It's been 4 years since Halfbakery started. In human years that's not saying much, however in Internet years and or Computer years that's quite old.
Congrats, Jutta. Thanks to the moderators.
I'd say we should all celebrate, but that's advocacy.
I'd suggest that it would be nice to celebrate but that's a WIBNI.
I'd tell you why I think this site is a success, but that would be theory.
If I said think back to what you were doing 4 years ago, then it would be a let's all.
I can't tell you how to make a cake for this day 'cause that would be a straight recipe.
I'm frightfully sorry this could be mistaken for a list.
Anymore stuff I add onto this could make it MFD.-- sartep, Aug 10 2003 Halfbakeryday http://www.halfbake.../idea/Halfbakeryday[reap]'s idea [Detly, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004] Back when this was started, half a croissant was 50 cents. I'm sure there has been inflation since then.-- sartep, Aug 10 2003 I'm not going to pay the same price for half a stale croissant.
You mean plutonium foil has been keeping it young?-- sartep, Aug 10 2003 HB,HB-- lintkeeper2, Aug 10 2003 The half-baked birthday party... would that be where only your family show up, and are really patronising?
Congratulations :)-- Detly, Aug 10 2003 Congratulations, Jutta. And Happy Halfbakeryday to the rest of us!-- k_sra, Aug 10 2003 Nice, warm, fuzzy feeling, um, bun.-- thumbwax, Aug 10 2003 Should be a global holiday.-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Aug 10 2003 One Croissant-shaped Cake (to feed hundreds) would be appropriate.-- Cedar Park, Aug 11 2003 Four years makes you an old timer? Disgraceful. Old age just ain't what it used to be.-- DrBob, Aug 11 2003 happy birthday hb and thank you jutta.-- po, Aug 11 2003 What [po] said.-- PeterSilly, Aug 11 2003 Croissants for all!-- st3f, Aug 11 2003 I think a halfparty is in order. With jelly (jello electrophoresis fun!) and coco-nutz ice cream, party games and halfbakaraoke.-- Jinbish, Aug 11 2003 If the birth of the internet circa 1991 is compared to the age of the universe (The internet being kinda a expanding universe of its own :D).... then half bakery is around 4.5 BILLION years old
wow...-- venomx, Aug 11 2003 // and coco-nutz ice cream, party games and halfbakaraoke //
... and something with Custard, presumably?-- jonthegeologist, Aug 11 2003 I am happy to have found this website. Thanks everybody for sharing their creativity and I hope next aniversary there will be more latin people around.
Feliz cumpleaños!!-- Pericles, Aug 11 2003 A very very very happy halfbirthday to all. HB, I owe you so many friends, like Vickie, Will, and Tomos. Thanks a lot, Jutta, and all you trolls 'n' pedants that make this a fun place to be.-- motive power, Aug 11 2003 Amazing place. Amazing people.-- Susen, Aug 11 2003 is this our eigth half-birthday? congrats and thanks for the entertainment one and all.-- neilp, Aug 11 2003 eigth?
Susen <waves like mad>-- po, Aug 11 2003 Hi, [susen].-- angel, Aug 11 2003 Thanks [jutta] for the fun, thanks all for making it special. Heres to the next the next 28 years. Dog years, that is.-- silverstormer, Aug 11 2003 What everyone else said. Ohh, but that's just so unoriginal isn't it? There once was a halfbakery, Whose banter was class repartee, But ideas that fell short, Were trounced just for sport, And then marked with a large [m-f-d]!
Happy fourth birthday to one and all! As an aside - who is the oldest halfbaker? I know I got here quite early (earlier even than the 3 and a bit that my profile suggests as I first lurked across these pages under another name), but I know I was nowhere near the first. Jutta, please tell us, who are the oldest ones still here? And who was the very first?-- goff, Aug 11 2003 HB²!-- bristolz, Aug 11 2003 ...and the Coven of Eldest, and the one who upheld the post of Very First were aghast at the possibility of having their venerability disclosed to the general bakeulation. Only certain havoc could ensue from such a blatant breach of anonymity.
An exhaustive search of the meta scrolls contained within the great Juttian library was undertaken in hopes of finding some precedent, some Hamerabic technicality, which might prevent this catastrophic reversal of non-awareness. But to no avail. The mighty floodgates barring the dreaded Fre Edomo Finfermati on shores of Loc Mess from crashing down upon those unsuspecting dreamers of mod was threatening collapse. Its mighty timbers groaning and creaking with the weight of the countless secrets held precariously in check behind it’s, as yet, impregnable hold. Would the tiny, yet closely knit, civilization of Dowere Allywantok now have to finally face the truth known only to their forebakers? Would the one, known only as goff, call to the surface of his or her descrying cube the files of pro, which appear at the merest sound of a click upon the icon of each member’s sacred name, in order to study their dates of origin, thereby sparing his people this unimaginable fate? Only time will tell.
