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Dave Cohen on October 31, 2006 - 7:30pm Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
Hey, PG -- what was the TOD first day -- the date?

I'm trying to figure out when we came on-line and when I wrote my first comment. The rest, as they say, is history.... I don't even remember how I stumbled across TOD, you and HO, or what made me start talking...

As Jim Kunstler says, It's All Good...

Thanks to our community, we are the best on the internets and using The Google, we will continue to be so... As ASPO-USA said, stand up and take a bow, all of you, because you deserve it ... I also learn something here everyday... and don't be shy if you have something to say or have a question to ask. Nobody has all the answers but we're working on it!

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fleam on October 31, 2006 - 7:44pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I've been using teh internets and wearing Googles for my searches for quite a while, and this page is one of my best finds, evers!
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Prof. Goose on October 31, 2006 - 7:48pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I believe it was March 22, 2005.  

and HOs was the first substantive post:

http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/03/oil-price-changes.html

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Heading Out on November 1, 2006 - 1:39am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Um! I actually think it was the Micawber post (which we later reposted with a different date stamp). (Hence the reference to sixpence).

But that is merely a quibble, as it has been a joy to watch the site grow, and the depth of posts and comments broaden as much as it has.

Thanks everyone, but particularly Prof and Super G, 'cos they're the ones who have really built the foundation that has got us here today.

HO

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Dave Cohen on October 31, 2006 - 8:30pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I just want to say "thanks" to the Alpha Male, Matt Savinar, the founder of LATOC. He helped put us all on the map on the internets. His was the very first website I ran across some years ago now. I asked myself, Could all that be true? Was there anything to it? What the fuck is this guy talking about?

Oh my God ... now I can document it and give you the theory & data ...

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Prof. Goose on October 31, 2006 - 8:32pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
true dat...absolutely.
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AlphaMaleProphetOfDoom on October 31, 2006 - 9:28pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I want your first born.
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Prof. Goose on October 31, 2006 - 9:39pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
that's all?!  oh come on, place a demand on the system man.
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Electric Rex on November 1, 2006 - 2:16am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Dear AlphaMaleProfitFromDoom,  sp?  haha

I could just copy Dave's comment to describe my own thoughts when I found LAOTC, a wonderful resource for all.  LAOTC was my first introduction to peak oil as well.  I told my fiancee all about what I discovered and how I thought peak oil would affect our lives.  Two months later she dumped me, coincidence?  (Matt, you destroyed my life but I still read your site daily, no hard feelings.  I'll see you in the FEMA camp buddy.)  Now that I'm single again I have much more time to spend reading LAOTC and TOD which is awesome!  

But a tip of the hat to more people than just Matt.  To all of you who provide such wonderful information to TOD I thank you.  I hesitate to post sometimes feeling that I am not worthy.  I wish I had more to contribute to the community here.  Thank you all for letting me learn from your research and knowledge.  

I wish we were all wrong.  I wish my friends and family would stop giving me tin foil hats as gag gifts.  I don't think any of us will be laughing about this in the end.  TOD is only the beginning of the discussion that not end in my lifetime.

Good luck everyone,

Rex      

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AlphaMaleProphetOfDoom on November 1, 2006 - 9:38am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Rex,

I appreciate the kind words. Now let's address the "meaty" part of your post . . .

I've gotten an email almost identical to your post about every two weeks for the last two years: a guy emails me to say their girlfriend or fiance dumped them because they read my site and got freaked. Then they follow it by saying, "but I'm not mad at you. . .." Yeah right. From the "profit of doom" joke to the FEMA camp to the bit about how being single is great cause you have more time o read LATOC and TOD!, the passive aggresiveness is just pouring out from your post.

I will tell you what I tell every other hard up guy who emails me about their romantic problems: I STRONGLY suspect she dumped you for reasons that had more to do with YOU than with your awareness of Peak Oil visavi LATOC. But it's much easier for you to point to my site as the original source of your problems.

=)

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Electric Rex on November 1, 2006 - 10:24am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Matt,

You're right, of course there were other reasons but my doomerism was certainly one of them.  I didn't intend for you to misuse your time replying to my post.  I just hoped some TODers could get a chuckle out of it.

Rex  

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jaha on November 1, 2006 - 5:01am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
this whinethread from spring 2005 about gas prices on the dpreview forums has a link to latoc somewhere, I was trying to find out what people though about some lens and ended up reading latoc.
 It was the first time I heard about peak oil, but the concept seemed very reasonable to me. I couldn't believe I hadn't thought about it on my own, in other words it was an eye opening experience. From that day I read all I could find, not much later I was reading TOD daily and have been more or less ever since. Grats to you all with the milestones.
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