Lets go back in time... do u remember your very first post?

[Jen]

Well after hitting my 6000 post Suzy reminded me of my very first post :lol: So i googled it and found it :rofl:


http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=28992 (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=28992)

Wow i have learnt so much from that first post :)
Since then i have learnt that collimation is a must know how :thumbsup:
I do have my 12inch dob with lovely eyepieces :D
And a lovely canon 500d camera and webcam
Eric showed me that there was more emoticons to be found in the forums :lol: Then i found the purple text :lol:
I met one other Swan Hillian with a 20inch SDM :eyepop:
And Eric also talked me into going to Snake Valley Astro camp best thing i have ever done (now going for the 5th time i think) :lol:

And i now have some amazing astro friends that i can dribble my passion with people that speak the same astro language as me ;) that i will treasure for ever from this site :)

What was your very first post and how much have you achieved since then?

[Forgey]

I really enjoyed reading your first post Jen, i had a few giggles :)
My first post is no way near as entertaining.
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showpost.php?p=742256&postcount=1

[jjjnettie]

:D Found it. Had to go back 7 years to 17/2/2005
I started posting in a thread entitled "Binocular Bollocks". :rofl:
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=866
You'll have to scroll down to posts 15 and 16.

[ballaratdragons]

Here it is JJ :thumbsup:
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showpost.php?p=9177&postcount=15

[ballaratdragons]

Here's mine: http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showpost.php?p=3808&postcount=1

:thumbsup:

[Terry B]

Very interesting. So how do you find your first post? I tried going to the last page of my list of posts (page 500) but it wasn't my first post.

[lacad01]

What an interesting trip down memory lane :)
Here's my first post (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showpost.php?p=280882&postcount=1)

[Suzy]

Just reading Nettie's post AND WHAT THA!! :eyepop::eyepop:
Two things I never thought I'd read together- Nettie and proud owner of department store telescope. :lol: :rofl:

Was it really that good?
What was the outcome?
Do you still have it?
Please I beg you continue the story...:prey:
Was Janoskiss serious or pulling your leg over that purchase?


In my first post I clearly remember something about frog poo on the mirror from Nettie and that stuck in my brain for some reason. I thought wow that actually happens, so gross! :lol:
I was rather shy when I first started, I was too shy to publicly give feedback on everyone's comments or didn't know if that was the right thing in fact :screwy: so I messaged everyone that commented :lol:.
Weird- I'd been reading the forums for a few month before I joined but I froze at that time and didn't know what to do.
It was my first ever forum ever - a forum virgin if you like. :shrug::P

Here's mine http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=58219&highlight=covering+primary+mirror


Okay... so what have I learned since joining?
I've learned that my family now thinks that I'm a real smart A**S and for the last 6 months I've been banned from talking Astro when we leave our house and I have to limit myself at home as to how much I can talk about it. Even tho hubby himself is into astronomy and science :screwy:. It's a mad world I tell ya. :lol:

[Liz]

:lol::lol::lol::lol: they have been soooo funny to read!! All little innocents, thats for sure, with department store scopes, as Suzy said, and h u s b a n d ...... jjj, eek. :lol:

Jen - and Paul (Zuts) foresaw Johnny ... .spooky!!

[jjjnettie]

:D I still have the tube of the ebay scope.
For all it's faults, it ended up being a wee ripper. I modded that thing to within an inch of it's life. LOLOL
But I wouldn't recommend one for a beginner with only a casual interest in the hobby. I was already flipped out over all things astro so was determined to make it work.
Living under dark skies certainly helped too.

[Suzy]

Aaaaah now that makes sense. :thumbsup:
Thanks Nettie. :D

Ahemmmm .... Liz, still waiting on your first post which you just happened to forget to include. :P:P:P
:lol:

[Liz]

:lol::lol: did a search and found one boring entry, not sure if the start, which wasnt a hello ... how rude!! Having telescope problems from the start. :help:

?? this one http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/search.php?searchid=2051029&pp=25&page=13

[Barrykgerdes]

I don't remember my first post without looking it up but I remeber a lot of more interesting things like my first kiss other than the ones from maiden aunts that I tried to avoid. It happened at school in Kindergarten. I was six at the time. Three girls coaxed me to play with them at lunch time. Two of them each tried to out do the other with me on the receiving end. I even remember their names but I won't disclose and I did not complain either. The year was 1940

Barry

[Kal]

My first post was a doozie to say the least :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=14731

Since then I've learned alot and I'm pretty sure I'd be able to identify a mercury transit now! :lol:

[supernova1965]

This is my first post I think I can't find any earlier ones.:D

[Jen]

:) lol Paula what scope did you end up getting :thumbsup:

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol: awww JJJ how cute were you with your little scope :lol: even then you were giving people advice where to go to see things with binos :lol: look at you now :eyepop: wow you have pics on the front cover of magazines ;)

[Jen]

:lol::lol: lol Ken im still waiting for this shop to open :P

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol: these are a great read :rofl: so innocent indeed :innocent: bring on some more LOL

Terry go up the top and click the search button and you can type key words, dates to threads etc...... or like i did googled it :P

Adam did you end up finding your nice dark site :question:

Suzy lol well i must say you are not shy around these forums any more you have plenty to say :lol: so the pretty pink shower cap with the poka-dots still a hit or do have one of those boring ones that you can steal from the motel rooms hahahaha :P

Liz your link didnt work :screwy:

Lol @ Baz and his first kiss nawwwwwww how do you remember that :lol:

LMAO at Kal's first post yep that was a doozie :lol: nice sun spots though hahahaha

keep em coming :D

[lacad01]

Jen, yeah but but very,very few and far between. It's either been Bowen Mountain or Katoomba airfield. Hopefully can get up to Katoomba this weekend :)

[barx1963]

I think this is my first post back in Nov 2008.

