Uberhistory: Uber's Childhood, '99-'00 (5969 hits)
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Submitted by Axolotl (View user info) at 2006-02-28 09:06:29 EST
Ubersite is like family to us, in a lot of ways. We all share the same common Uberculture, such as haha rabbit and y helo thar butseks, we review alike, and we all tolerate rape (Except Teephphah).
People have compared this to the Canterbury Tales: we're all bored at work, and tell each other tales to amuse one another. It wasn't always like this, though.
I'm chronicling the history of Uber, from its conception to the present. This will include:
-Major/important posts
-Memorable alters
-Events such as Ubermadness, and Gibberish's "death"
-Notable drama, such as Urbane's vagina, Brink DDT's banning
-and other Uber milestones
For the otherwise uninformed, those interested in the history of Uber, and its posts, I present:
UBERHISTORY
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1999 (Posts 1 through 14)
The beginnings of Ubersite are shrouded in mystery and darkness known only by the Creator, Bart Cilfone. Looking back through the archives of Ubersite, I make the pilgrimage through the old posts, the never-reviewed, long-forgotten automated submissions, and the original foundations of the site.
Bart Cilfone was a Chicago web designer who had already created BoredatWork.com, and was presumably getting hits from that website from Google. He decided to design a social experiment, in which a forum would be set up, on any subjects possible. Years of hard work (all right, sitting at a computer coding) would be put into this before Uber really got off the ground in 2003, but the early days were some of the most important.
There are many things that are unknown. What's known is that using his default name of Cool Ubersite User before he was registered, Bart Cilfone made the first ever post on November 30th, 1999.
It was called...Harry Caray. http://www.ubersite.com/m/1
It was Uber's first post, and the beginning of what was to become one of the greatest obscure forum websites on the intraweb. W0000000000.
The post itself sucked. It's useful for nothing except spamming to try and get it on heated, for which Thorpe was banned, I understand. Some of the other masterpieces from Uber's early history are:
http://www.ubersite.com/m/3 Homer Simpson Picture - Cool Ubersite User - 11/30/1999
http://www.ubersite.com/m/4 This is my email test - Cool Ubersite User - 11/30/1999
http://www.ubersite.com/m/10 This is the greatest site I've ever seen - Bart Cilfone - 12/16/1999
All of these, aside from setting the building blocks for Uber, set the building blocks for the shitpost. Bart was playing around with the attachments and email, and left us with these glorious reminders of the history of Uber. Later, he made the first political post: http://www.ubersite.com/m/11 My personal political causes, by Bart Cilfone, 12/18/1999.
Later, it seemed Bart had a bit of bipolar disorder.
http://www.ubersite.com/m/12 Barticus - Cool Ubersite User - 12/18/1999
http://www.ubersite.com/m/13 Barticus is a fool - Cool Ubersite User - 12/18/1999
Only fourteen posts were made in the short time in the first month of Uber's existence, December 1999. Bart was very worried about Y2K, I'm sure, and he didn't want to waste all his hard work when the world's computer's crashed and destroyed Ubersite.
But as far as the early days of Uber are concerned, maybe Cool Ubersite User had the right idea:
http://www.ubersite.com/m/8 This site bites it hard, 12/3/1999
Maybe a little harsh...this was the testing grounds of Ubersite. Without this, nothing would be.
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2000 (Posts 15 through 2011)
The year 2000 was a little better for Uber...slightly. Bart tried his hand at humor on January 7 with Poor Cubs: http://www.ubersite.com/m/15.
Because Bored@Work had been around for a year longer than Ubersite, it had already more or less established itself as a website for distracted workers. Bart saw Ubersite as a source of ideas to put into B@W. The first Ubersite post on Bored@Work was Horoscopes: http://www.ubersite.com/m/17, by Cool Ubersite User, 1/07/2000. It's the kind of thing you get forwarded to you in an email, and you flame the sender, but Bart deemed it worthy.
Another Bored@Work post is Medium Schmedium, http://www.ubersite.com/m/105 1/29/00, which is also the first plagiarism on Ubersite! Bart ripped off an idea from Seinfeld and put it on B@W, and garnered in the hits. The level of hits on his early posts is why nearly a million people on the internet have seen Bart's work.
For some reason only messages 15 and 17 show up on the old messages list, but you can manually type in http://www.ubersite.com/m/16 to get Wordplay, by Cool Ubersite User, 1/07/2000. This is the first actually funny post on Ubersite. Marvel and laugh in great mirth.
