Am I The Last Surviving 3-Digit User ID on Slashdot?

Jeremiah Cornelius writes: Some distinctions mean very little to anyone other than the singular individual holding them. Are there others remaining? Does Rob Malda ever bother checking in here? Who remembers the promising ascent and rapid zenith of VA Linux Systems? How about the decade-old sighting of the Slashdot PT Cruiser?

If you're out there we want to hear from you. Or just tell us why we don't.

I was there early

[commodore73]

I lost my first account somehow and rarely posted (if at all), but have been reading since maybe 1996?

2000 or so right here!

[BigBlockMopar]

Greetings from Y2K!

3rd link error

[RockDoctor]

Your 3rd link is a duplicate of your second link.

I've never understood how people can lose their Slashdot IDs. Don't they, like understand how to keep offline backups of passwords? I mean, that's a pretty "had your geek card in" error.

I'd have to check dates, but I remember a friend (with an early broadband connection - at around 1000£/ month) telling me about it, so I signed up on dial-up. Learned to open multiple tabs, drop the connection (well, phone calls are metered by the second here) while composing replies, then re-connecting before posting them. Not as good as USENET, but worth the effort.

It is getting crappier and less interesting though. It's often a week or 10 days between my visits.

Unsurprisingly, not 3d-UIDs so far.

Noticed a four digit on here that posted this year

[WaterFoodEarthCosmos]

Seeing three digits at most would be just under 1,000 users at most I figured if you wanted to know about a four digit user on here: https://slashdot.org/~laird [slashdot.org] which posted this year in September.