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I love the Internet Wayback Machine

Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:46 pm
by Kai
Idle curiosity compelled me :) Anyone remember the address for stuff pre-EZBoard? I thought this was pretty old stuff, but upon reading I realize its pretty old, but not as old as I thought :)

http://web.archive.org/web/200104140203 ... d.com/bmrc

Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:00 pm
by Xuric
wow... good ol /bmrc .... that brings back the good memories... :D

Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:16 pm
by araruin
Thank you Kai. I had lost this link somehow. At one point I think the board was offline and we had lost all that data. Good to know it's still there. Now maybe I can gather some more data about the older timeline.

Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:51 pm
by araruin
So much for that idea. Huge chunks of data are missing, but at least some of it is intact.

Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 8:14 pm
by Kai
Oh, yeah, its just a cache of some things, some topics come up, others don't, just whatever happened to be scanned and saved at whatever point. That's why I was curious as to the old pre-EZBoard address, just to see if scanned anything that far back

Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:44 pm
by Sabre
Awesome Kai. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:37 am
by oroborosZero
Wow, so nice to see those old boards again. (also glad those SF images don't show up, those I'd rather forget... *shudders*)

Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 12:48 pm
by Xuric
After having gone back and perused some old threads.... I've decided NOT to bookmark that site. Wow, I really sucked back then. :lol:

Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:57 pm
by araruin
You're not the only one who noticed that, Xuric. I was looking through those threads and saw some of the people I consider good players. I thought that if they applied for one of my games based on how they posted on the old boards, I'd never let them in. :)

Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:51 pm
by Kai
Yeah, I was reading some things going 'oh my god I can't believe I thought that was inventive and cool' :)

Holy shit...uh, you guys still want this? It still works O_O
http://web.archive.org/web/200108220727 ... rator.html

It doesn't have more than the index of the old GD site though, was hoping it had cached the history :(

Haha...http://members.nbci.com/Lady_Kyra, Wildfire's MRC 1/2. I don't even remember what that was, if anything, nor owning that particular free webspace account...sadly, there was no record outside a blank page, so I may never know :7

Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:01 pm
by araruin
Cool. Why don't we have one of these?

Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:01 am
by Kai
Well, you did, its what I used when I was essentially running the Joining Board, but quite frankly the then Senior Staff didn't take kindly to the idea of me doing things my own way/without express permission over there, so it never got an official seal of approval or anything. :)

If you think it's still useful, we can hash out what needs to change and put it on the server.

Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:54 am
by Guest
Wow that's really kewl!

Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:45 am
by Rannilas
What a great find...thanks for the memories and access to useful historical information.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 5:04 am
by Lanji
Yep, feel free to load that character creater up to the server. We should work out a way to load it up to a mySQL database instead though... Let me think on it (as well as thinking on a question Xuric sent me).

-Chris

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:32 am
by Kai
Oh I've had lots of practice loading forms inte DBs now :) I'll just rewrite it as I also know PHP now, and that is one ugly page operating soley on Javascript :7