I don't think anyone cares, but I was #261 to sign up. Out of 1.36 billion, I was one of the first hundred.

That's actually pretty cool. Worthy flex.

If you type in to YouTube "IMG" followed by any 4 numbers, you will find a bunch of random videos, most with under a dozen views and with no comments. It's usually just random things people recorded and uploaded from their phone.

What was the video of? Was it from someone who posted prolifically or just someone trying it out and never went any further with it?

bro claimed digital land before it had neighbors

My FFXI video I posted on Google Video got transferred over to YouTube when Google bought them out in 2006. It’s still out there somewhere despite Google Video being dead for 20 years.

That "20y ago" is making me feel extremely old

What! amazing.

That's some serious digital real estate you've been squatting on!

This is the kind of flex Listnook was built for

Hope there's a badge for being a hipster in this sea of digital souls. 261, that's some OG elite right there.

I was active on Digg. I have some weird brain condition that makes me constantly seek out knowledge online. I am an "infomaniac". Digg fed my brain's neurosis. I quickly spotted the problems that were happening with Digg in late 2005. It wasn't just the bullshit with SirBabyMan and his gamified brigading of their system to constantly get his stuff to the top. Back then Digg was actually superior to Listnook in its interface. Listnook had no sublistnooks, no images, no memes, nothing but the ability to post links and comment. And it was all on one single front page. But I could see the writing on the wall. Digg was dying. It wasn't democratic. It wasn't real crowd-sourcing. Listnook had that. I was part of the very first exodus from Digg to Listnook. I told my real life friends that Digg was dying but they didn't believe me. I was right. Listnook took over and Digg fell off massively. We all grew up on Santa Cruz together. Some of us were pretty plugged in to what was happening over the hill in Silicon Valley, and we loved the early web. I NEEDED to be using the best place for crowd sourced information to feed my hungry, curious, divergent, insatiable ADHD brain. Listnook was it. Digg was not it. It's the same reason I joined Twitter in 2010 and had 175k across my two accounts before bailing on that site in 2024. It's the same reason I've built up to 118k on Bluesky in a couple of years. I'm #657 most followed on Bluesky, and lots of the larger accounts follow me. I really don't have much to brag about. And I'm tipsy rn, so I came here to brag about this.

Or ghosface killah

its overrated

I just realized I am as of this year a Listnookeen.

Dude! Very nice.

Hey me too!

Thank you for these corrections.

He should still be with us! \*pours out a few drops for homie\*

Hello fellow early adopter. \*waves\*

This right here, I started in 2009 but I burn my account every year or so. Especially now. 

Yeah, you're right. I got them mixed up.

Nice! You got in very early!

It's nice to see some other, older accounts for a change! Godspeed my fellow 17 year veteran. 

Hello fellow 17 year old account holder dude.

hell yeah brother

Slashdot to Digg to Listnook was how I got here too. I was early on slashdot though.

I saw way too many goatses on slashdot.  It was before they showed the domain for links in comments and some clown would post some info with a link for further reading and bam you'd stare right into eye or the abyss

I do remember them.

There's a few of us super old timers around. I started reading Listnook before it even had _comments_ let alone sublistnooks. I didn't bother making an account until late 2006.

While Listnook's UI doesn't show you a number, the API does. Behind your profile is a specific `created_utc` value. It's a unique number representing the exact second your account was born. To verify an account's specific registration rank you have to move past the standard user interface and look at the underlying Base36ID and Unix timestamp. Listnook assigns every user a unique ID (a "fullname") in the format `t2_xxxxx`. These IDs are assigned sequentially in Base36 (using numbers 0-9 and letters a-z). * An account created today has a very long, complex alphanumeric ID. * An account created in 2005 has a very short ID. Mine is`t2_79`. * To verify we look for the ID `t2_79` (261 in decimal converts to 79 in Base36). By querying the Listnook API (specifically the [`https://www.listnook.com/user/StrictlyRockers/about.json`](https://www.listnook.com/user/StrictlyRockers/about.json) endpoint), we pull the exact second the account was initialized. While Listnook doesn't display "You are user #261" on the profile, third-party archival tools like ListnookArchive or the Wayback Machine can crawl the user database and by sorting all known `t2` IDs by their creation integer, we can see exactly where an account sits in the queue.

Many, many fake accounts made by the original devs. OP's is one of the first real ones.

I do. It is still the best site despite the enshitification. It is still my favorite. No exceptions.

StrictlyRockers was the name of the reggae radio show I did on UCSC's college radio station for several years. I took over while the main DJ had two babies. That show ran for over 35 years on KZSC 88.1 FM. [https://programs.testradio.org/KZSC/show/62509/Strictly-Rockers](https://programs.testradio.org/KZSC/show/62509/Strictly-Rockers)

I made a long post about this above.

IDK I still come here every damn day. I think that says the most. It could be better.

Wow! This thread is really bringing out the OG‘s. U/smellyhamper Creation Rank: #242 Creation Date: July 11, 2005, at 19:42:07 UTC. Account Age: This account is 20 years old (turning 21 in July 2026). It was registered just 18 days after Listnook launched and exactly one day after u/sofutofu (#180). You are easily one of the first 20 accounts created on Listnook that wasn’t created as a tester for the developers or a sock puppet by the founders during the fake it until you make it phase. Mad respect. Way cool. Your account was created almost a month before mine was.

Goddamn, some serious OG’s are showing up in this thread. The account u/fafnir665 is the 246th account ever created on Listnook. Creation Rank: #246 Creation Date: July 11, 2005, at 21:03:00 UTC. This account was registered only 18 days after the site launched. fafnir665 was created just 4 minutes after u/smellyhamper (#242) who also posted in this thread. In the span of those four minutes, only three other accounts were registered.

Another OG! Creation Rank: #249 Creation Date: July 11, 2005, at 21:13:31 UTC. Account Age: This account is 20 years old. It was registered on the same day as u/smellyhamper (#242) and u/fafnir665 (#246), appearing just about 10 minutes after fafnir. Both of them have posted in this thread. u/sofutofu has also posted in the thread. They have the oldest account here at #180.

On my way to 700 day streak. Do we get money? Prizes? No. Damn.

Even among the humans, how many are duplicates?

1.36 billion accounts. How many are human? Hard to say. Less and less?

It started as 99% fake accounts...and it will probably end that way, too.

I have enough internet points already.