When VB-World Became VBForums: A bit of history

[Hack]

I ran across this during a search and thought I'd share it. This thread was created immediately after "the big crash" that many of us lived through and all of you have heard about.

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=187767

[Siddharth Rout]

So What happened to Megatron ?

Long live the new king - Hack.

Sid

[Siddharth Rout]

Found him

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...87#post3215187

Apparently that was his last post....

[Shaggy Hiker]

Wow, lots of old names on there of people who have dropped away over the years. Funny that I showed up only a month or so later (I was a lurker for a bit before registering).

[baja_yu]

I guess I just barely missed it too.

[techgnome]

Wow... talk about a trip down memory lane... thanks hack!

I don't know that I actually fully recovered from that outage... I still have this twitch in my right eye

-tg

[Hack]

Wow... talk about a trip down memory lane... thanks hack!

Yeah, no kidding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I completely forgot what I was searching for...re-reading that brought back some very vivid memories.

[Lord Orwell]

Found him

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...87#post3215187

Apparently that was his last post....

this thread is such a coincidence. I had just read that thread before finding this one. I was helping another member to debug his subclassing of another program, and my forum search turned up a codebank listing by megatron. So i was wondering about him as well and did another search for his posts and turned up the exact same post you did, and this thread. Wow, memories. I used to be a lot more useful back then, as vb.net didn't exist. Nowadays, i know net, but there are so many areas i can't help in at all, and everyone seems to have questions involving databases or web integration. If it wasn't for the general pc forum, i'd be useless

[honeybee]

Kedaman! Where is kedaman?

Phew, that thread is still in VB6. Nobody has yet moved it to Chit Chat. I wonder if I can report a thread that old...

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[Nightwalker83]

Phew, that thread is still in VB6. Nobody has yet moved it to Chit Chat. I wonder if I can report a thread that old...

I was just about to suggest that.

Edit:

Requested the thread moved.

[Pradeep1210]

So it was vb-world before becoming vbforums

[honeybee]

Yes, it started off as a website with tutorials and code snippets and had a small area reserved for discussing VB related matters.

I think it was started by John Perceival (sp?) and a few other friends. Then it was 'taken over' by Karl Moore, and then by Jupiter Media, i.e. Brad and team.

The two most important things for me are the forums are still free, and Chit Chat has still managed to survive. There were times the mods/admins were seriously planning to kill Chit Chat (I remember very well the aftermath of 9/11 and the flaming wars. Those were scary times!). Chit Chat has become much civilized now, compared to what it was.

Ah yes, I didn't lose my post counts!

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[Nightwalker83]

Did a search in the vb6 forum and the oldest thread in there is from 25-Sep-1999.

Edit:

Found the reason why the thread only go back the the above date here.

[Pradeep1210]

That was supposed to be the dooms day according to Mayan calendar.

[honeybee]

No, the Mayan calendar predicts the doomsday to be sometime in Dec 2012. I saw the hollywood movie day before yesterday!

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[NeedSomeAnswers]

The NeedSomeAnswers calendar predicts that Doomsday will be the day i die !!

[Hack]

Kedaman! Where is kedaman?

Or CornedBee; Serge; peet; Bonker ; and who could forget good ole filbert

[CVMichael]

Jacob Roman. He kept getting himself banned

[honeybee]

Dennis, Kowan, Jethro, DragonFly ... *sigh*

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[Lord Orwell]

no one else mentioned him so...

[techgnome]

no one else mentioned him so...

I still have a rubber ducky sitting on my desk. Two jobs and a new city later...

-tg

[Lord Orwell]

I still have a rubber ducky sitting on my desk. Two jobs and a new city later...

-tg

i left the forums for a few years and didn't know what happened until a month or so after i came back, when i saw someone's signature and asked about it.

[opus]

Just looked at some old [vb4]posts of mine, stupid I was, and he helped me out.

[Nightwalker83]

Jacob Roman. He kept getting himself banned

I wonder whom the person(s) who unbanned him were?

[honeybee]

i left the forums for a few years and didn't know what happened until a month or so after i came back, when i saw someone's signature and asked about it.

Parksie, I think he was. Me too had left the forums for a while and then come back to find he was gone. Forever.

Then there was CyberSurfer, Bonker Gudd ...

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[Lord Orwell]

I wonder whom the person(s) who unbanned him were?

I always wondered that about kregg.

[opus]

Back in 02-03 I used to take the actual posted math-problem with me on my trainride back home for the weekend.
Nowadays there are not that much problems posted anymore (..and I have to go by car now.)

[Hack]

Then there was CyberSurfer, Bonker Gudd ...
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And jim mcnamara, Mc Brain, MidgetsBro, TheBionicOrange

[demotivater]

Wow, blast from the past. Wonder what happened to some of those folks?

[Shaggy Hiker]

Two people seem to have mentioned that Bonker is departed, yet he posted only a day or so back. He's not dead, he's just hiding.

[crptcblade]

barrk, Matthew Gates

[Nightwalker83]

barrk, Matthew Gates

I wonder where Katie (barrk) and the others disappeared to?

[kregg]

I always wondered that about kregg.

Nobody unbanned me. It's not like I asked for some favours to be unbanned.

There was a time period in which I was banned. After that, I was unbanned by the system.

[honeybee]

Then there was jesus4u. Oh, I almost miss him and Kowan!

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[Hack]

I don't know how someone could forget jesus4u, but I did.

And who could forget crptcblade...I wonder what ever happened to him?

I was unbanned by the system.

I think someone needs to have a long talk with the system.

[techgnome]

And there was Bob... I think Bob set the record for getting the most neg reps the fastest. I (don't) wonder what ever became of him.

-tg

[Pradeep1210]

Nobody unbanned me. It's not like I asked for some favours to be unbanned.

And I've been ever blaming our mods for being so ungrateful to us

[Lord Orwell]

I think someone needs to have a long talk with the system.

gems like this are the exact reason why chitchat needs ratings. Just think of it: It would be kind of like digg. the best comments would bubble to the top and live on forever...

[Shaggy Hiker]

And there was Bob... I think Bob set the record for getting the most neg reps the fastest. I (don't) wonder what ever became of him.

-tg

He's not gone, either. Last activity was Jan 10 of this year. He's still the anchor.

I never saw anything particularly bad out of him, and always wondered if he sank so fast because of persistent difficulty with a second (or third) language more than anything else.

[baja_yu]

You mean bob that always marks his threads with the 'angry face' smiley?