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Lightspeed

08-14-2002, 12:55 AM

Are there many members of WHT that have been around since the beginning?

http://web.archive.org/web/20000706200822/http://www.webhostingtalk.com/

(for more WHT archives ... http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://webhostingtalk.com )

I use this archive.org site to review some companies before I do business with them... You can see how long they have had a web presence... Sometimes I get some valuable information about the direction they were headed in the past...

Ah, who am I kidding? Most of the time I just get a good laugh at what was "state of the art" in 1996...

JTY

08-14-2002, 12:56 AM

I've been here since June 2000... :)

JayC

08-14-2002, 02:28 AM

Originally posted by Lightspeed
I use this archive.org site to review some companies before I do business with them... You can see how long they have had a web presence... Not definitively. Many of us have banned their over-aggressive spider... and once you do that, they delete your site from their database.

And even without that, it's not reliable. I have a site that's been up since 1995 (and from which I haven't banned them), but the first version of it at archive.org is from February 1999.

GlideTech

08-14-2002, 02:57 AM

:sickface: UBB

Skeptical

08-14-2002, 08:04 AM

What the hell was WHT thinking when they used UBB?!!

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GlideTech

08-14-2002, 08:05 AM

Same thing all of is were thinking before vbulletin came out.

The good ol' days :D

akashik

08-14-2002, 09:55 AM

odd, it hasn't spidered our site all this year :)

checking out WHT is fun via wayback. Every now and then I actually remember a thread that's listed there. Sad to see some of the people who used to post, not here anymore.

Greg Moore

Styles

08-14-2002, 12:22 PM

UBB was amazing back in the day (still is, but lacks greatly when compared to present standards).

GlideTech

08-14-2002, 02:47 PM

Originally posted by Styles
UBB was amazing back in the day (still is, but lacks greatly when compared to present standards).

It was? :D I always thought programs that bring servers to their knees were bad. :stickout

JTY

08-14-2002, 02:51 PM

Back then, the choices were limited. And, the forum wasn't very busy then either.