I started reading HN around 2008 but created my account on October 22, 2009 when I made my first of two submissions to YC (didn't succeed in either). I just looked at my submission upvote history and its pretty much a history of my interests and time wasted in the past 12 years. Wow, time does fly!
I've upvoted 14,129 submissions, here's the first three:
The Asimov entry has my first HN comment ever, with 19 upvotes! How happy I must have been at the time. The crazy thing is that it took me 5 months to upvote three submissions, now I do more than that in my morning round! I must have been more discerning at the time.
When I had slightly more than 10,000 links I thought of starting a blog called "The March of the 10,000", to write about selected bookmarks from my upload list; never got around doing it. I must have been busy accumulating more HN bookmarks :-)
I can hardly believe I've been a member for 9 years. I looked up my first ever submission; it was on Sept 2012 and was an article claiming that a global bacon shortage was "unavoidable". Thankfully history proved the author was completely wrong on that one lol
>> global bacon shortage was "unavoidable". Thankfully history proved the author was completely wrong
I'm sensing you said that partly in jest, because who doesn't absolutely love bacon? Me, I eat it at least once a week. It does make me wonder, though, what if we lived in a world were there wasn't an abundance of bacon? What would that world look like? Would it be a better world? Better for whom? Our children?
The first three I upvoted, that was a good idea to go back and look at:
2384.
Why Your Start-up Will Fail (forbes.com)
30 points by drm237 on Sept 25, 2007 | 15 comments
2385.
The Genius is in the Details (aaronsw.com)
43 points by brl on Sept 24, 2007 | 15 comments
2386.
The Age/Entrepreneurship Myth (kedrosky.com)
5 points by far33d on May 4, 2007
That first upvote doesn't even have comments, I don't know if that was before comments or what
I wish it were easy to go look at my first few comments!
> When I had slightly more than 10,000 links I thought of starting a blog called "The March of the 10,000", to write about selected bookmarks from my upload list; never got around doing it. I must have been busy accumulating more HN bookmarks :-)
I had the exact same idea when I reached 3000 bookmarks in a "curiosity" folder. I thought about taking 10 of those links and publishing an article about it every week.
I've upvoted 14,129 submissions, here's the first three:
14129. Oct 22, 2009: The “Interview” with Y Combinator That’s Not, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=923722
14128. Feb 24, 2010: Isaac Asimov - The Relativity of Wrong (1989) , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1147968
14127. Marc 10, 2010: Putting Google to the Test in Translation, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1180926
The Asimov entry has my first HN comment ever, with 19 upvotes! How happy I must have been at the time. The crazy thing is that it took me 5 months to upvote three submissions, now I do more than that in my morning round! I must have been more discerning at the time.
When I had slightly more than 10,000 links I thought of starting a blog called "The March of the 10,000", to write about selected bookmarks from my upload list; never got around doing it. I must have been busy accumulating more HN bookmarks :-)