I’ll go first, to set the tone:

Tay Zonday of ‘Chocolate Rain’ fame used to follow me on Twitter. 💪

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    Many of the songs I ripped and shared via Napster in the late 1900’s continued to appear on legitimate platforms years later.

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      psst Hey, uh listen. We’ve all been talking and while, yes the term late 1900’s is factually correct, you can just not say it. Like it’s so easy, you don’t have to do anything or can do literally anything else.

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        Same bitrate, file size, and metadata (with my tags still included), along naming schemes and occasional misspellings.

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          I wonder how many of my Oink’s Pink Palace uploads are still around, or Waffles.

          Kinda miss discovering music that way but don’t have the energy/time to spend on it these days. Maybe pick it back up when my kid leaves for college in about a decade.

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    I ran in a 10km race and ended up taking a wrong turn. Everyone behind followed me. A small local newspaper interviewed me. I ended up in a quick tv segment and had a small write up in the paper.

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      Oh man, what happened when you realized? Did you have to stop like Forrest Gump or could you lead them back on track?

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      Hahaha, that happened to me as well, although nobody followed me. I ended up in the marathon race, for which I hadn’t trained, so after 30 km (!) I had to finally give up and ride back in shame in the car they had at that station together with the others that didn’t made it.

      I did run the marathon a few years later.

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    The Daily Show flew out to my hometown for an investigative report on stolen Crimewatch signs.

    I still have mine.

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    For a long time I was in the first image result if ‘London goth’ was typed into google.

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    I set up a SteamLink app onto a Raspberry Pi but I ran into a bug and couldn’t get it to work correctly. Valve acknowledged that they were looking into fixing it but after a few weeks of checking, I just put it aside and forgot about it.

    Well nearly a year later, the thought randomly popped into my head that I should check to see if they had fixed it. I went to the Steam Link section of Steam’s forum, and sure enough, one of Valve’s devs had posted a new version that fixed the issue.

    … 30 seconds prior to me checking the forum.

    I’ve never had something like that align so perfectly, but also for something so ridiculous as that.

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      I had that with a GitHub repo seemed abandoned, only to get updated first time in 4 years just a minute before I checked.

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      I was among the first couple thousand to join gmail.

      People who think that my simple email address is their email address (which I guess is my email address plus some numbers or something) have become the bane of my existence in the years since.

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        I’ve had at least three different people on different continents provide my Gmail address to various services. I’ve ignored most messages meant for those people, but one gave it to his lawyer when he was charged with a serious crime for which his conditions of release forbade contact with children. I took the time to tell the lawyer that’s nothing to do with me.

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        I am, with the obvious username. I mostly only post in /r/flashlight now, as it’s the most active community anywhere online for that niche interest.

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      I have a low-6-digit Slashdot account, and I was user 480 on the Minecraft bukkit forum lol

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        I had a sub-5k Slashdot account. As I recall. Always found it weird how people made a big deal out of low ID users, but I swear nobody ever gave a damn about me.

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        There’s a blast from the past! Thanks for the reminder. I have a 5-digit user ID account, and I just checked to find out that it’s still active. I probably hadn’t logged in for about 15 years, and it still has an email address that went away 25 years ago.

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    I encoded one of the very first mp3’s ever made, when it was still a “theoretical” model by Fraunhofer. I sung “I will survive” but in my very bad impression of William Shatner, accidentally posted it many years later on Napster, and found that copy following around many years after that on a torrent site. So, if you have a very old, very fake “Shatner” singing “I Will Survive”, it might be me.

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      I ran this query on my Lemmy db:

      select name from person order by (select COUNT(*) from comment where creator_id = person.id) DESC LIMIT 100;
      

      and got back the following:

                    name              
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       FlyingSquid
       DrFactboy_GPT2
       JohnnyTruant_GPT2
       Luna_GPT2
       RandyChadson_GPT2
       Charlemirus_GPT2
       Jemmy_GPT2
       UnderpantsWeevil
       Kolanaki
       PugJesus
       prole
       homesweethomeMrL
       DragonTypeWyvern
       jordanlund
       shalafi
       HeyThisIsntTheYMCA
       possiblylinux127
       MediaBiasFactChecker
       USA_JUST_SAY_NO
       givesomefucks
       sunzu2
       anon6789
       some_guy
       CharlesDarwin
       finitebanjo
       SlackShaolin
       threelonmusketeers
       grue
       Valmond
       Tollana1234567
       sugar_in_your_tea
       NoMoreTrds
       SpaceNoodle
       Lost_My_Mind
       gravitas_deficiency
       Cowbee
       TrickDacy
       NoneOfUrBusiness
       TachyonTele
       captainlezbian
       ininewcrow
       Diplomjodler3
       SnotFlickerman
       aeronmelon
       TropicalDingdong
       Ensign_Crab
       Maeve
       DmMacniel
       spankmonkey
       Treczoks
       technocrit
       Semi_Hemi_Demigod
       A_norny_mousse
       corsicanguppy
       otter
       CanadaPlus
       ivanafterall
       Kolanaki
       tal
       Maggoty
       Ledericas
       JackbyDev
       Nougat
       SatansMaggotyCumFart
       Sunshine
       Anticorp
       Reverendender
       just_another_person
       ummthatguy
       superkret
       Dasus
       Deceptichum
       phoenixz
       pelespirit
       unexposedhazard
       FuglyDuck
       Saleh
       rumschlumpel
       AA5B
       HubertManne
       GreenKnight23
       southsamurai
       Viking_Hippie
       captain_aggravated
       jet
       catloaf
       Zachariah
       Lemminary
       sp3ctr4l
       bjoern_tantau
       Sanctus
       Swedneck
       IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol
       federalreverse
       Gradually_Adjusting
       RememberTheApollo_
       Flax_vert
       echodot
       OpenStars
       30p87
      (100 rows)
      

      though this stat is only since my instance’s creation. Maybe someone with an older instance should run this query to get a better insight.

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      Thank you for your service, I often worry that I’m too active here but seeing other people who comment more is reassuring

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      I get worried when I see you in posts after posts, where I also comment in, and I’m like ‘he’s gonna think I’m stalking him’.

      The fact that you are just constantly online makes me feel a little better :p

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    I worked with Linus Torvalds, met Carl Sagan, and caught a cold from Danny Elfman.

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    I was first to crack a code that appeared at the end of an episode of the Adult Swim show 12 Oz. Mouse. They sent me a T-shirt for it.

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    I’ve made breakfast for LeBron James, Kevin Love and also Denzel Washington. I was the breakfast cook in a hotel they stayed at. LeBron was a dick, never even said thank you. Denzel and Kevin were some of the nicest humans I’ve ever met.

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      No matter how many records James sets, Jordan will always be considered the greatest. Maybe it makes him sullen, but he should have worked on being more charismatic instead.

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        Whole heartedly agree with this. As an immigrant, back home, everyone knew Jordan, Michael Jackson and Mohammed Ali. I’ve even watched Ali’s fights on VHS tape (if that’s the correct term for the old video tapes) back in the 80s when I was a little kid. I did the same with Jordan’s games later on. I’ve listened to Jackson songs and danced (horribly) with them (to them?). In my country now, hardly anyone knows James, or any of the new generation.

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      I always tried to get pictures of my end screens so I could send them in. Never actually mailed one, I don’t think.