Hey guys... you can actually read the entire history of AoEH in the Storage Pit - our News Archives... it has all our news posts going back to October of 1997. Some of it is pretty funny stuff...
The site goes back to before the AoE demo was released and was started by Mike McCart who now works for ES. I think Vidguy was the 2nd guy who worked on the site... he now works for Microsoft Games doing on-line marketing work. Soon after that, Alexander and Hamlet were added. I started working here in April of 98 when AoEH was still the only Heaven site.
From there, we grew and grew and grew... but it was all started by one person over three years ago.