Well, maybe not only time.-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Aug 12 2003 (raises hand) I know!! It's Jutta.</blatantly obvious>-- Worldgineer, Aug 12 2003 ...and how much alcohol was involved.-- Detly, Aug 12 2003 2 Fries, you're right of course, but there's an awful lot of users to scroll through and check - I just wondered if jutta had some nifty background job to sort them by join date.-- goff, Aug 12 2003 There is also the fact that some users have used various accounts that were deleted some time ago.-- Jinbish, Aug 12 2003 BTW, a bit of research: There are about 14763 ideas on this site. They breakdown by year as follows: 2003 4471 2002 4744 2001 3756 2000 1746 1999 46 There are only 46 ideas in 1999 (which haven't since been deleted by people leaving db cleanup or whatever), which were: ViewDot cradle bed wonder woman's living room Distributed computing trinkets Road tunes sushi furniture mailbox-XL P.I.Box TV for Windows CE posing broadcast encryption turn maps speed maps Internet Payment Network optimizing food assemblies bidding for greens astronomer's clock paint world NetJukeBox personalized postcards sound-seeking swivel base Hot Spare, Inc. waiting party line my first URL restaurant payment protocol universal alert school bus driver C exception handling macros rainbow cars vote histogram time shift e-recess Controller milliMach nose cam fish-tea bullshit detector meta-browser Virtual Living Room light-sensing display Bumpology future email address desktop videophone bodyphone two-way drones backdrops Most of them are jutta's (and bizarrely have creation dates in jan99 - guess it took 8 months to get the site up and working??). The oldest anno I can find is from mab, on the desktop videophone, who joined on Aug 10th. And his is also the first non-jutta idea - millimach. There are also some early annos from waxmaker - but no ideas. Was this thumbwax in another guise? Can't spend any more work time on doing this now - but interesting to look back and see how it all started. Checkout NetJukeBox - sounds like napster over wireless network and completely bakeable four years on...-- goff, Aug 12 2003 In this fast changing world, 28 years* is no small feat! I baked you a cake, but my dog got to it first.
* dog years-- kamenmann, Aug 12 2003 goff: <yoda>much to learn you still have</yoda>
You missed these:
transcripTV • Dec 29 98 high-end whiteboards • Dec 23 98 pop thesaurus • Dec 18 98 Chez Monitor • Dec 06 98 valvo • Nov 30 98 frequency translator • Nov 24 98 laundry balls • Jul 14 98 font morphing • Feb 28 98 electric pillbox • Jan 28 98 computerized lock • Oct 27 97 multilingual friends network • Sep 26 97 proportional honking • May 27 97 time travel radio • Mar 07 97 turn-alone • Mar 07 97 snow scraper • Dec 29 96
I hope that doesn't affect your math.-- DrCurry, Aug 12 2003 I knew I had seen stuff from before 99.-- bristolz, Aug 12 2003 Ahhh...well when I filtered on date and scrolled backwards through every idea - actually once I'd filtered it I just manually adjusted the number in the URL to go backwards about 500 a time, and asked it to print a group count (which gave me the totals). Actually took away year totals from URL total, so this year may be out by a few. However, you can only filter back to Jan 1999...I didn't think to search beyond this, but indeed a search on dates prior does come up with some. Read Chez Monitor where Jutta explains how the old ideas got on here but also notes the Halfbakery birthday. But yes, does affect the maths (why do we have more than one in britain?) but can't be bothered to add them on so you'll have to do it yourselves...-- goff, Aug 12 2003 Oh, see? We left out an important part of the half bakery birthday.
Happy Birthday to you too, Autoboner.
Glad to see you haven't left us.-- sartep, Aug 13 2003 from Chez Monitor
Dec 6th 1998! - Must be nearly the oldest idea in the HalfBakery... By the way, when is the HalfBakery's birthday?
hippo, Oct 03 2000
August 10, 1999. The halfbakery was seeded with a dozen or so old ideas; their timestamp in the halfbakery reflects the time they were first written, not the time the halfbakery was constructed around them.
jutta, Oct 03 2000 -- sartep, Aug 13 2003 Why would anyone fishbone this thread?-- Detly, Aug 13 2003 Bloody-mindedness?-- angel, Aug 13 2003 Don't like birthdays? It's not an idea? Couple possibilities.
Not my fishbone, though.-- waugsqueke, Aug 13 2003 random, halfbakery