Where were you when you made your first post?

[jmann]

I just thought it'd be cool to hear where others were when they made their first post here on MacRumors (http://www.macrumors.com). I remember I first made my first post in December in the Food Court at my college. I was so nervous because it was my first forum too. :o I'm glad I decided to take the plunge. :)

Where were you?

[TwinCities Dan]

Right here in my Living Room.... ;) :)

[414BrewCrew414]

I just thought it'd be cool to hear where others were when they made their first post here on MacRumors (http://www.macrumors.com). I remember I first made my first post in December in the Food Court at my College. I was so nervous because it was my first forum too. :o I'm glad I decided to take the plunge. :)

Where were you?

I was sitting on my couch about ready to throw my router out of the window, and then i proceeded to post about how my computer drops internet connection every 2 seconds. One positive thing about this whole ordeal is, i made a new friend :)

[conch575]

It was last night and I was in bed, bored and freezing cold! I had been a MacRumors lurker for the past 2ish years and decided to sign up last week!

[ViciousShadow21]

where i am now, at my desk.

i guess it's more fun of you have been a member for a long time.

[jessica.]

I just thought it'd be cool to hear where others were when they made their first post here on MacRumors (http://www.macrumors.com). I remember I first made my first post in December in the Food Court at my college. I was so nervous because it was my first forum too. :o I'm glad I decided to take the plunge. :)

Where were you?

Are you serious?

I was on my computer when I made my first post.

[iBlue]

On a powerbook several thousand miles away from where I am now.

[iGary]

On a Power Mac G4 about five feet away from where I am currently sitting (work).

[sammich]

Chances are, I was in front of my computer. Back then it was a 12" PB. But my desk has moved 1 foot since then too.





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[.Andy]

At work. Not working :D!

[Dagless]

Either in my bedroom using my old laptop or at univeristy, in the hidden away corner of the media block, heh.

[Sesshi]

Probably bashing the Yonah on my head :p

[NC MacGuy]

I do not remember.

[themoonisdown09]

I can't really remember, but I was probably in my living room on my MacBook Pro.

[Melrose]

At my desk in the library at home, with my MacBook Pro.

Something tells me it was a dark and stormy evening...

[Unspoken Demise]

At work, on my s****y Dell Optiplex GX280. God this place needs to upgrade. We need some Macs. :)

[northy124]

I think it may of been in the office on the old WinCrap :P

[maflynn]

In front of my computer - duh :p

[jmann]

On a powerbook several thousand miles away from where I am now.

I another country I take it? On vacation?

[Ivan P]

Back in January 2008, as you can clearly see in my profile, in our home office on a crappy Compaq desktop with XP SP2. Since then, said PC has died, I convinced my parents to get an iMac, no one but me understood said Mac, dad paid a few hundred dollars to get the PC resurrected, the office was changed in such a way that the iMac could no longer fit in there, so I moved it into my room and once I got my MBP a couple months back, set it up as a media server.

Wow, a lot has happened since then, but I doubt I'll ever be posting to MR from that room (or that PC :p) ever again.

[tobefirst]

I was at my old office, which was a 20 ft. underground loud, dark, mess of a place. We've since moved to an above ground, off campus location which is a lot quieter and brighter, but has its drawbacks, too.

[magamo]

Seems lots of people have made their first posts while at work...

I was in my living room. I think I was on the same MBP as this one I'm typing on.

[jmann]

Seems lots of people have made their first posts while at work...

Do you think people in offices actually WORK? ;) haha It doesn't surprise me one bit.

[magamo]

Do you think people in offices actually WORK? ;) haha It doesn't surprise me one bit.
Googled "internet while at work." The first result (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/02/AR2006050200189.html) says:

"Employees surf the Web at work, checking the weather, making travel plans, and shopping. At home, many send e-mail, continue their work chores on the Internet, and otherwise stay connected with their professional lives."

Ha ha. People don't like to work when they are supposed to and do work when they are supposed to take a rest.

[poopyhead]

using a white ibook g3 600
sitting at my desk
in the dining area
of my apt
in a complex
off of dekalb industrial
and north decatur
in atlanta
on january 4, 2004

[nobunaga209]

Lol, great thread...I was at work as most I assume. :p

[blackfox]

Damn, it's been nearly seven years since I joined.

I don't remember exactly how I found Macrumors (much smaller then), but this was in the relative dark age of Macs, when I had to do a lot of work to coordinate and gain the functionality in some areas that my PC brethren had. Running a small production company at the time, I was always looking for solutions to make my mac(s) do what I needed them to do, either on the interweb, or in audio/visual applications.

I was in Austin TX - and still have (and use) the Pismo I made my first post with. I have also been in the PRSI forum since it's near-inception - though it is now a shadow of what it used to be...

[iBlue]

I another country I take it? On vacation?

Definitely. Great Britain is certainly not several thousand miles great. :D

(I was in the US, I moved to the UK)

[dmmcintyre3]

Well I was eater on my iBook G4 or PowerMac G3. If on the G3 I was in a shared room with my (super annoying) brother or if I was on the iBook I could have been at school or anywhere at home. I do not remember which.

