# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/41 "2012-08-01T16:14:39Z")
Another 99er, with a three-digit user number. ---
**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, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/42 "2012-08-01T16:25:18Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > 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. When did this “pay to post” thing happen? I dropped off the radar in early 2002. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/43 "2012-08-01T16:30:51Z")
96 days and counting… ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/44 "2012-08-01T16:39:11Z")
I’m on an iPad, so can’t really “hover” to get my member number.Is mine 132737? I got that from: User CP \> Your Profile \> Contact Info \> This Page > **[Straight Dope Message Board - Your direct line to thousands of the smartest,...](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php)** > > Fighting Ignorance Since 1973 132737 is the last part of that string. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/45 "2012-08-01T16:42:02Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Only 11.5 years as of Saturday. A mere infant among senior citizens. > [@belladonna](#): > > Me too! > I lurked for a good 8 months or so before I signed up; I’d be in the '00 crowd if I hadn’t. You both have me beat by days. Only in this thread is Feb. '01 a late join date. > [@Joey\_P](#): > > I’m not sure of my exact join date, but I’m one of the many '99ers around here, that puts us at 13 years. Plus, as Loach said, I was on the AOL boards for quite a while as well. June 14, 1999 is your exact join date. How can you have been here this long and not know how to figure that out? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JoeBlank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@JoeBlank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeBlank)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/46 "2012-08-01T16:50:07Z")
Anyone been here since '99 with a post count lower than mine? Total Posts: 170 Posts Per Day: 0.04 Join Date: 07-14-1999 Back to lurking! ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/47 "2012-08-01T17:09:55Z")
I just signed up! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/48 "2012-08-01T17:18:13Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > You both have me beat by days. Only in this thread is Feb. '01 a late join date. After reading this thread, I’m starting to feel that way too, and I’m coming up on 12 years here. Though I was reading the SDMB starting in about the summer of '99. Oh well. At least I have a four-digit user number. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/49 "2012-08-01T17:21:38Z")
I’m another 99er. Edit: I may have dragged **Spoons** into this place. Though it was another co-worker who had the books, and got me interested in it… ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/50 "2012-08-01T17:46:24Z")
June 19th, 2000. 12 years and change. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/51 "2012-08-01T17:54:07Z")
99er, & rarely missed a day. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/52 "2012-08-01T17:59:41Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > June 14, 1999 is your exact join date. How can you have been here this long and not know how to figure that out? 😉 It was some sort of an odd brain fart since I know I looked up some else’s a few weeks ago for some reason or another. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/53 "2012-08-01T18:02:51Z")
My twelve year anniversary is coming up on the 17th. Wow… Though I’ve taken posting hiatuses, like when we had to pay to post. I still read the Dope regularly though… ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/54 "2012-08-01T18:09:10Z")
I’m user #46, joined in March '99. Now sit down and let me tell you about the good old days… ---
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/55 "2012-08-01T18:29:55Z")
3/29/2001 Yikes, thats a lot longer than I thought. I had to look at the date twice. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/56 "2012-08-01T18:36:02Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I don’t get an URL anywhere when I hover over a username. 😕 (I’m using Safari - is there a method for Macs?). If you put your cursor over the username link, doesn’t it show the corresponding URL at the bottom of the Safari window, in the status bar? If you don’t have a status bar, there’s a way to show it from the View menu or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/57 "2012-08-01T18:38:42Z")
Oh, and my Join Date is October 1999 as you can see at the top right of my post (do Guests see Join Dates?) I was at one of the very first Dopefests in Los Angeles. A lot of changes at the board and in my life since then! ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/58 "2012-08-01T18:42:42Z")
Another thought - if you have been here this long, shouldn’t you be sending in a photo to our picture gallery? Not all of you are represented. A bunch of you aren’t! ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/59 "2012-08-01T18:52:32Z")
> [@Arnold\_Winkelried](#): > > Another thought - if you have been here this long, shouldn’t you be sending in a photo to our picture gallery? Not all of you are represented. A bunch of you aren’t! Link! ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048/60 "2012-08-01T18:52:32Z")
March 15, 1999 User #199 **PunditLisa** (among others, reading the first page) has me beat though [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-here-longer/630048.md?page=4)