What's the number on your oldest/first Hub?

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   relacheposted 9 years ago

   I bet you didn't know that Hubs are numbered in order.
   
   If you are editing your Hub, and you look at the URL while you are in edit-mode, you will see a number at the end.  That number indicates the order in which your Hub was created in with all the others.  Of course, Hubs get deleted, so there are probably millions of Hub numbers missing from the site.
   
   What's the number of your oldest/first Hub?
   
   My oldest/first hub shows #421, meaning it was the 421st Hub created on the site.  (Eight years ago this very month)
   
   What's the number on the first Hub you ever created?

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      PegCole17posted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Congratulations on the eight years of Hubs. This is interesting, Relache. I never noticed the number before.
      My first one says 815,949
      

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      classicalgeekposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      1,130,238, published on 1/31/10.

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      Cardisaposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Congrats Relache, on making it eight years. It's always an honor to be in your presence, I meant that.
      
      I have deleted several hubs that were trash, IMO, but the oldest one I have published is #2,253,882

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      drpennypincherposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      3,510,526 published January 8, 2013.
      I didn't know what I was doing, so my first hub has a permalink that doesn't match the topic.

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      gitachudposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      3,797,361 -- first published on October 2013

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2. 61

   Jcpuddlesposted 9 years ago

   #3,946,129 and it was created last month. I did not know this O.o

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3. 60

   Bharath Sunnyposted 9 years ago

   3896488...Too Late..:v

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4. 91

   Susana Sposted 9 years ago

   Well I never knew that!
   Mine's 557,245.

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5. 95

   Glenn Stokposted 9 years ago

   I have always noticed that number while in edit mode, but I never knew it was a sequential counter of all hubs. I already deleted my first hubs a long time ago, but the oldest I have at this time is numbered 911,063. It's from Oct 2009.

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      Sue Adamsposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Yours 911,063
      October 2009
      
      Mine 814,580
      10 September 2009.
      
      96,483 hubs in one month! (depending on your exact date)

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         Glenn Stokposted 9 years agoin reply to this

         Sue, the exact date of my oldest remaining hub was 20th of Oct 2009. So that's 40 days later than yours. The average monthly increase would therefore be 72,362 hubs.

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            Sue Adamsposted 9 years agoin reply to this

            At that time. The average monthly growth is probably a lot higher today.

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               Glenn Stokposted 9 years agoin reply to this

               Yeah, I meant at that time.  But presently the number of hubs is decreasing. A year ago in July 2013 we had 1,051,759 published hubs. Now in July 2014 we have only 845,280 published hubs. I've been keeping tabs on that. Source:  http://hubpages.com/about/us

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                  Sue Adamsposted 9 years agoin reply to this

                  That's probably due to all the crap that has been filtered out since the quality standards went up. So it's a good thing.

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                  relacheposted 9 years agoin reply to this

                  I keep those records too.
                  
                  We now have fewer registered users on the site than we did in April of 2009.

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   relacheposted 9 years ago

   Wow, October 2009 and HubPages was just closing in on their first million Hubs.  The next million sure came a lot faster...

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   1. 87

      rebekahELLEposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      My first hub was published on 8/21/09.      #764,158
      
      There seemed to be a lot of new users in 2009-10, pre Panda days.   I never knew what the number referenced.  Thanks for the interesting trivia.

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7. 91

   Rochelle Frankposted 9 years ago

   Number 200,665 on 5/2/08.
   My first commenter was Lissie, a New Zelander who was around for quite awhile.

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8. 90

   chasmacposted 9 years ago

   Mine is 2,496,078 published in June 2011

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9. 0

   spahi992posted 9 years ago

   Mine is 3.904.118
   Wow, this many.

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    akhildev143posted 9 years ago

    3,520,126 - Jan 16th 2013.

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11. 67

    Engeltaposted 9 years ago

    3913814 that is my number.. Wow, Hubpages has gone a long way

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12. 83

    CMHypnoposted 9 years ago

    587,477 on 30th May 2009

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    1. 91

       Susana Sposted 9 years agoin reply to this

       We joined at about the same time

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13. 92

    Zakmoonbeamposted 9 years ago

    1,851,917, it seems so long ago !

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14. 94

    FatFreddysCatposted 9 years ago

    My first hub is numbered 2,363,242 - published in April 2011.

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15. 82

    moonlakeposted 9 years ago

    My first hub 177,943. I wonder who was number 1.

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       paradigmsearchposted 9 years agoin reply to this

       I tried to figure out which one was number 1 by plugging the number into the hubpages URL in various ways. Alas, I did not succeed.

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       1. 72

          relacheposted 9 years agoin reply to this

          There used to a lot of ways that you could enter info into a URL and navigate uniquely through the site.  You used to be able to go through users by their numbers too.
          
          I know who the first registered user is, but it's clear their single Hub was not the first one ever made.  I suspect there are almost no surviving published Hubs as old as my oldest.

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             ezhangposted 9 years agoin reply to this

             Fun fact: The first hub ever made was this one, written by Paul Edmondson.
             
             http://hubpages.com/hub/How_to_Clean_a_ … l_or_Squab

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                paradigmsearchposted 9 years agoin reply to this

                Uh-oh. Doves are gathering petitions as we speak...

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                moonlakeposted 9 years agoin reply to this

                Thanks for giving us number 1.

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          easylearningwebposted 9 years agoin reply to this

          My oldest hub, created on 1/11/10 is # 1,025,877.
          
