Joined date???

[stridemat]

ok I was having a look round the site instead of working and just wondered how some members have a join date before arn. Surely he was the first member????

 

[thegoldenmackid]

Y2K Bug?

https://forums.macrumors.com/memberlist.php?&order=ASC&sort=joindate&pp=30

 

[xUKHCx]

This is a hold over from how the site evolved. There was a very early comments system before the main forum was set up. When the forum was started the registrations were carried over (along with their start date) and at this time I believe arn created his official account as a poster.

I may be wrong with what I have said as I am going from memory from what I was told before as I wasn't around at that time.

arn and blakespot worked together to create macrumors and often work together on other projects toucharcade being their most recent venture.

 

[Doctor Q]

Correct. Some of the accounts have their vBulletin creation dates, while some have the dates from the earlier forum system.