Just curious

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I was looking at the end of the member list and I saw several users who have no post count and registered before October 24, 2000. I know that admin5 was TF's original account but who are QuakeGod, Bakshra, KungFu, Talutha, and Jabby? QuakeGod and Bakshra both joined in August 2000, so was CFC up for a couple of months before its first post?

Here is a screenshot:
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Any regristration before October 24, 2000 is "special. Some are admin logons: Admin 5 is the dafalut log on when you get the UBB programs, Thunderfall's log on is on the next page because he used Admin 5 for a day , created the TF logon using a regular registration on Oct 26, then gave it admin powers and redesiganted its ID# as 1. QuakeGod and Bashkra, I believe, are Telefragged personael that TF has given admin powers for emergencies. The other three pre Oct 2000s, I am not clear about, I suspect they are corrupted logon made when the UBB program was sick, They just seemed to appear when the clock/date was fouled up for a few days, but maybe the were other temporary admins TF added to help fix it. Tester was a log on I believe that TF made for testing registration, and then forgot about, leaving with some easy or defalt password. An often banned poster hacked it password and used it for a DL for 3 posts. Most of this occured before I was on staff, some my infor is third hand, and part guess work.
 
As for those who joined the forum in 1969, administrators usually have the weird power of setting those kind of things. (for example, someone from Atari has an 80x80 custom Atari avatar, despite the fact he has less than 300 posts and and the limit for custom avatars is at 65x65). TF can mess around with your post count, etc. I've seen the 1969 join date given out on a few sites to people with high places of honor or responsibility, etc.
 
12:01 GMT, January 1, 1970 is asome sort of default time stamp for some blanked date fields in the UBB/VVB, and some other programs I believe. If your time zone is is set west of GMT, it will show up as Dec31, 1969.
 
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