{"id":2641,"date":"2016-09-19T13:16:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T18:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/?p=2641"},"modified":"2018-01-08T15:57:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T20:57:38","slug":"in-which-year-did-i-make-the-most-posts-to-the-matlab-newsgroup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2016\/09\/19\/in-which-year-did-i-make-the-most-posts-to-the-matlab-newsgroup\/","title":{"rendered":"In Which Year Did I Make the Most Posts to the MATLAB Newsgroup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/anniversary\/\/?s_tid=gn_mlc_anni_bg\">15th anniversary of MATLAB Central<\/a> and it made me think about my contributions\u00a0to the MATLAB community.<\/p>\n<p>My first interaction was with the MATLAB Newsgroup.\u00a0I wanted see when my first post was and then when my most active years were. I could see my first post by using <a>the newsreader search page<\/a>. 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