The past few days I have been exploring Steemit libraries and database. It all started when I wanted to know the top 10 people who votes for my posts in a week/month then populate it on a bar graph/chart. I was then inspired by a post  "[Steemit's Community Engagement is up over 1,000%](https://steemit.com/steemit/@furion/steemit-s-community-engagement-is-up-over-1-000)" posted by @furion. While busy exploring the database I come across this:

### <center><p>Is this Steemit first ever post?</p> </center>
<center> ![](https://picload.org/image/rpcpoaci/first.jpg)</center>
#### <center><p>Link to the post: [https://steemit.com/meta/@steemit/firstpost ](https://steemit.com/meta/@steemit/firstpost)</p> </center>

<center> ![](https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/u1973/gallery3/Ancient-Laur-Dividers-1a.png) </center>

One may ask how did I get to this conclusion? Well I used [Robomongo](https://robomongo.org/) to login into Steemit database like what is described on a post by @furion "[Introducing SteemData - A Database Layer for STEEM](https://steemit.com/steemdata/@furion/introducing-steemdata-a-database-layer-for-steem)"

<center> ![](https://picload.org/image/rpcwoggr/robo.jpg)</center>

### <center><p>Well after gaining access to the database I didn't even have to know MongoDB query format I simply clicked *"Posts"* </p> </center>

```
db.getCollection('Posts').find({})
```

### <center><p>The results is in JSON but there are other options: </p> </center>

<center> ![](https://picload.org/image/rpcwawrw/result.jpg)</center>

```
"_id" : ObjectId("591c30930f44d6e209df74b6"),
    "children_abs_rshares" : "319683813723",
    "author_rewards" : 3548,
    "created" : ISODate("2016-03-30T18:30:18.000Z"),
    "curator_payout_value" : {
        "asset" : "SBD",
        "amount" : 0.756
    },
    "permlink" : "firstpost",
    "total_pending_payout_value" : {
        "asset" : "STEEM",
        "amount" : 0.0
    },
    "parent_author" : "",
    "active" : ISODate("2017-07-11T20:50:15.000Z"),
    "community" : "",
    "title" : "Welcome to Steem!",
    "allow_votes" : true,
    "patched" : false,
    "identifier" : "@steemit/firstpost",
    "body" : "Steemit is a social media platform where anyone can earn STEEM points by posting. The more people who like a post, the more STEEM the poster earns. Anyone can sell their STEEM for cash or vest it to boost their voting power.",
    "allow_curation_rewards" : true,
    "active_votes" : [ 
        {
            "percent" : 100,
            "reputation" : "243819801586934",
            "voter" : "dantheman",
            "rshares" : 375241,
            "time" : "2016-04-07T19:15:36",
            "weight" : "32866333630"
        }, 
```
### <center><p>Lets zoom in:</p> </center>

<center> ![](https://picload.org/image/rpcwawla/results2.jpg)</center>

* "created" : ISODate("2016-03-30T18:30:18.000Z")
 * "identifier" : "@steemit/firstpost",
 * "body" : "Steemit is a social media platform where anyone can earn STEEM points by posting. The more people who like a post, the more STEEM the poster earns. Anyone can sell their STEEM for cash or vest it to boost their voting power.",

### <center><p>Based on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steemit) Steemit was released in March 2016 and that first post by @Steemit  seems to be was created 30 March 2016.</p> </center>

### <center><p>Well if it is not the FIRST POST...I will accept to be corrected with supporting evidence &#128526;&#128526;.</p> </center>
<center> ![](https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/u1973/gallery3/Ancient-Laur-Dividers-1a.png) </center>
### <center><p>There are many other useful info you can QUERY on the database like the examples @furion has given...well I still need to get my top 10 voters...so the fun has just began.</p> </center>

You can learn more about [MongoDB here](https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/operator/query/)

<center> ![](https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/u1973/gallery3/Ancient-Laur-Dividers-1a.png) </center>
<center> ![](https://media.giphy.com/media/F0M5HYrDY5Fkc/giphy.gif) </center>