Ditto.
Actually, might Jerry be number one? I presume it might have been whoever set it up.
Still maintaining my Charter Membership - I also do the two year trick to stay ahead of the game.
jdavis is #1604.
As has been said, there is no user #1.
Double-digit, hell-more like double crossers. “Sure, we’ll hold your place in line while you go out and pick up the beer and pizza!” We get back, and they’ve invited a few hundred people over to join the board. We barely made it into the triple digit club by the time we got back from the pizzeria, I tell you!
I apologise for labouring the point, but why? It would be quite prestigious. Or is the SD so democratic that it would be thought of as being politically incorrect.
Same here.
Just plain luck and an aversion to advertising that I’m still chartered.
:eek: Holy shit, do you realize the implications of this?!
All this time, right there, staring us in the face. Utter genius.
I joined in October '99 after lurking for what felt like ages. Still feels like I spent more time reading before finally joining than having been here for a long time.
Question: how much have us Charter Members saved over the years?
I expect it’s more a matter of “don’t care” rather than “democratic.” 
And as a practical matter, it may be difficult to retroactively reassign usernumbers.
Still here, but lost my title six years ago during a cross-country move. I was so annoyed at the whole process that I’ve never gotten around to reclaiming it.
Someone (maybe it was TubaDiva) explained once that user #1 was simply an administrative account they used while setting up the Board on the WWW (that’s what it was called in those days, youngster!) and that it didn’t “belong” to any particular user or administrator.
Although no one has asked yet, Cecil Adams is #31.
I have a memory of reading somewhere that user ID 1 became corrupted during the setup process. Don’t remember who posted that; it may have been Lynn Bodoni (who was No. 2) or TubaDiva.
Dude, you’re slippin’.
Rather like Lucifer. He now tries to tempt good Dopers to sin.
I’m sure 99er means signed up in '99. AOLers would have that designation.
Yes. It means showing a registration date of 1999. There may be a few AOLers who are not 99ers, if they didn’t sign up on this board until later.
No ads does it for me - the fact that I never managed to let the subscription lapse and lose “charter” is coincidental.
I became a charter member because I could. I remain a charter member because I can. And if all it means no ads, that’s fine.
I started lurking around 2000, but didn’t join until aught-two. Thirteen years, a hair over 13,000 posts, so it looks like my pace is about one Megapost per year.