True, the first posts on Uber were fairly bad. In the early days, it was mostly stuff Bart got forwarded in an email, such as http://www.ubersite.com/m/568 - Windows Error Haikus, 4/26/00. For this, Bart received:
Submitted by gibberish (user info) at 2004-07-13 00:27:41 (#)
Ranking: -1
At least you know how to copy and paste from an email.
Other notable posts are "
http://www.ubersite.com/m/617 - Aim Higher! - Bart, 5/03/00, which is the first NSFW post on Ubersite. Kiddie porn, even more. I searched and searched, but couldn't find the first post with NSFW in the title.
http://www.ubersite.com/m/947 - $700,000 to get plastered with Rob Zimmer! - Rob D, 6/21/00. This is special because Ryan Donovan reviewed it. Ryan Donovan never reviews things. He signed up March 23rd, 2000, and has reviewed only few and far between.
http://www.ubersite.com/m/1004 - New Images, Jeano, 6/30/00. Mrs. Jeano (otherwise known as user id #3) wanted to make new images for Uber, but sadly, her site is no longer working and lost to history.
http://www.ubersite.com/m/1251 - Whirlycott, 8/28/00, Telephone Banking. Whirlycott is one of Bart's real-life friends, and he's also the man who fixed Ubersite when it crashed November 11-14 2005. Shlongy discovered this post several years later, and wrote the following:
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-08-09 21:35:44 (#)
Ranking: -2
Yes, this is true.
What's your point?
You suck ass.
Good old Shlongy (old being the operative word), he always has nice things to say about others. Bart sparked what was perhaps the first political argument on Ubersite with I Am the Illegitimate Child of George W. Bush, http://www.ubersite.com/m/1720, 11/10, during the height of the Election 2000 scandal. People reviewed it 3 years later, and Bart argued with them, telling them they were debating something that happened ages ago.
One thing is that there are very few reviews from posts back then, most likely from the few users there to begin with. The only reviews are usually pilgrims who have rediscovered these forgotten posts.
And mercy me, it's the first alter, Jesus!
http://www.ubersite.com/m/1994 - 12/27/00, Damn I'm Special.
This was back when being an alter was original. Now the best we have is Mr_T and Amorphous (Michael Jackson is still cool).
A lot of those ancient posts were movie reviews. Both Ryan Donovan, one of the site's first non-Bart users, posted many of these, as well as Bart.
MOVIE REVIEWS
http://www.ubersite.com/m/61 - Bart, 1/22, The Hurricane
http://www.ubersite.com/m/225 - Bart, 3/04, the Insider
http://www.ubersite.com/m/415 - Bart, 4/04, Erin Brockovich
http://www.ubersite.com/m/457 - Bart, 4/10, High Fidelity
http://www.ubersite.com/m/328 - Donovan, Oscar reviews, 3/23 (This was the first of many Donovan Oscar reviews, and the first in a series that would span seven years.)
http://www.ubersite.com/m/826 - Donovan, Mission Impossible 2, 6/06
http://www.ubersite.com/m/914 - Bart, Big Momma's House, 6/16
http://www.ubersite.com/m/1045 - Me, Myself and Irene, Donovan, 7/07
http://www.ubersite.com/m/1078 - The critic, Star Wars, 7/13. I suppose you could call this an alter if you wished, but the post is entirely shit.
Drumroll please...
You're a Racist, Dr. Seuss - 12/03/2000, by Donovan http://www.ubersite.com/m/1838
In 2000 the post accusing a beloved children's writer of racism and communism was posted by none other than Donovan. After unbroken years on the MVM, it was just recently forced off by Forthewin's MS Paint.
One of the strange things about Uber back then were the random automated posts. Perhaps they're random to me, a recently new Uberuser, but these posts were sent in by spambots and programs like Joke-a-Day. I remember Joke-a-Day and This Day in History being sent to me years ago when I was just a pup...
Let's take a look at some of the automated posts. Message 2000...
"As far as you are concerned, there is no message 2000."
Weeps. What about messages 2001 and 1999?
http://www.ubersite.com/m/2001 - Get off my lap, kid! Dogbyte, 12/28
http://www.ubersite.com/m/1999 - Classic Joke a Day, 12/28, 2000
They're not that great...
In the course of my travels, I found the post that hadn't been reviewed the longest, almost having gone six years without acknowledgement. http://www.ubersite.com/m/538 - Heads-up Newsletter, pulling out navigation plugs, with 2 hits, and no reviews.
