Ever wondered who the first ever Hotel Manager was? Who the first Habbo was? Who created Habbo Hotel? Read on to find out that, and more!

Who was the first Habbo?
The first ever Habbo made was aapo, there are many rumours which say this is not true but it has been proven, since his credit number is 00000001.

Who founded Habbo?
Originally, an enterpreneur called Dee Edwards saw Hotel Goldfish and had an idea for a profitable business in the UK. Dee, along with Sulake, then founded Habbo Limited and brought it to the UK immediately, her Habbo name was Daisy. It is unknown what Dee did after this stage but it is believed that after making around £1million she gave up on Habbo Limited and sold her part of the business to Sulake, who have since gone on to make millions from it. Some may say she was stupid for doing this.

Who created Habbo?
Sampo Karjalainen and Aapo Kyrölä developed FUSE Technology, the code that Habbo is programmed in, Sulake is the Finnish word for FUSE. From this they created a few other multi-user applications which led to Habbo! You may think this contradicts Dee Edwards' role in creating Habbo, well it doesn't. She was the one who thought of Habbo Limited, whilst Sampo and Aapo coded it, they are also the founders of Sulake - the company that now owns Habbo.

I want some statistics!
Habbo operates in 32 local communities with over 111,000,000 users registered, thats 103 million if you couldn't work it out. On average, there are 990 million page loads every month, with 9.5 million of those being unique! It has been calculated that the average session time is 36 minutes. The main age distribution is teenagers aged 13-18, which is 90% of the Habbo community. Approximately, 63% of all habbo users go to habbo everyday!

Has the law ever entered Habbo?
Actually, yes it has, a number of times. The biggest event being in 2007 when a 17 year old was arrested after being accused of stealing virtual furniture to the value of €4000.

Has it always been called Habbo?
No, in May 2006, Sulake decided to rename the service to Habbo, before this it was called Habbo Hotel. Since so many people referred to the hotel as just Habbo, it made a lot of sense.

What is Hotel Goldfish?
This was the very early stages of Habbo today. This is what Sampo and Aapo originally created, this hotel only existed in Finland and was actually called Hotel Kultakala, meaning Hotel Goldfish. This was changed to Habbo Hotel when Dee Edwards started off the new brand!

What other things led to Habbo?
Before Hotel Goldfish a few other multi-user applications were created. The original concept of Habbo Hotel came from Mobiles Disco, a project ran for the Finnish Rap band 'Mobiles', this then went on to be very successful and gave them the idea of Hotel Goldfish. Another application the duo created was Snow War, a step further than Mobiles Disco, which allowed users to throw snow balls at each other to win games.

What else has Sulake created?
Sulake has been employed by multi-national companies to create systems for their customers. The first company to approach Sulake was Coca Cola who then got Coke Music out of the deal, this is quite similar to the Habbo concept. The next company was Disney, who wanted a Magic Kingdom from the deal. From that deal VMK was created, a virtual magic kingdom. Sulake haven't always created their own applications, oh no! They recently purchased IRC Galleria, a chat program which is extremely popular in Finland. Another thing they have created in Mini Friday, an experiment to see if Mobile Virtual Worlds are successful and seeing whether or not real-time virtual worlds work! This is a very small application and is currently only available on Nokia phones, Mini Friday consists of a Club and Bar, in a few different languages.

What else are Sulake making?
Sulake is currently working on developing a portable Habbo Hotel, accessible from your mobile phone, though this is still in the early stages of production. In the past they have developed other mobile phone Habbo Content, such as games which you can download, for a small fee.

How many Habbos have been online at once?
That record is held by the Spanish, with a whopping 31,500+ Habbos online, that was set in march 2008!

Who started the Habbo eXperts?
The Swedish Hotel first got the Habbo eXpert group, though Australia was the first to get the new Habbo eXpert subgroups. The team on eXperts was removed in June 2008 to make way for the new Habbo Guides!

Which was the first hotel?
The first hotel was Finland, this opened in 2000. The second hotel created was the UK one, which at first was hosted on the habbohotel.co.uk, this then, for some odd reason, changed to habbohotel.com, after some time at the .com domain it moved back to being habbohotel.co.uk - so the US could have their own hotel!