How many posters from 2003 are still here on the board?

[ghost of miles]

The news about Kenny Weir's passing got me to wondering how many of this forum's original posters are still here and active to any degree. Many of us were refugees from the Blue Note bulletin board, which started going down in flames not long into 2003. Twenty-three years feels like at least a couple of centuries in Internet time, and it's a testament to the enduring strength and appeal of this board's community that it's still around, through all of the online permutations such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Reddit (where many online communities now gather), Substack, etc. 

[jazzbo]

I'm here, not as active as I used to be.

[clifford_thornton]

👋

[Dan Gould]

I can't give it up.

[Chuck Nessa]

Still allowed to post.

[medjuck]

Me too.

[jlhoots]

I'm still standing.

[Rooster_Ties]

Me!!! 

[Milestones]

I have been heard a long time, but I don't think that far back.  My first favored jazz forum was Jazz Corner.

[mikeweil]

Trying to participate as long as I can.

[EKE BBB]

☝🏾

[Kevin Bresnahan]

544 users registered between the board's creation on March 6, 2003 & December 31, 2003.

Looking at the list, I see quite a few names that still post here, a few that I know have stopped posting and a several that are no longer with us.

[JSngry]

I was Member #3, back when they did that.

I guess I'm still here?

 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Just now, JSngry said:

I was Member #3, back when they did that.

I guess I'm still here?

Unless a member was deleted and is no longer listed, you are actually #2 after Jim Alfredson.

First 10 users:

Jim Alfredson

JSngry

Jim Dye

Saint Vitus

maren

Peter Johnson

catesta

uli

Chuck Nessa

Philip

I'm pretty sure that Jim Dye & uli are no longer with us.

I'm #72.

[JSngry]

Iirc. Jim's brother, aka Use 3D was #2.

The #s still exist?

And I do miss maren. She was cool.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Use3D is in the database at #13.

[Rooster_Ties]

What’s my number? Probably over 50. I think I procrastinated a week before I signed up, iirc.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

I think Bill Fenohr, who joined pretty early on and posted often until 2005, may have passed away in 2021.

3 minutes ago, Rooster_Ties said:

What’s my number? Probably over 50. I think I procrastinated a week before I signed up, iirc.

You're in at #164.

11 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Iirc. Jim's brother, aka Use 3D was #2.

The #s still exist?

And I do miss maren. She was cool.

BTW - the search was ordered by date of registration. FWIW, your "member id" is 3, but there is no #1. Weird. All I can figure is that if someone gets totally deleted, maybe the member id numbers didn't reset?

[Eric]

Did Tom At Blue Note ever make the jump?  2003 guy here.

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

there is no #1.

 

[Rooster_Ties]

38 minutes ago, Eric said:

Did Tom At Blue Note ever make the jump?

I don’t recall that he ever did. Anyone remember for sure?

[Ed S]

I joined this board on March 11th, 2003.  Still regularly check the board and only post occasionally.

[clifford_thornton]

oh, huh, looks like I joined on January 9, 2004. I could have sworn it was earlier, but apparently the months/years run together. I do remember the BNBB shutdown and being informed that this was the place to go.

[GA Russell]

In 2002 or 2003, I joined AAJ.  I remember when the Blue Note board guys joined AAJ en masse, but then left en masse to start up organissimo.  I waited a few months before coming on board.  August, 2003.

Edited yesterday at 04:41 AM by GA Russell

[kh1958]

Joined July 20, 2003.