I'm wondering now how the heck we ended up so early on Github. It was back then just a small unknown startup but i'm not sure what connection we first 30,000 users share. At the same time i remember there must have been also some connection to Y Combinator back in 2008. Is there a way to see my own history of probably first commits or activity on Github? Oh, i found out. It was the early Rails Community on Github. That's probably what the first Github Users all share in common.

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saint_yossarian 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That was my connection too! I joined in 2008 when I got my first Rails gig where they were using GitHub, which I hadn't heard of before.

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jannyfer 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm user 7xx,xxx but I also believe I created a Github account while working on Rails projects (basically copying Ryan Bates and assembling things together. haha good times)

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pimeys 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm also surprised. I'm user 34967 and I was pretty far from Silicon Valley when I joined in late 2008.

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wyclif 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Where are you finding your join number on GitHub? I just spent a few minutes looking at my profile and settings, but I don't see it anywhere.

	▲	hughdbrown an hour ago \| parent [-]
		curl -s https://api.github.com/users/mitchellh \| jq .id