I did not realize that Hacker News is that old ...

nl · on Sept 8, 2020

I don't know exactly when HN was founded, but it was quite large when I joined.

erik_seaberg · on Sept 9, 2020

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1 looks pretty plausible as the actual first post, though I can't remember whether postings always had ids (most pageviews used to have URLs with random names that pointed at expiring Arc closures).

daveslash · on Sept 8, 2020

It was originally posted to HN only 2 months before you created your HN Account. ;-)

I checked my account - created 3 years prior to the article. And I thought that I was late to the HN game when I joined. Wow... time flies...

sho_hn · on Sept 8, 2020

Woosh.

mcguire · on Sept 8, 2020

Ouch.

mcphage · on Sept 8, 2020

This is just to say: at least some people got your joke, and thought it was funny :-)