Hey John...

Hey John, did you create this site all on your own. Its very impersive. How do you keep track of such a large site. I just put mine up(and its rather small) and im already having trouble keeping track of whats where. Well anyway great job...

[John]

No - it is definitely not all my work. James (Limm) started the site off originally, and a lot of the older content was written by him. Keeping track of the content is fairly easy, because the whole site runs off a database on the server. We can access and alter all the pages on the site through a web interface, and then rebuild the HTML. This content management software is another of my creations :D

Karl Moore writes a lot of the content for us now. I keep up the technical and sysadmin side of things, and James looks after a lot of the administration behind the scenes.

John

[OrdinaryGuy]

but then why o why did you sell us to Internet.com :(

[crptcblade]

John didn't.

;)

[OrdinaryGuy]

oh yeah, Karl Mooron did

Traitor :)

[mendhak]

Originally posted by OrdinaryGuy
but then why o why did you sell us to Internet.com :(

We've been pimped! :eek:

[Pc_Madness]

:lol:

[litlewiki]

:) :)

[dclamp]

nice... why not just bring up a 3 year old thread....

[litlewiki]

I wasn't born then.It's like being in a time machine. :rolleyes:

[kregg]

How was it possible to submit a post as a guest?

http://noteme.com/vb_extension/smilies/banplz.gif

[szlamany]

That was from before my time, but I believe that they had a crash back several years and lost some data and threads like this are related to that data loss.

[dclamp]

That was from before my time, but I believe that they had a crash back several years and lost some data and threads like this are related to that data loss.
since when do you visit CC??? :wave:

[kregg]

That was from before my time, but I believe that they had a crash back several years and lost some data and threads like this are related to that data loss.


Oh right. Cheers for that szlamany. But still, http://noteme.com/vb_extension/smilies/banplz.gif



DAMN YOU DCLAMP! YOU GOT THAT YOUTUBE VIDEO IN MY HEAD! http://noteme.com/vb_extension/smilies/cussing.gif

[szlamany]

since when do you visit CC??? :wave:All the time actually - usually when I feel like bashing someone (like that bigot/intolerant thread that got deleted) ;)

I spend more time in the world events forum playing devils advocate

[si_the_geek]

That was from before my time, but I believe that they had a crash back several years and lost some data and threads like this are related to that data loss.Indeed.. I have over 1300 posts that either disappeared, or show me as a guest (I had to re-register after that).

It could be worse tho.. some members lost many more (megatron lost over 10000 posts! :eek: ).

Thankfully now we have a good backup system in place, so the same sort of thing can't happen again.

[RobDog888]

I lost 20,000 posts during that fateful summer of 02 :cry:




:lol:

[kregg]

You lost posts? Thank god! :lol:

[Hack]

I lost almost 3,000 posts. When it happened I was at 11,000 and change.

Afterwards I had a little over 8,000.

[mendhak]

I can understand how some of us often look at a post count as a representation of phallic prowess, but comparing a loss in its length is just... over-compensatory.

[mar_zim]

:lol:

[Torc]

Thankfully now we have a good backup system in place, so the same sort of thing can't happen again.

Cross your fingers for a week, walk backwards for a day, and only
eat marmite on toast soaked in tea.

Please don't jinx us like that.
:afrog:

[si_the_geek]

oops! :lol:

Perhaps it's time to worry.. have you seen the announcement (http://www.vbforums.com/announcement.php?f=7&announcementid=22)? :D

[mendhak]

No human can survive without air for 30 minutes. :ehh:

[si_the_geek]

I didn't realise it asked you to stop breathing! :eek:

[kregg]

http://noteme.com/vb_extension/smilies/hitit.gif

[litlewiki]

Why does brad the admin always have a ! after his name?
:afrog:

[mendhak]

Why does brad the admin always have a ! after his name?
:afrog:

Because he keeps forgetting his name, but remembers it just when he's finishing a post.

[Pradeep1210]

oops! :lol:

Perhaps it's time to worry.. have you seen the announcement (http://www.vbforums.com/announcement.php?f=7&announcementid=22)? :D

This link doesn't work for me. Why? :ehh:

It says I don't have permissions to access that page. :(

[JuggaloBrotha]

This link doesn't work for me. Why? :ehh:

It says I don't have permissions to access that page. :(Probably because it's in an admins forum?

At any rate... this is a 10 YEAR OLD THREAD!

[visualAd]

Back in those days, squirrels took the data packets across the Internet. Oh the nostalgia!!!! :cry:

[si_the_geek]

This link doesn't work for me. Why? :ehh:

It says I don't have permissions to access that page. :(It was announcing that the forum would be down for 30 minutes on Feb 24th 2007 as part of a software upgrade.

I'm surprised that I can still see it, as I would have expected it to expire completely... and I'm glad that most people can't, as the date could easily be missed.

[Pradeep1210]

ohh.. okk thanks. :)

And yes I know it's quite an old thread, but for some reason I just like to read old threads. I was searching for "origin of vbforums" when I came across this thread. :)

[wossname]

The "origin of vbforums"? Well, it basically crawled out of a swamp and failed to die.

Now it has goons.

[Hack]

I subscribe to the "Big Bang" theory with respect to the Origins of VBForums.

Modesty forbids me from detailing who was doing the banging. I know you will understand.