Sorry. I've already reviewed it. Find a new ancient post.
Messages 2040-2043 are very weird, especially their dates of posting.
http://www.ubersite.com/m/2040 - Doesn't exist
http://www.ubersite.com/m/2041 - posted 2/21/2002
http://www.ubersite.com/m/2042 - posted 2/21/2002
http://www.ubersite.com/m/2043 - posted 1/10/2001
"As far as you are concerned, there is no message 2040."
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I hate when Bart does that.
After over a year, Uber hadn't changed much. Bart was still the main poster, supported minorly by Ryan Donovan. He would need a lot more online clout and users before he could manage to put his social experiment into real action.
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These are some pictures that remind me of Ubersite. In some way, shape or form, these images have been assosciated with Uber and its users in my mind.
User Reviews
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2007-11-30 22:42:20 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Razor (user info) at 2006-03-02 11:40:37 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
This was well researched. Let's see how you do as Ubersite starts to get some activity.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-03-01 08:22:03 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Flying_buttmonkey (user info) at 2006-03-01 03:07:10 (#)
Ranking: 0
November 13th, 2003. Flying_Buttmonkey registers. No one notices.
Carol Richards had better be in this. That fucking alter ruined my perfect +2 streak back when I cared. It pissed me off it did.
CIRCLE OF TRUST MY ASS!
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Oh yeah, she's in this.
Submitted by Calios (user info) at 2006-03-01 04:23:11 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
woo! i totally ownzored post 1999 like 6 months ago
Submitted by Flying_buttmonkey (user info) at 2006-03-01 03:07:10 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
November 13th, 2003. Flying_Buttmonkey registers. No one notices.
Carol Richards had better be in this. That fucking alter ruined my perfect +2 streak back when I cared. It pissed me off it did.
CIRCLE OF TRUST MY ASS!
Submitted by DudeThatsBOSH (user info) at 2006-03-01 02:59:11 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
saweeeeeeeeeeeet
but yes i am interested in seeing newer installments
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-03-01 02:39:29 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by bart (user info) at 2006-02-28 20:43:31 (#)
Ranking: 2
It's a little more complicated than this, but most of this is close to the truth.
You should read this - http://www.ubersite.com/m/9561 - to get an idea of what Bored at Work was like back then.
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this is like Moses posting and sayin', "yeah, i had three tablets, but I dropped one and broke it, so what?"
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 23:01:09 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2006-02-28 22:59:56 (#)
Ranking: 2
I have faded back into the woodwork!
weeeeeeeps
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You haven't posted in months!
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2006-02-28 22:59:56 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I have faded back into the woodwork!
weeeeeeeps
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 21:48:50 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
By the way, would Ryan Donovan's embarassing post be post #2? It's not that offensive, but I guess it could be considered sexist.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 21:46:50 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
That was perhaps the longest review I've ever seen by Bart. He usually drops of -2nocomments.
I'm sure you're used to it, but I hope you don't mind all the shenanigans directed at you, ie copied from Seinfeld, is gay, has no girlfriend. We see you more as our Fearless Leader, than a real human with feelings.
Weeps.
After Squattail and Enraged Baboon, I'm SURE you're used to criticism.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 21:44:33 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-02-28 21:24:23 (#)
Ranking: 2
Man, I just read the entire transcript of bart's review and a couple of thoughts come quickly to mind...
1) What the fuck was he babbling about?
2) I guess I won't need to take that Tylenol PM to go to sleep tonight - that review did the trick, and
3) bart had a girlfriend? I call shenanigans.
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Of course he had a girlfriend. The King of Uber needs a Queen.
DERP
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-02-28 21:26:51 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
bart's reviewed MANY Shlongy posts. Here's one of his more long winded reviews.
Submitted by bart (user info) at 2004-11-16 18:43:31 (#)
Ranking: -2
No comment
He uses that one a lot in Shlongy posts, for some strange reason.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-02-28 21:24:23 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Man, I just read the entire transcript of bart's review and a couple of thoughts come quickly to mind...
1) What the fuck was he babbling about?
2) I guess I won't need to take that Tylenol PM to go to sleep tonight - that review did the trick, and
3) bart had a girlfriend? I call shenanigans.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 21:19:41 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Wow, Bart's never reviewed a post of mine before.
