Actually, according to a simple search through member profiles and limiting oneself to Fusetalk, Harvey (#574) joined the new version of this BBS at the exact same time as Russ (#575) but his membership number is one less. Zuni (#572)joined 16 minutes earlier. #573 is blank. I cannot find any valid member profile with an ID smaller than 572 (I have not checked all possibilities, just about 20 random checks that yelded blank info and error messages). #576 is EL CID and he joined at 3:50AM.
Funny little trivia: Konichiwa is #1000, there is a member #666, member #800 spot is occupied by Anandtech (no post ever, just to make sure the name is taken I presume) and member #10000 has 1 post but a zero daily average (if it weren't for the only 2 significant numbers after the decimal point, one might think that this reflects the Pentium decimal bug at work
). Ditto for #3000.
So the first person to register is, what a surprise
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Zuni: October 9th, 1999 1:56 AM.
Now for those who want to see the profile of that most elusive creature, a moderator, here's one:
One of the mods
I Don't Know Why (The Desires)