I refuse to geeze. 
I found the books via a co-worker long before I joined the boards. However, it appears that I missed the legendary golden age of DopeFest hookups by this much.
My join date is listed as March 2002. In fact, I registered just before the Winter of Our Missed Content and my original join date was lost.
7th of July, '99 here…and I was around on AOL before that.
I joined the SDMB in October of 2001.
March 2001. Loudmouth at first, now more reticent.
Sept. 25, 2000. left a few years later. Came back a few more years later.
I’m still a newb around here. 2005.
“Like tears in the rain…”
Sorry, but Monty holds that honour. He’s User 14:
Don’t post much, but I’m still around…
Wow, I joined only 3 months after you and I’m #1,647. What a growth spurt!
I read the boards for a year or two before I joined up, on June 9, 2000.
I joined in '99, but something happened to my profile that winter (was that the winter of the missed content?) and I had to rejoin in 2000. I joined right after I got married and my husband and I celebrated our 18th wedding anniversary last week. My son, whose birth I announced on the SDMB in 2003, is now in high school. I’m old.
I guess Im about as old as any geezer here (79 next month), but got around to SD after being banned from a few other places. I’m still on a birdwatching listserv that I originally joined in 1995.
My best longevity claim, there are only about 5,000 people still alive in Canada who have a lower social insurance number than mine.
Ninety-niner, and for five years before that (and five after) on alt.fan.cecil-adams ; and since 1980 reader of the printed Straight Dope.
Ye gods, 1980…
I pity the kid who trespasses my lawn.
August 2000, just like it says on the tin.
Still struggling to fight my own ignorance.
October 2000, but I was lurking since the early days. I came upon this site from a reference to an internal IBM forum that preceded the Web - can any ex-IBMer’s help me out with the name?
As for MY name, I was leaving for a business trip the next day and just picked up a copy of Atlas Shrugged, one of those “important” books everyone should read. I had glanced at the first line: “Who is John Galt?” and since I didn’t know, I thought that would be a great name to use. On the flight I smirked and rolled my eyes at his story, but I can’t forget what another passenger said: “It’s the greatest book of all time.” No, it’s not; I had to skip most of “my own” speech, it was so tedious. Little did I know that the name was so politically charged; it doesn’t reflect my viewpoints at all. Either I should change my user name, or go full-Colbert and start posting over-the-top craziness that can’t be mistaken for satire.
Does it count that I was an avid reader of Cecil’s syndicated column in the Real Paper as a Boston-area student in the late-1970s/early 80s? My join date here is respectable, I think, but nothing special.
logged in just now and found out the last time I crawled out from under my rock was 11-08-2016. When I started my current job they wanted a few people in the office. Was not really anything to do so I found the dope passing time.
So back under my rock, and padding my post count.
I joined on Easter. April 23, 2000.
I was 16, in high school, about to finish my sophomore year, the first year in an actual high school building, because I spent my freshman year in a middle school building, owing to the overcrowding in the Worthington High School, Worthington, Minnesota.
Havre High School, Havre, Montana, was definitely the real thing.
Seventeen years later, I’m a computer programmer in Missoula, Montana, with a degree and, more importantly, a number of successful projects under my belt. I’m a lot happier than I was at sixteen, and anyone who says high school is the best years of your life can bite me.