I knew there was something else behind the whole Cool Ubersite User thing, but I couldn't remember what. That's also related to why Jeano is user 3 but registered in 2003, and why a lot of the early users have unknown registration dates? You mentioned making an error and crashing the site in a post before.
Thanks for the information, Bart.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-02-28 21:19:31 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I wonder how many different colors of "pocket protectors" bart owns?
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2006-02-28 21:07:54 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
AND YOU GET LAID HOW, BART?
Submitted by bart (user info) at 2006-02-28 20:43:31 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
It's a little more complicated than this, but most of this is close to the truth.
You should read this - http://www.ubersite.com/m/9561 - to get an idea of what Bored at Work was like back then.
What happened there is that what I had at boredatwork.com was way too complicated to use and the site had next to zero traffic. I scrapped it and made it into a list of random seemingly bizarre links connected only by the common characteristic that I thought they were neat. I remember there was a link to a site about hissing cockroaches, audio clips of english phrases for spanish speaking people, and stuff along those lines.
Ubersite didn't exist, but whirlycott and I had built a thing called Interchange which was sort of a threaded newsgroup tool that had a Java applet front end that I wrote which connected using XML to a database app on the server. This was 1998 and we had basically built a modern day web service. I had a forum setup for myself that was linked from boredatwork.com so that people could leave comments about why they were so bored.
One day, Maddox came by and left a comment on the board that said something like "you should link to my site: http://www.xmission.com/~maddox ". So, I linked to his site and he linked to mine and neither of us got any traffic from each other.
I went on my merry path writing Ubersite and at some point Maddox's site started taking off. I never noticed because I had no particular reason to care. I was working on writing things for Ubersite both as submissions and code. The site was dead which is why I had the automated submissions coming in to make the front page of the site feel a little fresher if only for myself. This is basically a precursor to a modern day RSS aggregator only using email rather than XML feeds.
One day, Ryan Donovan emailed me because he wanted me to remove his email address from a potentially embarassing post. Me being the wonderful human being I am decided to oblige and ran an SQL update in MySQL to change the "sender" (aka. author) field on his posts:
UPDATE messages SET sender = 'Ryan Donovan <ryan.at.chiliwhack.com> WHERE sender_id = 9;
For those who know what this means, you may notice a syntax error in that the quoted string is not closed. To make a long story short, my where clause was not used and I accidentally set the sender of every post to be "Ryan Donovan <ryan.at.chiliwhack.com> WHERE sender_id = 9;".
Since MySQL didn't support transactions at the time and I didn't have any backups, I had no idea anymore who had written what, so I just updated everything to be authored by "Cool Ubersite User". The ones that had been submitted tied to user accounts were then updated to the actual authors' names, but the names on the "anonymous" posts were lost.
This wasn't a huge deal, but it pissed me off to the point that I started capturing backups. At this point, it had basically been he and I posting most things along with a handful of things from my girlfriend, her roommate, a guy from Ryan's work, etc. Everything was crap, but it didn't matter. I had lost the history of what had been posted on the site.
One day, this guy Randy emailed me and wanted to post a story of his up on boredatwork.com. I didn't want to deal with hosting his file, so I told him to submit it to the fledgling Ubersite and I would link to that. I put a link to it on boredatwork.com and that was it. I don't even think there were hit counters at the time, but I may have noticed from the server logs that he was getting a reasonable amount of traffic from boredatwork.com which I noticed was getting a decent amount of traffic from the link on Maddox's front page.
I went through and added a handful of Ubersite posts to boredatwork.com as a way of promoting Ubersite and vice versa. That's what started the whole symbiotic relationship between the two, although it was not as significant at the time as it may seem.
It's important to realize though that neither site had much traffic at all. I would run "grep POST access_log" to see if anyone had reviewed anything on the site on a given day - today there are a couple thousand comments per day. There was only one access_log for the server - today it rotates out every four hours and gets over 20MB in that span.
Anyway, I think that takes us up through 2000 and about the first 20 registered users.
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2006-02-28 19:37:37 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 19:03:15 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Genko (user info) at 2006-02-28 19:01:14 (#)
Ranking: 2
This was good. I hope you have an easy time with the rest of the series.
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It's almost done. I didn't expect this to have a high rating, as I thought most people might disagree with post choice, say I had no life, etc. I'm posting it no matter what, though.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 19:02:28 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by DCWoody (user info) at 2006-02-28 18:38:12 (#)
Ranking: 1
Oh man, If you haven't included Razor getting pissy and stopping Uberpulp then you really shouldn't post it.
