(originally posted here∞)

It's been awhile since I've done one of these, so the flipping of the rightmost dial seemed a good enough excuse. Embarassingly enough, while I consider myself among the Ars historians, I can't remember exactly which questions I've asked before so bear with the possible repeats. Questions will be in roughly ascending order of difficulty within each category.

Ars Technica
-Who are Claude and Hellazon?
-What was Caesar doing when immortalized in a Snatch poster?
-Name everyone who has ever had news access but hasn't posted in >3 months.
-What software was the front page v1.0 written in?

Dates
-When did Ars go live?
-When did the forum switch to Eve?
-To UBB?
-To OpenTopic?
-What day was Frank banned?
-What day did subscriptions take effect?
-What day did Gonzo join the staff?

Former names, before "formerly ___" custom titles made it easy.
-GwT
-Kurt
-CADdie
-Arsinius M (4)
-Skier
-FreeRadical*
-Lilarav (2)

Forums
-What were the original 3 topic areas under UBB?
-What were the 3 most recently added forums, in reverse order?
-What was the first added forum added to the original 3?
-Name all forums that no longer exist.

OpenForum rankings
-Name all the titles that have been used to designate ">N posts but nothing else distinguishing" (i.e., the way WAAV does now).
-Name all super-moderators (admins).
-Name all former moderators.
-Name all former Senators.
-Name everyone who's had a custom ranking ([i]not title[/i]).
-Name the first three moderators (chronologically) in order.
-Name the first 8 Senators in order.

Post counts
-Who was the first to reach 30000 posts?
-3000?
-300?
-Name at least 5 people who were widely accused of spamming. To be objective, let's say >300 Lounge posts in a month.

Lounge Acronyms
-FtS
-TMM
-STR (bonus: who invented it?)

Lounge Personalities
-Name at least 3 couples who got together through Ars.
-Who had an epic battle with CADdie?
-Who led the epic battle against shaded smilies?
-Who was "our hero"?
-Who overclocked their shower?
-Who had an unhealthy attraction to Christina Aguilera?
-Who was the first major personality banned for blocking ads?

Tech Journalism
-What website is run by former staffers?
-Name the former members of the Maximum PC Network (other than Ars).
-What was the former name of Boot magazine?
-Name at least 3 non-staff Arsians who've had prominent placement in print media.
-Who conducted the famous drnka Hannibal interview?

Truly Trivial
-What do AGP and Linux NTFS drivers have in common?
-What day this year would poptones be looking forward to if still here?
-Dearly departed #2: what did Ring stand for?
-And finally...who has an (inferior ;)) Ars History Quiz on their website?

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Lots of right -- and lots of wrong -- answers. Full details all in good time. FWIW, another reason I decided to do it now is the complete lack of search engine; truly separates the zathrases from the boys :)

Thankfully, you're right. Additional trivia (for someone else): who once remarked that her name was thus redundant?

Ok, as long as I'm asking another question...some have rightfully pointed out that the current quiz is biased toward the Lounge, even more so toward the Old Lounge. Alas, the only questions I could think of this morning dealing with more recent history were way too easy ("who wrote the Ars Stories?") or way too hard ("how many Jade Moments are there to date?"). I thought of a few in the interim, though:
-who was 1st in topics posted, according to the unofficial spider?
-2nd?
-who authored the "IM me" animated gif?
-who bought a Civic Hybrid?

For truly recent history, see the "best threads of 2003" thread a few days ago. On the uber-recent, remind me that "who owned Moe?" will make a great question in a couple years.

And some tidbits for other forums:
A/V: who had the digital cable hookup we were all envious of?
CCF: what was the first case BMF painted?
BF: name the principal characters in "N-way vs. SMP"
DC: who started the first perpetual thread?
PS: where does ML lie on the lamba cube?
VR: my recent FAQ contributions∞ make all the obvious questions moot, feh

I don't know enough of the other forums' lore, sorry.





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