# Your Age When You Joined the SDMB **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 12, 2013, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-age-when-you-joined-the-sdmb/650104 "2013-02-12T19:05:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-age-when-you-joined-the-sdmb/650104/21 "2013-02-12T21:54:35Z")
According to my join date, I was 24 - I’m 37 now. ---
**Author:** ![steviep24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@steviep24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steviep24)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-age-when-you-joined-the-sdmb/650104/22 "2013-02-12T21:56:07Z")
I joined last spring or summer so 46. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-age-when-you-joined-the-sdmb/650104/23 "2013-02-12T21:59:45Z")
2008 - 1985 = 23. So I’ll have been here 5 years this August. Wow. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-age-when-you-joined-the-sdmb/650104/24 "2013-02-12T22:16:55Z")
A lot younger than I am now, but still older than the median age of dopers. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-age-when-you-joined-the-sdmb/650104/25 "2013-02-12T22:29:00Z")
What, no age calculator? We gotta do math now? I barely know how old I am now. (Kidding.) (Well, not that last sentence.) ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-age-when-you-joined-the-sdmb/650104/26 "2013-02-12T22:36:32Z")
I was 20 and in college ---
**Author:** ![JessEnigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cdc98d/32.png) [@JessEnigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessEnigma)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-age-when-you-joined-the-sdmb/650104/27 "2013-02-12T22:40:08Z")
I was a couple weeks shy of 15 when I joined this board. I’d been on the AOL board for a little while before that, maybe 6 months or so, but I was still 14 when I first started out. I’m 28 now and still lurking around the place. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-age-when-you-joined-the-sdmb/650104/28 "2013-02-12T23:06:23Z")
1. Wow, that feels so long ago - my life and goals were so different then! I’m 39 now. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-age-when-you-joined-the-sdmb/650104/29 "2013-02-12T23:31:20Z")
Was 32, now 45 ( and I lurked before I joined ). Which on sober reflection is kind of shocking. Seems like I just started piddling around on the internet a few years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Strainger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strainger/32/244_2.png) [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-age-when-you-joined-the-sdmb/650104/30 "2013-02-12T23:48:51Z")
29 then, 42 now. Aging…so…much… ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-age-when-you-joined-the-sdmb/650104/31 "2013-02-13T00:23:28Z")
I joined a few days after my 24th birthday. Prior to that I was a member of the Buzzsaw boards on AOL from the time I was 18 until it disbanded in 2000 or so. I know there are a handful of other posters who are former Sawn around here too. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-age-when-you-joined-the-sdmb/650104/32 "2013-02-13T00:45:16Z")
26 when I joined. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-age-when-you-joined-the-sdmb/650104/33 "2013-02-13T00:48:34Z")
1. I’m now 29. ---
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-age-when-you-joined-the-sdmb/650104/34 "2013-02-13T00:49:59Z")
Wow, my 10th anniversary with the board is this summer! Do I get a watch or something? I was just under 16 when I started; I’m 25 now. But… voted for under 15. So, move one vote to the 15-18 column please. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-age-when-you-joined-the-sdmb/650104/35 "2013-02-13T01:02:48Z")
I was a nice round\* 40. \*albeit trim of physique ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-age-when-you-joined-the-sdmb/650104/36 "2013-02-13T01:07:24Z")
22 Now I am Bloody Old. [Edit - LOL, I just noticed that my post’s number is my age.] ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-age-when-you-joined-the-sdmb/650104/37 "2013-02-13T02:58:48Z")
I tried to join a few months ago, at the age of 58, only to discover that I had already joined several years ago, at the age of 52. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-age-when-you-joined-the-sdmb/650104/38 "2013-02-13T03:04:51Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > Sorry, I meant Athena. But I meant she’s now posted half as long as she’d been alive when she joined. Only I was lazy. > > StG I was about 24 when I joined and that was about 12 years ago, so that’s true for me too. ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-age-when-you-joined-the-sdmb/650104/39 "2013-02-13T03:30:37Z")
18; now I’m 28. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-age-when-you-joined-the-sdmb/650104/40 "2013-02-13T03:40:42Z")
I joined in August of 07, so I was 17. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-age-when-you-joined-the-sdmb/650104.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-age-when-you-joined-the-sdmb/650104.md?page=3)