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Dan, CC is the server, the script, and all things in between, for there is no real life.
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Da_bang80
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So he's like Skynet?
Cool.
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To tell the truth, I thought we were still on Enterforum-H. And, apparently, I thought that back in August of 2002, also. And yet, a search reveals that, since May of 2001, we've been sailing aboard the good ship Enterforum-I. That must have been when the name changed from "SolarFlare" to just "Flare". Which meant a new class, and therefore a new ship. If there was an upgrade to the UBB version at some point, either I wasn't paying attention, or it didn't seem worthy of a new letter.
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I'm not sure I ever posted the history of the Enterforums (Enterfora?) here. Let's see what I can piece together from the sources I have available...
USS Enterforum : The original Utopia Planitia board. Launched sometime in the summer of 1997, I believe. I didn't start lurking until around November, I think. But the official birthday is in... what, June? July?
USS Enterforum-A : The style of the original board didn't have registration. You just typed your name in at the beginning of each post. So, anyone could use any name. Including someone else's. That got to be a problem, so things were switched over to the UBB format. If I remember correctly, that was in January 1998.
USS Enterforum-B : The Behaviour Group's hosting server got hacked (as CC mentioned earlier), and everything was thought lost. Chris Howell set up a temporary board that was similar in style to the original UP board.
USS Enterforum-C : Apparently, the BG's host was only kind of hacked, so things ended up mostly restored. The board went back to UBB again, but it was located elsewhere and called the Starfleet Communications Relay (SFCR).
USS Enterforum-D : A corrupted version of the UBB code got uploaded to the server, making the forums not work so much. CC set up a temporary replacement at solareclipse.net (the name of the board wasn't changed yet, though).
USS Enterforum-E : Due to a server upgrade that didn't happen in a timely fashion, an old-school UP-style board had to be set up at Solareclipse.
USS Enterforum-E� : The temporary UP-style board disappeared without warning one day, so we all jumped over to a UBB board that Chris Gough had. It was about Porsches. At most, we were there for a couple days. According to one account, it was more like an hour. At the time, I declared it the Enterforum-F, but that's unofficial. That was in late October 1998.
USS Enterforum-F : The "official" E-F was the restored UBB SFCR. At this point, my records get kind of murky. I just have a reference to the "Y1.999K bug". I have to assume that means the transition from E-F to E-G happened in early January 1999.
USS Enterforum-G : Basically the same board as the E-F, but after whatever disaster occured on New Year's. By late February, though, there was some sort of bickering going on behind the scenes which resulted in CC's aforementioned bombing of the code. I suppose this is the only Enterforum to date to have been destroyed via self-destruct.
Interregnum : During the first couple weeks in March 1999, we took over the TNO ("The New Order", if I remember correctly) forums, which were run by one of our members. Along the lines of the E-E�, this wasn't an official Enterforum. It was just a place lent to us while the new Enterforum was built.
USS Enterforum-H : March 1999 - May 2001. The first Enterforum to last more than about six months. After CC blew up the E-G, he set up a permanent UBB board here at solareclipse.net called "SolarFlare". This is essentially what we're still using today.
USS Enterforum-I : May 2001 - present. The longest-lasting Enterforum by a factor of about 3.5 and counting. Really, the only reason this one gets a separate letter is because I called the E-H "SolarFlare-class", so, when the name changed to just "Flare", it was a new class. Therefore, it must be a new ship.
I hope that's all accurate. I'm working off of stuff I saved almost seven years ago, so I have to just accept what some of it says, even if I don't really remember it.
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Daniel Butler
I'm a Singapore where is my boat
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I'm going to erect a statue in your honor. A very geeky, detail-oriented statue....with your hand sort of...reaching towards the future...
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So, CC and crew pulled a Kirk twice and snagged a hold of another forum.
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Shik
Starship database: completed; History of Starfleet: done; website: probably never
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"Interregnum?" So that would be like the Bird-of-Prey?
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Shik
Starship database: completed; History of Starfleet: done; website: probably never
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"Interregnum?" So that would be like the Bird-of-Prey?
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So shouldn't this forum have trasphasic torpedoes, ablative armor, stealth technology, and be able to travel through time?
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