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18 Aug 2008, 11:17 PM | #1 |
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Edwin said elsewhere, speaking about this site : a policy that has served perfectly well since the late 1990s.
There are however several problems with the date, even allowing for a certain vagueness of 'late 1990s'. The first is that first members joined on 19th December 1999. The second is that Edwin himself registered only in August 2001. Third: the emaildiscussions.com name was registered in March 2000. Question: did the forum exist before Dec. 1999, possibly under some other name? And who was the first administrator - Edwin under a different nickname? Only curious.... Last edited by janusz : 19 Aug 2008 at 01:56 AM. Reason: typo corrected |
18 Aug 2008, 11:53 PM | #2 |
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Yes, the forum was under a subdirectory of emailaddresses.com.
And I think it was set up in mid-1999 to late 1999. I know my own user creation date is incorrect because I had to migrate the admin account when I changed forum platforms (or versions - I forget) a year or so after opening the board, and I got the old-to-new account process back to front and before I could reverse it my admin account had all my posts under it but was "created" that instant |
19 Aug 2008, 12:06 AM | #3 |
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I learn something new every day. I had thought that events occurring in the late nineteen nineties were only considered to be history in California
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19 Aug 2008, 06:58 AM | #4 | |
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I found an old "Internet directory" (from the time when people still thought they could put everything one might want to know about the Internet into a small paperback that fits in a pocket) and and emailaddresses.com was there as the major resource on free email addresses. |
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19 Aug 2008, 02:10 PM | #5 | |
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19 Aug 2008, 04:13 PM | #6 |
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The main site began in January 1998, though initially not on its own domain name. I can't remember when it moved to emailaddresses.com, but it was certainly before the end of that year.
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19 Aug 2008, 06:11 PM | #7 |
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IIRC, at one point, the forums were emailaddresses.com/forums and eventually became emaildiscussions.com. Can't recall when.
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19 Aug 2008, 07:05 PM | #8 | |
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19 Aug 2008, 07:10 PM | #9 |
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19 Aug 2008, 08:11 PM | #10 |
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20 Aug 2008, 02:31 AM | #11 | |
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Or just change your bookmark to www.emaildiscussions.com
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I would like to look it up and see what it looked like (On the archive site) |
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Regards, --Marc Last edited by marc_otten : 20 Aug 2008 at 10:06 PM. Reason: removed typos |
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