Major posts and seriei
http://www.ubersite.com/m/13355
http://www.ubersite.com/m/23306
http://www.ubersite.com/m/26865
http://www.ubersite.com/m/23512
http://www.ubersite.com/m/16042
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Ah, that's what that was all about? I've read Uberia before, but I didn't know that Razor was having a problem with it. I'll add it in.
Submitted by Genko (user info) at 2006-02-28 19:01:14 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
This was good. I hope you have an easy time with the rest of the series.
Submitted by DCWoody (user info) at 2006-02-28 18:38:12 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Oh man, If you haven't included Razor getting pissy and stopping Uberpulp then you really shouldn't post it.
Major posts and seriei
http://www.ubersite.com/m/13355
http://www.ubersite.com/m/23306
http://www.ubersite.com/m/26865
http://www.ubersite.com/m/23512
http://www.ubersite.com/m/16042
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2006-02-28 18:14:52 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
I joined '03, just before Ubersite went critical. I still remember the furore when ubersite hit 5000 users, then 10000. Seems like small potatoes now.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 18:09:17 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by ChristPuncher (user info) at 2006-02-28 17:47:15 (#)
Ranking: 2
U R LIKE DAT GUY IN THAT SERIES ABOOT THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE, WHATS HIS NAME???
I THINK HES DEAD NOW SO WHO CARES.
GO RESEARCH WOO!!
THE COSMOS
WITH UM
CARL SAGAN WOO
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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
GO BEARS
FUCK DA PATRIOTS
WOOOO
Submitted by ChristPuncher (user info) at 2006-02-28 17:47:15 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
U R LIKE DAT GUY IN THAT SERIES ABOOT THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE, WHATS HIS NAME???
I THINK HES DEAD NOW SO WHO CARES.
GO RESEARCH WOO!!
THE COSMOS
WITH UM
CARL SAGAN WOO
Submitted by matnotharry (user info) at 2006-02-28 17:42:20 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Wahey
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 17:34:31 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-02-28 17:27:29 (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 10:19:52 (#)
Ranking: 0
By the way, there was a flash animation a while ago that was awesome...
It featured a choir of Electros singing, and PolyamorousAJ dancing about. I can't remember what it was called, does anybody know?
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I believe it was 'How Electro Got his groove back', and I think squattail did it, or some other long-banned ghuy
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Nah, I found it out, it was Rad's Uberflash. It's at about 5000 hits by now, featuring Lojope, Caulaincourt, Eric Rice, dancing Barts...
it's pretty good. I checked out Squattails, that's just shooting Electro apart and blowing off his swinging Beeb peener.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-02-28 17:33:55 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Oh Axo, squattail alerady has done a pretty excellent 'History Of Uber' post, which can be found here
http://www.ubersite.com/m/75308
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-02-28 17:27:29 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 10:19:52 (#)
Ranking: 0
By the way, there was a flash animation a while ago that was awesome...
It featured a choir of Electros singing, and PolyamorousAJ dancing about. I can't remember what it was called, does anybody know?
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I believe it was 'How Electro Got his groove back', and I think squattail did it, or some other long-banned ghuy
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 15:56:58 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by zakalwe (user info) at 2006-02-28 15:52:08 (#)
Ranking: 0
I'm shocked.
apollo said "no offence"!
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But of course.
Apollo's a cool cat.
I see what you mean about the +19000 user, but I'm just doing it recreationally, for an overview of Uberhistory, not a heavy study. Even I don't have that much time. It's nearly finished, so I'll be posting them no matter what.
Submitted by zakalwe (user info) at 2006-02-28 15:52:08 EST (#)
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I'm shocked.
apollo said "no offence"!
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2006-02-28 15:32:37 EST (#)
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incorrect
cool ubersite user was the posts that were submitted without having an account.
when they were changed over and had to be logged agaisnt someoen they were logged against 'cool ubersite user'
no offence but someone 19k+ shouldn't really be doing this, it should be less than 100 at the most, 200 at a push.
Submitted by NerfHerder (user info) at 2006-02-28 15:31:53 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Plus Two.
Submitted by Merlina (user info) at 2006-02-28 15:20:57 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 15:17:28 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by zakalwe (user info) at 2006-02-28 15:09:12 (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 13:47:54 (#)
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Submitted by loki (user info) at 2006-02-28 13:38:35 (#)
Ranking: 2
Before this is over, you have to go into the MickGinny drama and lordofthepost vs. Razor.
