Congratulations for reaching a million, Gordon Linoff
Impressive!<p>Personally, I am a few thousand places behind, but still in the top 0.2%.<p>How?  I asked and answered a few hundred questions early on, years ago, when SO was new and interesting...<p>Now those answers are old and, like most answers on SO, out of date.  Usually when I google something technical and get seemingly the exact right question asked on SO, the answers are no longer correct.  Software versions change.<p>And yet I still get a steady trickle of votes, forever increasing the gulf between outdated and no-longer-participating people like me and anyone starting on SO today.