Bug in software is the most likely reason. Or some web crawler went crazy and had multiple threads running on this board.
It's not very likely to have 97 users here at the same time. It's pretty simple math. That day, the forum had roughly 150 members ( you can see it from member list ). If 25% of them were online, it there still need to be over 60 non-registered users online. And having ~40 registered users online at the same time, would be quite unlikely. So, it would be safe to safe that if we assume that at most 20 members were online (which would be very big number for forum size of this!) we'd need 80 non-member to be online at the same time. Which is quite a lot. Unless if it was some really big site that bring those member to this board. And if it were so, I'm sure you'd see it in the logs. It would involve huge traffic spike.
So, based on pure math and logic, I'd say it's error.
Of course it can be correct, but it would likely show up in logs somehow then.
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