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What would that be?
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yeah, you're the perfect person to recount a history you never experienced.
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I lurked for a long time, Zakalwe. I'm giving it a shot.
Submitted by zakalwe (user info) at 2006-02-28 15:09:12 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 13:47:54 (#)
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Submitted by loki (user info) at 2006-02-28 13:38:35 (#)
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Before this is over, you have to go into the MickGinny drama and lordofthepost vs. Razor.
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What would that be?
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yeah, you're the perfect person to recount a history you never experienced.
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2006-02-28 14:06:52 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 13:47:54 EST (#)
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Submitted by loki (user info) at 2006-02-28 13:38:35 (#)
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Before this is over, you have to go into the MickGinny drama and lordofthepost vs. Razor.
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What would that be?
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2006-02-28 13:38:35 EST (#)
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Before this is over, you have to go into the MickGinny drama and lordofthepost vs. Razor.
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2006-02-28 13:25:47 EST (#)
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Submitted by HighVoltage900 (user info) at 2006-02-28 13:20:29 (#)
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Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2006-02-28 12:00:46 (#)
Ranking: 2
This is a fantastic idea.
You KNOW that O-Man and I had better be listed as "Best New Non-Alters of 2005." :p
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Good try bart, I knew I recognized your voice in all those songs. You're mistake was singing one of O-man's Uber rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody under the name of "Bart"
I'm on to you bitch.
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Har har. I am NOT an alter. Perhaps you've forgotten my camwhore extravaganza? - http://www.ubersite.com/m/76662
Besides, Bart wouldn't have the time to devise an alter with my magnitude and glory.
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2006-02-28 13:23:29 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 12:36:22 (#)
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captain Thorns - Mistress Fist might give you a run for your money. Anyone remember Raine Lark?
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MistressFist...tru, dat.
As far as Raine Lark...ohhhh yeahhhh....I remember that hottie...
*ejaculates*
Submitted by HighVoltage900 (user info) at 2006-02-28 13:20:29 EST (#)
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Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2006-02-28 12:00:46 (#)
Ranking: 2
This is a fantastic idea.
You KNOW that O-Man and I had better be listed as "Best New Non-Alters of 2005." :p
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Good try bart, I knew I recognized your voice in all those songs. You're mistake was singing one of O-man's Uber rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody under the name of "Bart"
I'm on to you bitch.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 12:58:37 EST (#)
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Submitted by simple_catalyst (user info) at 2006-02-28 12:58:02 (#)
Ranking: 2
game on.
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Oh yeah.
Submitted by simple_catalyst (user info) at 2006-02-28 12:58:02 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
game on.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 12:36:22 EST (#)
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Method - the stuff is blocked on my network, but I have a lot of the major stuff. I searched for what most most reviewed in each of the years, and other important posts as well.
captain Thorns - Mistress Fist might give you a run for your money. Anyone remember Raine Lark?
Shlongy - That particular post came up when I was searching Uberhistory
Orgasmatron - Nope, Badass did not post the awards, and his post is up to over 5000 hits.
thanks for the input
Submitted by ubetidid (user info) at 2006-02-28 12:32:44 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
this is great!
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2006-02-28 12:15:36 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2006-02-28 12:00:46 (#)
Ranking: 2
This is a fantastic idea.
You KNOW that O-Man and I had better be listed as "Best New Non-Alters of 2005." :p
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The man's got a point. The man's got a point, indeed.
Did mofo ever post the results from his 2005 Uber Awards thing?
Or was that just a way for him to rake in the hits and reviews?
Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2006-02-28 12:06:09 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
ooooooookay
What DMD said.
Razor's done a few posts like this... the modern day Uberversary being one of them. This might be something that's a little beyond your grasp having not been there the first two years. You should've collaborated with Razor or someone from way back in the day.
Hell, I think Razor's got a few posts in the archives that aren't even under his user info.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-02-28 12:01:30 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Wow. I'm a part of history.
This post of mine ALSO contains a brief history of Ubersite.
http://www.ubersite.com/m/65529
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2006-02-28 12:00:46 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
This is a fantastic idea.
You KNOW that O-Man and I had better be listed as "Best New Non-Alters of 2005." :p
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2006-02-28 11:24:03 EST (#)
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Ubersite was God-awful ugly when it first started. It still is, but that brown....
