HELL-low,
I’m trying to remember something and boy is the memory going fast. The thing I’m trying to remember happen before this place went online, and there was still the old AOL board.
Thanks
Are you looking for something that happened then, and you want advice about? IIRC, stuff from the old AOL board isn’t accessible to this board anymore. Are you looking for help in remembering something? A lot of stuff happened…I think you’ll have to give us a little more to go on (I wasn’t around back then, but by “us”, I mean Dopers). I think the switch to this board format occured in 1999…for some reason August comes to mind.
I would try your local historical society. Or maybe you have a post-it note stuck to your monitor with the information you need?
I’m going to guess it was earlier than August 1999. (see my registered date.)
I believe it may have been March or April.
As for the op, I’m with <b>mnemosyne</b>. What you talkin’ about?
Registered this long and I still can’t get the coding straight!
Sheesh
Well, userid number 2 is Lynn Bodoni (there is no userid #1), registered March 9, 1999. Several folks we don’t see around here often (like SDStaffWildBabe), as well as Ed Zotti, registered on February 18th and 19th. Monty registered on the 19th, as well, as did C K Dexter Haven and Ian Rey, who posted today. Eutychus registered the next day.
Cecil registered on March 10, 1999. The oldest thread I remember was started on March 12, 1999.
Do I feel foolish! I read this in the OP “I’m trying to remember something and boy is the memory going fast. The thing I’m trying to remember happen before this place went online, and there was still the old AOL board.” and didn’t pay enough attention to the thread title, “When did this message board go online?”
Ringo took a good stab at an estimate. I don’t know for sure, but I think that all the people that Ringo mentions were “staff” in some way or another, and possibly “testers”. The first person to sign up that was a “regular” user was, I think, GusNSpot, with a registration date of 10 March 1999.
August. March. Same difference 
Ringo and Arnold Winkelried have got to be pretty close.
I registered on March 11th, 1999, and IIRC correctly I had been out of town on business for a day or two, and missed the very first day of this board being open.
So I think the 9th or 10th must have been the first day the regular users were allowed to join.
Thank you all.
I was trying to remember when I met this guy online. I met him in/on<?> a different AOL board. The reason I asked about when the SDMB went online, is because I quit AOL shortly there after.
Neirther of us can remember when we met, but at least I now know it was before March '99.
Thank you again & have a very Merry Christmas!