Happy birthday, hydrogenaudio!, 10 years of audio empiricism on the net |
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Happy birthday, hydrogenaudio!, 10 years of audio empiricism on the net |
 Sep 29 2011, 19:12
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Some time ago I though to myself: oh dear, it's been almost ten years now that you are into this nerdy audio forum. Well, I remember I came over here from r3mix, which had been at least as nerdy but certainly much less substantial than hydrogenaudio prooved to be. And most fataly: it had no TOS#8
I wondered when exactly Dibrom opened hydrogenaudio (aka Project Mayhem) to the public and found a post in the Winamp forums by JohnV, dating from September 30th 2001: QUOTE The forum is just over 24hours old, so don't expect yet completely full message sections. Things are looking very nice though...  So check it out and register your nick.Although earliest registrations date from September 18th, I guess we can trust JohnV that hydrogenaudio.org was opened to the public on September 29th 2001, which is exactly 10 years ago today. The earliest snapshop of the forum archived at web.archive.org dates from March 2002 though. Yeah, I know, we nerds tend to be a bit ahistorical, but we like to have a party sometimes, don't we? 
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Sep 29 2011, 23:39
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 Group: Super Moderator Posts: 3267 Joined: 26-July 02 From: princegeorge.ca Member No.: 2796 |
I'm tempted to go buy a bottle of wine and celebrate a bit!
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Sep 30 2011, 08:56
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 Group: Members Posts: 1049 Joined: 16-February 08 From: NL Member No.: 51347 |
I will celebrate by converting all my CDs to utterly transparent MP3s.
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Sep 30 2011, 09:39
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 dBpowerAMP developer Group: Developer (Donating) Posts: 2653 Joined: 24-March 02 Member No.: 1615 |
It is surprising after 10 years how many of the old guard are still at HA, even the moderators, many names the same.
-------------------- Spoon http://www.dbpoweramp.com
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Sep 30 2011, 12:27
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 Group: Developer Posts: 304 Joined: 29-April 11 From: Austria Member No.: 90198 |
Happy birthday!
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Sep 30 2011, 17:29
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 lossyWAV Developer Group: Developer Posts: 1721 Joined: 11-April 07 From: Wherever here is Member No.: 42400 |
Many happy returns!
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Sep 30 2011, 18:01
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Happy Birthday!
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Oct 1 2011, 03:43
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QUOTE (dhromed @ Sep 30 2011, 00:56)  I will celebrate by converting all my CDs to utterly transparent MP3s. Great idea. With 3.90.3 --alt-preset standard, naturalmente!  |
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Oct 1 2011, 06:52
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Group: Developer (Donating) Posts: 2332 Joined: 28-June 02 From: Argentina Member No.: 2425 |
Happy ten years! (i would join about 2 years latter, with "epic" discussions with ricardo amorim
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This post has been edited by kwanbis: Oct 1 2011, 07:24 -------------------- MAREO: http://www.webearce.com.ar
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Oct 2 2011, 02:52
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QUOTE (spoon @ Sep 30 2011, 10:39) It is surprising after 10 years how many of the old guard are still at HA, even the moderators, many names the same. Where else should we go? Cheers! |
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Oct 2 2011, 18:58
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Heh, indeed - to paraphrase a bumper sticker I've seen a few times:
The more forums I visit, the more I like HA.
-------------------- "Not sure what the question is, but the answer is probably no."
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Oct 3 2011, 11:25
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Happy Birthday HA!
 Already 10 years, time goes by really fast |
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Oct 5 2011, 06:55
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I can't believe it's been 10 full years already since I began lurking here! 10 years translates on my part to lots of hours at the computer screen indeed, not to mention information and access to a lot of freeware. Happy anniversary.
