A year ago today, Phillip Torrone posted the first hack of the day: a redbox built from a RadioShack phone dialer. We’ll be celebrating all day and you should be able to find us in the #hackaday channel on Efnet.
Since this about the first post I thought it would be fun to cover “first post!” phenomena on Hack-A-Day. Our audience has gotten huge over the last year, but the behavior of “first post”ers is still silly. Here’s why:
- First occurrence: [matt] gets the first post 14 hours and 40 minutes after the story is posted. He’s the only post for the next 1.5 months.
- [praetorian] gets first post in 1 hour 31 minutes. This might deserve a little more credit since it did become one of the most commented stories, only to be crushed by its follow up.
- [matt] improves his time; posts within 2 hours of the story going live.
- The 60 minute barrier is nearly broken by [Chris Morefield].
- [mrdelayer] becomes the current record holder at 54 minutes.
Now that we’ve covered it
first post!
FIRST!
Congrats on the Bday…
Glad this site is around. I don’t know what I would do if I didn’t have all this stuff to try. I’d probably be bored out of my mind. I still find it amazing that after you featured my cheesy digital camera hack I received over 9000 unique visitors but only received ~30 votes for my Jones Soda Co. lables. thpttttt dc:=
W00T! 4th Post!
frist prost
jesus it’s a colour picture next thing there will be upper case charachters!!
happy anniversary!
nice logo! ;-) Oh, there should be more HAD-goodies!
Today it’s my birthday, too!
I’m finally 18!
So happy birthday to hackaday and me too!
congratulations to the hackaday staff! keep the good work up.
last post! xD
congrats from spain
I gots me 1 ov those. cuz i r teh pwn!!!1!
good job on the “frist prost” fubster…
happy birthday hack-a-day i do enjoy your post the most out of all my RSS updates, i have turned atleast 2 other people onto you
╚╩╝00t four minutes.
╚╩╝e have a new record.
├┤ackaday’s birthday I think i’ll go load the spudgun with confetti :)
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__═╝ no caps my ass.
If this is your 01-th anniversary, does that mean that next year it will be the 10-th anniversary?
yea cuz there are only 10 people in this world that know binary…those who do and those who dont
yea cuz there are only 10 people in this world that know binary…those who do and those who dont
First Proust:
“As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.”
16th Post!
w00t for hack-a-day. you guys r0xor. keep the hacks coming!
last post!
when first mentioned on slashdot, i bookmarked it without hesitation, and it’s has always been a great a hack site, good color, good style, great content.
14th post! (hex)
happy birthday hackaday
If only DEAD people can read hex, how many people can read hex?
happy birthday to the hackaday team from evry reader in Australia
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so you’re making a /blog/ post about how we shouldn’t do first post posts? :P
First!
I just perked up the banner image, in anticipation of something special. Those of you still reading Hackaday posts from 2005, stay tuned!
Millionth Post! No really. I come from the future, and Hackaday is still alive and kicking in 2020. Thanks to everyone who has made this wild ride possible over the last 16 years. READ MORE HACKADAY!
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