Due to lack of interest, it has never been finished. The links don't work, Lee is still listed as MIA, and Joe Friday never said that. But it's there.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Sorry, my Brunswickian fellow, but it seems that your level is still too low to cast the "Omega Summoning" spell. That is a 6th-level spell, & I'm afraid the highest you can have is a single 4th-level.
Perhaps you should start a little smaller. "Simon's Sarcastic Slicing," maybe, or "Create Liam Golem."
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Th scariest thing is that, counting from the beginning of the UP board, the sixth birthday is coming up relatively soon...
Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :
The earliest records I have for UP are around Aug 17, 1997 (a mail to ChrisG concerning a drive crash, which probably explains why I lack anything prior to that...), after which time I'd been on staff for a while.... Makes that 6 years thing pretty accurate.
Wow. Frightening.
Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
*reads up on the history* you guys were at startrekker.net? that was one of my fave hangouts in 97-98 before the HTML chat went out of vogue. I could frequently be seen as stargazer2893a..
Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :
I vaguely remember that name.
Those few that remain hang out at Phoenix Chat.
Posted by Mucus (Member # 24) on :
Hmmm, I should have read this thread before the other one. Reading up on Omega's chronology......damn. I've been practically an eterna-pseudo lurker since the Behaviour Group days. Oy.
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Coincidentally, it's also the CapComs' 5th birthday in a few weeks. I might do a couple of Greatest Hits posts. . .
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
quote:Originally posted by TSN: Th scariest thing is that, counting from the beginning of the UP board, the sixth birthday is coming up relatively soon...
Now that's even SCARIER!! LOL!
Huh hmm - I guess I'm not that controversial as I was no where to be seen in Omega's history. I was on the UP boards... scary.
I think the first person to reply to one of my posts was ID crisis! You have a special place in my heart, ID! LOL!
I miss the 'holiday colours' that Charles used to do here. St. Patrick's day, Hallowe'en, Christmas - to name a few.
Bon Anniversaire Forums du Flare!
Happy Birthday.
AndrewR still resident nut-cache *sitting by phone for an interview by Omega* Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Does anyone remember the Behaviour Banner competition!?! LOL! I think I found my entries for that on my hard drive at the end of last year when I was cleaning it out for the move to my new 'puter! Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
My god... this place has a much more colorful history than I'd thought! And I thought the Trek BBS was a cesspool of controversy! Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Them? Amateurs!
Posted by Cartmaniac (Member # 256) on :
Y'know... four years of history is an aeon in Net terms. Most online communities haven't even been around that long, let alone sticked together like this place has.
BBSes may come and go, but Flare is & will always be... unique.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
For the record, the traditional gifts for the 4th anniversary are linen, silk, rayon, nylon, & other synthetic silks.
Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :
quote:I miss the 'holiday colours' that Charles used to do here. St. Patrick's day, Hallowe'en, Christmas - to name a few.
Heh, I should do that more then?
I was going to bring back the original 5.38-era Flare design for a day, but then I realized that I didn't have the original PSDs to work with... So many losses in those crashes.
Posted by Wraith (Member # 779) on :
Four years. Wow.
Omega's chronology is... interesting .
Happy Birthday!!!!
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
Flare 5.38? Is that the one with the dark colours?
You should talk Adam into letting you bring back SolarFlare for a day, to show the new folk what it was like at the start...
Hey, you could even have an SFCR day!
Posted by Cartmaniac (Member # 256) on :
There's always the Way Back Machine. Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
*sniff* That brings a tear to my eye...
Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :
quote:Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: I haven't been here that long, but that's certainly a huge achievement. Happy Birthday!
I'll second that!
quote:Originally posted by Shik: Four years old & we're still not potty-trained. Sad, really.
HEHE!
Cartmaniac - thanks for that link, I vaguely remember that layout when I first arrived in April 2001 - nearly 2 years ago! Oh how the time flies when you're having fun.
Keep on Flarin'!
Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :
Dude, almost all of the forum descriptions are the same.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
No, Here's the really old UI.
Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :
How the hell did we ever USE that?
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Can we have a green color scheme for St. Patty's Day, puh-leaze!!!!!!
Posted by Ultra Magnus (Member # 239) on :
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.
I am Champion Loser!
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
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.
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
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...
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
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.
Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
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
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
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
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
zip-it
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
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.
isn't that 2041 = (365 x 6) + 1 - 150?
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
No, 2036 is right.
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
How can I find my first post?
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
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...
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
OK It wasn't a bad attempt - I did it in my head at midnight!
The last remaining fragment of SFCR I still have:
Posted by Wraith (Member # 779) on :
I notice Flare just broke the 400 member mark. i hope you're all celebrating.
Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :
It'll go down as soon as Charles purges all the unused memberships.
