I caught myself staring at the screen, looking at my own homenode id.

"Wow, 1350.. I'm getting old in here", suddenly I found that I was thinking of node numbers in the same way that you might look at distant cousin that you haven't seen since you were a kid. Appreciation of how one came to be, growing up. Nostalgic. I doubt that Perl Monks has hit its full-mature-self yet, but it sure has come a long way...

Do you remember the days:

• When a good post was awarded 10 votes?
• When there was no #perlmonks (or trout)?
• When btrott and chromatic were scribes?
• When node ids had 4 digits?
• When there were no user monk pics in rotation?
• When the chatterbox was usually empty?
• When vroom actually had time enough to post answers?
• When neshura posted her 1st pic?
• When polls got less than 100 votes total?
• When there was no voting/expirience system?
• When you could remember all of the monks by their handles?
• When perlmonks was a habit and not an addiction?

(the above are not sorted in any particular chronological order, well, sorta)

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# Trust no1!