In the beginnings of this forum in 1995, there was no website presentation as we now see it. PPRuNe began as a simple bulletin board where DF used to email the day's posts to everyone. I think I was member #72 or thereabouts. Everyone else was flying fixed wing.
There was no such thing anywhere as this type of front page; the internet as we now know it was still in it's infancy. Even the computer shops didn't have it!
I recall at least two major "upsets" of the present format where all forum records were lost. My original username went AWOL during the months I was offline during a relocation from one side of the earth to the other and we had no internet connection in our village. When I got back online everything had been reset and someone else had taken my original username, which was "SARbuoy".
I was later offered it back by the forum admin, but it was no longer important or relevant to my role.