ok..so I remembered the wayback machine....
here's a link to the Rendo when it was still referenced as Poser Forum Online..
but it was called Renderosity already in Apr 1999, even though the history reference says Oct 1999....although OCT may have been when the PFO reference was dropped.
http://web.archive.org/web/19990428192554/http://www.poserforum.com/

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