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I can't find anything pre-Sept 2004. The thread refers to earlier threads so it's not the first but I'm not sure if the tools to search chronologically exist.
Happy to read earlier posts.
Does anyone out there know what the oldest OT.com thread was, and if so, could you send a link?
Not enough people read the EU.
I can't find anything pre-Sept 2004. The thread refers to earlier threads so it's not the first but I'm not sure if the tools to search chronologically exist.
Happy to read earlier posts.
Feels weird looking through that old thread, reading old posts by posters who don't appear to be around anymore ... It's kind of like looking through a mausoleum; there's something creepy about it.
Here's one from June 2004
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Star-Wars-The-Edits-and-DVDr-releases-thread/topic/801/page/1/
You probably don’t recognize me because of the red arm.
Episode 9 Rewrite, The Starlight Project (Released!) and ANH Technicolor Project (Released!)
Also, It might be interesting to see who's been here the longest. From the aforementioned thread, I see that at least three of the posters created accounts on March 10, 2003: Luke Skywalker, Bossk, and MeBeJedi. Did the site begin on that date?
You probably don’t recognize me because of the red arm.
Episode 9 Rewrite, The Starlight Project (Released!) and ANH Technicolor Project (Released!)
^I'm pretty sure that was the start date. But shouldn't a thread from 03 be the oldest?
I'm sure Jay will chime in on this with the answer.
Where were you in '77?
The oldest threads are archived on the Wayback Machine (partially)--they're not on this version of the forum.
RicOlie_2 said:
The oldest threads are archived on the Wayback Machine (partially)--they're not on this version of the forum.
I wonder why ... *shiftyeyes*
I forget which thread I saw this in but I seem to recall a post by Jay that explained it. Something about how the older threads were archived somewhere and could be reintegrated into the site sometime in the future. There was some technical reason behind it that I don't recall now for why the older posts were merely archived.DuracellEnergizer said:
RicOlie_2 said:I wonder why ... *shiftyeyes*
The oldest threads are archived on the Wayback Machine (partially)--they're not on this version of the forum.
http://twister111.tumblr.com
Previous Signature preservation link
Don't know if it's from that first week, but the earliest i'm finding:
Thread Title: Where do you stand on revisionist cinema?
Mon March 10, 2003 11:52 AM
I found my first post. Wow!
Where were you in '77?
I'm not sure if this is my first post, but it proves that I used to have an "obnoxiously long" username that "****(s) up the layout of the Off Topic board"
Nobody sang The Bunny Song in years…
Oh God, I remember the old forum like it was yesterday. I feel so old :-(
Wow! Blast from the past! Lots former regulars I remember who aren't around anymore.
What’s the internal temperature of a TaunTaun? Luke warm.
Wow, I've been lurking around a lot longer than I thought. I remember reading posts from that old forum.
I can't believe at one point my sig linked to my teenage Xanga page.
SilverWook said:
I found my first post. Wow!
http://www.originaltrilogy.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=9&threadid=1616" target="_blank" title="web.archive.org/web/20050115132944/http://www.originaltrilogy.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=9&threadid=1616">http://web.archive.org/web/20050115132944/http://www.originaltrilogy.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=9&threadid=1616
Ooooh so naive...
SilverWook said:
The DVD's were the last nail in the coffin for me.
The DVDs were just applying the varnish to the coffin ;-)
VIZ TOP TIPS! - PARENTS. Impress your children by showing them a floppy disk and telling them it’s a 3D model of a save icon.
LOL! I was young. ;)
Where were you in '77?
SilverWook said:
I have noticed several mentions in other threads of people having access to 35mm gear. Is it possible for any of you to transfer 35mm to video?
Ah, hindsight.
Nobody sang The Bunny Song in years…
Great timing for this topic.
The reason you see some odd gaps in the topic chronology is that the automatic archive in the original (2003) forum software grabbed topics that hadn't received an update in X days and moved them to the archive. Since some very old topics were still active, they didn't get moved to the archive, while some newer topics did.
Last night, I wrote the scripts necessary to migrate the archived topics from the original forum to the new forum software. I'm testing them in my local dev environment now.
So, with the launch of the new software (testing is ongoing...more news soon), we should have a complete catalog of ot.com posts going all the way to March 10, 2003.
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That really is some excellent news! A website dedicated to the proper preservation and archival of film really should preserve its own content. Glad to see that is the case.
Imagine the necroposting we can do then! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
;-)
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Imagine how many posts I could have if I had joined back then....
So the archive restoration is a bit of a mixed bag. Comparing what I'm seeing from my archive to archive.org, there are definitely some holes on both sides. There are topics on archive.org that I don't have in my archive (like the topic none references above), but there are also topics I pulled from our archive that I can't find on archive.org.
I don't have time to dig through archive.org and do a full comparison, but my wheels are already spinning regarding a restoration of OT.com using archive.org sources. Could be done manually, could be automated. Labor-intensive either way.
I'd definitely like to pull old avatars for those that are missing in the new software so we don't have the ghostly figure in their place :)
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