The site comments date back to July 15th 2004, which is just under 4 years ago. But was there any activity before that?

around end of May 2004 :
http://forum.hardware.fr/forum2.php?config=hfr.inc&cat=13&subcat=424&post=29250&page=- 1&p=1&sondage=0&owntopic=1&trash=&trash_post=&print=0&numreponse=0"e_only=0&new=- 0&nojs=0
(first post was edited later)