Hello people in charge. Sorry to bother, but I'm curious to know if anyone of you remembers the exact date.
Hello people in charge. Sorry to bother, but I'm curious to know if anyone of you remembers the exact date.
It was long, long ago on a misty morning in a damp, cold building surrounded by sprawling neighborhoods growing at frightening speeds; three people sat near a table on which lay a silly-looking contraption that more or less resembled today's computer; with them was an idea.
Wasn't it right after mankind discovered fire?
"But do you really, seriously, Major Scobie," Dr. Sykes asked, "believe in hell?"
"In flames and torment?""Oh, yes, I do."
"That sort of hell wouldn't worry me," Fellowes said."Perhaps not quite that. They tell us it may be a permanent sense of loss."
"Perhaps you've never lost anything of importance," Scobie said.
Gee, I can't tell... I wasn't even my parents' project by thenOriginally Posted by Haunted
I don't know because I wasn't here but if you look on the list of Book of the Month nominations it only goes back to 2004.
What are regrets? Just lessons we haven't learned yet - Beth Orton
hey max ! I really have no idea .. but wanted to step by and say hi
however i guess its old... Maybe Scheherazade or JBI can help
Last edited by hoope; 11-25-2009 at 07:54 PM.
"He is asleep. Though his mettle was sorely tried,
He lived, and when he lost his angel, died.
It happened calmly, on its own,
The way the night comes when day is done."
I think the start of the Forum is what triggered the Big Bang...
This might be what you are looking for.
~
"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
~
A 2003 screenshot from a wayback machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/200304071...re.com/forums/
neilgee inspired me to look at the "last" page for a few of the main sections of the forum, and I kept finding that the oldest posts occurred at the same time and date:
January 17, 2002 at 4:16PM
http://www.online-literature.com/for...read.php?t=223
http://www.online-literature.com/for...read.php?t=176
http://www.online-literature.com/for...read.php?t=216
Indeed, these urls seem to indicate that:
http://www.online-literature.com/for...thread.php?t=1
might be the first post... Annnd after checking, well, there it is. The first post.
But I don't trust the time and date, obviously a bunch of posts (apparently the first couple hundred or more) were reposted and assigned a new time and date at some point. At 4:16PM on Jan. 17, 2002, I guess... Oddly, the posts don't get going again for a couple months (judging from the General Lit section), so something must have happened with reconstruction, or some threads might have been removed or whatever.
In short, question still not answered. But it was probably before 2002.
How did you get that Eryk? Is there an archive we can access?
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
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I googled "wayback machine" and clicked the first result. Then you just enter the URL in the search box. It's really neat.
googling brought me to this page:
http://whois.domaintools.com/online-literature.com
It looks like the domain name has been owned by its current owners (?) since November 2, 2000. That isn't the same thing as the day that the website was born, necessarily, however. It could easily have taken time to set things up after acquiring the domain name--or it might have been ready to go right away. And there might be info about prior ownership somewhere else.
I might be misunderstanding things, but that is what it looks like to me. Turning the clock back some more, but still no real answer to the question.
Last edited by billl; 11-25-2009 at 09:48 PM.
Well done billl, you had an inspired idea there. I would never have thought of taking it that far. Just out of interest I wonder who the current owner is and couldn't we just ask them?
What are regrets? Just lessons we haven't learned yet - Beth Orton
nay, that would be too easy
"But do you really, seriously, Major Scobie," Dr. Sykes asked, "believe in hell?"
"In flames and torment?""Oh, yes, I do."
"That sort of hell wouldn't worry me," Fellowes said."Perhaps not quite that. They tell us it may be a permanent sense of loss."
"Perhaps you've never lost anything of importance," Scobie said.
Lit-Net has a secret, so dangerous that not even Admin could reveal it! It turns out, that he has been working on the forums since 1969, and in fact invented the internet well before anyone could figure out!
Go to the bottom of the page and see the conspirasy uveil right before your very eyes!
The Moments of Dominion
That happen on the Soul
And leave it with a Discontent
Too exquisite — to tell —
-Emily Dickinson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVW8GCnr9-I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckGIvr6WVw4
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