So what happened on 5-18-2006 at 12:40 p.m?

talkwrite · Sep 20, 2007

Every time I go to log off I see this line under active users:

Most users ever on line was 2,207, 05-18-2006 at 12:40 PM.

What happened that brought everyone here on that day at that time?

MidnightMuse · Sep 20, 2007

That was the very day I joined.

I shitzu-you not.

Honest.

Okay, something else happened too, but I'll let one of the elders tell ya

arainsb123 · Sep 20, 2007

I was a member at the time, but I must have missed whatever the momentous occasion was.

Soccer Mom · Sep 20, 2007

A day that will live infamy.

JoNightshade · Sep 20, 2007

What? What? Tell me!!!

JamieFord · Sep 20, 2007

We must never speak of it.

III · Sep 20, 2007

Groundbreaking party at Ray's House of Love?

Rich · Sep 20, 2007

Actually, it was a computer glitch, and I've always wondered why that stat remains.

It was also my 37th wedding anniversary--and I've also wondered why that stat remains.

Ask Chunky. (not about my anniversary; the other one.)

Sage · Sep 20, 2007

Could it be around the time that AW went down? Maybe it came back that day?

badducky · Sep 20, 2007

I don't know. Let me go check my blog. (aren't these handy for just such important questions?)

...wanders off... .... ...

Ah, I see that I sold the short story "Everyone Gets Saved in the End. Everyone." to The Truth Magazine that day. Very good day. No wonder so many people were around. They wanted to celebrate.

brokenfingers · Sep 20, 2007

Wow, I remember that! Good times, good times...

tjwriter · Sep 20, 2007

talkwrite said:
Every time I go to log off I see this line under active users:

Most users ever on line was 2,207, 05-18-2006 at 12:40 PM.

What happened that brought everyone here on that day at that time?

It had to do with a programming error when someone was changing the length of time before it did something (I just blanked for the life of me). This relates to how long you can stay on one page before it marks all of the threads read when you click to a new page and stuff. It just kept racking up people, making it look like there was a monumental number of visitors.

Stew21 · Sep 20, 2007

yep. it was a glitch.
I remember that day. We saw how many people it said were on line and we all sorta felt like we were being watched on jumbotron.
Then they broke the news.

*it was fun while it lasted.*

MacAllister · Sep 20, 2007

I leave it because I dream of the day we make better numbers than that -- and it's legit.

Rolling Thunder · Sep 20, 2007

Every time I go to log off I see this line under active users:

Most users ever on line was 2,207, 05-18-2006 at 12:40 PM.

What happened that brought everyone here on that day at that time?

There was a Chinese fire drill that went very very wrong.

ETA: Um...I wasn't here yet. I'm innocent.

PeeDee · Sep 20, 2007

Ahhh, the pain of that day. The scars. Someday, I will tell my grandchildren and they will all remember. A day. That will live. In infamy. The day we threw down and smote the ruin of Icanhascheezburger.com in the greatest internet gang war of them all.

a'course, they bounced back a little...

SpookyWriter · Sep 20, 2007

I was baking cookies.

kristie911 · Sep 20, 2007

I posted naked pics of myself.

Ol' Fashioned Girl · Sep 21, 2007

Thank goodness it wasn't naked pics of Spooky... or Haggis... or RT... or me, for that matter.

badducky · Sep 21, 2007

I know it wasn't Ray. Those exhibitionist abs of his don't seem to do anything for the numbers of the site.

Haggis · Sep 21, 2007

Susie said "damn."

talkwrite · Sep 21, 2007

Better than the writing exercise Can You B.S. your way through this?

Hmmm. I figured it was the moment contest results were posted.
Don't take it off, it does cause you to think that AW can mobilize people better than most world leaders. Advertisers should flock to you.

So what happened on 5-18-2006 at 12:40 p.m?

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Crypto-fascist

has finally arrived

giving resonant directions

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No Time For Chitchat, Kemosabe.

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Emerging Anew

Tired and worried.

Where's my tea, please...?

Happy to be here

Hand? What hand?

No Time For Chitchat, Kemosabe.

Evil, undead Chihuahua

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