Daniel was the one with the idea for this forum--he started it, and was the sole admin/mod for a few years. Back then, the forum was on a server in Skip's basement...
Anyway, Daniel decided to crunch SETI and found out there were others of us, so he founded the team and I started working on the web pages... that was late 1999.
So as it went, Joe and Daniel and Skip had a falling out (over ethics and forum policies) and Daniel started AOAForums. That was summer 2001.
More than anyone wanted to know.. I am sure