For kicks, I went to archive.org and looked at the "top ten" list for askme.com in 2000.

Of course ScottGem and Fr_Chuck were consistently on the list.

I wondered if any of you know what happened to some of the others. I did some googling on a few of them and did not find any under the same username still active anywhere.

For some of them I found TONS of stuff from '99-'01 or so, but for the most part nothing since then.

Has anyone run into any of these folks elsewhere?

physicskw
CedricAllen
capntom
Deliberance
dlmyers
Felis_concolor
jpearcpa
johnrecover
klbrawner
lifelines
landlordan
mhardenbrook
ptolemyweb
screenmentor
_winddanc...(my guess is "winddancer")

ScottGem

I think I have an e-mail address for Michele (mhardenbrook) on my home PC. I recognize a few of the names like Capntom and physicskw.

RickJ

Of all the users I googled, mhardenbrook was the one that I found with something from 2005. She last logged in at Answerway 9/05. A few went to answerway but none are active now.

physicskw was #1 for about forever.

I'm still getting used to the age of the internet where relationships are built...then they just go away. You just never know if people just lost interest... or even died

valinors_sorrow

I believe the most commonly occurring explanation for this, Rick, is people change names like they do clothes here in cyberland.

labman

Ah yes, Xpertsite. Except for Science for children, I stuck to the several dog and pet forums there. At one time, they were very active. As far as I know, nobody I knew there is active here now. I do think one attack on me here a couple of years ago, was the work of the chief dog troll from there. I think she has hit me on a couple of other sites in the last year. Pointing out that bad answers are bad, wins no popularity contests.

I do see occasional posts elsewhere from Charlotte, Fyvel, Loci, and UFOH1 emails me now and then. Findley was very active for a while on one site but suddenly quit in 2003. I am afraid he? died. I miss him. Too many people don't know near as much about dogs as they think they do. Findley was the best. He also did a fine job of avoiding cat fights. Had some emails from My Name is Taken after Findley disappeared, but haven't heard from her in a couple of years. With Findley gone, I haven't had any other good people stick around very long on any general Q&A site. I hope some of the ones here now stick around.

labman

I have been Labman on every site I have ever registered on. I am not the Labman on MSN. I was forced to use Labmantoo on Point Ask to rebut bad answers. A trick I earned from Sdiamond. I never abused it in the star wars there. One thing I like here is not allowing anonochickens to down rate others.

ScottGem

BTW, how did you find the lists. I tried archive.org but couldn't find them.

RickJ

Despite that they have dates all over the place, only a few dates from 2000 land you on the actual askme.com homepage.

Nothing in '99 or '01 works.

In some cases I was able to even navigate to a main forum page where I saw the members who had the most points in that forum.

It was a real blast from the past to see some of those names.

RickJ

Interesting. I've thought that most people who post on multiple boards use the same username.

capntom

I'm still Around lurking in the dark corners of the internet.