First post, by BitWrangler
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Hi Vogons,
I have been trying to recall anything else about an old forum or bulletin board to assist me in digging it out of the waybackmachine or other archives. For all I know it's still on the web, just obscured by the lack of SEO, and Google's artificial stupidity.
Mostly it was focused on genuine IBM hardware, but had a section for clones also I think. I remember the page title as "The IBM-PC Hardware Page" but there may be some variance. It existed somewhere in the timeframe of 2000-2008 at least. I believe it used a free hosting service, like boardhost or proboards, but neither of those look quite right in layout. Possibly it had 3rd party software on a free domain like tripod. I recall a mottled brown background, possibly a texture from Doom or other game.
Layout: I think it had two panes of "folder" sections, but then they expanded into threaded topics, sorta like a combo of boardhost and proboards. Though not sure if it was something that usually looks different but was set to different behavior. I think vbulletin and simplemachines can be made to look like that, but I don't think it was anything so popular or well built. My recollections of exact mechanics are a bit vague though.
Personalities: Either the owner, admin or chief mod called himself "Neil Cavuto" after the newscaster. There was another dude on there who for some reason liked to keep mentioning his encounters with call girls.
It wasn't very high traffic, I would not be surprised to find out that only 200 people knew of it's existence, but hopefully one or two of them are here...
So does anyone have the original URL in archived bookmarks, have better recollections of the pages that might make for better search terms, or even just remember what hosting it used?
TIA
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