Is this the oldest thread in AT history:

[manlymatt83]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=000003

 

[ViviTheMage]

this is :

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=000003

 

[Ika]

I notice user "dc" has 9999 posts... :hmm:

and there are so many nefs in that thread :awe:

 

[techs]

I find it amazing that given Darwins Law so many people have survived.

 

[AreaCode707]

Wayback Machine says no

 

[ElFenix]

fusetalk used to archive stuff and so really old threads would have to be bumped. like the older woman thread that got moved to l&r after being started in OT back in 2001.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

earlier
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=335328

05-19-2000

Win.

So far.

 

[Ika]

fusetalk used to archive stuff and so really old threads would have to be bumped. like the older woman thread that got moved to l&r after being started in OT back in 2001.

I thought FuseTalk archived stuff after like 6 months. Was it just a really sketchy archive process, or am I wrong about the duration? I see some threads being bumped after 2+ years and such.

 

[StinkyPinky]

Someone asked for the oldest thread on the internet?

http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html

1981 - I was a toddler then.

 

[acheron]

Someone asked for the oldest thread on the internet?

http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html

1981 - I was a toddler then.

I was going to say, I'm sure Google Groups has ancient Usenet posts. Good find.

 

[acheron]

From the Google Groups link: http://groups.google.com/group/fa.works/msg/cceb59b7d99244ad

Review of the IBM PC. For those of you who think P3s or Zip disks are old.

 

[Rubycon]

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"For food grows like 1,2,3, and man liek 2,4,8..."

Malthus had fun extrapolating exponential growth curves, too. So did
Forrester and Ehrlich. Doomsday hasn't hit yet, and it doesn't look any
more likely to me than when Malthus wrote, or Forrester.

Exponential growth curves *always* flatten, for one reason or another.
Populations either get seriously whacked (a plague, war) or get rich and
thus stop breeding. [True enough -- as Lady Jackson used to point out,
on a national scale the only *sure* method of birth control is national
wealth. The United States would currently be suffering a population
*decline* if it were not for immigration. Try that the next time some
character flames away about breeding like flies in East LA!] For
this reason, space may well be the solution to our future population
problems, not because a significant percentage of humanity will emigrate,
but because space is gonna make us all stinking rich.

-- Rick.

 

[ElFenix]

I thought FuseTalk archived stuff after like 6 months. Was it just a really sketchy archive process, or am I wrong about the duration? I see some threads being bumped after 2+ years and such.

it normally archived stuff a few months after the latest post in the thread. for some reason not everything would get archived properly, i guess. i don't know the inner workings of fubartalk.

 

[Rubycon]

nttp was awesome though! No hiding!

 

[dennilfloss]

Not the oldest but it's still active.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=67&highlight=millionaire

 

[CraigRT]

No, 1999 and possibly earlier

 

[iGas]

So I'm guessing AT was started in 2000? Or was there a forum before that could not be imported over?

Still that's a old when you think about it, 10 years! I would of been 13, still playing with k'nex, lego and electricity, and knew nothing about computers.

AT was started in 1997 and the forum weren't exactly the same as it is today. The good old days had only 1 forum, and Anand Shimpi regularly posts as a member.

 

[Rubycon]

AT was started in 1997 and the forum weren't exactly the same as it is today. The good old days had only 1 forum, and Anand Shimpi regularly posts as a member.

Anand was on AOL in 1996 talking about his Cyrix system!

 

[MrMatt]

Nope, I got #3: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=000003

Doesn't go any lower.

EDIT: #4 is about a hot deal on 250 Zip disks. :awe:

I miss zip disks so under-rated. They filled the gap between floppies & cd burners so well.

 

[MrMatt]

The forums had been going strong on their own servers using Fusetalk for months and months when the database had a nervous breakdown on, iirc, Oct 9, 1999.

Trying to sign-in that day, each of us had to re-register, which is why the earliest stated join date is now Oct 1999.

Btw, for those who may not know, AnandTech started out as a BBS hosted on Geocities in 1997.

any screenshots of the geocities version?

 

[Rubycon]

any screenshots of the geocities version?

I could do an ASCI art rendering from memory but that would look bad.

The URL for his site as I remember it was:

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/9297/

Of course it's dead now.

Later it became http://tech.pair.com (sound familiar?)

Thomas Pabst's was http://sysdoc.pair.com

 

[iGas]

Anand was on AOL in 1996 talking about his Cyrix system!

Didn't know He was on AOL. I never try AOL, and the first place that we educated Anand was The Brotherhood Of The CPU bulletin board.