Proud Member of the SDMB "99'ers"!

[Cervaise]

Join Date: 03-16-1999
Member #: 251

I was also on the AOL boards, though not with as much dedication as I’ve given here. My first thread there was, “Why does BASF advertise on television if they don’t sell any products?” or something to that effect.

[NicePete]

Joined – 5/20/99
Member Number – 1163

I remember when I joined, I was wearing an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time…

[Skywatcher]

@Little Nemo

There’s still a few of us that predate this board and used the old AOL board.

[lurch]
You rang?
[/lurch]

Join Date: 03-27-1999
Member #: 387

First posted on the AOL board just prior to the First Semiannual SDMB Masked Chat.

@Muad'Dib

Where has Monty been? He used to be the oldest regular poster, but has gone missing for about a year now.

I know he had been displaying a bit more vitriol than usual and received a few warnings because of it. I’m guessing he left voluntariliy rather than end up being banned.

[gotpasswords]

#41 checking in, with .99 posts per day.

Guess that means I was sitting right there when they booted the new web server on that fateful eleventh day of March.

[HubZilla]

@Saltire

Did the article actually say that about Cecil, or did they reprint this column? If the latter, you’ve misquoted. Cecil says, “If ignorance were cornflakes, John, you’d be General Mills.”

By the way, I’m a 99’er. Don’t recall my member number, but it’s nothing special.

Evidently, I misquoted. The article just referenced that line, not the entire column. Mom showed it to me one summer on the Vineyard, so we looked for the book in the library.

[Weirddave]

Yo!

Member #731, 4-20-99, although I spent a little bit of time on the AOL boards before this one existed. Who else remembers the brain from the front page of the old AOL site?

[Ruffian]

A link to a very old thread that gives the who’s-who of #1-20

That thread was posted back in 2000 and was authored by Satan…ah, yes. He was one of my favs, too, dammit.

Heh heh–I’m amused seeing this name in the tpo 20: Cyberian54. And…right after that…Cyberian55. Okay, which of you old-timers just choked on your ensure at the sight of that name?

BTW…this screenname is #3797. I have no clue what “LauraRae” would’ve been–it’s apparently long since been deleted.

[Nekosoft]

Another lurker checking in…

[Max_Torque]

Hi. I’m number 2680.

I haven’t been around much lately, but I still exist. That counts for something, right?

[Enright3]

@Kat

posts solely to bump Enright3 down to #4

runs out of thread to avoid retaliation

Damn you Kat, Damn You! (shaking fist in air)

[Enright3]

@whitetho

Well, I’m #114, so that pushes Enright3 down to #5. (If I had known this was “gang up on E3 day” I would have been here sooner.)

To expand on ruadh’s comment, in additional to the AOL message board there was the alt.fan.cecil-adams USENET group which I was active on and which still exists. When this message board started up Deborah posted an announcement in alt.fan.cecil-adams and I rushed over here.

And a “Damn You! Damn you to Hell too!” (Shaking * OTHER* fist at Whitetho.

Oh, and I’m sorry, but I always mistakenly read your username as Whiteho (White Ho) until I do a double take and realize it’s Whitetho.

Bring it on! Bring in on I say!

[Enright3]

@AskNott

Um, 45, that is. Problem is, you have to have your own post handy to find the number. :smack:

Aww Man! Not again! (E3 walks away muttering under his breath)

[Enright3]

@AHunter3

#66, March 1999.

(if I can include AOL days, my debut as an SDMBer was August '97)

Well Crap! You guys are coming out of the woodwork now! That’s what I get for bragging about being #3.

~sigh~

E3

[Enright3]

@gotpasswords

#41 checking in, with .99 posts per day.

Guess that means I was sitting right there when they booted the new web server on that fateful eleventh day of March.

Boy you guys just keep piling it on!

[cards]

Lurker here. I do check the board most every day. Just not a lot to say.

[Tomcat]

I was lurking the columns since Cecil answered a question by someone I knew here in Prague about Tycho Brahe . Then I lurked the boards when it first got started, but never signed up.

I, too, coulda been a contender…

Should we start a ‘me too’ group of 1999 lurkers? the Me 2…thousanders?

-Tcat

[gotpasswords]

@Enright3

Boy you guys just keep piling it on!

Aren’t elders supposed to be quiet and reserved? We just sit here and watch.

If someone really deserves it, I’ll hurl expired passwords at them.

[cantara]

I found the website by seeing the Straight Dope TV show on A&E. I was logging into the website to see the articles and only found the MB after a few months. A few months more of lurking and seeing the fun that everyone was having and I registered.

My whopping .15 post count/day doesn’t really do justice to my participation here. I don’t feel that I contribute much when I pop in to say “Oh, yeah, that’s odd.” I have however been reading almost every weekday since I registered. I’m sure my read count would be right up there…

[Kilvert_s_Pagan]

@Stuffy

Here I is. Nice to see that I’m not the only 99er with a relatiely low post count, though I think I’d be closer to 3k without the winter of our lost content.

And I’d be up to - geeez - 400 or so by now…

I was SO bummed when I saw that I missed out on making the “less than four-digit member number” clique by 2. Clearly a readheaded stepchild in these parts.

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

@cantara

I found the website by seeing the Straight Dope TV show on A&E. I was logging into the website to see the articles and only found the MB after a few months. A few months more of lurking and seeing the fun that everyone was having and I registered.

My whopping .15 post count/day doesn’t really do justice to my participation here. I don’t feel that I contribute much when I pop in to say “Oh, yeah, that’s odd.” I have however been reading almost every weekday since I registered. I’m sure my read count would be right up there…

But you’re welcome.

We’re all friends here (mostly).

Don’t be shy.