Bill and Mark from 1969

Hi I was just looking up members online in the database and two members have last visited ATS in 1969. I was just wondering if it was some kind of insight joke I am not understanding, since I am relatively new to ATS. thank you.

Of course I am well aware time traveling is the most plausible answer.

reply to post by Golantrevize


There are threads about this somewhere. Bill and Mark are SkepticOverlord an Springer.

It's so that no one can make fake accounts in their names. It's a pre-emptive antitroll.

They are the "Original" members of ATS, back in 1969.
Using one of these....

We hooked up with this kid who had a rad DeLorean, the rest is history, or is it the future?

reply to post by elevatedone


love it hahaha

Springer
We hooked up with this kid who had a rad DeLorean, the rest is history, or is it the future?

in 69 it wouldn't have been rad. It would have been groovy.

@OP: They're just messing with you. No time travel involved. ATS was registered as a website within the already existing military-internet-framework in 1969. Back then its purpose was to collect above top secret data for the moon mission; mostly about the dark side of the moon and the aliens that were building stuff there. Bill and Mark refer to Banknote and Symbol. Later the site went public (but not after the secret data was removed) and morphed into a public discussion forum.

Hope this helps.

reply to post by bigfatfurrytexan


We hooked up with him in 1992.

Springer
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We hooked up with him in 1992.

An actual photograph of the first ATS thread, circa 1969

reply to post by beezzer


here they are debugging script for ATS 0.1