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I was just looking through who registered around the same time I did, May 1999. Very few are still around (hi voguevixen!); most only posted a time or two or not at all. Some had a couple hundred posts and then vanished in the ether around 2000.
Except — hey. Many many people show …
I assume this is a result of some great board upheaval something along the line, where things like this got reset. But it’s interesting if only to prove the adage, “never trust statistics.” (Or, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.” — Samuel Clemons and/or Disraeli)
Yep. That’s when we went from UBB to vBulletin. Much did NOT transfer over.
It’s “Clemens.” And he, Mark Twain, ascribed it incorrectly to Disraeli. We actually don’t know just “who” invented it, we just know who didn’t. 
Sheesh, I’m a '99er and I’m 2934. Oct of that year, Almost 3,000 from May to Oct?? Wow.