# Anyone been here longer? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 1, 2012, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048 "2012-08-01T12:20:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/21 "2012-08-01T14:25:10Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > How do I find my exact join date? Click on your user name and then on the “Statistics” tab on your profile page. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/22 "2012-08-01T14:36:13Z")
I have you beat by a few months. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/23 "2012-08-01T14:36:53Z")
Only 40 people have been here longer than me. Think I may have loaned Ed a power cord for one of the servers as it got lost in the move from AOL. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/24 "2012-08-01T14:52:21Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I hit 12 years in June. I was absent from the board entirely for about 2 years, but I got the stamina working for me. Yeah, me too. Though I think I started reading in late '99, early 2000 as a refugee from the left behind board…conflict…I ended up joining and staying here. 🙂 My participation ebbs and flows though. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/25 "2012-08-01T15:02:42Z")
I’m Vintage '99 too. I was just telling my 17-year-old daughter yesterday that we used to think “1999” sounded _so_ futuristic. (Remember some TV show with 1999 in the title? _Space 1999_ maybe?) ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/26 "2012-08-01T15:12:06Z")
I’m a 99er, too, although you’d never guess it from my post count. 7-14-99, to be exact. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/27 "2012-08-01T15:13:24Z")
I was going to hope that I was the oldest Charter Member, but not even that. _:sigh:_ Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/28 "2012-08-01T15:32:59Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > You’re #200, hover over your (or anyone else to see their’s) user name and check the URL that pops up at the bottom of the screen. > > How do I find my exact join date? I don’t get an URL anywhere when I hover over a username. 😕 (I’m using Safari - is there a method for Macs?). ETA - I think just going into my user’s profile gives me the number in the URL at the top of the page then. Every time we do a thread like this, I think back to when I ran across the Straight Dope for the first time, probably about a year before I actually joined. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/29 "2012-08-01T15:35:36Z")
I’ve been a member since '99. I’m an old-timer. ---
**Author:** ![Rich\_G7subs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@Rich\_G7subs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_G7subs)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/30 "2012-08-01T15:36:11Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > I’m Vintage '99 too. I was just telling my 17-year-old daughter yesterday that we used to think “1999” sounded _so_ futuristic. (Remember some TV show with 1999 in the title? _Space 1999_ maybe?) I always think of “Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1999” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/31 "2012-08-01T15:36:15Z")
I lurked for 25 years before I signed up. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/32 "2012-08-01T15:36:29Z")
I’ve been here longer than the OP. I would have joined in '99 if I knew it was going to be a thing. ---
**Author:** ![Rich\_G7subs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@Rich\_G7subs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_G7subs)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/33 "2012-08-01T15:37:17Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > I was going to hope that I was the oldest Charter Member, but not even that. > > _:sigh:_ > > Regards, > Shodan How does one become a “Charter Member”? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/34 "2012-08-01T15:40:21Z")
> [@Rich\_G7subs](#): > > How does one become a “Charter Member”? Only by the grace of God. Seriously, you had to have started paying when the board went pay to post and have kept up the subscription for all the years after that. They aren’t making any more Charter Members. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/35 "2012-08-01T15:43:38Z")
I’ve been reading since 1998, but my join date was March 24, 1999. The funny thing is, I did pay to post but then I lapsed my Charter member status, can’t remember when. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/36 "2012-08-01T15:45:58Z")
My original join date was 1999 under a different user name. I started out on alt.fan.cecil-adams then moved to the AOL board, then signed up when the AOL board moved to the web. Looking at history I seemed to have burned through two user names that were based on my RL name before I re-registered under my current name, can’t remember why. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/37 "2012-08-01T15:50:07Z")
My 12th anniversary came and went and I didn’t even notice. Join Date 05-24-2000 ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/38 "2012-08-01T15:51:39Z")
May 11, 2000 for me. I started reading the board in 1999, but it took me 6 months to come up with a question, I guess! ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/39 "2012-08-01T15:54:57Z")
On behalf of all us 2000ers, would you 99ers PLEASE stop with the bragging?!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/40 "2012-08-01T15:55:04Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > My original join date was 1999 under a different user name. I started out on alt.fan.cecil-adams then moved to the AOL board, then signed up when the AOL board moved to the web. Looking at history I seemed to have burned through two user names that were based on my RL name before I re-registered under my current name, can’t remember why. My original user number was 290. Never even knew there was such a thing until this thread 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048.md?page=3)