Re: FORUM GOLD

by eowyn Thu 15 Apr 2010, 07:21

I think they started appearing "en masse" in 2004, though a few dabbled before then.

by taipan Thu 15 Apr 2010, 07:22

Nah, IIRC I only joined C4 in about 2004

by eowyn Thu 15 Apr 2010, 07:28

No, you were posting during the 2003 SA tour here. So you don't remember correctly at all.

by G.Wood Thu 15 Apr 2010, 07:29

be fair, you know saffies have never been good with numbers

by taipan Thu 15 Apr 2010, 07:32

So, it was a frigging long time ago. Hence my IIRC comment.

by Zat Thu 15 Apr 2010, 09:56

Trying to see when the ABC forum died, and just found this...

From: Pommy Girl 13/07/2003 7:17:44 PM

Subject: 200,000th post post id: 199653

Well considering over the course of yesterday evening/last night we made over 1000 posts I think we're gonna get there today don't you?

1000 posts in a day? With no sookfest going on. Good times.

by Zat Thu 15 Apr 2010, 09:59

And of course, when all else fails, refer to the glossary...

From the preamble:

The earliest edition was collated by Zat and published by Nath, two ABC forumers, following discussions on the now closed ABC Cricket Forum in early 2003, in some sort of effort to make the place a little less bewildering to newer users. Several additions to the glossary were made before that forum abruptly closed later that year. Around this time, many ABC 'inmates' moved on to join the cricket forum administered by UK broadcaster C4, where they found an existing group of sometimes like-minded cricket 'tragics'. The glossary went with them, and grew further … with adoption of some pre-existing C4 terms, and development of new terms.

by taipan Thu 15 Apr 2010, 10:01

Gawd, that means I must have joined in 2002. Where did the time go?

by Zat Thu 15 Apr 2010, 10:05

Aye, just been reading some of my posts on the ABC forum from 2002... Eight wasted years... Farq...

by taipan Thu 15 Apr 2010, 10:08

I can't even get to my gems on C4

by WideWally Thu 15 Apr 2010, 10:35

taipan wrote:I can't even get to my gems on C4

Use the Wayback Machine
http://www.archive.org/

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by taipan Thu 15 Apr 2010, 10:37

Interesting wally, Anyone still have the URL?

by WideWally Thu 15 Apr 2010, 10:38

http://community.channel4.com

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by taipan Thu 15 Apr 2010, 10:44

WELCOME TO CHANNEL 4 COMMUNITY

The Channel 4 Forums have now closed, you can read more about this on Platform4 and The TV Show. If you have joined an alternative forum, please be aware that these forums are not maintained by Channel 4. Please be very wary of anyone who says they are old C4 mods or C4 employees and remember that online people aren't always who they say they are. So keep safe and have fun.

by skully Thu 15 Apr 2010, 10:44

Hmm, seems you can get all the "front pages" but when you click on any thread, you get a "Not in Archive" message. Shame.

by WideWally Thu 15 Apr 2010, 10:49

Some of them must work. I found one about a week ago.

by taipan Thu 15 Apr 2010, 11:13

Wouldn't world peace be a great idea? Rob

Interesting topic, but won't open

by WideWally Thu 15 Apr 2010, 11:14

The topics on this page all seem to open

http://web.archive.org/web/20080110093243/community.channel4.com/6/ubb.x?a=frm&s=162603557&f=821609267

by taipan Thu 15 Apr 2010, 11:15

Interesting names on this page

http://web.archive.org/web/20040329095038/community.channel4.com/6/ubb.x?a=frm&s=162603557&f=821609267

by taipan Thu 15 Apr 2010, 11:23

The Get Spang to Implode Apoplectically, NFI Stylée Thread Rob I

This the same Rob who never started any shitfests?

by WideWally Thu 15 Apr 2010, 12:29

These topics also seem to work okay.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070207081850/community.channel4.com/6/ubb.x?a=frm&s=162603557&f=821609267

Basil had never heard of Doug Bollinger but Gabba Dan soon brought him up to speed.