On 12 February 2013 09:59, bawolff <bawolff+wn(a)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.
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