# Charter Members: Who and how many are left? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 1, 2015, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708 "2015-08-01T06:07:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**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:** [January 29, 2024, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/281 "2024-01-29T07:47:06Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I believe we get to choose either one, then hold the meeting via Zoom. Gee, thanks, Captain Bringdown. šŸ˜‰ On the other hand, a Zoom meeting meant that I didnā€™t have to go to Edmonton for a conference. In January. Just last Saturday, in fact. I lived for three years in Edmonton. January is not a time of year you ever want to go there. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2024, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/282 "2024-01-29T08:49:53Z")
I had been lurking since 2000 or so, and what finally drove me to sign up was the introduction of pay-to-post and the chance to get the half-price subscription for life. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/283 "2024-01-31T01:14:04Z")
Wait, I thought that at the last Sooper-Secret-Charter-Conclave, we decided to meet at _your_ house in '25. Did I write that down wrong? Tripler I had planned on bringing my new Sooper-Secret green chile bean dip to the icebreaker . . . ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/284 "2024-02-02T20:39:29Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > where do i find my member #? In the linked thread > [@More posts than member number?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-posts-than-member-number/750696): > > Hereā€™s a list of members who have more posts than their member number. I estimate thereā€™s about two to three hundred such members; this list has 118 of them. Anyone else on it? Anyone on it whose member number is higher than Elendilā€™s Heir? How do you find your member number? Go to your User CP, click on Your Profile. That page will have a url of [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?u=XXXX](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php). The XXXX is your member number. Your Profile page will also have how many posts youā€™ve made. ā€¦ 13242 ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/285 "2024-02-02T20:49:49Z")
Thatā€™s pre-Discourse ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2024, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/286 "2024-02-03T00:21:38Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > where do i find my member #? If youā€™re not prolific enough to show up in that list, one way to find your old member # is to go to [archive.org](http://archive.org)ā€™s cache of the old site and find a thread you posted in. Once youā€™ve found one of those, then you can hover over your name and your old user ID will show up in that URL, the same as explained in the linked thread. I just did that, and my number is 40147, so I was late to the party. ETA: heh, and if you go to that page now, it correctly seems to translate the user ID, but redirects you to a 404 page. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2024, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/287 "2024-02-03T05:31:27Z")
Thanks for this tip. Doing that, I think Iā€™ve discovered that my member number was 32,505. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2024, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/288 "2024-02-03T06:07:10Z")
Glad to be of service (and wow, your ID is only a bit older than mine). Hereā€™s a link to the most recent cache of the old software I can easily find, BTW: [https://web.archive.org/web/20200506114516/http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb](https://web.archive.org/web/20200506114516/http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb) [Archive.org](http://Archive.org) is pretty great, but I do find their interface a little klunky. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/289 "2024-02-16T23:32:55Z")
Iā€™m a '99ā€™er. Back when the board was yellow. I actually registered in September 1999, but had to re-do it in October due to newbie-reasons (my username was all caps, which I did not realize was a faux pas). Iā€™m still here. Probably one of the most conservative posters still logging in, but a Trump-hater, so hardly leaves me any room to discuss anything other than the occasional sports or movie post. Oh well. I have no idea what my user number is. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2024, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/290 "2024-02-17T01:54:58Z")
I joined April 9, 1999. Missed the window on becoming a Charter Member, though. Oh, well. ---
**Author:** ![Arjuna34](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Arjuna34](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arjuna34)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/291 "2024-02-18T22:11:22Z")
I joined sometime in 1999. I think my most prolific posting year was 2001, but Iā€™ve been reading the boards regularly the whole time. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/292 "2024-02-18T22:23:53Z")
November 2nd, 1999. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/293 "2024-03-13T00:24:50Z")
Wow, I joined August 10, 2000. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/294 "2024-03-13T01:09:08Z")
I feel like Isaac Asimov. He came to America from Russia when he about three. Somehow his birth date went missing, so he just celebrated January 2, 1920 as his birthday. He probably was a couple of months older. Same here. My official date is early 2002, but I actually joined during the Winter of Missed Content. Iā€™ve been here several months longer than 22 years, but my true date along with all my early posts are dust. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/295 "2024-05-06T03:23:37Z")
Charter Member once the Board went pay. Actually joined back in the early, early days ((honestly donā€™t remember when) - it had to have been pre-1997 based on the fact that I was still using CompuServe to access the Internet at my now 3-back employer. Rejoined under a new username/e-mail in '99 so I consider myself an honorary '99er. I think I actually e-mailed Tuba about it because I was worried about being labeled a sock and got told ā€œno sweatā€. ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2024, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/296 "2024-06-18T04:43:00Z")
Proud Charter Member from the beginning. At the time I was a number of other message boards, and it always struck me how much more polite, intelligent, conscientious, and well-organized this was than any other. I couldnā€™t subscribe fast enough. For whatever reason my subscription lapsed without my realizing it (I think more than once), so when I signed back on I was just an ordinary Member. Eh, no prob, this place is worth the money. šŸ‘ ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2024, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/297 "2024-06-18T13:40:23Z")
> [@Zakalwe](#): > > Rejoined under a new username/e-mail in '99 so I consider myself an honorary '99er. I think if your rejoined in '99, that makes you a real '99er, not merely an honorary one. It might make you an honorary AOL SDMBā€™er. What was your original username (curious)? ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2024, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/298 "2024-06-18T13:49:37Z")
> [@DKW](#): > > Proud Charter Member from the beginning. At the time I was a number of other message boards, and it always struck me how much more polite, intelligent, conscientious, and well-organized this was than any other. I couldnā€™t subscribe fast enough. > > For whatever reason my subscription lapsed without my realizing it (I think more than once), so when I signed back on I was just an ordinary Member. > > Eh, no prob, this place is worth the money. šŸ‘ You can ask for a Custom Title now if you want it back, and the mods are willing. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2024, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/299 "2024-06-18T20:50:32Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > > [@DKW](#): > > > > when I signed back on I was just an ordinary Member. > > > > Eh, no prob, this place is worth the money. šŸ‘ > > You can ask for a Custom Title now if you want it back, and the mods are willing. Look for ā€œCustom Title Queueā€ in the About This Message Board forum. I apologize for not knowing how to do a snazzy link. Do the custom title thing, itā€™s lots of fun. Thanks to the mods who are good sports and do the extra work to indulge us! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2024, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708/300 "2024-06-18T21:26:18Z")
[Hereā€™s the link in fact](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-titles-queue-please-make-your-requests-in-this-thread/998955). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-members-who-and-how-many-are-left/726708.md?page=16)