[Gortef]

Great Happy Birthday wishes HLP!

From your registered member number 148.

[Satellight]

In fact, if you look at the memberlist, you'll see for example that Kallfireth (first on the list) is u=5 (last characters on the browser's adress bar when you put your mouse on a profil's name) and Shrike (second registrated on the list) u=2

So, I don't think this number is related to the registration order. I'm user u=11406 but 8618 on the memberlist 

[T-Man]

Happy birthday HLP indeed . I had no idea the site only started up in 2001; was convinced it had been around for ages when i joined up (i has been visiting for at least a year before i joined up IIRC, so the site would've only been a year old).

Hats off to the admins for running a good site, and to everyone else for such a great community!

EDIT: 1036 is mine apparently.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Mine is 7291. It's one of the first numbers I saw when I joined.

[Scourge of Ages]

In fact, if you look at the memberlist, you'll see for example that Kallfireth (first on the list) is u=5 (last characters on the browser's adress bar when you put your mouse on a profil's name) and Shrike (second registrated on the list) u=2

So, I don't think this number is related to the registration order. I'm user u=11406 but 8618 on the memberlist 

Perhaps it disregards accounts that have been deleted for whatever reason?

[CP5670]

I remember when I got here after the VBB went down.

Yeah, a bunch of us came here around that time, or in the months leading up to it.

[ssmit132]

Happy Birthday HLP. And I realised that I joined at almost the midway point (September 2006). Wow, that's a while ago now!

EDIT: And I'm just about halfway in the list of members - 5073 according to the link on my name, and on the list there's 10063 total.

[Mobius]

Happy Birthday, HLP! I knew HLP was created in 2001, but completely forgot the exact date.

[Dugrok]

To a community I've recently gotten involved in: Happy 10 years and I hope this will last at least another 10!

[Kolgena]

Someone should try and compile a then and now mini-album. I would be neat, but no doubt lots of work.

HBHLP

[Hero_Swe]

Sorry I'm late on this, but Happy Birthday HLP!

[Sandwich]

Where the in-game birthday cake w/ beams? C'mon, guys!

[Androgeos Exeunt]

How about a Sandwich?

[Viper01]

YAY! Happy Birthday! 

[Dragon]

Happy birthday.
BTW, is any of these 20 first users still around (I think I've seen Kalifeth post somewhere relatively recently).

[Mongoose]

IceFire is around fairly frequently, Styxx was off-and-on for a while but I think Real Life has interfered, and one or two of the others have popped in on occasion.

[Ypoknons]

hahah congrats, somehow I still think of HLP as the new Freespace site' hahaha

[Androgeos Exeunt]

HLP has maintained that "new" feel for as long as I've been a member, which is good, because it's like being in a house where everything from the furniture to the fittings looks new but feels homely.

[Goober5000]

...where everything from the furniture to the fittings looks new but feels homely.

I think you mean "homey".

[Androgeos Exeunt]

I think you mean "homey".