The oldest surviving discussion on myLot

Yeah, no clue what happened to her at all

Lord help me, just saw a response from @suspenseful on an old post...that's one person I don't miss at all

@JolietJake name and avatar is familiar but I don't actually remember them.

Yep, that was a little over 2.9 million discussions ago

@JolietJake a microchip. so in 2006, they still don't understand how and where pictures from digital camera should be uploaded.

I think they meant the processor for their computer, but that isn't where it would upload to

All of my photos are taken on my little digital camera that I bought in maybe 2008. I date myself!

@JolietJake I came along about three weeks later. It has been a fun ride.

Yep. I've been around in different disguises since October 2006 myself

@JolietJake I have seen also new users that write one discussion and then they disappear.

@LadyDuck Yep, I've responded on some of those myself lately...

Several of the earliest discussions are that way, only one post from the user

@JolietJake So the concept of continuous earning through steady interaction did not apply in the early days? And now, where a vintage post attracts some activity, there is unlikely to be any fiscal benefit, you reckon?

@pgntwo Back in the old times, it was 'I type, I earn, you type, you earn'. The old posts...well, if we are active on them, the original poster is going to receive something for any responses we leave, and we'll be compensated for replies back and forth to each other on them, but if we are posting on them and not getting any interaction back, it won't do anything for us

In the old system, when they had all users listed, there was page after page after page of users with only one post

@JolietJake That makes about the same in respect of joining date because I was here for a couple of weeks before I ever posted. It was my first site so I waited to familiarise myself with the system before venturing into writing my own discussion.

Mine would have been about 10 days earlier, I'll have to look to get the number

Can't get it, no record of the discussion on the Wayback Machine

I think it was to my right in the "this might interest you" section. I just had to check it out!

@JolietJake I guess that is the true definition of a one hit wonder.

It's also the only post they ever made...no responses or comments anywhere else from them...

@crossbones27

See my profile and tell if I look that old.

@hora_fugit I can remember from your profile. You don't look so old.

The site is 10 years old this month to the best of my knowledge

@JolietJake Yes same today as in the old site..

@JolietJake gotcha, I wondered, the searches on this site are more subject rather than time frame based at best

I've known about it for years, you used to be able to easily look up posts by the number.. In fact, you still can by using mylot.com/post/3 or whatever number after www for instance, this discussion is /post/2900485

@JolietJake Is that because they stopped paying for awhile?

@TheHorse I don't believe so, because they were still paying for 4 years after they hit 2 million

Here's a slightly strange fact...it took just under a year to reach 1 million discussions here, then almost 2 more years to get to 2 million...now, 7 years after that and it hasn't reached 3 million yet

Yep, I've seen quite a bit...

I'd never thought to try searching it there, I always just searched direct from here

Late May 2008

I've been a member continuously (under different names) since October 16 2006