game so I can win!

I’m not the longest serving EllisLab guinea pig though, by the looks of things in the members list. That medal goes to this guy;

http://www.rumproast.com/

Who, strangely enough, I have never heard of before. Mebbe it’s Rick’s alter ego. 😊

I remember reading about the forums just being tricked out pMachine as well. Almost remember that quote.

And as for the above guy, went to the site. There’s some things I wish I could just unread. I like opinionated political people of either party. Just not bitter ones.

Well this thread turned into a contest to find the most geriatric EE user.  While I’m not in last place, I’m definitely not winning - 38

I released pMachine in January of 2002.  I launched the site and announced it in December of 2001.  In May of 2002 I changed the licensing, and forked pM into Free and Pro versions.

I started developing EE in early 2003.  Within a year of releasing pMachine, it became obvious to me that a more powerful architecture was needed.  We released EE in April of 2004 (I think), so it took me about a year to write the core application.  Some of you might recall that EE didn’t even have a search feature initially.  It was pretty lean.

In there Rick and I partnered up and open the doors to pMachineHosting.com (now EngineHosting.com) on Oct 28th, 2002.  We actually put our first client online under pMachineHosting in mid-Oct as she was suffering major hosting issues at the time, and she is still a client today.  Been quite a ride, Rick 😉

When did you open the forums Rick? As I recall, it wasn’t there from the start. In fact I think there was very limited documentation the first go I had with pMachine.

the most geriatric EE user

Could we change that to “senior” or something. Geriatric is usually applied to those that are elderly and required medical attention 😊

I was surprised when I saw actual photos of Paul Burdick looking like Ben Stiller, and now y’all are telling me Rick really looks like the host of “Deal or No Deal?”

Does this outfit have anyone on staff who looks like Jessica Simpson, by any chance?