          Interesting, I didn't know about that number. ;-)

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       moonlakeposted 9 years agoin reply to this

       04/02/08 forgot to put my date on.

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    Lisa HWposted 9 years ago

    I've deleted a lot, but my oldest remaining (and probably one of the few first handful I did when I first signed up)  has 90491 (November 5, 2007).    (And I've never known that number is what it is.  I tend not to notice those things - so thanks.  )
    
    (Oh, and congratulations on the eight years.       )

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17. 71

    LeslieAdrienneposted 9 years ago

    Lord chile,, that would take hours to locate....
    {chile is southern for child-  

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18. 0

    nsiddposted 9 years ago

    My first hub was published on 6/16/14 .. number #3,950,828 .. Almost 4 million, woah, can only imagine the amount of knowledge shared through this site.

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19. 93

    Sherry Hewinsposted 9 years ago

    2,878,721 published 12/17/11

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20. 61

    missoliveposted 9 years ago

    2,678,952 published 9/4/11

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21. 38

    ChristinSposted 9 years ago

    That's interesting - I must not be very observant as I never noticed the number up there when I was in edit mode.  My first hub is 2,539,973 - good to know

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22. 61

    Trisha Robertsposted 9 years ago

    I honestly never noticed that. Now I'll always keep looking for it lol

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    relacheposted 9 years ago

    I'm hoping over the weekend we hear from more of the folks who arrived in the big swell of 2009-2011.  And maybe even an old-timer or two...

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    SmartAndFunposted 9 years ago

    Mine was published on 6-10-2010, number is 1,421,704.
    
    Thanks for the information -- I never knew about the meaning of the numbers!

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25. 94

    jansharesposted 9 years ago

    Very cool stat, relache. Thanks for sharing. Mine is 3,340,856 published on 8/27/2012, the same day I joined HP.

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    Anaydenaposted 9 years ago

    Mines is #2,540,383 Published on June 24, 2011

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    relacheposted 9 years ago

    You know what one of the most interesting things about these stats is?
    
    You know how you always read posts where people say they can't think of a good title because they can't come up with a unique URL?  For almost four million times, people on this site actually have managed to come up with a unique URL.  And they keep doing it.

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       jansharesposted 9 years agoin reply to this

       Pretty amazing, infinity is, or seems to be.

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    Paragliderposted 9 years ago

    63,508 fairly venerable, in the transient world of hubbery, I guess

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       relacheposted 9 years agoin reply to this

       Okay, here's one from the range we've not seen reported as much.  This one was still in the first 100,000. 
       
       I have two Hubs, both are within about 100 of your Hub number.  Did you make your first Hub somewhere around August 11, 2007?

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          Paragliderposted 9 years agoin reply to this

          Exactly on that date - 11 Aug 2007!  And it has been one of my most popular, with about 150 hits a day and over 550 comments. What was your first one about, Relache? Mine was about home wine-making.

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             relacheposted 9 years agoin reply to this

             My very first hub was, and still is, about body art.

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    LeonJaneposted 9 years ago

    739,534 in November 2009, congrats on 8 years I bet a lot has changed in that time!

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       relacheposted 9 years agoin reply to this

       So much HAS changed.  We all used to be able to put up porn and get lots of traffic from it.  That's not a joke, that really was how 2007 went.

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          Ginger Meowposted 9 years agoin reply to this

          wow, I know since I started that I've had to unpublish a few risque poems that I wrote, but it's all for the better, creating a better community and better HubPages product (i guess).

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    TripleAMomposted 9 years ago

    Mine is 2,931,595 posted in January of 2012. I saw this number but never knew what it meant. Thanks for sharing relache

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    Suzanne Dayposted 9 years ago

    1,892,095 on 1st December 2010. I was a latecomer...

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    watergeekposted 9 years ago

    1,925,862. Dang! That was a heckuva lotta hubs before I even started. The one I'm working on now is 3,961,518. Just over two million more in 4.5 years.

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    DzyMsLizzyposted 9 years ago

    1,158,198, published on 2-13-10
    
    That said, I have deleted a few, so I'm not sure that was my actual first-ever hub...which is a pair of short poems, not an article.

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    relacheposted 9 years ago

    I'm pretty sure the majority of people here have deleted their first Hubs.  I've got some still going because the topics were something I've managed to keep updating for seven years.
    
    If anyone hasn't grasped what "evergreen" really means, think about how many years you can keep updating a Hub.  I had already been a content writer on another site for four years when I started here.

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    Glimmer Twin Fanposted 9 years ago

    Mine is 3,231,232 and it is the very first hub I ever wrote here just over 2 years ago.

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36. 60

    sunilkunnoth2012posted 9 years ago

    Mine is 3052143. Published on March 18, 2012

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    Millionaire Tipsposted 9 years ago

    These are interesting stats for sure.  My first hub was published October 15, 2011. It was 2,761,501

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    SantaCruzposted 9 years ago

    Fun topic! Mine is 790,285. It's about ancient Mayan prophecies and was written in 2012, shortly before a supposed apocalypse. ;-) http://santacruz.hubpages.com/hub/The-2 … -Nonsense.

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    Kathleen Cochranposted 9 years ago

    2,456,053
    
    May 2010
    
    How to Know if You are a Good Mom
    
    (Still gets consistent views.  But my one on friends got me nominated for a Hub Nugget - if you remember those - in that first week.  It was a great way to start.  Then I was one of the 100 best new hubbers of that year.  Haven't won anything since!!!)

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