Found this while looking at the blog history, inspired by the diary
August 5th, 2016 at 11:13 AM ^
None of the original comments show up. It would be interesting to see who made the first comment.
Probably something bitching about the performance of the blog.
August 5th, 2016 at 11:13 AM ^
apparently we're not allowed to comment until we beat our rivals
August 5th, 2016 at 11:33 AM ^
August 5th, 2016 at 12:23 PM ^
I'm pretty sure that there was no way to comment for the first couple of years.
The comment section in its current incarnation is about 8 years old. Prior to that (back in the blogspot days), the site used a system called Haloscan, which was full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. But if I remember right, even Haloscan was implemented well after the founding of the blog.
August 5th, 2016 at 12:46 PM ^
There was no MGoBoard but you could comment on Brian's posts. So each post became a surrogate MGoBoard.
By the time you got twenty comments in, the comments had nothing to do with the original post.
That's why "First" was such a big deal. You got to be at the top of the comment food chain before all hell broke loose.
August 5th, 2016 at 12:50 PM ^
Yep, HaloScan was a total fiasco. You'd get threads with like a thousand responses, and it was impossible to follow after about a dozen. You'd also get people posting as other people, because there was no way to register your username.
If memory serves, all that stuff got nuked the second the site went to the registration model. Would be cool to go back to 2005 and read meltdowns over what ended up being not the worst season we'd have in the decade to come.
"The Year of Infinite Pain."
7-5.
*Snort*
August 5th, 2016 at 12:34 PM ^
August 5th, 2016 at 11:09 AM ^
August 5th, 2016 at 11:38 AM ^
Be careful talking about real fans - I learned my lesson yesterday.
August 5th, 2016 at 12:18 PM ^
the neg bombs of yore. All that was missing was you completely melting down and challenging folks to a fistfight.
August 5th, 2016 at 11:32 AM ^
So what page did i start reading on?
August 5th, 2016 at 11:39 AM ^
The first Fire Borges page?
Given the subject and how many people around here feel about Al Borges, it is entirely possible that the first "Fire Borges" post was written as a "just in case" deal back in the Haloscan days by an itinerant time-travelling MGoBlogger. I mean, there isn't much that seems to be out of our capabilities around here.
August 5th, 2016 at 12:31 PM ^
August 5th, 2016 at 12:48 PM ^
I started reading the blog within a couple of days of that one going up, if memory serves. I remember going back to the beginning and seeing the "Hello World" post.
Though I think it should be edited to "Hello: World."