First Thread Ever (thoughts)

Ok... so in searching for the first thread ever... this is claimed as not the first thread:
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=1

But it's all we have left. It reminds me of searching for the meaning of life. It's quite possible the original meaning was archived and then inadvertently lost.

Anyway, since this first thread is closed ... we would have to reconstruct it by letting the original participants start a new thread... post a reply in the order as they originally posted. It would of course have a start date of 2007, but when some newbie comes reading and points out the obvious that a thread started in 2007 cannot be the first thread ...we can link to the archived thread and show him up.

Ok, so that's a long shot... (or, and what would be a heck of a lot more fun), Brad could re-open that thread!!! :) :) :)

It really wasn't the first thread - even without taking into account the threads that have dissappeared (thru database failures, and server moves etc), there are some others which actually have an older post date on them. ;)

There's no valid reason for opening that thread, as any new posts would trigger notifications to the people who have posted - probably to their annoyance.

They could certainly unsubscribe from it.

It would be nice to preserve some history even if its all we have. :(

Certainly someone must have the very first post... even if is vBulletin's designers posting 'Test'.

This is the earliest thread in this database?

Post Date: June 20 99

http://www.vbforums.com/archive/index.php/t-3551.html

Yeah, I'd like to have my original user name back. It's older than that thread. unfortunatly its gone :cry:

After 8 years you expect them to come back to the thread (and un-subscribe), just so that they don't get an email asking them to look at the thread? :confused:

How would re-opening a thread "preserve" it? You can still look at it as it is, and it wont be deleted.

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Certainly someone must have the very first post... even if is vBulletin's designers posting 'Test'.

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This site was active (with other forum software) for a long time before vBulletin was started. ;)

Before JupiterMedia owned vbforums.com, it went through a bunch of major crashes and failures that lost a good number of posts.

One member lost something like 10,000 posts :eek2:

on a side note, I am 99% sure this was MY first post ever (almost 6 years ago). Thanks to Hack for answering it ;)

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=122878

I was a VB Noob back then.

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Originally Posted by kleinma

One member lost something like 10,000 posts :eek2:

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Yep, it was nasty.. I lost over 3000 (and my username - different capitalisation) myself. :(

Thankfully JM have got a much better backup regime than we had back then!

Here is the oldest one I could find. I know it is not the first. My first was compugeek and I realizing that we were probably the only two people in the world using IIS apps to build our websites. Unfortunatly my old user is unsearchable and apparently not even in the database anymore.

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=9660

Wow Nov 1999. I remember driving around with a friend close to midnight 12/31/1999 wondering if the Y2K bug will hit.

Also Futurama just premiered that year.

LOL, It's even funner that you can look at the first ten posts and see when the major database crashes happend my looking at the User dates JUL 02 was wicked. that one lasted weeks if I remember correctly.

wow.. database crashes seem so ancient... a well-maintained server nowadays is very stable.

what a blast from the past..... my first ever post and user name about access while i was a project manager working for citibank on project athlon.

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=43950

and my first ever answer a couple hours later
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=43963

wow. dont we all feel so special :)

I learned almost everything I know abuot VB6 from this forum... and most of my .net, too... ASP i've picked up on the job more than the forums. You guys are slacking.