First messages

[altenbach]

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@BowenM wrote:

But, I had a hard time finding altenbach's first ever post. His post history only goes back to 2011

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You must be better than me, because the last page of my post list only goes back to 2012. It's a sad story that we are apparently missing a decade worth of content. I bet most of it is still true. 😄

Apparently, I registered in January 25, 2001! That was probably on the old platform, though.

[markwni]

I don't know why the post list only goes back so far, but this appears to be @altenbach's oldest post: https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Array-of-indexexes/m-p/8449#M6678

The user registration dates are not reliable that far back in history. Some of the ancient scrolls were lost when the library moved.

Cheers,

Mark

[Jacobson-ni]

Altenbach's first post was related to improving the performance of LabVIEW code on the forums? Good to know some things remain constant.

[altenbach]

... and I STILL don't know what "indexexes" are. 😄

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@markwni wrote:

I don't know why the post list only goes back so far,

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There must be a page limit, and since I will see a larger number of posts (e.g. posts in private forums), my list will go back even less.

I think that "horizon" effect has been discussed long ago. It takes a very long load time to go to my earliest page. My guess is that Mark gets a telegram or pager message to go to the NI basement and load an old backup tape. 😄

[AeroSoul]

[Henrik_Volkers]

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@markwni wrote:

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> I don't know why the post list only goes back so far, but this appears to be @altenbach's 

> oldest post: https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Array-of-indexexes/m-p/8449#M6678

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> The user registration dates are not reliable that far back in history. Some of the ancient

> scrolls were lost when the library moved.

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>Cheers,

>Mark

As mentioned before, in the past  (199x) the forum was mirrored with an NNTP group ... comp.lang.labview (IIRR?)

And Christian was aktiv there ( I started with LabVIEW 3.1 , and regulary read that group at that time ...

NNTP was designed for ASCII text, quite effective if you only had a 24k or 56k baud line (0.056 Mbit) at home

... somehow I have the impression that it worked faster than the actual forum  ..

OK not fair, the computer I locked in was freeBSD thing also hosting a NNTP server 😉

Looking at the old post one can find hints, like the citation style (manually done here 😄 )

[wiebe@CARYA]

Re: Array of indexexes - NI Community

1999...

[AeroSoul]

This whole thread looks like someone trying to google stuff

[wiebe@CARYA]

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@AeroSoul wrote:

This whole thread looks like someone trying to google stuff

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Yeah, noticed that too. That thread needs much better feedback from OP for me to put time in it.,

[AeroSoul]

ANY feedback at all would be nice. The only thing he wrote that wasn't a question was stating that he couldn't convert a color image to an array (about which he created another topic).