But I was only 12 when I started Subsim !
Here is a good record of who was around in the beginning, the Fix My 688(I) roster. Scroll down to the middle of the page, the blue table has the original 1998-1999 signers.
Order appears to the left to right, top to bottom... I recognize a lot of names in the first three rows
Neal Stevens
Scott Hirschman
Pat Miller
Bill Nichols
Robert Mauchin
Colin Foster
Barry Barnes
Jorgen Hallbeck
Lonny Hodges
John Easley
Ernest Fratz
J.D.Latorre
Pierre Ducasse
Magne Tjoerhom
Bill Keys
F. Morissette - SIM HQ
R. Litchfield - SIM HQ
Ed Lynch - SIM HQ
Ben Qol
Ed Quiggle
Nick Meis
Lane Goodman
Randall Guy
Angelo
Jun Arisaka
Kevin Polito
Joong-Hoon Kang
Joshua J. Krzych
Dennis Witthuhn
Dirk Delat
David Nawton
Robert Toole
Brian Young
Kevin Dankmeyer
Ross McCallum
Kasey Chang
Darren Dixon
Fred Polgardy, Sr.
Gerald Buscemi
Gordon Watson
Matthew Lenerville
Vint Le'
Scott Zabolotzky
Walt Hare
Don Stewart
Peter Cornish
Andrew Dawes
Steve Sanders
Kenneth M. Hinds
Paul Powell
Ken Hinchliffe
Jim (Struts) Raring
Luke Russell
Bram M. Otto
John Channing
Philippe Fransolet
Dan Cohen
Dietger Pohl
Daryl Cohen
Stuart Whelan