First post, by keenmaster486
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I think it would be interesting to discuss how far we've come over the last fourteen years.
Admins, you can shut this down if you think it's stupid. I don't care, just throwing this out there.
It'd be cool if there was a wiki page on this.
Here's what I know just from passive research:
--- Some fellas 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, titular purpose of the forum expanded to include retro/vintage hardware and making that stuff work as well. This has slowly become, I dare say, 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, might I say, the PC retrocomputing hub on the Internet. It is here that the finest minds in the hobby congregate. Yes, of course you have the Vintage Computer Forums, but that's a very broad site including everything from Amiga and Apple to Sinclair and Xerox. VOGONS is the place for specifically PC stuff.
--- Early 2016: This weird guy who calls himself "keenmaster486" joins the forums, and very quickly people realize that he is lowering the collective IQ of VOGONS, which up until that point had remained stable at a level not seen since the Manhattan project. After he posts a stupid thread on the history of the site, they finally succeed in luring him away with bananas and trapping him in another dimension where he is forced to reverse engineer his 486DX2/66 in order to survive.
This may be of interest to some people, or maybe it's just stupid.
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.
So there. Thoughts, comments, suggestions, criticisms, or philosophical musings, anyone?
I flermmed the plootash just like you asked.
World's foremost 486 enjoyer.
