Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=970361

The link is for the first post I could find from Dan, so I'm not sure if it's the very first post on DAZ Studio, but it appears to be the first announcement here on the program by him. As Dan pointed out, the early post didn't promise the world. It does show how things have changed over time because there are differences in the program initially being envisioned as something to be purchased, not free, and other things that have changed over time.

My visual indexes of Poser content are at http://www.sharecg.com/pf/rgagnon