When did Teh first launch? Is the database here complete (i.e. message 1.1 the first ever message on Teh Forum), or did we lose/move at some point?

pretty sure we've had a database loss at some point.

What's the betting it'll have been that bloody Matt? You'd have thought he made the place, the way he yacks on.

We've lost the database once, maybe twice.

It's twice if we went from Izzy to LP's mate Nick to Dan Mohammed to EuroVPS, but I can't remember if it was that or Izzy > Dan Mohammed > LP's mate > EuroVPS or even if there was another host between LP's mate and EuroVPS, which I think there was but I can't remember who.

Anyway, the one time I remember us loosing the database was after Izzy changed his job and his previous employer decided they didn't want us free-loading of their hosting any more, but due to having no contact with them we weren't able to get a copy of it and were forced to start afresh.

And Teh has been around since Beehive 0.1 pretty much, although ran in parallel to the old NPCFF. Before it was tehforum.co.uk, it was bigbeigebox.net if I remember correctly.

Someone should have written all this down :(

Looks like May/June 2002, judging by the posts on NPCFF. Can't find the 'launch' thread, though.

That's amazing. 7 years in the wild and still going strong. Bet Mikee feels stupid now :D

Reckon this was the start?

 

http://forums.delphiforums.com/notpcformat/messages?msg=11983.1

 

I vaguely vaguely remember bigbeigebox.

That looks like it!

 

How did you get back to that thread? I couldn't work out how to get older threads to display :$

 

Anyway, looks like Teh's 10th Birthday is 1st of June 2012. Meat?

Dunno, just kept muttering and clicking randomly.

 

I also discovered it's still possible to order Xen's Pockets merchandise.

 

http://www.cafepress.com/pockets

 

:o

heh heh - I found a thread where milko says no-one can ever be trusted to be a moderator

Awww, look at everyone desperately wanting to be a mod.

haha, check me out being a naysayer throughout the thread. DOOOM I tell you! Mind you it was a much harder job back in those days, so many more people coming through and so many more looking for trouble.

Wow, I can't believe Delphi still doesn't sync the thread list to the message pane when you have enter the forum with a msg id in the URL :D

It's gash. I'm glad we've got Beehive.

Sadly, I couldn't remember who the OP was until I read my reply #14. I thought it might be Simon. (fail)

I only pop in to check the mod queue once in a while. Apart from the political pissing contests, it's a bit quiet there, these days.

This place has been around longer than that. 6 years ago I was pregnant with Owen after a certain London meat.

Still on Delphi!

Hawk hasn't been seen for a long time. Nor has Grandpa Dragon. Neither were in good health :/

I've been trying to remember the name of his creation for the last few weeks, cheers for that! I could remember Andy's giraffe but not Xen's. If I remember there was a piss-take star wars picture with them both in floating about at the time too.

Didn't you two leave that meet early to create him? It might have been the one we all got knobs from Tina too.

 

Brings a whole new meaning to the reference of a "London meat" :'D