[quote name='s1eepinglionhart']As far as Tiph stated, and I consider him to be the source on the subjects of GETs, a GET is the first post on a page, and going by his rules, it's only when you're viewing 50 posts per page. However people have been known to do it for anything from 20 on up.
I think it's just capitalized normally to emphasize the fact that the post was a page get. However, being a computer programmer/nerd, I know a bit about HTTP, so in my head I always think of it as sending a GET request to the webserver for a new page.[/quote]
The GET meme stems from 4chon. When the post count of the website would reach a large, even number, such as one million, two million ~ fourteen million, the post that was the millionth or whatever post was considered "GET". They have 1-18M (M for million) GET, as well as GETs like 8,675,309GET, 7,77,777GET, etc.
So, I thought of GET once when I got the first post on the top of the page and posted "GET". Lionheart and a couple others latched onto it, so now a few of us post "GET" when we're the top poster on the page.
And of course, it only applies to 50 posts per page, 'cause anything else is for wusses.
