Can I find my very first post?

Alex · May 10, 2002, 14:19

I have this strange desire to find my very first post here on Apolyton

, but I did a search and could only get a post from April 1999. I'm pretty sure it was not my first post, so I wonder: are the archives really complete?

MarkG · May 10, 2002, 14:46

who said our archives are complete

Dauphin · May 10, 2002, 15:05

Are any of the old old forums archived somewhere, be it online or offline? Forums such as the old CtP OT?

Grrr · May 10, 2002, 16:39

The internet archives have them. web1.archive.org go to the waybackmachine and go apolyton.net. then view it as old as you want.

Dauphin · May 10, 2002, 17:40

Not far enough. Doesn't have anything from when the forums where each seperate.

Grrr · May 10, 2002, 18:10

So when were Apolyton CS forums founded?

asleepathewheel · May 10, 2002, 22:02

Quote:

Originally posted by Grrr
So when were Apolyton CS forums founded?

December 1969

Grrr · May 10, 2002, 23:57

Seriously...

Solver · May 11, 2002, 06:38

Apolyton was founded on July 24, 1998. I bet the forums were made soon thereafter.

Umm, I found my first post and blushed in shame. But then I found a few not-so-bad posts of mine, too.

Dauphin · May 11, 2002, 08:28

Well my first post was in August 98 sometime, on the old CtP forum.

Kassiopeia · May 11, 2002, 13:23

I found my first post. Oh, the nostalgy...

I listed myself as a player to a SMAC PBEM game.
The game, Gecko, is *still* in progress, since 6.7. 2001, and is somewhere around MY 2202.

devilmunchkin · May 11, 2002, 13:31

that doesn't work for me. i take one of the dates but then it takes me to a current version of the board

devilmunchkin · May 11, 2002, 13:36

or it lets me on the previos format of the board but doesn't let me view the actual thread

Kassiopeia · May 11, 2002, 13:49

Did you try searching your old username, making results at least 6 months old, and then having the results at ascending order? Worked for me.

devilmunchkin · May 11, 2002, 13:57

does it matter where you search? should i do a search on that web, in the archives..or anywhere?

Kassiopeia · May 11, 2002, 14:00

I would strongly suggest the "Archives". The actual forums have been IMO been 'emptied' of older posts and threads for several times since the summer of 2001.

devilmunchkin · May 11, 2002, 14:04

ok. here's the thing, this website that Grrrr put up will show you the old forums and posts until feb 26 2001, between that date and May 2nd, you can see the forum guide, but not actually get into them. As of may 2nd 2001, that site will take you to the current forums. The current archives only go back through november of 2001. so there is a 7 month gap.

DarkCloud · May 11, 2002, 16:48

Quote:

Originally posted by Grrr
The internet archives have them. web1.archive.org go to the waybackmachine and go apolyton.net. then view it as old as you want.

I must have a strange internet connection- but those links don't work for me?

DarkCloud · May 11, 2002, 16:55

I think this may be my first post- I posted it the day I received my registration 7-27-00

:
27-07-2000 18:56
"Just get rid of the ministers and make the high council a COUNTRY REPORT report that looks like a newspaper such as one heading
TRADE ADVISOR REQUESTS MORE MARKETPLACES or MORE UNITS TO DEFEND CITY NEEDED, SAYS MILLITARY ADVISOR
This way you would save the space on the CD for videos."

Thread: http://64.246.32.51/~admin1/forums/s...&threadid=3858

"The Civ 3 High Council? "

by Comrade Dan
with posts by

The Brain
Hadrubal
Evil Capitalist (stories)
Shadowstrike (EU, stories, occasionally here)
phunny pharmer
ultrasonix (gone from the civ scene; now at diablo)
raingoon
Par4
Christantine the Great (now at CGN)
CornMaster (now at CivFanatics)
Tiberius
LightEning

-
*sigh* The good old days