SilverWook said:

If one goes by the stats at the bottom of the main page, the first message posted to the board was in December 2003.

Warbler said:

the forum existed before December 2003. I joined the forum in May 2003

When I first showed up we still had the rankings based on post count, so you had some of the old regular members who were very proud of their post counts and would compete, I seem to remember talk among them about how they would have had a higher post count, if everything hadn't been lost in a forum software upgrade. Ring any bells Warbler? That would explain why the first recorded post is from December 2003.

My C3PX account joined in 2005, but I had another account as early as late 2003 or early 2004, I can't even remember the username of it, I never made a single post with it, just lurked.