I originally joined with the same user name I have now, sometime in either late 2000 or early 2001. The board at the time was dominated with rampant speculation on (and for some, dread about) what the upcoming series (Enterprise) was going to be like - which was also what had drawn me to the board. Sometime in 2002 I changed jobs and ended up with less and less time to casually browse the web for a while. Plus, Enterprise had actually started and then I was trying to avoid spoilers. And so I guess I kinda sorta went 6 whole years or so without logging in with my old account - I only lurked every once in a while, and didn't need to sign in for that - and it got swept out of the system.
But, at least the user name was still available again when I signed back up in Dec. 2008.
