My story is similar to Xavs.
For several months I used to visit three sites for oddworld information, screenshots, etc. Those were oddworld.com, oddworld.au, and Sydney's original site Oddworldian. One day during the summer when the site had only a dozen members or so I would look around, mainly if there was any screenshots or new information I could find. But I never joined, my email address still wasnt up yet(plus it was not working, when it finally was up). So in turn, I waited until it was getting closer to Munches Oddysee's release in the U.S., a month to be exact and joined in October of 2001. At the time I even remember the original version of Vb. on the forums had our member numbers. Mine(yes I still remember it
) was member # 392. Although if you look at the members list, most of those people who joined over that summer(besides the actual members who did post, reply, etc.) up to when I joined, never actually posted a single reply, or even accessed their accounts. For more details look at the member list. Its been a long time though, 2 years this october. Anyways enough of my babbling I'm done.
*Que Clapping*
-Al