I will do this in a few days, but generally i think it was like this:
Q3/VOGON is online for ~10 years (not sure yet!)
- 2003 - using different mods
- 2004 - server was running with my mod (a very simple one), but without VOGON name (here we need to see when did we start using it)
- 2005 - definitely 100%, VOGON servers were up and running, with some basic website, forum was added later (initially i didn't want any web community, as you can probably tell from time to time)
COD4 is online for 5 years (100% sure)
- 2009 June first server started
.. in short time we reached #1 among 13500+ other servers, using only 44 slots (COD4 is buggy with anything over 49-50 slots)
.. there are old threads about this here, but images may be missing because Imageshack fucked up, images i have in archives, will look for those as well