First post, by keenmaster486
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I think it would be interesting to discuss how far this site has come over the last fourteen years.
It'd be cool if there was a wiki page on this.
Here's what I know just from passive research:
--- Some guys on the VDMSound forums (which I don't think exists anymore... was it simply decided to absorb it into VOGONS at some point?) thought they should make a forum to discuss getting old games to work on new systems. These guys were (who?). They called it OGONS at first.
--- These guys all were fans of Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and the decision was made to name all the subforums after various stuff in that book.
--- When did the forum actually come online as vogons.zetafleet.com and who was the one who actually set it up? (I could take a wild guess and say: Snover on June 29, 2002 but that's unsubstantiated)
--- The forum began life as "OGONS" and was quickly changed to VOGONS for obvious reasons here: Just letting you know I'm here now...
The members who joined within the first couple days were:
- Snover (was he known as "Administrator" early on?)
- DosFreak
- Stiletto
- Nicht Ser Gut
- Harekiet
- vladr
- Xorcist
- leolo
(which of these were the original founding members? I assume they all came from VDMSound forums)
--- When did this forum become a hub for DOSBox support and development? Did the DOSBox developers just end up congregating here? Were any of the original founders already working on DOSBox when they joined?
--- Somewhere down the line, the original purpose of the forum expanded to include retro/vintage hardware and making that stuff work as well. This has slowly become the primary function of the forum in spite of the title. (when did this start happening? Was it intentional? Did people not want the forum to go that direction, but it did anyway?)
--- Also somewhere down the line the forum was moved from zetafleet to having its own URL, vogons.org. When did this happen?
--- Over the years VOGONS has become one of the most important PC retrocomputing hubs on the Internet.
On a side note, why was the poll feature discontinued? I noticed it showed up on a few very early threads but is no longer in existence. I've often thought it would be nice to have.
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