Find Membership number

I noticed Chess.com just passed 10 million members. Is there a way to find one's own membership number? I joined in 2008, so estimated I'm probably around the 500,000th member... Would be good to see this exactly!

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/first-memeber

People seemed to be able to query and sort by join date. Some asserted that a membership number could be found.

I haven't been able to make it work yet.

One thing you might be interested in is how chess.com looked when you joined.

You can use the Wayback Machine- https://web.archive.org/web/*/chess.com

It goes back a lot further than you might think. The first chess.com website they have archived is from 1996.  Chess.com was set up as the link to buy Chess Mentor software.

Using the various images, chess.com started posting "total members" on August 28,2008. (Link to the image.) At that time, the number was 252,171. 

So since you joined on May 28, 2008, you know your number has to be lower than that.  You were probably in the elite 250.

Thanks very much, notmtwain, really useful info! 

I'm fairly sure I visited chess.com a lot earlier, because I remember that chess mentor stuff. Regards!

http://www.chess.com/widgets/

is a page of widgets and badges you can copy and paste into other sites advertising chess.com. Naturally, they don't work here.

<a href=http://www.chess.com?ref_id=15xxx><img src="http://cssjs.chesscomfiles.com/images/badges/chesscom_badge_favorite_125x125.gif" alt="" width="125" height="125" /></a><br /><font size="1"><a href="http://www.chess.com/">Free online chess games!</a></font> 

The html code for each one contains what I am assuming is a unique referral number. Perhaps that is a membership number. ( It may also have been from a list of active members at the time the widgets page was created.) Mine is 15xxx.

/ I started to wonder what creative uses could be found for this info by some of our more creative types and decided to remove the last 3 digits.