Is there a list anywhere of the oldest accounts on KGS? I have an account from Dec 2000 and was wonder if it was among some of the oldest accounts.

Fwiw my account is from November 2000 and I certainly remember it being rather sparsely populated back then.

Yeah. When I joined I think it was pretty typical for there to be 10-20 users online on at a time. So my account wasn't one of the oldest, but I know a lot of old accounts have died by inactivity.

I believe that the user 'DrStraw' has such a list. You could ask him about it.

Thanks. I'll give that a try.

Mine is from 2002. It's not the oldest, but it's not too common I run into older ones.

I tried to think of some of the oldest accounts I could, I've listed a handful here for calibration (not the four oldest mind you, but four relatively evenly spaced out through KGS's first year of existence).

wms - 5/15/1999
tromp - 7/18/1999
maproom - 4/30/2000
aussiemate 8/23/2000

My oldest account is:

schach 12/25/2000

Mine is April 23, 2000

That is the "goddess" account.

"buzzsaw is a few years later.

Terri

Edit:

wms brought a bunch of the earliest users caps with our user names embroidered on the back to a congress. I can't remember what year it was, but he asked who was going to be there, and if your account was earlier than a certain date he had a cap made for you as a gift. I still treasure mine. I would bring it to the congress, but I would be afraid of losing it.