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  • King Kovifor
    Senior Member
    • Nov 2004
    • 591
    • 3.7.x

    History?

    Why isn't there a in-depth history of vBulletin/Jelsoft? I haven't really found one...
  • Colin F
    Senior Member
    • May 2004
    • 17689

    #2
    I don't know of one... what would you like to know?
    Best Regards
    Colin Frei

    Please don't contact me per PM.

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    • King Kovifor
      Senior Member
      • Nov 2004
      • 591
      • 3.7.x

      #3
      Well, I think a complete history of the software, founders, developers, Jelsoft, and anything relating to vBulletin would be a nice feature on this site.

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      • KW802
        Senior Member
        • Jul 2003
        • 1165
        • 3.8.11

        #4
        KK,

        Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VBulletin.
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        • Quillz
          Senior Member
          • Nov 2004
          • 2787
          • 5.0.X

          #5
          Well, Jelsoft as a company was founded in 2000. vBulletin was initially a PHP/MySQL version of UBB.threads, but has evolved quite well since then.
          Forums

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          • Zachery
            Former vBulletin Support
            • Jul 2002
            • 59097

            #6
            ubb.classic, which at the time was just ubb

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            • Guest

              #7
              Originally posted by Quillz
              Well, Jelsoft as a company was founded in 2000. vBulletin was initially a PHP/MySQL version of UBB.threads, but has evolved quite well since then.
              You mean ubb aka ubb.classic these days. Begin a ubb user in the old days I watched this thing take shape (as an outsider), it has come a long way!

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              • Freddie Bingham
                Former vBulletin Developer
                • May 2000
                • 14057
                • 1.1.x

                #8
                That wiki has lies. I will have to explain what the v really stands for and that the answer isn't nothing.

                John has UBB and rewrites it in PHP since it is killing his server at vb-world.net. You take the v from vb-world.net and append it to bulletin and you have vBulletin.

                That is more appropriate than "The v stands for nothing".

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                • simsim
                  Senior Member
                  • Nov 2005
                  • 1625
                  • 3.6.x

                  #9
                  OK but what the 'v' in vb-world.net then stood for? And it's been confirmed by Zachery & Wayne that it means 'nothing, nothing at all', so you can't really blame the Wiki editors for following staff posts.
                  Last edited by simsim; Thu 15 Jun '06, 4:48pm. Reason: typos corrected
                  You're spending millions of dollars on a website?!

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                  • Freddie Bingham
                    Former vBulletin Developer
                    • May 2000
                    • 14057
                    • 1.1.x

                    #10
                    Originally posted by simsim
                    OK but what the 'v' in vb-world.net then stood for? And it's been confirmed by Zachery & Wayne that it means 'nothing, nothing at all', so you can't really blame the Wiki editors for following staff posts.
                    The v is from Visual Basic.

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                    • Zachery
                      Former vBulletin Support
                      • Jul 2002
                      • 59097

                      #11
                      Kier has repeatedly told me it means nothing freddie

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                      • Quillz
                        Senior Member
                        • Nov 2004
                        • 2787
                        • 5.0.X

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Freddie Bingham
                        The v is from Visual Basic.
                        Why would it stand for that if the vB has nothing to do with Virtual Basic, though? I always thought it was short for "virtual," as in "virtual bulletin board system."
                        Forums

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                        • Zachery
                          Former vBulletin Support
                          • Jul 2002
                          • 59097

                          #13
                          As far as I can recall both Kier and Scott (but who trusts scooty? really) saying that the v meant nothing.

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                          • ---MAD---
                            Senior Member
                            • Jun 2005
                            • 2522
                            • 3.8.x

                            #14
                            Maybe you should have a history page?

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                            • KW802
                              Senior Member
                              • Jul 2003
                              • 1165
                              • 3.8.11

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Quillz
                              Why would it stand for that if the vB has nothing to do with Virtual Basic, though? I always thought it was short for "virtual," as in "virtual bulletin board system."
                              vBulletin is in PHP but vb-world.net for which it was named was a site about Visual Basic.


                              EDIT: Some background reading - http://www.zend.com/zend/cs/vbworld.php
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