"I've been active on this forum since the first year it came on the internet. In the early days, the site would go down somewhat often. When it did, people sometimes had to re-register."
In the early days there was no registration. Name the person who forced that upon the site by his antics. (LOL)
"Eventually, most of the bugs were worked out by mid-1998, which is why you see most of the earliest FReepers with sign-up dates in 1998."
BS.
BTW, Ann Coulter put her fledgling career on the line when she against the advice of her publishers and agents spoke at the first FR rally in October 1998.
A year before you signed up.
I originally signed up in 1997. Multiple times in the first year or two, the site would go down and some, if not all people who registered had to re-register. Don't believe me? Check with JimRob.