How Did You Find PF? - Get the Answer Here

[JamesU]

just wondering, how did you find PF?

 

[marlon]

coincidence

i was looking for info on T-duality and i googled for that specific term...i winded up here, that is all

marlon

 

[Gale]

i googled, "interesting, intelligent, magic, fun, math, conversation" this was either the first or second hit.

 

[JamesU]

and why did you google "interesting, intelligent, magic, fun, math, conversation"?

Anyway, I was looking for information on multi-dimensional space and found an archive page. After I read it, I went to the original site, physics forums. I had a question so I joined. Then started to dwell in the thread killers thread.

 

[Danger]

i googled for that specific term...i winded up here

I didn't know how to find stuff back then. I tried to use the search thing on my Telus home page and I think it somehow routed me to Google and I ended up in GP while trying to find a formula for something. I started snooping around because it was so interesting, then Brewnog noticed that I was perhaps too much of a joker to stay on the outside and brought me down here.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I googled "physics forum". I had quetions.

 

[Gale]

and why did you google "interesting, intelligent, magic, fun, math, conversation"?

i was really bored, and especially lonely. i had just moved to a new area in the middle of no where. i had gone to like aol chats trying to keep busy, but they were annoying and everyone just wanted to cyber a ton. so then i wanted to find like, themed chat rooms that were serious... i couldn't find them on aol or msn, so i just googled that. i had never even thought of a fourm before... I'm sure i would've ended up here one way or another though.

 

[Adrian Baker]

Same as you Guys... I wanted an answer to something that was puzzling me and Googling my question bought me to PF. As a Physics teacher, but non Physicist (Engineering and Materials studied at Uni) I often need info on subjects that are beyond my own knowledge. There really is no better site than this.

After many visits I discovered the General Discussion forum... I've been a regular visitor ever since.

 

[matthyaouw]

Same as Zoob. I had something to investigate, searched 'physics forums', and this was the first result. Pity the original question could well have been interpreted as a crackpot theory (ok, it was a crackpot theory) but I've grown since then (at least I hope.)

 

[Gokul43201]

just wondering, how did you find PF?

I can't remember

 

[Gokul43201]

Wait, I just found my first post here <ooh, the memories>

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=20786&page=2&pp=15

I guess I was probably searching around for something on number theoretic functions, and found the discussion between matt and hrw...

 

[Adrian Baker]

Hmm.. that posting was a Classic Gokul.. How could you ever have forgotten!

 

[Adrian Baker]

Doh! I just looked up my first posting...

It was pants!

 

[jma2001]

I was searching Google for information on Mathematica and Maple. I operate a couple of web sites and by far the most common way for someone to find them is through a Google search.

 

[Gale]

Doh! I just looked up my first posting...

It was pants!

i looked up mine too, cause of gokul... mine was a masturbation post...
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=53135#post53135

that thread was closed fast though...

wow, all the rest of my first posts... wow... I've changed SOOO much... that all seems like ages ago.

 

[Danger]

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=20786&page=2&pp=15

I didn't understand a word of that whole thread except for the astronaut joke.
Good one, Rose.

 

[brewnog]

I was in dire need of some hydraulics help for a project I was in over my head on. Googled engineering forums, and this was the best of a bad bunch.

I've still not had a reply to my first question...

 

[Astronuc]

Fell through a vortex that the physics guys created while dicking around in the lab.

Actually, Orstio (a PF member and admin at Everything-Science) told me about this place. He thought I'd fit in.

 

[Moonbear]

Someone was arguing about something science-y on another site (I can't even remember what one or what the topic was) and linked to a discussion here to support their argument. I started poking around and after reading a while decided to sign up and stay.

 

[JamesU]

I wasn't asking you moonbear

 

[dextercioby]

My buddy Sonty told me about it.It was even before he signed up that i did.I remember posting some trash and hilarious questions back in '03...

How can i find those posts,BTW...?

Daniel.

 

[JamesU]

do a search. f you remember any sentances you said, you should be able to find it

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

I believe I googled "Van Allen Belt" because I was curious wether or not the radiation doses were as high as some moon landing hoax people say it is, then found a very good description here on PF.

 

[Gale]

How can i find those posts,BTW...?

Daniel.

you go to advanced search, plug in your user name, then sort results in ascending order, and click the show results as posts option. that's how i found mine... (ack nostalgia!)

dex's first post:https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=3142

haha... hard to believe there was a time when dex didn't post a gazillion million times a day... but way back when... it was like.. one per month! wow!

 

[dextercioby]

To Marlon and the German knowing folks,i got a link

http://www.allmystery.de/themen/gw12045-4

post made by Oberheimer,on 18.05.2005 at 20:17 CET.



Daniel.

 

[zoobyshoe]

My buddy Sonty told me about it.

I remember Sonty. Rumanian or Romaninan or something. (Ruminant?) He used to be the only one up a night posting in the "stupid quetion" thread sometimes.

 

[dextercioby]

Thanks,Gale,you're a sweetheart.

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=128556#post128556



BTW,i made ~8000 posts since Oct.27th 2004

Daniel.

 

[Moonbear]

Thanks,Gale,you're a sweetheart.

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=128556#post128556



BTW,i made ~8000 posts since Oct.27th 2004

Daniel.

What an insightful question.

 

[mattmns]

You need an option of, I have no clue, or I cannot remember. All I know is that I ended up here somehow.

 

[Evo]

I was trying to find current information on string theory and google had a link here, and the posts here seemed more reliable than other sites. Then I started looking around and registered. Funny, I was here awhile before I discovered General Discussion and now it's my home.

 

[NPBot Spider]

We just Google.

 

[zoobyshoe]

We just Google.

Someone get some bug spray. I don't want these things answering threads anymore. This is like "Terminator: The Spidery Beginnings." Someone step on this thing!

 

[Echo 6 Sierra]

From kaku.org.

 

[Bladibla]

In soviet Russia, Forum find you!

 

[Joel]

I hoped to find a physics community and used google. (I'm not a spider...)