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!!!