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Who was the very first poster on MUMSNET?

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Jollymum · 20/08/2004 21:32

Just been browsing, as you do, and realised that so many people I "knew" aren't here any more. Can't even remember a lot of the names but whenever you logged on, there they were. I do remember people like Rhubarb and Custy, Twinkie, Aloha and a few others. Are we all old Mumsnetters, how long has it been going, "cos I reckon at least two/three years now and if you're an original, like me, are you still posting or have you just changed your name?!The site has changed so much (for the better), I think) but when I started logging on, there were only about ten or so threads, none of this category stuff. Ah well, feeling old and signing off. Welcome to any new people signing on tonight-this site really can help you, it makes you laugh/cry, it gives brilliant SN advice and sometimes it's just >>>>>> silly!!

tech · 24/08/2004 00:14

The very first mumsnet talk thread was this one . The site started up in March 2000, and Talk started in April 2000. By the by, It's true the timestamps are a bit screwed up on some messages. It's on the list of things to fix. we should get it done this week some time. I'll have a look at search. I've never noticed before but archive searching by date seems not to be working. Hmm.

tech · 24/08/2004 01:11

I think a lot of the posters in the first few weeks were friends and family - no-one else had really heard of mumsnet then as we could never afford to advertise. The number of members started growing through word of mouth and because we left flyers in playgroups and so on around London - then it started to take on a life of its own. I remember you could keep up with pretty much all the talk postings then. "Last day" used to return about 25-30 threads. Eee them were the days (or something along those lines.) I should dig out an old backup copy and make it available on the site for nostalgia purposes some day.

Regards,
Tech

tech · 24/08/2004 21:00

Hi Fio2,

It says more than 500 found, but on the line above that it gives you the exact count. It just won't display more than 500 at a time.

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