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Happy forum anniversary!!!

altenbach — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:22:04 GMT

It was on January 25, 2001 where I (and many others that transitioned from the old forum) were registered here.

How time files!!! It is amazing how the community has grown. Keep posting the good stuff!

Re: Happy forum anniversary!!!

thols — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 07:21:01 GMT

I joined an e-mail group (or whatever it was called back then) in 2000, and I'm pretty sure your name came up quite often there too.

Re: Happy forum anniversary!!!

JB — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 07:54:50 GMT

@thols a écrit :

I joined an e-mail group (or whatever it was called back then) in 2000, and I'm pretty sure your name came up quite often there too.

Do you mean Info-LabVIEW ?

Re: Happy forum anniversary!!!

JB — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 08:37:15 GMT

I missed the very first weeks of the trip, but I’ve been on board since then and I usually start my workday with a quick review of the forum.

Although I generally lack the time to answer questions, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the main contributors for their often inspiring responses.

Re: Happy forum anniversary!!!

thols — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 09:42:42 GMT

@JB wrote:

@thols a écrit :

I joined an e-mail group (or whatever it was called back then) in 2000, and I'm pretty sure your name came up quite often there too.

Do you mean Info-LabVIEW ?

Thats the one! Didn't know it still existed.

Re: Happy forum anniversary!!!

wiebe@CARYA — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 09:58:16 GMT

Yes, rub it in... I was late to the party:

Not sure how, but my ID (4177) is ~3000 less than yours (7614)..?

Maybe a local vs UTC data time issue?

Re: Happy forum anniversary!!!

altenbach — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:38:46 GMT

wiebe@CARYA wrote:

Yes, rub it in... I was late to the party:

Maybe a local vs UTC data time issue?

I am sure we joined in the same millisecond, but you were already past midnight.... 😄

Does anyone remember the timeline and more details?

info-labview was a mailing list independent from NI. (website looks so "last century", last update by Scott in 2012, and parts not even in https)
NI had it's own proprietary format similar to a "forum". (and maybe you joined there earlier, explaining the ID difference)
I think in 2001 they switched to two different outside providers, one for the forum (?) and one for the community (Lithium?).
much later, they combined the two branches under the community provider (Lithium?), which later turned into Khoros.

I really don't remember more than that and I might even be wrong. 😄

Re: Happy forum anniversary!!!

Henrik_Volkers — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:43:20 GMT

For a some (short?) time the forum (or info-LabVIEW??) was mirrowed with a NNTP newsgroup

comp.lang.labview ? or so ....

my old account (Henrik Volkers no underline) state

Date Registered

‎2001-01-25 07:21 PM

and still holds posts starting from 1999-05-18

on info-LabVIEW I found posts while I was working on my master thesis... now my daughter is woking on her master thesis (mechanical eng) 🙂

Re: Happy forum anniversary!!!

JB — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:08:40 GMT

@thols a écrit :

@JB wrote:

@thols a écrit :

I joined an e-mail group (or whatever it was called back then) in 2000, and I'm pretty sure your name came up quite often there too.

Do you mean Info-LabVIEW ?

Thats the one! Didn't know it still existed.

Yes, Info-LabVIEW still exists, but activity has almost completely disappeared, and the emails—once sent daily—have now become rare.

I was amused to realize that my very first post on this group goes back to September 1996, with LabVIEW 4.0.1 and Windows 95.

Re: Happy forum anniversary!!!

altenbach — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:25:07 GMT

If I look at the last page of the "latest posts" in my profile, I get a post dated from 2006, so this list if still incomplete*. I do have posts going back to the last century. Makes me wonder if my post count is really correct. 😄

*It has improved, because in 2022 the list only went back to 2012. (see here)

(I also have an old account here with only 7 posts and 1 kudos, that one goes back to August 1999.)

Re: Happy forum anniversary!!!

altenbach — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:50:24 GMT

According to AI, The original "NI community LabVIEW board" here was mirrored to the historic comp.lang.labbview newsgroup.

Re: Happy forum anniversary!!!

Yamaeda — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:10:17 GMT

I used a little LV5 in school and starting working with LV7(something) so i was late to the party.

Re: Happy forum anniversary!!!

wsimpson0050 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:19:43 GMT

Great work, sir!