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Posted Feb 5, 2013 23:52 UTC (Tue) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)In reply to: I remember... by jonabbey
Parent article: Fifteen years of LWN
I think the user ID system came a few years after the site started, so the ordering of low numbers is more a result of who happened to get there early on the day signups started than who has been here for the absolute longest. That's the only way I can explain having such a low number. I have obviously been here for a long time, but certainly not since anywhere close to day one.
Posted Feb 5, 2013 23:58 UTC (Tue)
by corbet (editor, #1)
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User ID's started at 1 (which some selfish insider naturally snarfed) when the "new" site code was first deployed in June, 2002. Some of the lowest numbers belong to members of the Quixote mailing list who helped us test the code before we switched over; after that, it's just a matter of who created accounts first. We didn't expose them for some years, but they have existed for as long as this version of the site has.
I remember...