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Recently?
https://tvforum.uk/mediawebsites/boycott-metropol-24669/ dates from 2007.
Or did I happen to be looking the other way when Mr Martin graced us with his presence recently?

VM

VMPhil 15 August 2019 7:26pm

Sorry, I was talking about two separate things! The Boycott Metropol thing was back in 2007. But I believe he reappeared on here recently under the name JamesM0984.

JA

JAS84 16 August 2019 7:16pm

Whataday posted:

It absolutely depresses me that there are posts from me on that Wayback Machine link from 18 years ago.

Makes you feel old, doesn't it?

AS

Asa Admin 16 August 2019 7:20pm

BillyH posted:

Not sure how/why this was on my old hard drive, but a snapshot of the forum's homepage way back in December 2001 - complete with Windows 98/Internet Explorer 5 surroundings!

Really had to be a fan of blue by the look of too! Full-on to say the least. I hadn’t realised I’d used the bauble since day one either...I’m so unoriginal nearly twenty years later

The user count is a bit random but I sometimes did a purge of inactive members which would affect the counts. The number of posts should have increased though.

It’s scary when I Google to find, say, the launch date of an old presentation package and get directed to this site!

JA

james-2001 17 August 2019 1:44am

VMPhil posted:

Sorry, I was talking about two separate things! The Boycott Metropol thing was back in 2007. But I believe he reappeared on here recently under the name JamesM0984.

Oh yes, the Tommy Robinson fan.

MW

Mike W 17 August 2019 1:53am

Asa posted:

BillyH posted:

Not sure how/why this was on my old hard drive, but a snapshot of the forum's homepage way back in December 2001 - complete with Windows 98/Internet Explorer 5 surroundings!

Really had to be a fan of blue by the look of too! Full-on to say the least. I hadn’t realised I’d used the bauble since day one either...I’m so unoriginal nearly twenty years later

The user count is a bit random but I sometimes did a purge of inactive members which would affect the counts. The number of posts should have increased though.

It’s scary when I Google to find, say, the launch date of an old presentation package and get directed to this site!

Remember for a long time it wasn't the 'done thing' to have a solid white background on websites (the BBC themselves had a black background in the late 90s)

WH

Whataday Founding member 17 August 2019 3:59am

And one year before that the internet was so old it was in black and white.

NJ

Neil Jones Founding member 17 August 2019 8:32am

Whataday posted:

And one year before that the internet was so old it was in black and white.

Supposedly the first ever website:
http://info.cern.ch/

Presented in all its glorious black, white and blue underlined text as was the standard at the time. Now you're quite often lucky if you see any underlined links at all which are usually by accident rather than design...

RI

Richard 17 August 2019 9:22am

Mike W posted:

Asa posted:

BillyH posted:

Not sure how/why this was on my old hard drive, but a snapshot of the forum's homepage way back in December 2001 - complete with Windows 98/Internet Explorer 5 surroundings!

Really had to be a fan of blue by the look of too! Full-on to say the least. I hadn’t realised I’d used the bauble since day one either...I’m so unoriginal nearly twenty years later

The user count is a bit random but I sometimes did a purge of inactive members which would affect the counts. The number of posts should have increased though.

It’s scary when I Google to find, say, the launch date of an old presentation package and get directed to this site!

Remember for a long time it wasn't the 'done thing' to have a solid white background on websites (the BBC themselves had a black background in the late 90s)

As seen here:

https://web.archive.org/web/19970509124247/https://www.bbc.co.uk/

And here is the first version of the BBC Website (at least the oldest version I can find):

https://web.archive.org/web/19950301190227/http://www.bbcnc.org.uk/

(October 2013)