Who is the oldest Member in Chess.com ?

Not that old but since 2009

@Erik and @Jay are the first, because they were the founders I think.

@Andy has been here really long too.

But who is the oldest non-staff memeber/ the first chess.com account that isn't a staff member?

@Andy is the oldest I found. It doesn't show him as a staff member.

Are you sure? I'm pretty sure he founded chess.com with @Erik.

Joining two days after @Jay and @Erik is quite early. Probably there is someone earlier who is not staff, but hard to find. The earliest member on my friend’s list joined 24 May 2007, two weeks after @Andy.

Yeah. I thought I remember seeing a non-staff member that joined May 8 2007 a while ago, but I can't remember the name anymore.

Things must have started slow those first few weeks. I didn’t join until six months in. At the time I was testing every site that offered correspondence chess. Likely I found chess.com while looking for something new, but I do not remember. I probably played at least one game on at least two dozen sites.

RHP had active forums and I spent too much time there. The endless quiz sucked me in on this site. Then deeper as I down-voted terrible questions and tried to write better ones, while rising near the top of the leader-board. The infamous Bill Wall wrote many of those horrid questions. If he was not staff, he may have been recruited because of his strong internet presence. No one put up more about chess on the internet. I still go to his site regularly for PGNs of books I’m reading.