https://freerepublic.com/~jimrobinson/
Signed up November 28, 1997.
You seem to have no reading comprehension skills. Jim Robertson is the site's founder and owner. HE DID NOT SIGN UP! How can you claim to be someone who has been here for 22 years and not know that?
It says that’s when he signed up so that’s when he signed up.
Now go fetch that article I told you to.