Do you enjoy digging through the Webarchive?

[PsychoticThoughts]

I have been collecting Gifs and other cool junk from old profiles just for fun:

Old-School Junk — Postimages

postimg.cc

 

[PGen98]

I have been collecting Gifs and other cool junk from old profiles just for fun:

Old-School Junk — Postimages

postimg.cc

So much nostalgia there, lol, you're just missing that avatar everyone used to have of the yin-yang sign animated in 3-d where the dots went through the holes...I need to look that up and see if I can find it. It was EVERYWHERE, lol.

 

[PsychoticThoughts]

The more I dig, the more I realize that the untold tragedy of losing so many sites is that they rob all their members of the chance to go back and see who they were back then... what videogames and TV shows they liked, what music they were into, etc.

And it's so backwards... we were essentially the first generation to have access to "time travel", and yet we destroyed that without a second thought.

 

[PGen98]

The more I dig, the more I realize that the untold tragedy of losing so many sites is that they rob all their members of the chance to go back and see who they were back then... what videogames and TV shows they liked, what music they were into, etc.

And it's so backwards... we were essentially the first generation to have access to "time travel", and yet we destroyed that without a second thought.

Yep, absolutely true. We need to preserve sites as much as possible or we're just going to lose everything.

 

[PsychoticThoughts]

Yep, absolutely true. We need to preserve sites as much as possible or we're just going to lose everything.

It's especially annoying when you realize that there's no real reason not to keep all of that up.

 

[PGen98]

It's especially annoying when you realize that there's no real reason not to keep all of that up.

Yep. There need to be services that archive and protect data when sites are at risk or going under. It costs nothing to archive, we need to make it happen.

 

[PsychoticThoughts]

Yep. There need to be services that archive and protect data when sites are at risk or going under. It costs nothing to archive, we need to make it happen.

I'm pleased to announce that I managed to secure a database by pleading directly with the owner.

 

[PGen98]

I'm pleased to announce that I managed to secure a database by pleading directly with the owner.

The more the better!

 

[PsychoticThoughts]

The more the better!

Yep... 15 years worth of posting saved.

 

[PGen98]

Yep... 15 years worth of posting saved.

Our hero!

 

[PGen98]

Went digging for some old forum software I remembered, lol:

https://web.archive.org/web/20030810012109/http://www.hescripts.com/hebb/index.php

https://web.archive.org/web/20020322220552/http://community.openbb.com/

https://web.archive.org/web/20040604011257/http://www.funkboard.co.uk/

https://web.archive.org/web/20020201205503/http://www.smartbb.net/smartboard/smartboard.php

So many forum platforms come and gone over the years

 

[PsychoticThoughts]

Ooooh! I remember those!

Stiil, nothing will ever fill the void left by ZB

 

[PGen98]

Yeah, ZB screwed over so many people.

 

[PsychoticThoughts]

One of my forums was actually going to go with MyBB before the closing announcement hit unexpectedly. Thank God someone was paying attention.



I miss the culture, too.

 

[PGen98]

I like MyBB as an option, it's still a decent platform, but it fell behind and the updates got fewer and farther between and now it's a security nightmare, so.........

 

[PsychoticThoughts]

I thought it had shutdown entirely, not that it was stuck in the same hell as the PaleMoon browser...

 

[PGen98]

I thought it had shutdown entirely, not that it was stuck in the same hell as the PaleMoon browser...

Nope, they're getting ready to release 1.9..."sometime" soon.

 

[PsychoticThoughts]

Nope, they're getting ready to release 1.9..."sometime" soon.

Ah... Like that forum that will be back "definitely" in the Summer of 2008. Gotcha.

 

[PGen98]

Ah... Like that forum that will be back "definitely" in the Summer of 2008. Gotcha.

Yep, coming soon™

 

[PsychoticThoughts]

I swear... they had that sign up til 2013. At least.