I was just looking at my Pinside profile and Jan 21 I will have been on here 18 years.
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Reminderville, OH
Quoted from BowlingJim:I was just looking at my Pinside profile and Jan 21 I will have been on here 18 years.
Wow, I didn't even think the site was that old.
I only came over begrudgingly after the mass R-G-P exodus in 2012 once the google newsgroup reader had it's final fatal glitch that made it too annoying to access, but even then i though Pinside was only a few years old. Avoided it early on as it had very little tech info (alot of the tech posters on RGP seemed like the final hold-outs) and the running jokes was so many "will it fit into...." posts about which cars can hold which pins.
also looks like I have nearly the same amount of posts as you in half the time, but I don't post that often anymore.
10 -
lurked for 3 and now have had an account for 7
still frequent it A LOT
wake up and night and check it
I can confidently state that I would not enjoy the hobby nearly as much if it wasn't for pinside...
Quoted from Krupps4:18 years? Congrats! I’d be willing to bet no one has been on here longer than you. You must be an original member.
You can access a list on here that tells when each person first joined and how long it's been. It has every single member. Below is a pic of the top few:
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Looks like 10.5yrs, joined here after I could no longer log into my RGP account, which I had for years.
5 years and a few months! I joined pretty much the day I found Pinside and decided to buy a pinball machine. It’s hilarious looking back at how green I used to be... And how much there still is to learn!
Quoted from Daditude:You can access a list on here that tells when each person first joined and how long it's been. It has every single member. Below is a pic of the top few:
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The first members are Robin and his brother Martijn at 1001 and 1002 respectively. Bowling Jim is the 764th person to join Pinside, probably earlier considering the test accounts and duplicates made in the early days.
The website was started in 2002-ish, (the current one we use today at least) I believe some of the project dates even earlier. So the earliest/oldest possible users have been on the website for 19 years.
It's amazing some of you guys are still here after all this time. I first joined Pinside in 2009, and I thought it was so slow back then that I essentially gave up on it and I didn't even bother to keep my login info. Previously I was on a forum called Pin Country before I came to Pinside, but Pinside's popularity eventually crushed that forum and we all jumped ship for good. The amount of members and traffic from then till now is amazing.
I remember when the topics on the front page wouldn't change for a day or two at a time. I'm glad it's not like that anymore, but it has lost a bit of its tight knit, community vibe.
Uk
Edmonton, AB
Quoted from RCA1:Just signed up today.
I don't think they are talking troll accounts. 
It's incredible! 7K people currently on Pinside. That would have been a pipe dream when I first joined this forum. Oddly enough 6K of them are lurkers.
Wasn't sure so I looked in the account section. There are achievements for active time - the "old timer" - which I apparently earned the 5 year version in 2019, so I guess transitioned from reader to poster back in 2014. I still do a lot more reading than posting - I guess that's just my nature.
-Rob
-visit https://www.kahr.us to get my daughterboard that helps fix WPC pinball resets or my pinball 2000 H+V Video Sync Combiner kit
Quoted from radium:10 years. And I’ve seen some shit.
You're from ASS hill. I'm SURE you've seen your fair share of shit.
Over 10 yrs for me now.
Learned a lot, and laughed a lot from hanging out here on Pinside.
Great way to keep in contact with Pinball friends.
Looking fwd to TPF in late March, and hope to make it to other pinball events in 2022.
Been here for 9+ years, i was lurking for the maximum amount of years possible before that.. and actually i had been thinking about creating a pinball forum before i became a lurker here, so in a way i feel like i have pre-lurker status here! 
Quoted from BigT:Can someone tell me where I can find out that info. I have no idea.
Lower right side of your avatar. 7y and you have 4 games.
LTG : )
Quoted from BigT:Can someone tell me where I can find out that info. I have no idea.
If you mean how many online and how many guests. Click on Forum - towards the right side and a little left of "Dear Lloyd".
LTG : )
Long enough to remember when there wasn’t that many new games out and people were able to buy whatever the new game was and whatever model they wanted and everyone talked pretty much about that same game and even more about the classics.
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