How Long Have We Been Incarsarated Here!

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Re: The 1605 Club

06/10/2001 21:46 was when I first logged on and caused a bit of a stir /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

Haydn, Tomo (Martin) is in Villamora in Portugal which is not quite the Med unless its moved since I was last down there. He will be there for the winter now.

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Re: The 1605 Club

Well I knew it was some where foreign anyway!!

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Haydn
 
Official history

ybw.com launched 13 September 1997. It had open forums from the start...you didn't need to register to post. The guys that built the systems back then did a pretty stunning job - we are still using a few of the admin tools for things like news and have managed to adapt them for more modern purposes without too much problem. Those systems aren't the prettiest solutions but they are robust, quick and paid for, which is more than you can say for much of the Internet in the intervening period.

The original forum system lasted until 2001 when we had a little issue with a guy who kept nicking IDs and creating havoc. So we firstly suspended the whole lot (mostly to get some sleep after a difficult few weeks), then added registration to the old system (which was a bit clunky but a handy stopgap for us) after a month holiday, then launched the system you have today.

We were able to roll in about six weeks' worth of messages from the old system but the rest of what happened back to 1997 is now lost to history. On the other hand, every pearl (of wisdom) and globule (of ______ <font size=1>complete as appropriate</font size=1>) posted since 2001 is currently available for search on the database unless sin-binned or sat in an expired forum.

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I woz here /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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Sure I must have been here about 1997, did not know it had just started. Just sort of found it by accident. Might be a good idea tho, for the newbies, if we paste all the right answers into documents and then just blurge it out again. I must be getting old..../forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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Haydn
 
Re: tcm\'s frari

We don't get many frari's up here in Norfolk, so was this the one with the windscreen wiper that flew off the car in the middle of Yarmouth and the driver looking very embarrassed?

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Re: tcm\'s frari

No, most likely not. I understand from tcm that twasn't the most well screwed together car so windscreen wiper might well have come off. I can also believe the driver might have got out and cursed it and whipped it with a birch branch a la Basil Fawlty (remember that episode?) and finally lashed it together with duck tape. However, if it was tcm he would not have done all this looking the slightest bit embarrassed :-)

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Re: the auld days

um, don't think the 456 scared colin - it was the idea that I wouldn't turn up. Maybe? We went over huge standing waves out of Gt Yarmouth, and during the trip to the Wash all his mates rangim to see if I had turned up. Ok, later i think he was wurrid in another car, to south of france.

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Re: the auld days

Glad to see that the editor of Tax Collecter Monthly is still available for abuse in this forum. Its not your Fiat up for sale in Club de M ?

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