<blarf>
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2006-02-28 11:22:44 EST (#)
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P.S. if you have any questions about the stupid shit that goes on around here, I've been here a while and I do absolutely nothing at work, so you can pick my brain
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2006-02-28 11:20:45 EST (#)
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Here you go, stupid, if you want to see what Ubersite was like back in the day
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ubersite.com
Don't know if anyone already linked this in the reviews, I can't be arsed to look
Submitted by HighVoltage900 (user info) at 2006-02-28 11:12:30 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2006-02-28 10:56:09 (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 10:46:45 (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2006-02-28 10:28:16 (#)
Ranking: 2
Interested in becoming the Chronicler of Uber, eh?
Kickass enterprise you're starting up here.
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It's not too interesting at this point in time (99-00) but it gets a lot better.
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Well, sure. Things really pick up in the middle of 2005 when a daring young 'upstart' shows up and starts posting poetry all over the place.
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......Method's 18763th alter?
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2006-02-28 11:12:22 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Wow. This is quite an ambitious undertaking. And it should make hitwhores happy, too.
Godspeed, Ax. I look forward to your series.
Submitted by leilani (user info) at 2006-02-28 11:07:12 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
wow, i wish i had that kind of time on my hands. good luck with this.
also
OMG UR NUMBER IS AFTER 7000 AND U ARE DO1nG HISTORY!!!?/// WTFOMGROFLCOPTER!!!1
no really i think it's cool.
Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2006-02-28 11:05:46 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
I better get a mention.
I've been here for 12 months and there is not ONE single person here who likes me.
Plus, I've managed to avoid getting banned.
Submitted by YELLOW-MAN (user info) at 2006-02-28 11:02:54 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
hmm i'm intrigued, will you have more parts to this series? If so, will you feature any users in particular or just MVA people? Or just MVM?
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2006-02-28 10:56:09 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 10:46:45 (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2006-02-28 10:28:16 (#)
Ranking: 2
Interested in becoming the Chronicler of Uber, eh?
Kickass enterprise you're starting up here.
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It's not too interesting at this point in time (99-00) but it gets a lot better.
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Well, sure. Things really pick up in the middle of 2005 when a daring young 'upstart' shows up and starts posting poetry all over the place.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 10:46:45 EST (#)
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Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2006-02-28 10:28:16 (#)
Ranking: 2
Interested in becoming the Chronicler of Uber, eh?
Kickass enterprise you're starting up here.
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It's not too interesting at this point in time (99-00) but it gets a lot better.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 10:34:20 EST (#)
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Submitted by GodLovesALittleLovin (user info) at 2006-02-28 10:28:52 (#)
Ranking: 2
uberflash
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Thanks Glall, I'll search that.
Submitted by GodLovesALittleLovin (user info) at 2006-02-28 10:28:52 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
uberflash
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2006-02-28 10:28:16 EST (#)
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Interested in becoming the Chronicler of Uber, eh?
Kickass enterprise you're starting up here.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 10:24:10 EST (#)
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Was that Rad's Fat Fucking Adventure?
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 10:19:52 EST (#)
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By the way, there was a flash animation a while ago that was awesome...
It featured a choir of Electros singing, and PolyamorousAJ dancing about. I can't remember what it was called, does anybody know?
Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2006-02-28 10:18:04 EST (#)
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Sure
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 10:16:35 EST (#)
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Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2006-02-28 10:07:05 (#)
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Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2006-02-28 10:04:32 (#)
Ranking: 2
You're gonna get so many hits with so many links.
now to read it.
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I'm 100% sure that it's exactly what he wants. Solely based on this;
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-06 08:55:31 (#)
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Submitted by Agent_Smith (user info) at 2006-02-06 08:52:41 (#)
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you'll get over 10,000 hits on this.
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I was reading Fetish's hitwhoring post...didn't follow everything, though. A lot of that stuff is just asking to have your hits cut.
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Aha, Sphagnum. Checking the Uber archives? That wasn't my intention with this post, but the links do help. It's more about information about Uberhistory.
Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2006-02-28 10:07:05 EST (#)
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Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2006-02-28 10:04:32 (#)
Ranking: 2
You're gonna get so many hits with so many links.
now to read it.
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I'm 100% sure that it's exactly what he wants. Solely based on this;
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-06 08:55:31 (#)
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Submitted by Agent_Smith (user info) at 2006-02-06 08:52:41 (#)
Ranking: 0
you'll get over 10,000 hits on this.
