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WayBack Machine

The_B_Man · 2008-12-11 05:45:13

Found something cool. Was just looking at the site stats for boards on http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/boards.ie and then on the left theres a link for the WayBack Machine. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.boards.ie It shows what boards looked like back in 2000/2001 (looks so old it should be in…

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The_B_Man

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Found something cool.
Was just looking at the site stats for boards on http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/boards.ie

and then on the left theres a link for the WayBack Machine.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.boards.ie

It shows what boards looked like back in 2000/2001 (looks so old it should be in Black&white), with people complaing about eircom and pat kenny et al. Some things never change!

:pac:

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#2 11-12-2008 5:51am

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I thought everyone knew about the waybackmachine?

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#3 11-12-2008 7:31am

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Boards was really slow back in 2000, or the Way Back When machine needs a good defrag.

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#4 11-12-2008 7:55am

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It has certainly come a long way , l laughed at the Arnie sig in the AHs section Oct 19 2000.:D

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#5 11-12-2008 8:12am

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Nice find.

It looks funny

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#6 11-12-2008 10:03am

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Smyth wrote: »

I thought everyone knew about the waybackmachine?

I knew about it before it was even invented.

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#7 11-12-2008 10:12am

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stovelid wrote: »

I knew about it before it was even invented.

I knew you were going to post that even before you thought it. Touché!

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#8 11-12-2008 10:19am

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Damn it wouldn't let me register in 2000.. Wayback Machine sucks!!!!!!!!111eleventy!!1

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#9 11-03-2010 7:56am

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zombie thread revival
i only learnt about this site now, it's pretty cool alright

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#10 11-03-2010 8:03am

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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055851161

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