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
quote: "The server (this was the old behaviour.co.uk on VirtualPC hosting service) was hacked. Hundreds of websites were feared deleted. It was a British hacker, politically motivated. He was caught and convicted - vPC wasn't his only target.
How does the song go: "Ah, yes, I remeber it well"?
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Charles Capps is rumoured to have said: "Here's the really old UI, alas without the images. Dude, almost all of the forum descriptions are the same."
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it", said the penguin to the slightly smaller, female penguin.
Oh, the stab of nostalgia at the sight of ye olde forum colors, delves deep in me cockles indeed, yarr. :-)=
Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :
I miss the old colors.... Posted by MaGiC (Member # 59) on :
So am I the oldest active member (with original name) who still has too few posts for a senior member tag line? I think I might be.... Captain Mike..I was a startrekker.net chatter too until it died. No other chat site has ever been the same...sniff.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
*clinks spoon to wineglass*
Alright, I may be a little affected by having taken my cough-medicine just now, the stough's laced with morphine, but anyway!
I just want to say how happy I am with Flare being what she is. Her attitude, quality, standards and traditions.
I just came from visiting a small public forum on a GameSpy computer-game website. I have some plot problems in a game so I thought I'd visit the corresponding forum and post my problems, simple. I'm already a free member to GameSpy, so I'm automatically a member in all "Planet*****" gamesite forums, very convenient.
It turns out I came a close shave from being banned silly, after five minutes! For saying "damnit". Even had I said "d4mn1t". The context was "I want to persuade Galrone but he still won't damn talk to me!"
So I fill my glass and toast to Flare. Although some words of malice uttered here at times could do with a second thought before posting, I appreciate the confidence TPTB place in us to choose our own words and let us talk like human beings and not robots. Damnit! :-)=
To our little four-year old, may she grow up to be as pretty as her mother!
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
Charles's totalitarain heavyhanded rule of the board, has resulted in more freedom to speak here then any other board I have visited. I have pointed this out to others, without using his name, or flares, to people who put so much time into writing rules for there boards. The "Slipstream Underground" people knew who and where I was talking about. I think Major Barclaw was a member there.
No one else will even give it a try. Over regulation has killed one board, and turned the other into a police state, as much as a message board can be anyway. I come here now, and Ex Isle, where former Streamers hang out. They have guide lines that some of the members insisted on. Not as bad as some I've seen, but I prefer it here.
Posted by Daryus Aden (Member # 12) on :
Well, he does understand the difference between freedom of speech and idiocy. I guess thats why people keep coming back.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
quote: TPTB place in us to choose our own words and let us talk like human beings and not robots.
What's wrong with how Bender speaks? Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
I lurked at the behaviour group, then at the others, before joining here... Then I wondered to myself, what have I done.... Then I said, aww, to heck with it.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
The funniest thing I found that happened on the days I made my first post was this....
"...you know, Omega, there's a phrase you might want to look up. It goes something like "paranoid arrogant fuckwit who has more chance of ejaculating to the moon than he has of ever convincing a girl that he's a viable prospect for marriage." -PsyLiam, September 16, 2000 10:23 PM.
32 minutes before I posted.....
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Say, I remember that quote...
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Someone had it in their sig for a while. It made me feel all special. I then bet that specialness down at the dog track, and lost it all. Curses.
Can't remember what the quote was in respect too though. Something to do with puppies, maybe?
Posted by Cartmaniac (Member # 256) on :
Time has really softened you up, Liam.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
That and chocolate.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
It was that remark that made me want to stay and see what was what around here, and, since then I still haven't quite figured it out, but that is half the fun.
On another note, Omega has really taking a beating since then too.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
The boy thinks that Queen are don't have any originality, and thinks the Smashmouth version of "I'm a Believer" is the best. Believe me, he hasn't had half the abuse he deserves.
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: The boy thinks that Queen are don't have any originality
Thats just sick.
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
We should burn him at the stake for such sacrelige
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
BURN-- no, wait...
And I don't think I said they lacked originality, I said they lacked uniqueness. Or at least, that's what I currently think of what of Queen I've heard.
And I also didn't say that Smashmouth's version was the best, I just said it was better than the Monkees' version. I think.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Yes, you all are right, he seems to call down the wrath often.
How can a band that set a standard not have any uniqueness?
Is this what home schooling has done to you??? If so I am going to force my exwife to stop home schooling my son, last week.....
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Pft. It's obviously not as good as the EMF/Voc & Bob version.
BOOM BOOM BOOM OI!
See? I have proved my point.
An Oasis track was on Smallville today. Weird.
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
Now if they had a Smashmouth version with "BOOM BOOM BOOM OI!" it in... is that on the Shrek soundtrack, by any chance? It was in the movie...
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