Let me start off by saying that there is no official date/time/whatever to signify "old-timer" status. If you think you're one, you probably are one.
I have a question. Do you ever do searches on all the posts you've left? Do you read some of them and think, "whoa...I said that?"
Most of the posts start at 2001 because that was when we had that big changeover. I'd love to see my first ever posts though...that'd be neat.
So in my little trip down memory lane I was humored to see my more classic moments...the big LA trip I took with my then BF, the months where he was deployed and KillarneyRoses's reassurances that Kate Spade = temporary happiness, the awful breakup, going at it with Blaine because I initially thought he was an asshole, Blaine's accident and feeling like shit...and finally becoming an alum. When I first joined GC, GC was puke green, I don't think we even had the Private Messaging system, newbie (Carolyn) was still in high school, and AXO Alum and PenguinTrax weren't mommies yet,

LOL.
Many of us check & post on GC on a daily basis and up until today I didn't really realize how much we actually share with each other on a daily basis. I thought it was pretty neat.