Oldest Roblox Accounts: User IDs 1, 2, 3 and the History Behind Each One

User ID 1: Admin

The first account on Roblox isn't called "Roblox" — it's called Admin. According to the Roblox Fandom wiki, the Admin account was created by David Baszucki on June 30, 2004, several months before any public users existed. Baszucki used it to test Roblox's place-publishing system, login flow, and core player functionality during the DynaBlocks era (read our post on how Roblox was originally called DynaBlocks for the founding-era context).

The account is still owned by Roblox Corporation today. You can view the profile at roblox.com/users/1/profile. It has zero public friends and effectively serves as the corporate / system account.

User IDs 2 and 3: John Doe and Jane Doe

The next two accounts are John Doe (user ID 2) and Jane Doe (user ID 3). Both were created by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel on June 25, 2005. They were used internally as NPCs and to test player-system features in the alpha and early beta.

These two accounts became infamous in 2017 because of a community-wide "hacker" hoax claiming they would attack Roblox on March 18. The full story is in our deep-dive: John Doe and Jane Doe: The Roblox Hoax That Wouldn't Die.

The gap between User ID 3 and User ID 156

Roblox didn't open public registration immediately. From mid-2005 through early 2006, IDs 4 through 155 were used for additional internal testing accounts, early employees, and trusted beta testers. There isn't a clean public record of who owned every account in that range, but several accounts in the low-three-digit ID space are still active today and command attention in the community.

User ID 156: Builderman

This is the most famous Roblox account of all. Builderman (ID 156) is David Baszucki's primary developer-facing account, created on February 27, 2006, around the time Roblox transitioned from invite-only beta to public access. The iconic construction-worker avatar — hard hat, yellow vest, tool belt — has been the platform's de facto mascot for nearly two decades.

For the full story of this account, see our standalone post: Who Is Builderman?

Other early notable accounts

• Telamon — created January 30, 2007. The original main account of John Shedletsky, Roblox employee #2 after Baszucki. Shedletsky used it as his primary account from 2006 until March 2012, when he swapped IDs with what is now his current "Shedletsky" account.
• Shedletsky — user account currently held by John Shedletsky after the 2012 ID swap. The account itself was originally registered June 22, 2006.
• erik.cassel — the account of Roblox's late co-founder Erik Cassel, who passed away in 2013. Still active on the site as a memorial.
• 1x1x1x1 — created by Shedletsky in 2007 as an internal joke account. It later became the basis for one of the most widespread Roblox creepypastas.

Why low-ID accounts matter

Roblox account IDs are publicly visible, so a low ID has become a status symbol. Players will sometimes pay thousands of Robux on the secondary market for accounts in the low thousands or below. The lowest publicly-available accounts you'll find on resale sites today are typically in the five-digit range — anything below 1,000 is almost always either dormant Roblox-owned or owned by an employee/early-tester who has never sold.

Per Oldest.org's list of oldest Roblox accounts, the genuinely-oldest still-active community accounts (not owned by Roblox staff) sit in the high-three-digit / low-four-digit ID range.

Can you find a friend path to these accounts?

Not most of them. FriendPath uses Roblox's public friends API, and accounts like Admin, John Doe, Jane Doe, and Builderman all have empty or hidden friend lists. So while you can look up these accounts, you can't build a path through them.

The exception is @david.baszucki, Baszucki's personal account, which is active and has a public friend list. That's the one to search if you want to find your actual degrees of separation from the CEO of Roblox — see Are You Friends With David Baszucki? for the walkthrough.