Well, ya know, it’s not just April of '99. It’s having that user number under 200. That’s what really counts. 
:D;)
(and of course how often is it that THREE smilies apply to the situation?)
Then there are those that started back on AOL. Then when these newfangled interwebs came along, moved over in May 1999.
But took a number of years hiatus due to proxy servers at work. And upon coming back, either decided that they could not remember the password and no longer held the email from the original user ID, or just wanted to start anew either way therefore have a much newer join date.
As said above, you spelled “March” wrong.
And anyone with a user number with three or more digits is the obvious cutoff of “newbie.”
That’s what I thought when I was a newb-
Oh, crap.
The fix was in! I signed up as fast as I could, but I’m pretty sure they anounced the new board on AOL prior to informing those of us on the alt.fan.cecil-adams USENET board.
I looked into it and his story checks out.
I think I joined in 2000 but I can’t see my date on Tapatalk. I still check the Dope almost every day.
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The only time I think of join dates is about once every 3 or 4 years when I kick myself for missing out on a '99 start date by a few, measly weeks.
You’re officially on my limbo team; because you obviously know how to get under a wire, by the least amount possible.
The only time I pay attention to the join date is if someone I’m not familiar with posts a link.
Join Date
02-04-2001
Total Posts
15,704
and I still feel like a newb.
(Did I let 15k go by without noticing???)
I’d like to argue that the epochs change at round user numbers, but then we’d argue endlessly if people like me are the end of the old epoch or the beginning of the new one.
TroutMan
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