Have you ever delved into the depths of the Fluther archives and discovered something that you didn't know before?

I got the Cake in the Frizzer award by doing some digging but I can’t for the life of me remember how or why.

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Absolutely.
* A life quest for an answer to a question is what brought me here.
* Other questions that crop up in my mind have already been asked and answered, so my question is aborted after reading through the thread.
* Reading members’ profiles can provide insight into who they are and why they ask and answer certain questions.
* Fluther has memes that can only be understood if the question that led to their conception is found through old threads. It can also generate an award for finding it.

* Others are just classic, like the second nose or the Jelly marriage proposal.

@johnpowell That’s pretty neat, actually. (For those who haven’t tried, it is a random page function)

I’ve done some digging that made some odd questions make more sense, when there was a little bit of background information added.

As in, “Oh, so it’s not the same guy you were FWB’s with last month, this is a different guy. OK now it makes more sense. This is the guy who you slept with even though he said he was gay and not the guy you slept with who said he was in love with your best friend. Got it.”

I think I have on several occasions.

On one of my explorations, I discovered a lady who I think might be the first non-staff person to have joined Fluther: http://www.fluther.com/users/peggylou/

She joined just 4 days after Ben and Andrew did. ºOº

@Brian1946: Good job on the research but for the record, Peggy Lou is the mother of Andrew McClain, one of fluther’s cofounders.

Ben’s mother, @skfinkel, joined six days after launch. http://www.fluther.com/users/skfinkel/

The original gang were all family and friends of Ben and Andrew. Then the ripples began to spread because of the beauty and useabiltiy of the site.

I don’t think so. My researches have never seemed to lead me to anything interesting about fluther. This is not fluther’s fault. I just don’t ask the right questions. I have gone deep into the pages of responses for my searches, but never found what I was looking for, alas.

I have done this and I found [redacted].

That’s sorta how I got here. I googled some mundane technical issue, and one of the more informative links was on Fluther. That question was a couple years old already at that time.

I haven’t dug around that much since, except to noodle around in some favorite peoples’ back questions, which can be enlightening.