Ever wondered who were the first users in your hotel ?! It seems you’re not alone, it’s been a hot topic on forums for a long time. Nowadays, easy to find, but it didn’t use to be that way. !! Warning !! This is de-mystifying for any hotel created after hotel Canada (may 2004), and in general, not as hot a topic as people assume it to be (prepare to be disappointed).

Before v11/Habbo homes arrived, it used to be the ‘home phone’ credit code form that revealed the secret (not all hotels have this available). You’d enter your Habbo name and get the code to transfer credits to. That 8-digit code actually shows you where you stand in Habbo history. If you enter ‘Apparatus’ (alias of one of Habbo’s founders) on the UK form, you’ll get “00000009” - Apparatus was the 9th registered user in UK.

Ofcourse, this was guessing and checking if usernames ranked high. Helpful was the fact that if you use the search (for rooms) inside the navigator, and only enter ‘ ’ (a space), you’ll get a list of the first 50+ rooms inside the hotel (note: with introduction of v19 search got improved and this does not work anymore). Lots of hotels have the same room first created: “Kämp” owned by Whatwasit. If usernames were present, they were entered into the credit form, and put into lists if ranking high.

With the release of personal Habbo homepages, there is now a much more easy trick to uncover the full list. Just look at this URL, Apparatus again. Change the number and the homes corresponding to the users will tell all:

http://www.habbo.co.uk/home/9/id

Alright, now lets blow this bubble, a little. Lists are there, does this mean those were the first people walking around ? No. Lots of the newer hotels were created with files from older hotels. Which explains those first rooms usually have an “Oh Canada!” owned by Becs in the list (description: first room created in Canada…), and “Habbo Spain” owned by arturo, and “kontrollihuone” (owner hidden). Not really created, just an older hotel partly copied to the new one. Any hotel created after hotel Canada has the same first users, it seems new hotels are build on some template created right after launch of this hotel. Another thing is, also for earlier hotels, most of these were test accounts, never used later on; not that interesting…

Anyway, here’s the lists, first 25, sometimes with information on those first Habbo’s (hover the marked ones (oh, for the record, pictures are no real screenshots, we didn’t meet them in person)). If you can’t be bothered, we extracted the essentials.

The first 25 habbo’s

‘aapo’ is Aapo Kyrölä, later on better known as ‘kyrpov’ around. One of the inventors/founders of habbo hotel.

‘Whatwasit’ is Sulake staff and the first habbo on most hotels. Likewise, his room “Kämp” is often the first room. It’s almost his signature, with mostly a similar design: an entry with yukka’s on both sides, and an area with khaki and red rugs, TV + chair.

‘kyrpov’ is Aapo Kyrölä, sometimes also (in Finland mainly) registered as ‘aapo’. One of the inventors/founders of habbo hotel.

‘roxeteer’ is Finnish technical staff, in many hotels one of very first users, so involved with the groundwork. Not particularly interested in creating rooms, it seems ;).

‘utplutih’ is part of technical staff from Finland, having done the groundwork for a lot of hotels, it seems. Though she seems to be part of the ‘Think team’ (creating new ideas) these days.

‘armasK’ - referenced online as ‘Lead concept designer’ and ‘Habbo artist extraordinaire’, we figure this guy is important in the graphics department :p.

‘pangea’ worked for TTG when he wrote a case to start a joint venture with Sulake to start a Dutch hotel. This happened and he became ‘Business manager’ of Dutch hotel. He now works as ‘Senior Vice President, Marketing’ for Sulake.

‘toto’ is, along with Radish, one of Finnish technicians involved from start (as said by kyrpov in Spanish newsletter once).

‘Apparatus’ is Sampo Karjalainen. One of the inventors/founders of habbo hotel, nowadays Chief Creative Officer.

‘Radish’ is, along with ‘toto’, one of technicians involved from start (as quoted from kyrpov in Spanish newsletter once). His current mission, worldwide, is “The emperor of Snouthill”, so you can guess what he’s working on these days ;).

