I think my first challenge was " Encounter " which X-Warrior won, I believe. Couldn’t say the year.
And that confused me quite a bit when I (semi automatically) compiled a list of all past challenge themes. 
Here you go: #63 (2003)
That must have been a few years after the dinosaurs went extinct. Back in those dark days when I was still using Cinema 4D.
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The image links are extinct too. 
I guess, that is also true for most of the image hosting providers which were used around that time.
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There are some tricks that work with archive.org to get some of the old images back. If you remake the URLs with the old blenderartists domain and address format you might be able to get them. I was able to do it for some of the earliest ones, but not all.
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Helge’s original entry: Diner for One
My entry: Diner for None
Note that on Helge’s image that the support bars connecting the wheel segements together are blocking the Ferris Wheel cars from swinging freely. This would lead to an interesting meal, so I made a follow up scene.
Something I found interesting about this theme is that it allowed you to get in the shoes of another artist and appreciate how much work they put into a scene.
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that’s 19 years, so this has been going on since 2003. That’s so cool
It also mean I learn nothing for so many years and still making bad looking images like a newbie 
Nice catch! So nice to see that little construction issue turned into another fun entry!
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