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Ah, the memories. I still remember trying to convince everyone that the Prometheus was just a modified Voyager study model, not CGI...
My first post ever was October 20th, 1997, a thread about the USS Liberator, as Matt Dock. My first post as Matt359 was soon after, November 3rd, 1997, a thread about the Saber and Steamrunner.
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quote:Originally posted by Charles Capps: How the hell did we ever USE that?
What's even scarier is that some people still use that type of forum today... My father runs a message board on his business website, running off of a host-proprietary CGI script that I know hasn't been updated in six or seven years...
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When all this started I had not yet graduated high school. Now I am overdue for graduating college. I am not far from eating nothing but oatmeal and wearing my pants at an awkward height.
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I WAS IN THE FUTURE, IT WAS TOO LATE TO RSVP
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oh man.. the first time i ever signed online, was the day i found startrekker.net, i was 17 and in my first semester at college.. now im 23 and still in my second year of college. and the phoenix chat looks wayyy too frighteningly familiar
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quote:Originally posted by Ultra Magnus: Ultra Magnus Est. August 15th, 1997, as one "Rachel Blanchard." Title of first post? "REGISTRY?" at 23:07:58.
2036 days ago, where has it got me? Nowhere.
OMG I know, I know - I think that sometimes myself. SOMETIMES! LOL!
I wasn't getting exactly teary-eyed but I was getting QUITE excited to see the old formats again! OMG! I gasped when I saw the old dark colours. Shows up how much bigger my monitor is on my new computer (19") compared to my old 14" - which showed just a tiny bit of that blue bit down the right side.
I'm SURE the original UP board had a green text after you'd visited the link. Or even purple. Or am I getting confused with The Great Link - I'm sure I'm not - cause they didn't have much of a message board did they? PLUS there was a starfield/space repeated background - I know that for a fact.
THANKS for posting these links guys. It's great.
And the in-line board wasn't always archived like that was it? - I remember that I hated when it was JUST archived and you had to go look through the old archives for the thread. It's coming back to me now!!
Andrew
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That depends on when you made it. All the post titles from U.P. are available, so if it was then you could just search through them until you found the earliest one with your name attached. But it wasn't, as I recall. If it was during the present incarnation of the board, you can try searching by your username and do the same thing. If it happened to be during that middle period, then I'm not sure there's a way, besides just remembering, as the thread archives there aren't archived.
Of course, we now have expanded and superpowerful thread archive powers here, no? But, again, while I recall the era in which you joined, I'm fuzzy on the date, so...
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I notice Flare just broke the 400 member mark. i hope you're all celebrating.
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