‘ione’ was first manager of UK hotel, now working for Sulake worldwide.

‘DaTeme’ (Date me ?) is Finnish technical staff, involved starting 2003, it seems. Has a couple of rooms called “Party Box” around.

‘oa’ is part of technical staff from Finland, doing the groundwork for a lot of hotels.

‘Jibbi’ is a former hotel manager in UK.

‘Jolly’ seems to have been first hotel manager in Italy, later moved on to work for Sulake worldwide, busy with competition design.

‘Tuu’ is hotel manager, Finland.

‘Dreamwalker’ used to be community manager in Swiss hotel, later moved on to work for Sulake worldwide. Since Swiss hotel was one of the first, you can find some Swiss staff helping out testing new hotels (Italy/Germany, foremost). The ‘Mondtempel’ (moon temple) seems to be his central theme in rooms.

‘bloeki’ is hotel manager in Swiss hotel. Since Swiss hotel was one of the first, you can find some Swiss staff helping out testing new hotels (Italy/Germany, foremost).

First test account of Dutch hotel manager. Since she used part of her real name, this account was later replaced with her ‘Lotus’ account. Used to be banned, now unbanned to give access to some old rooms.

Jet is the community manager of Dutch hotel, involved from start of the Dutch hotel.

Lotus is hotel manager of Dutch hotel.

First hotel manager of Swedish hotel.

Being the first hotel, the first 100+ are mostly obvious test accounts.

[Account removed, probably ‘aapo’]
aapo2
[Account removed]
[Account removed]
a
getdown
aapo
jormaollila
ken
armasK
darken
appa
tarsan
naku
w
[Account removed]
eee
test
tyyppi
pekka
pekka57
pekka58
pekka59
pekka60
pekka61

In Japan only the first user shows up, which is aapo, accounts 2-25 are removed.

[Not accessible, no name mentioned]
Franco
armasK
homebeach
Whatwasit
oa
nina
sulka
DaTeme
utplutih
a
[Not accessible, no name mentioned]
toto
roxeteer
hitachi
huuhaa
Paolo
apparatus
alex
Sonia
Elena
David
[Account removed]
hitachi2
[Account removed]

After this list, besides toto, 2-9 and A-Z are being banned…

Whatwasit [banned]
roxeteer
utplutih
oa
[Account removed]
[Account removed]
bloeki
Dreamwalker
[Account removed]
[Account removed]
[Account removed]
[Account removed]
[Account removed]
[Account removed]
[Account removed]
[Account removed]
[Account removed]
-arik-
pl0g1
[Account removed]
DaTeme
[Account removed]
[Account removed]
Lame
1 [banned]

Canadian staff was either late in, or incognito/undecisive on their Habbo name. The known habbo’s in this list are mostly Finnish.

Since we explored these numbers anyway, may we jump to some conclusions ?! You’ll roughly see 5 groups:

There's a group of 10+ people who are obvious technical staff from Finland. Same ‘names’ keep coming back. You can’t assume these are all real people, same person might create multiple accounts. There’s only a few we have little detail about. Besides the marked ones note among returning names are (variations of) (d)(a)(r)ken (mucho huuhaa in missions and rooms), andeK, James, Marion, jormaollila, Loistovaanija, Paolo, arturo, soo9 and -arik-;
In a couple of hotels you see staff from older hotels being invited to test, most obviously Dreamwalker and bloeki from Swiss hotel (note to self: Darkmind is old Swiss staff too) in Italy and Germany;
There’s a bunch of obvious test accounts, never to be used again;
Local staff doesn’t always make it into first 25 (or, not visibly), but in a couple of hotels you can see they were involved in an early stage;
And, last, there’s accounts created to prevent future users to take those names. ‘Moderator’ and ‘Admin’ are obvious. The German hotel staff has been very ‘gründlich’ in this respect; registering ‘Berlusconi’ at Italian hotel is funny (and could just be a joking test account).