10 year old post on a vBulletin site

[cyburbia]

http://www.cyburbia.org/forums/showthread.php?t=21082

First message ever posted on my site, dated March 24 1996. Converting old WWWBoard posts I found to vBulletin last year was an adventure.

I think it's the oldest post on a vBulletin-based message board. Is there anything older out there?

[Joe Gronlund]

Nice , so what kind of board was it before it was a vBulletin board?

[tgillespie]

Nice , so what kind of board was it before it was a vBulletin board?

Converting old WWWBoard posts I found to vBulletin last year was an adventure.

My guess would be WWWBoard

[AWS]

When I converted from wwwthreads I had a whole bunch of threads with a date in 1970. If you search http://visualbasicforum.com you'll probably hit one or 2. We changed them as we came across them, but, do to the amount of posts converted I am sure I missed a few.

[zappsan]

Wow, that's ancient.
The oldest posts I've seen on forum so far have been from 2002.
1996 and 1970?
That was long time before I ever showed interest in computer or had internet access^^

[WurkAnimal]

Haha, nice!

[Dave#]

http://www.cyburbia.org/forums/showthread.php?t=21082

First message ever posted on my site, dated March 24 1996. Converting old WWWBoard posts I found to vBulletin last year was an adventure.

I think it's the oldest post on a vBulletin-based message board. Is there anything older out there?

we have lots from 1st Jan 99 - all post before then have been lost thanks to communitech

[Joe Gronlund]

My guess would be WWWBoard

Opps, there i go reading too fast again lol..

[0ptima]

http://www.cyburbia.org/forums/showthread.php?t=21082

First message ever posted on my site, dated March 24 1996. Converting old WWWBoard posts I found to vBulletin last year was an adventure.

How did you import your wwwboard? I still have mine from the 90s and use it as an archive.

[cyburbia]

How did you import your wwwboard? I still have mine from the 90s and use it as an archive.

It wasn't easy. There was three conversions in the process; WWWboard to WebBBS to phpBB to vBulletin. Check out the thread for links to the converters, and other steps that might be necessary, like batch cleaning certain tags. It's a long, ugly process, but it's worth it.

If only I convert DiscusBoard Free messages to vBulletin ...

[0ptima]

Thanks for the link Cyburbia. If I do the import, Ill have posts from 1998...

[cyburbia]

Just a followup: did you try importing yet?

[0ptima]

Not yet, im still debating if I should.