I have sometimes wondered about the following: (1) Who was the first articulate that in dealing with equivariant cohomology theories, it is best to work in an $RO(G)$-graded context? (2) Who was the first to realize that the correct set up for equivariant stable homotopy was to work in a complete universe? (3) At what time did these ideas first come to the surface? The seventies? The eighties? How much do they predate the Segal conjecture? (Maybe I should thank Peter May in advance?)