Who are the oldest members of this board?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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No no no, I’m not looking for a list of names. I realize that on this board we value personal information about members more than anything. So listing the oldest members may in some way violate that, even though I don’t know how personally.

I just mean in general. I know this board had a previous life on some AOL board, and maybe even before that. But how many real old-timers are here. I was just raised to respect my elders.

ps: I did a search (took >5 minutes, and came up with a lot of posts regarding regaining charter memberships), and browsed the stickys… nothing seemed to mention the subject.

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This is really more of a MPSIMS question than About This Message Board; it’s about the members.

So . . . moving.

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Well… I thought I was in the right forum for the subject, but hey, at least I’ll get a lot more looks here. So thanks!

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David Simmons, I believe, is the patriarch around here.

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Do you mean who is physically the oldest person here who is a member, or people who have been members the longest?

We had a poll a while back (and I’m sure several times before that) that found KlondikeGeoff was our “highest-aged” member, at 79.

If you mean who’s been a member the longest…you might want to rephrase your subject…

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I believe elucidator was a liberal and posting on this board when the raging liberal/conservative issue was unicellular/multicellular. Elucidator was of course foursquare on the multicellular side, and of course he had the last laugh on that one: some of his severest detractors actually downgraded to mitochondria!

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Yeah – start a “longest member” thread!

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Who would detemine the accuracy of the reporting?

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Looks like Monty is the elder statesman of the board. He was the 12th member to join, and the only one still active.

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Err, I mean that he is the only one still active of the first 12.

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Maybe you were right the first time. Be careful Monty and don’t watch any of the Final Destination movies, they’ll just make you worry more.

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How can you tell he was the 12th member to join? Is there a membership number somewhere that’s viewable?

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Coldfire wins that one, but I can’t find the thread that proved it…

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Click on your own name and pull up your public profile, the #'s at the end of the url are your member #. Monty has been around longer than the perfect master, who holds member # 31.

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Click the link to Monty’s name. His userid is 14. Lynn’s is 2, but she joined a month after Monty did. Puzzling, that.

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The benefits of power.

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It might be the same reason that my number is so high - I joined here under a different name, used that for a year or two, then wanted to change it. So I created a new account, and the mods moved my startup date to match my orignal account. But my member number is the one for the newer account.

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Yeah, but that ignores the AOL years.

Manny of us were at least semi-active on AOL.

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Who’s Manny?

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I am 63
I am # 33 on the present board.
I joined the AOHell SDMB community in 96.
As I understand it, I am the oldest continuosmember of the present board, ( with no breaks of any kind) who is not an Admin.

TUBADIVA and Lynn B or other mods are free to correct me if I have this wrong.