Gaze Into The Past...

Rob

<div class="IPBDescription">A look at the old... OLD forums.</div> The next time you little pukes decide to get all 'roudy bout something being wrong with these forums, remember what you see here today! I found this as I was rummaging around my old NS stuff...

(big image, btw. And YES, I was on dialup when I took this... sue me!)

<a href='http://gamecache.net/wayward/img/oldforums.jpg' target='_blank'>http://gamecache.net/wayward/img/oldforums.jpg</a>

Enjoy!

Dread

AAAAaaaaaAAaaahhh!

Nostalgy-trip! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

Marik_Steele

As much as I'd like to be able to say I remembered those days, even I haven't been here that long. I bet people like Nemesis Zero remembers it like it was yesterday, though.

RaVe

Ohhh...I remember that.....was the schexy.....

So now we don't have a download link on top of the forums?

Vulgar_Menace

I like that layout better than the current one!

Liku

How many times did the Forums change? I was here a bit before they changed to the current, but I don't remember those, were they it?

Legionnaired

First it was Iconboard, which only the most hardcore 1337 oldskool will remember, then we had those, then the new ones you're on now.

Of course, this one wasn't skinned at first. It had the blinding white and light blue color scheme, that made you want to tear your eyes out after looking at a dark screen playing NS for hours.

Cereal_KillR

I think I remember a white eye-burning one. Though I remember the top bar from that board which didn't change on the site (the site changed on release date if I'm not mistaken)

Rob

AFAIK, those boards were the first, then we got IkonBoard, and then these PHP ones.

The original PHP board (these) was the ugly white.

pardzh

I was still a lurker during that stage. I vaguely remember it.

Rellix

Meh I only heard about NS about 14months ago and only found the site after 1.04 came out cause i had to patch from 1.0

Ah, its been a fun year.

Necrotic

The dreaded Orange Forums of yesteryear

Reminds me of the fact that I've been around for two years now o_o

Elderwyrm

I remember those good 'ole forums. I joined in June after lurking for a week. I was reading Tales from the Frontlines thread and it just got me completely into NS. I yearned for the day it would release.

Lost my account when we changed forums because I never got around to updating my password or whatever we had to do.

I remember when this baby finally got skinned too. We were promised a Kharaa skin to!

Scythe

I remember those boards. That hideous orange and the bright orange buttons.

I wish we'd kept those old posts somewhere. They would be mighty fun to browse. I want to find my first ever post. ^_^

--Scythe--

FacTor

/me remembers those boards very well..

Though.. never did get around to ever feeling like posting.. And that web design back then.. gwar.. despised it.. Top bars.. grr.. side panels.. pwnz you now...

Gwahir

I remember, I also remember that people would try to hide messages from the moderators in their posts.

The background of each post was gray or black, so you could match your text color and it would blend in, to read it you would just highlight it.

Renegade

<!--QuoteBegin--Marik_Steele+Dec 23 2003, 02:38 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Marik_Steele @ Dec 23 2003, 02:38 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> As much as I'd like to be able to say I remembered those days, even I haven't been here that long. I bet people like Nemesis Zero remembers it like it was yesterday, though. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Even I remember those old forums.

Aaaaaahhh, I can almost feel the good times... wait, no I can't!

Mullet

I remember those.....but those were in the days when I would just read other peoples posts and I wasn't even registered. Now Im locked and loaded!

RuBy

ah yes the good old days

Rob

I'm fairly sure MonsE STILL has all those old posts backed up, and I'd like to see them, too, as UE chapters 1-5 posts were on those boards...

When we switched to PHP from Ikon, MonsE was more easily able to port the old posts over, but that crummy Ultimateboard kinda sux0red.

Oh, and yeah, changing text color was a big thing back in the early days...

First two community moderators were Moleculor and Spyder, who for at least a month or so were stuck with the shotty tools on Ultimate board (if I remember right, all you could do was edit posts... no parsing or mass move or any other conviences we other mods enjoy today).

LockNLoaded

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eh?

