Question about Kevin's Watch History...

[Holsety]

I was trying to figure out what the earliest posts where, so I looked into kevins-watch's post history. Notably it makes it clear that this is a second version of KW, so the "original" post wouldn't be here in the first place. And I noticed that the first few posts are in...1969? The best explanation I can think of would be that Woodstock was in 1969...? Or maybe LFB was published then, though I'm fairly sure it was in the late 70s...

[A Gunslinger]

Woodstock occured well before SRD published TC. i am not entirely sure how long the watch has been around, but i think that at the most it has only been around since 2000 or so.

[Holsety]

Woodstock occured well before SRD published TC. i am not entirely sure how long the watch has been around, but i think that at the most it has only been around since 2000 or so.

Right, after 1969 the next post was in 2002. Although it seems this isn't the original Kevin's Watch, I doubt the orignal is much older.

But 1969?

[A Gunslinger]

The 1969 has to be some sort of placemark, or code holder. There was clearly no watch prior to 2000 or thereabouts.

[Avatar]

Haha, the 1969 is, IIRC, the legacy of some early hacker.

If you check out the home page, somewhere it tells you that the board was started on EZboard by Jay (kevins-watch) and Alynna, in 2000.

Whatever Jay's join date is, that's when it was moved over to the phpBB boards.

--A

[matrixman]

Where's our old man danlo to help with the answers? (My little jab at him for mocking SRD's fashion sense)

Sure, Av, act like you know it all. Yeah, that "1969" thing was the result of some virus or hack. It probably just wasn't worth the hassle of digging through code to fix a relatively small glitch like that.

Yep, the home page states that this site was created October 24th, 2000. That's when High Lords Jay and Alynna put their minds together, spoke magical phrases involving the word "heh," and brought this glorious place into existence. Of course, that's just a second-hand report by me, as I wasn't there to witness the creation.

And here's something else: you may dismiss this as wild and contemptible speculation, but I suspect that "Heh" is the keystone of the Watch. Any attempt to remove the word "heh" from posts here may awaken the Worm - or rather, Earthworm Jim - from his slumber and endanger the Watch's very existence. I'm still putting the clues together...

[sgt.null]

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[variol son]

Um, sgt...what are you doing?

As for the history of this illustrious place, I joined up for the first time in the EZ Board days which I seem to remember being while I was at high school. That makes it 1999. I think.

[sgt.null]

sorry, posted in the wrong place.
i am sorry.

while I am here, what is/was an EZ-Board?

[variol son]

Heh. I have no idea, but people say that's what it was.

Jay or Alynna will know. Or danlo.

[Warmark]

EZ Board is another type of forum. I think this is a php board? There are heaps of EZ boards about, a quick google search comes up with loads.

[Queeaqueg]

sorry, posted in the wrong place.

So where were you meant to be posting?

[High Lord Tolkien]

Where's our old man danlo to help with the answers? (My little jab at him for mocking SRD's fashion sense)

Sure, Av, act like you know it all. Yeah, that "1969" thing was the result of some virus or hack. It probably just wasn't worth the hassle of digging through code to fix a relatively small glitch like that.

Yep, the home page states that this site was created October 24th, 2000. That's when High Lords Jay and Alynna put their minds together, spoke magical phrases involving the word "heh," and brought this glorious place into existence. Of course, that's just a second-hand report by me, as I wasn't there to witness the creation.

And here's something else: you may dismiss this as wild and contemptible speculation, but I suspect that "Heh" is the keystone of the Watch. Any attempt to remove the word "heh" from posts here may awaken the Worm - or rather, Earthworm Jim - from his slumber and endanger the Watch's very existence. I'm still putting the clues together...

Spoiler

It's the seventh word of power:

"Melenkurion abatha! Duroc minas mill heh khabaal!"

"heh" creates a slight pause before the end and focuses the power before being unleased by saying "khabaal"

[sgt.null]

was supposed have gone to the Waddley post.

this is a php, the forum that led me here a couple of years of back was as well. not sure I have ever dealt with an ez board, I shall google at some point.

[aliantha]

Don't do it, Sarge!!

EZBoard was the spawn of Satan. Popup ads galore! Plus every time I moved the mouse, there was some weird thing that followed the pointer. I think it might have been another ad -- but really, the experience was so dreadful that I've blocked out most of it.

Vain came along eventually and offered us a home here. I thank the gods every day for Vain.

[Queeaqueg]

Of course, Sgt. How did you manage to mix up a thread from Q&A with a thread in General Discussion?

[Alynna Lis Eachann]

Spoiler

It's the seventh word of power:

"Melenkurion abatha! Duroc minas mill heh khabaal!"

"heh" creates a slight pause before the end and focuses the power before being unleased by saying "khabaal"

EZBoard was EVIL. Vain is da spawn for hooking us up.

[Holsety]

Don't do it, Sarge!!

EZBoard was the spawn of Satan. Popup ads galore! Plus every time I moved the mouse, there was some weird thing that followed the pointer. I think it might have been another ad -- but really, the experience was so dreadful that I've blocked out most of it.

Vain came along eventually and offered us a home here. I thank the gods every day for Vain.

Let me just say that I too have been on an EZbored, and it is truly a terrifying experience. Sometimes you feel like you've been fooled into buying something simply because a particular ad is evoking a troubling nostalgia in your mind, and you can no longer trust your own senses.

[jwaneeta]

Spoiler

It's the seventh word of power:

"Melenkurion abatha! Duroc minas mill heh khabaal!"

"heh" creates a slight pause before the end and focuses the power before being unleased by saying "khabaal"

Okay, that genuinely cracked me up.

I digs me some history. I too wander through ancient threads, trying to suss out the vibe. But it's nice when you guys just bring it to the fore, all neatly packaged and bite-sized like this.

I have a question (about a question): I would sincerely like to ask what the deal is with that Wounded Land cover, High Lord. Yet I'm shy because it's probably been asked before, and I know not what thread it would go in anyway. See, for years I had the idea that Covenant wore his wedding ring on his left hand - since he was all about it representing his ruined marriage/lost Eden, it never occurred to me that he'd wear it on his mutilated hand. Yet there he is on the cover, all righty with the ring.

I'm rereading LFB and it's probably right in front of me. Okay, I'll stop being lazy:

Half intuitively, Covenant understood. He jabbed at the loremaster with his left fist as if launching a bolt.

Okay. What with the ring being almost dead center of the krill-raising composition, I can only conclude the original TWL cover artist was behaving badly. Unless Covenant started wearing the ring on his right hand circa 2nd Chrons? Wah. My copy of TWL is a later edition and depicts the Land being all wounded with bones and such, so I can't be sure.

Yes, I hear you say: go to the blinking Covers thread and check the original. Except I only just thought of that and anyway, my question was about where to post such a question, see.

History. It's what's for dinner.

[wayfriend]

Okay. What with the ring being almost dead center of the krill-raising composition, I can only conclude the original TWL cover artist was behaving badly. Unless Covenant started wearing the ring on his right hand circa 2nd Chrons? Wah.

jwaneeta, I would think someone in your profession is familiar with the concept of a publisher that flips an image vertically without asking the artist about it ...

[Edit] Me bad ...

the scar which stretched from the heel of his right palm across where his last two fingers had been.

For the first time, she observed that the last two fingers of his right hand were missing. He wore a wedding band of white gold on what had once been the middle finger of that hand.