One quibble I have with the subtitle, though, concerns the usage of 'objectivism' as shorthand for HA's methodology, as frankly the association of the term with that kind of politics and worldview makes me cringe. The Ayn Rand connection also makes it easier for audio relativists to dismiss HA as steeped in dogma, elitist, etc. Also, identifying the site with the 'objective' POV (as if that were possible for any human to assume) insinuates, however mildly, that HA's view is the puerile one that its opponents are opponents merely because they're limited by their subjectivity (even if such so often appears to be the case). I know it's not that great a fit either, but maybe 'empiricism' would be a more useful, or at least more neutral, term? This post has been edited by euphonic: Oct 5 2011, 07:15 |
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Oct 5 2011, 07:59
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 LAME developer Group: Developer Posts: 761 Joined: 22-September 01 Member No.: 5 |
Happy Birthday HA!
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Oct 5 2011, 08:27
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QUOTE (euphonic @ Oct 5 2011, 06:55) One quibble I have with the subtitle, though, concerns the usage of 'objectivism' as shorthand for HA's methodology, as frankly the association of the term with that kind of politics and worldview makes me cringe. The Ayn Rand connection also makes it easier for audio relativists to dismiss HA as steeped in dogma, elitist, etc. Also, identifying the site with the 'objective' POV (as if that were possible for any human to assume) insinuates, however mildly, that HA's view is the puerile one that its opponents are opponents merely because they're limited by their subjectivity (even if such so often appears to be the case). I know it's not that great a fit either, but maybe 'empiricism' would be a more useful, or at least more neutral, term? Agreed. I have to explain that Ayn Rand and her pseudo-philsophy are neither popular nor taken seriously here in Europe, so that the term objectivism doesn't have that kind of connotation for me and probably most other Europeans who have never heard of A.R. Even though I know about her and her use of the term it wouldn't have come to my mind in connection to HA. This post has been edited by Northpack: Oct 5 2011, 08:33 |
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Oct 5 2011, 22:49
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 Group: Members Posts: 3620 Joined: 14-May 03 From: Bad Herrenalb Member No.: 6613 |
Happy (belated) birthday HA!
-------------------- http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/sebastian/
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Oct 6 2011, 00:21
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Group: Super Moderator Posts: 3267 Joined: 26-July 02 From: princegeorge.ca Member No.: 2796 |
I just gave "objectivism" the axe and inserted "empiricism" instead. I got the Ayn Rand thing out of it too, but let it slide because it was pretty clear what the OP meant.
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Oct 6 2011, 01:39
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QUOTE (Northpack @ Oct 5 2011, 00:27) Agreed. I have to explain that Ayn Rand and her pseudo-philsophy are neither popular nor taken seriously here in Europe, so that the term objectivism doesn't have that kind of connotation for me and probably most other Europeans who have never heard of A.R. Even though I know about her and her use of the term it wouldn't have come to my mind in connection to HA. Hope I didn't get across as harsher than I'd meant, it was just a gut response really! (A Google search reveals the term's connotations have been discussed before here, so in a way I was unwittingly tugging at an old horse.) |
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Oct 6 2011, 08:20
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LAME developer Group: Developer Posts: 761 Joined: 22-September 01 Member No.: 5 |
QUOTE (Northpack @ Sep 29 2011, 20:12) I wondered when exactly Dibrom opened hydrogenaudio (aka Project Mayhem) to the public and found a post in the Winamp forums by JohnV, dating from September 30th 2001: QUOTE The forum is just over 24hours old, so don't expect yet completely full message sections. Things are looking very nice though... So check it out and register your nick.Although earliest registrations date from September 18th, I guess we can trust JohnV that hydrogenaudio.org was opened to the public on September 29th 2001, which is exactly 10 years ago today. My earliest post on this forum dates from 2001-09-22: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....topic=1&hl= |
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Oct 6 2011, 23:17
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Group: Members Posts: 1315 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Argentina, Bs As Member No.: 18803 |
Ooops, I miss that.
Very Happy Birthday, Dear HydrogenAudio!   
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Oct 7 2011, 17:22
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 Group: Developer Posts: 618 Joined: 6-December 08 From: Erlangen Germany Member No.: 64012 |
Me too. Happy belated birthday and congratulations to over 80500 members!
Chris -------------------- If I don't reply to your reply, it means I agree with you.
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