On 12 February 2013 09:59, bawolff bawolff+wn@gmail.com wrote:
9 is still an extremely impressive number. When did sysops get introduced? I have a feeling that 11 years ago there was no such thing.
I believe that our first sysops (i.e. accounts with some special status) were in 2002; before that, there was the shared "admin" password for which UseMod prompted you if you wanted to delete something, which was shared with some trusted users.
J. -- James D. Forrester jdforrester@gmail.com [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal capacity)