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=37521

I had been observing for a while and was using an ASV loan scope. Took it to Vicsouth and had a great time, although I did get told of by Perry Vlahos for not using the atlas that came with the scope!

Malcolm

[erick]

That was fun to find.

First Post 02-12-2006, 12:57 AM


Pleased to report that I have since found M32, the Jewel Box and M42! :thumbsup:

How about when you became brave and posted your first thread! (OK, I know the extraverts amongst us started with a big bold brash thread!! I came in with a whimper.) Here is mine 19-12-2006, 12:10 PM :-



I'm still confused :help: But I did see that gap with 30x binoculars fairly well!

[Terry B]

I found my first post. It was pretty boring. Just answering a beginners question.
One thing I didn't remember though was that I used forums very little then. I only posted about 6 times in the first year.

[leon]

OK, i have tried but cant seem to get back that far, some suggestions please.

Leon

[Astroman]

Okay found my first post way back at 26th-Feb-2005, 09:28 PM wow two days for my 7th yr.... Although I think I had a small break in between then....

My first Post... BTW Website does not work now...

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=1000

[DavidU]

Here is mine
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=21760

[leon]

Hey guys tell me the trick, cant seem to go back that far.

Leon

[GrahamL]

You have to whip the pony that was carting the mail way back then leon
and then the little sucker will tell where your post went :):P

[Terry B]

Go into advanced search.
Put your user name in.
List all posts but change the order to ascending order. The first one in the list is your first post.

[Octane]

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showpost.php?p=76619&postcount=1

:)

H

[seeker372011]

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=38


This seems to be my first post

I have absolutely no recollection..way back in 2004

[ballaratdragons]

Here you go Leon :thumbsup:

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showpost.php?p=106380&postcount=7

[acropolite]

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showpost.php?p=10311&postcount=1

The forum was a lot more relaxed then, like most of the "old timers" I was poached by an unscrupulous character called Iceman, who probably would have been better titled "black hole".

Mike managed to strip the "other forum" of it's entire membership in a very short period of time. :rofl:

[ballaratdragons]

Yes Phil, all of us originals were poached from another Astro Forum. :rofl:
But that other Forum was also a shambles :lol:
I went back in there a few weeks later after I joined here only to find that ALL previous posts had been deleted and they started the whole Forum from scratch again!
All the helpful tips, tricks, files, Images and helpful data was gone!
I think they spat the dummy not long after that and shut it all down anyway :lol:
It was run by an Astro Shop and I think they went out of business. :shrug:

[leon]

Thanks Ken, bloody hell that was a mouth full, I wonder if I knew what I was talking about in those days, as I have surly learnt heaps since that day.

Leon

[jjjnettie]

:) Andrew Durick poached me from another forum. Haven't looked back.

[ballaratdragons]

Speaking of other Forums, I notice that the other major Australian based Astro Forum has reached 58,615 members! Wow!

[stephenb]

My first post was asking for opinions on buying a big Celestron SCT for my first scope. Everyone tried to put me off and recommended a Dob... but.... you guessed it... I didn't listen :lol:

[Jen]

:lol: its nice reading the first posts woah we have all got different scopes and different ideas from those first posts/threads :lol: I even noticed one there from an early day that the Ice In Trade wasnt even in the forums yet hehehe :P

I wonder what Mikes first post or thread was :question: :D

[bloodhound31]

2006 - I didn't know what an avatar was.... :ashamed:

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=13123

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol:

[Jen]

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
These are so funny to read lol lol

And I'm still learning and have added lots more toys to the list haha :thumbsup:

[Steffen]

Ha, turns out my first post bears this mark:

"Last edited by [1ponders]; 23-03-2010 at 09:32 PM. Reason: inflammatory & breach of TOS"

Try to beat that :)

Cheers
Steffen.

[AstralTraveller]

No thanks! :D Was that a global warming debate? :lol:

[Steffen]

No, nothing like that. It was a humorous remark about ASIO getting all hot and bothered about big scopes that look like rocket launchers :)

Cheers
Steffen.

[Jen]

Lol
:lol:

[swannies1983]

8/5/2006. Nothing very exciting.



But I had fun going through my earlier posts. Brought back some memories when I purchased my Tal 200K from a guy in the US. It was going to be expensive to have it shipped here so I got him to send it across the US to Utah as I had a conference there. A bit of a struggle getting this big box through the airport.

[jjjnettie]

I love it when older threads get bought up again.
A trip through memory lane. :)

[Jen]

:thumbsup: yeap it's good fun hey nettie ;)

[Screwdriverone]

Here's mine, from 2008. It seems like i started off with an essay...... Doesn't sound much like me at all ;)

I still have that shocker of a scope though.....what was I thinking?????

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=28367

Cheers

Chris

[Jen]

:rofl: :rofl: no it doesn't sound like you at all Chris :lol: :rolleyes:
:P