[yellow]

In my office. Where I spend 98% of my MR time.

[mscriv]

I actually had to go look up my first ever post to jog my memory. As others have said, I was at work and on my lunch break. I joined and posted to get help with an issue, but had been coming to Macrumors for quite some time before that. It's truly amazing how addictive it becomes after you take the plunge and start interacting in the forums. For example, I'm posting now, at work, not on my lunch break. :D

[pimentoLoaf]

December 2001: At home in front of my 2001 iBook running Mac OS 9. :cool:

I lurked for months (I purchased it 3 days before 9/11), then joined on a whim. Didn't really need to, but if something did happen ...

[yellow]

I lurked since purchase (3 days before 9/11), before whimsically deciding to join.

And you've given up your lurky ways, ya? :)

[me_94501]

I was probably at home somewhere. I've been here since 2003 (mostly lurking, hence the low post count), so it's been a while. :p

[Mintin8]

Off school, in the living room, sick and bored.
MR changed my day!! :cool:

[dukebound85]

my very first post

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=138293

i was at home in co at the time, 20 years old

[toolbox]

Sitting at my desk, as per normal when browsing this site. Using my Macbook running leopard.

[Andrew Henry]

In Iraq.. since I converted to Apple computers while I was in Iraq! :D

[jmann]

In Iraq.. since I converted to Apple computers while I was in Iraq! :D

Are you in the armed forces? Using a mac? :D

[r.j.s]

Are you in the armed forces? Using a mac? :D

Are you surprised?

I was at home, but not in the house I live in now.

[OutThere]

I imagine I was at home on Christmas break after my first semester freshman year of high school. Inevitably it was posted from Mac OS 9 on my lovely Lime green G3 iMac DV (an 11th birthday present!). I'm 21 now and a junior in college...

Damn that seems like a long time ago!

[fireshot91]

On the floor
In my basement
At about 1:00 AM (Probably, it was during summer)
Around late August
Using my dad's laptop (Which ironically, I am using right now- First time using it in like 3 months)(HP dv2000)
At home.

[iBlue]

On the floor
In my basement
At about 1:00 AM (Probably, it was during summer)
Around late August
Using my dad's laptop (Which ironically, I am using right now- First time using it in like 3 months)(HP dv2000)
At home.

That is not ironic, that is just a silly fact. (worthy thread (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=704653))

</pet peeve>
</attempting to teach people what is ironic and what isn't one cringe at a time :p>

[Cassie]

On my mom's Dell in our living room, in San Antonio, Texas. I imagine it was about 5 or 6 in the afternoon on a weekday, but I'm probably wrong. :p

[jmann]

That is not ironic, that is just a silly fact. (worthy thread (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=704653))

</pet peeve>
</attempting to teach people what is ironic and what isn't one cringe at a time :p>

Do you classify that under the "coincidence" category? ;) I saw that argument on that thread haha.

[ravenvii]

I definitely don't remember, as I've been a member for more than 5 (!) years. But looking at the date, I must be in my dorm back when I was a freshman, at an university about 3,000 miles away from where I am right now. At the time I had an iBook G3 900 MHz. Great notebook.

[kdum8]

In a girl's bed that I had met the night before while using her white macbook. (No she wasn't there. I am not that much of a nerd).

Ahh, student days..... :D

[Melrose]

In a girl's bed that I had met the night before while using her white macbook. (No she wasn't there. I am not that much of a nerd).

Ahh, student days..... :D

And you wonder why that poor MacBook doesn't return your calls :rolleyes:

[ikermalli]

It was august, on my old desk, in my room with my Windoze desktop, being faulty, I was waiting to get a Mac for 4 years at that time. I got my Mac December 9th, 2009 at 3:23 pm :p

[obeygiant]

In a small apartment in San Francisco. Just before Macworld 2002 with the introduction of the LCD iMac and iPhoto...I think.

[jsw]

I was in my office, which is now the bedroom for my youngest daughter, who was not in any way in existence when I first posted.

[jmann]

In a girl's bed that I had met the night before while using her white macbook. (No she wasn't there. I am not that much of a nerd).

Ahh, student days..... :D

Ooh scandalous. ;) Why were you in her bed ALONE with HER computer?

[thunderweb]

My desk in my bedroom :cool:

[cycocelica]

My house. Downstairs at my desk. And here I am at the same desk but upstairs.

[shfreelance]

Probably what I always do, when I am on a forum. Naked on my bed, with a cheap laptop.

[kdum8]

Ooh scandalous. ;) Why were you in her bed ALONE with HER computer?

Well once the morning came she had to go to work and never being much of a morning person I stayed in her bed and slept for a few hours once she had left the house. (There is trust for you). I didn't have a mac back then but had always wanted one. So when I finally woke up, she had told me to "make myself at home, use her pc etc" so I checked my emails on her mac, then moseyed over to MR, ;) :o