Who was the First LJ member

click the jocks tab , then the most recent (this orders by most recently joined) then clicked the last page (208).

#1) martin #2)Andrej Baran #3)harvey #4)Keli #5)mrloki

-- David - Houston, Texas.

So funny… #2, “1 post in 1051 days”

-- Ryno

I guess I dont Know what Buttons to push
Thanks David for the Info

-- Jim, Kentucky

it would be interesting to know how project posts or post in general increased as jocks joined.

maybe martin can let us in on some data…

because if your the 1st , 2nd , or even 10th person to join theres not much going on but eventually theres a break through point i would imagin.

-- David - Houston, Texas.

Wasn’t it Abraham Lincoln?

-- making sawdust....

no mott , i think karson was before lincoln ! lol oh crap im on his bad list now ! lol sorry karson

to see how LJ's has grown

There are quite a few people that sign up and then never come back. I’ve probably done that on a few sites myself. I leave and wonder where was that site that I asked a question.

In the early days before there were many people. We had a lot of fun. Some one would post a comment and others would respond to their comment and so on until it was beadtime. It was a lot of friendly gabbing. We didn’t have messages so all messages were a part of projects etc.

But there were not a lot of projects. The first contest was where I first got really involved. Up to that time I was mostly a lurker and would show up once a week or so. But in those days it would take a day or so for the pulse page to roll to the 2nd page. Now anything over 60 minutes is on the second page or third page. A lot of new activity.

And Mr Trim I’m going to nail your trim to the floor of the basement.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

it was somewhat quiet for many months. Almost no posting done on Saturdays, so if you posted a project late on Fri, chances are you were on the home page for quite a while. Before the pulse, blogs and all this Web 2.0 brilliance, the only way people would see your stuff is the time it was “most recent”, or just had a comment on it. Otherwise you’d have to go digging to see the treasures that the not too many before me had posted. twas easy, once upon a time, to see every project and read every comment – without spending all our shop time on LJ instead. As it got a bit busier, we’d comment more, when I joined I too was a lurker, only commenting if something really grabbed me. Funny thing though, after a year we were still small and friendly. Neighborly I guess you could say. The Thorsen Table contest in conjuntion with Popular woodworking brought in a whole new wave of LJ’s, then we were “big time” it’s been rapid growth since then… but still feels neighborly. Nice and not intimidating place to show and share our work, and escape the solitude of the shop – without boring our wives to death with all the wood talk.

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

First few members were actually my friends.. beta testers ;)

Here’s a great picture showing the growth in the first year:

-- Martin, http://lumberjocks.com | My Facebook: http://profile.to/msojka

As Martins page shows. Projects and Jocks were first on the scene. So all communication was on their profile and on projects. 2 months later we got Forums, three months after that we got Workshops and 8 months we got blogs.

Then the growth started to hit.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

I remember the good old days on here .

-- John in Belgrave ,(Slideshow http://cid-69bce320c6d8b119.spaces.live.com/ (Website) http://www.extremebirdhouse.com

john , today will be somebodys good ole day ! lol ive only been here half as long as you guys and just since then the growth has been astounding . i now spend a lot more time trying to keep the CPR running on the HR site , along with a couple others . but i still watch this site and love it .

wow, talk about exponential growth.. pretty cool.

-- David - Houston, Texas.

Wow what a Job Martin Has Done
Great Work Martin

-- Jim, Kentucky

I’ll bet the initial sprout came at the first contest, when the jocks all started posting their entries. Now Martin can sell the site for a gazillion dollars and retire in the Bahamas

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

lol Obi.. is this an official offer from you?

Yes.. the first contest was great booster.

-- Martin, http://lumberjocks.com | My Facebook: http://profile.to/msojka

So, when is this stock going public?

My husband is always wondering why I’m typing away in to the wee hours of the night. He wonders who all these lumberjocks are.

-- "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." ~ Edgar Allan Poe

I figured Joseph would have come before Martin.

-- Just 'cause a cat has kittens in the oven, it don't make 'em biscuits.