what is the first post ever posted on AT?

[RossMAN]

First post was in Hot Deals forum.

 

[Chode Messiah]

Originally posted by: jadinolf

Originally posted by: dug777
both held by me

You wish.

he is just being modest, give him a break.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Originally posted by: SuperTyphoon
i can't find it! i hate the fusetalk thing. they should have gone to vbulletin where you can search by date and time or in order or post date. but put a link to it that says at least 1999 in the OP's date.

AT switched to this forum on October 9, 1999.
When I joined on October 10, there were already well over 100 posts.

 

[BillyBobJoel71]

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[olds]

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn

Originally posted by: SuperTyphoon
i can't find it! i hate the fusetalk thing. they should have gone to vbulletin where you can search by date and time or in order or post date. but put a link to it that says at least 1999 in the OP's date.

AT switched to this forum on October 9, 1999.
When I joined on October 10, there were already well over 100 posts.

There must be 3 or 4 thousand by now.

 

[BillyBobJoel71]

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[Thug Esquire]

Originally posted by: SuperTyphoon
i can't find it! i hate the fusetalk thing. they should have gone to vbulletin where you can search by date and time or in order or post date. but put a link to it that says at least 1999 in the OP's date.

vBulletin's nice, but IPB is even better. Better interfaces than FuseTalk, no doubt, but I don't think they do nearly as well as FuseTalk does when scaled to the size of AT's forums.

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: Thug Esquire

Originally posted by: SuperTyphoon
i can't find it! i hate the fusetalk thing. they should have gone to vbulletin where you can search by date and time or in order or post date. but put a link to it that says at least 1999 in the OP's date.

vBulletin's nice, but IPB is even better. Better interfaces than FuseTalk, no doubt, but I don't think they do nearly as well as FuseTalk does when scaled to the size of AT's forums.

Do you happen to work for Invision? I'm an admin on an IPB, and also on a vBulletin... while some people say that IPB rocks, they've never managed to convince me. Off-Topic.Net is one example of how vBulletin can scale.

 

[DAGTA]

The largest known forums online (gaia online) are run using phpbb2

 

[JonnyStarks]

Originally posted by: dug777
both held by me

Your post per day count is disturbing.

 

[crab]

Some of the early archive here was deleted a couple years back IIRC.

 

[PhlashFoto]

first post ever? Umm, maybe "STFU and GTFO, noobs"?

 

[Rastus]

I've been here the whole time, I don't post much and only once in the pre UBB days, but I remember when Anand first put up a bulliten board. I still have that computer, maybe the cache could be retrieved from an old hard drive of mine.

 

[Thug Esquire]

I don't have much experience with other forums (like phpbb2), but from an end-user experience, IPB seems the best. vBulletin and IPB are very similar, but vBulletin doesn't mark threads to which you've already replied. At least not without a plugin, that is.

Every forum needs that feature.

And for the record, linear is the best form of message board organization. Threaded discussions are a bitch to decipher.

 

[AMCRambler]

Well who's the tech support guy for the forums? He should have a backup of the old database from pre 1999 and I'm sure with a simple sql query he would be able to answer your question. Who manages the servers and the database and all that?

 

[Alex]

Originally posted by: yllus
"Hello, World!"

LOL