Comprox

Ah yes, I remember when moderators were picked on those boards. A requirement was to be over 18, I never even bothered applying, I was too busy being a nub with Monse making rr.org <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->

I remember those poor slow things, at the end of their life taking 1+ minute loads, if you were lucky. Also if you look at the bottom of the image, it shows rob, and 3 guests on there, I remember the days when that could happen, you would be the only one who had visited in a 15 minute period. Nowadays, the least I've seen in a 15 minute block is around 20, and that's at about 4am Mountain Time. And yes, the ugly orange which I made, and despised (who the heck also made buttons and were quite popular but never used?). Heck, I remember people demanding the orange back, when we first got this forum, and it was all white. I should finish the Kharaa skin for this sometime soon...

Heck, here's some more nastalgic things:
a) The NS Guides - <a href='http://guides.readyroom.org/' target='_blank'>http://guides.readyroom.org/</a>

b) An image only a few of us have ever seen, one of the early designs (made by FAM, no way I can make this) for the NS Manual:

<img src='http://www.kreation.org/armoury.JPG' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

Rob

Blah! The NS Guides!

/me cri

Xzilen

<!--QuoteBegin--Duff-Man+Dec 23 2003, 06:18 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Duff-Man @ Dec 23 2003, 06:18 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I was still a lurker during that stage. I vaguely remember it. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Aye. Same here. Thanks to Arkaine and Vadakill pointing me over here during the summer of 2002.

That_Annoying_Kid

nice picture rob / comprox


I played ns since it's 1.0, but I never really got into the forums till about 1.03, when I discovered my first love here: Fan-Fic...



<!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

NS has made leaps and bounds, but we still need that effing alium skin for the forums *eyes Comprox*

BlackMage

heh only one registered user active ... lookit the bottom of these boards

btw: what kind of box is this running on?

Quaunaut

Wow. I would've been here. but I didn't hear about NS till PCGamer showed us.

UnCritical

Hmm I remember the old boards, the ones that took a minutes to load one page.
I also remember trawling throught around 20pages in the mapping forum drooling over the 'style test' shots that merk and relic were doing.It took me -days- and most definatly got me hooked on NS.

After that we got those new fangled 'fast' forums. Eh, just wasn't as fun.

Cereal_KillR

<!--QuoteBegin--Comprox+Dec 24 2003, 10:26 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Comprox @ Dec 24 2003, 10:26 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Heck, here's some more nastalgic things:
a) The NS Guides - <a href='http://guides.readyroom.org/' target='_blank'>http://guides.readyroom.org/</a>

b) An image only a few of us have ever seen, one of the early designs (made by FAM, no way I can make this) for the NS Manual:
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I remember NSguide, and I have also remembered that second pic, only.. I really don't remember where exactly and definitely not in the setting of the NS manual. I might be mistaken though

Rob

Here's some more:

<a href='http://gamecache.net/wayward/ns_intro.swf' target='_blank'>http://gamecache.net/wayward/ns_intro.swf</a>

The original NS flash intro that I've wisely saved. Careful! It'll try to load a page when it's done :-X

OOO, and here's an old playtest pic. Sometimes when you exited commander mode your view was skewed. Flay might not like this getting showed, but ah, what the heck? This is an EARLY version of Hera, when the command console was moved to an area to the left of reception. To the right is a path to where the duel node is now, straight ahead would take you to the "ugly oval hive." Straight to my left there was a room with a command console (brush basted, not model). And that room was a death trap if a lerk with spores got in! Hehe...

It was also this very build (and maybe this game) that spawned the notorius <a href='http://www.stripcreator.com/view.php?author=rob6264&ID=93126' target='_blank'>Mole commanding incident</a> - Mind you, what was said in comic was actually SCREAMED over voicecom. Ahh, the good ol' days.

<img src='http://wayward.gamecache.net/img/ns_hera1.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

AllUrHiveRblong2us

Way before my time. The oldest I can remember is when the forums were white.........at least I think it was white...........now I don't know what to believe any more.