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I was reading Fetish's hitwhoring post...didn't follow everything, though. A lot of that stuff is just asking to have your hits cut.
Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2006-02-28 10:04:32 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
You're gonna get so many hits with so many links.
now to read it.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-02-28 10:04:18 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
overtake the dead guy...
that's like in garden state yeah we're goin to a party after we bury your mom.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 10:02:48 EST (#)
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Submitted by Nellypaal (user info) at 2006-02-28 09:59:31 (#)
Ranking: 2
I pity the fact that you obviously have no social life to get in the way of this much research.
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Nope. I do it at work and school.
Submitted by Nellypaal (user info) at 2006-02-28 09:59:31 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I pity the fact that you obviously have no social life to get in the way of this much research.
Submitted by Death_Metal_Dude (user info) at 2006-02-28 09:56:58 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
thanks for the history lesson user 19000s
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 09:52:41 EST (#)
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Submitted by DCWoody (user info) at 2006-02-28 09:48:47 (#)
Ranking: 2
I better be mentioned here at some point.
Can't think what for, but I've been here for more than 3 years which has to be worth something.
I did play a large part in convincing Koolmang to piss off.
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I'll insert you in in the Koolmang proxy shenanigans.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 09:50:35 EST (#)
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Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2006-02-28 09:29:51 (#)
Ranking: 2
Haha, mate, Amorphous sucks ass. You should just post them under your normal account.
+2 because the amount of work you've put into this suggests you have the resolve to go through and complete this. You do realise how many people are going to complain about stuff you've missed out?
My advice: Don't just go for posts you'll remember, go through all the lists of posts and authors (Most reviewed, most reviews etc.) Maybe even ask for submissions so there is no big event that gets forgotten.
Some links that might come in handy:
http://www.ubersite.com/cgi-bin/users.cgi?sort=reviews&days=ALL
http://www.ubersite.com/cgi-bin/stats.cgi
http://www.ubersite.com//
http://www.ubersite.com//everyone.txt (This will be of no help whatsoever)
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I've got most of the major stuff down so far, I'm up to September 2005 in the chronicles. I've used a fair bit of those links, such as the users.cgi and Alexa ratings, but I've gotten the most memorable things down. People will complain, but I think I got the big stuff in the chronicles.
What's that you say about Morph-morph?
Submitted by DCWoody (user info) at 2006-02-28 09:48:47 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I better be mentioned here at some point.
Can't think what for, but I've been here for more than 3 years which has to be worth something.
I did play a large part in convincing Koolmang to piss off.
Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2006-02-28 09:31:20 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
+1 for the effort involved but methinks this is not going to go down so well.
Just my opinion, not that anyone gives a fuck what I thinks.
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2006-02-28 09:31:06 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I'm 19th on the Most Reviews Written list, but I'm just about to overtake the dead guy.
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2006-02-28 09:29:51 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Haha, mate, Amorphous sucks ass. You should just post them under your normal account.
+2 because the amount of work you've put into this suggests you have the resolve to go through and complete this. You do realise how many people are going to complain about stuff you've missed out?
My advice: Don't just go for posts you'll remember, go through all the lists of posts and authors (Most reviewed, most reviews etc.) Maybe even ask for submissions so there is no big event that gets forgotten.
Some links that might come in handy:
http://www.ubersite.com/cgi-bin/users.cgi?sort=reviews&days=ALL
http://www.ubersite.com/cgi-bin/stats.cgi
http://www.ubersite.com//
http://www.ubersite.com//everyone.txt (This will be of no help whatsoever)
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 09:29:39 EST (#)
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Submitted by OneCheapGeek (user info) at 2006-02-28 09:13:43 (#)
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And really, shouldn't this have been done by...I don't know, someone who has been around longer than your average pregnancy?
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Not at all. I mean, Bart isn't going to do it.
I've been around nine months, but I've researched this very well. I'm doing this for informative purposes, not ratings.
Submitted by HighVoltage900 (user info) at 2006-02-28 09:19:12 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Whoa dude. You put a lot of time into this.
I'm interested...
Submitted by OneCheapGeek (user info) at 2006-02-28 09:13:43 EST (#)
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And really, shouldn't this have been done by...I don't know, someone who has been around longer than your average pregnancy?
Submitted by OneCheapGeek (user info) at 2006-02-28 09:12:28 EST (#)
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Yawn.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-28 09:07:15 EST (#)
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There wasn't too much going on back then, but in future installments things will get better. 2003 onward was very active.