My profile says I joined PerlMonks in 2005, but -- as you might guess from my username -- I had previous accounts.. I don't remember what the first "forgot password" account was (since I forgot the password again), but the OG account was kwoff so I joined shortly after 9/11. I wish (jokingly) I had the 1164 XP from that account to catapult me from 391 to 330 on the Saints in our Book list. I'm still a Perl programmer at my current job and hope the final decade or so of my career I'll continue being a Perl programmer. I originally learned of Perl from O'Reilly's "sed & awk" book in the late 90s.