So, I just time traveled this afternoon, and while many things have changed (so excited about this new president you all elected!) I was delighted to see the same forum software.
I attempted to login, and well, I'll be darned. Well great! I'll just get back to what I was talking about this morning and....
Uh oh, its gone. I can't find the thread I was posting in. I just posted after breakfast, jumped in my machine, jumped back out, and my thread is gone!
"This must be some kind of mistake", says I. So, I ran a search on my username.
Lo and behold, everything pre august-2003 is gone! Unless the thread lasted longer then that. Which means, my only known proof of existence lies in that darn Word of the Day thread.
So I take it posts aren't saved longer then six years then huh? This will greatly restrict my future movement capabilities. I will now have to travel in these silly hatrack-purge increments.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
0.o I'm gonna have to require proof of this ability. What will happen to me within 24 hours.
Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
Welcome back! You joined just before I did - and I can vouch that you did in fact post here in days of yore.
Posted by nik (Member # 2114) on :
^Well of course you can FlyingCow, it was just yesterday we were posting in the "July 14th - OFHEO wants to investigate Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae" thread... oh wait.
Whatever happened with... OH MY GOD WHAT HAVE YOU PEOPLE DONE?!
Posted by nik (Member # 2114) on :
Blayne Bradley, you will post your 7117th post.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Hiya, nik.
Might want to update your profile . . .
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
I'd add that by making this thread you've increased your chances of surviving the next 6 years by 100%.
Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
[Since 2006 there have been a very small number threads deleted because they were posted by commercial spammers]
"Well, and if I recall correctly, after a certain period of time, they just disappear off into the wilderness, no?
"Not as far as I am aware.
"There was an archive loss when the forum made the switchover from the ?LionGate?program over to the UBBprogram.
"Then someone who took the Worry, me Worry thread -- which became the template for the LastPost threads -- a mite too seriously broke the forum program. And all but a couple of handfuls of threads backwards from that date were deleted / made inaccessable for the (not so) quick-fix to remove the hack.
"Then someone else broke the program a year or so later with a hack/prank thread meant to mock the LastPost threads. And the archives lost another year or so of archives for another {not-so) quick-fix.
"So basicly there were only a couple of double handfuls of threads left from before August2003. And when UBB made their last major forum program overhaul last year," [2005] "the threads which hadn't been active since August2003 were deleted / made inaccessable (probably for simplicity).
"Dobie's June 27, 2001 Word of the Day thread contains the earliest* of my postings still left, December 28, 2001. So I don't think there has ever been any policy of an automatic expiration date or of deliberate deletion to save disc space.
"* Heaven forfend that thou wouldst think that I should floccinaucinihilipilificate the sanctity of the Word of the Day to engage in mere sesquipedalianistic jest."
[ April 28, 2009, 03:30 PM: Message edited by: aspectre ]
Posted by nik (Member # 2114) on :
rivka, I thought about it, but for all I can tell, my profile may one of the oldest things I've typed on the internet that I can still find. Broken links and all, it's kind of nostalgic.
Then again, nostalgia really isn't what it used to be.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
If you want people to think you're still in HS, go for it. It's one way to seem exceptionally mature for your age.
Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
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