World's First CCIE

Doing a bit of research on starting my own quest for CCIE, and ran into an article on networkworld about the early days of the CCIE. Apparently, they gave the first CCIE number 1024 to the lab itself, and the second to the guy that wrote the test, Stuart Biggs. So, the first real CCIE was Terry Slattery (Lookup Terrance Slattery on the verification tool) #1026. Another good page is the "CCIEs Worldwide" page which has statistics on how many CCIEs there are now and in what countries.