Brief history of ATS

Mods, if you edit that title!

If ladies, gentlemen and children would keep their hands inside the tour cart at all times . . .∇


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Originally posted by SkepticOverlord on 9/5/2004

Eight months later, we outgrew that over-stressed Pentium box, and are now on a hot-rod Dual-Xeon machine.

Remember that 'hot-rod,' anyone? If the board was on a souped-up car then, I reckon it's now strapped to a few Jupiter-Cs.


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1 million unique user sessions in September 2004, I read somewhere among the cobwebs. I wonder how this compares to today?


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With 61, 589 registered members as of now, this quote here makes me chuckle as well:

Originally posted by AceOfBase on 29/9/2004

I see on the front page that you've added almost 600 members just in the last 7 days. At that rate, there should be more than 25,000 members in the next couple of months.

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It's interesting, going through the ancient posts. You come across some real nuggets.

Hows this? First ever paid ad for ATS:




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Originally posted by Springer on 1/10/2003

Runtime Syntax error

Everytime I refresh or load a new page I get an error. HELP!

PEACE...
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Whoever would have thought Springer asks for help


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Hehe. Or this?

Originally posted by SkepticOverlord on /9/2004

NEW ATS CHAT UP AND RUNNING

We have a new high-performance chat application hosted on a separate dedicated server from the ATS website.

Ahh . . . good ol' days.


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An ATS CD. Now there's a random idea.

Originally posted by SimonGray on 27/8/2003

AboveTopSecret.com CD-ROM v2.0

After the huge success of the first AboveTopSecret.com Special Edition CD-ROM, I am currently starting preliminary work on a much greater and grander "CD-ROM v2.0" for release later in the year.

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Originally posted by Springer on 7/12/2003

There are NO MODS on the board right NOW!

I say we TAKE CONTROL! What do you say?!

PEACE...
m...

Uhhhhhh . . . he was a rebel before he hit the big time? ROFL


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Originally posted by Springer on 7/12/2003

IMMORTAL !!!!

NO WAY Dude! YOU called for caution out of FEAR that the MODs might be watching!

I will be supreme party monitor because I have balls the size of small countries!

Pity there isnt a smilie for :jawhittingground:

And to think Kano and TheBandit795 are supermods now . . . you've just gotta read the entire thread.


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Finally, and more recently, this:

Originally posted by SkepticOverlord on 6/6/2005

Coming soon to ATS:

Collaborative Member PODcasts!


We're working on what could very well be an important "next stop" in the evolution of information rich online communities such as ATS: member-drive collaborative PODcasts.

A PODcast is essentially an RSS news feed, with attached MP3 file that can be transfered to a digital music player (or played on your computer).

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Jeez, its absolutely amazing just how far this place (people included) has come over just a few years. Pity I wasn't here to watch it while it happened.


Anyways, if you want to add to this, please do!! There's heaps more out there; like more (yes more!) posts by Springer and Gray absolutely full of things they wouldn't be caught dead doing nowadays. Pity SO's such a goodiegoodie⇔∂

Oh man, sleeeep, that actually took effort . . . and slightly reminded me of embarrassing baby photos!

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I liked that title very much.

[edit on 5-23-2006 by worldwatcher]

[edit on 23/5/2006 by watch_the_rocks]

Title Edited. What did you expect???

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I hate to sound ignorant, but is there anyway to pull real old threads out?
Is there a way to look at them?
I've tried, but havent been able to. I mean when ATS first started.

Can we have a glimpse at our past just for fun???

Thank you, DG

Originally posted by dgtempe
I hate to sound ignorant, but is there anyway to pull real old threads out?
Is there a way to look at them?
I've tried, but havent been able to. I mean when ATS first started.

Can we have a glimpse at our past just for fun???

Thank you, DG

there is a way to do this...

unfortunately, i do not know how...

There is a way, but we dont know how.

Ok. Just kidding, i know you'd tell me if you knew. Can someone who knows help?

Please dont tell me you there's a way but dont know how.