Haha, what? You could reply to a post in one forum and it would appear in a different one?

They obvously didn't expect that many posts in a thread, like Youtube and 2 billion views.

Those were the days. Was there ever a PCF team fortress server or something, ISTR something about that

It was code in the signature that overlaid the reply button with a link to a thread on npcff. I seem to remember a lot of people getting very pissed off - posts were made in random forums (parenting, pet advice, all sorts of stuff) and it was HILARIOUS.

Thems were the days.

Ahaha. That's daft being able to cover up the reply button. Clever :) I don't remember that but remember the pinking.

Think it was the same technique as pinking. Back in teh days before user HTML was properly sanitized :'D

the ones that took it in good spirits were nice though.

I think I was involved the second time we did it, I remember me and Xen and Andee and maybe some others coordinating it all over MSN or something like that. And I got briefly banned for it too, goddamnit.

Weird to think that I've known people on here longer than anyone except family. Shared history and all that - must be getting close to 20 years.

Blimey.

Can't be far off. I think I was possibly 11 when I first posted on the newsgroup. 30 in a couple of months.

I started posting on the newsgroups in my first year of uni which was 1999. So nearly 18 years ago :O

I think I first met a bunch of y'all at (quite possibly) the first meat, at the Founders Arms. I think (though I may be wrong) that Truffy was there, and I think that's the one where Milko's unusually sized arms were first pictured; though thinking about it, that photo might've been taken at a later meat.

So yeah, well over 15 years now. Lucky sods.

ACTUALLY the arms pic came from an entirely separate event (my birthday party) and I'm not altogether sure how it came to be here! Now, put your face into this glue.

Hold it up for him then. And he still won't be able to reach it!!!!!

Christ I remember that now. It was the sheer randomness of the stuff that started appearing that made it so funny. Ahh, happy days :)

Twas a glorious era, really, that! To be fair to Delphi, for all its flaws it was quite unique and ahead of its time really. Even now, other BBS systems are pretty "meh"

Fully agree. Just checked my profile and found (interestingly enough) that this is my 11,111th post here. Kind of shows just how much stuff used to get posted here, and on Delphi before it.

Forum wise, apart from a few graphical tweaks, phpBB and the likes are just as unfriendly to use as they were 15 years ago. Frames FTW!

phpBB, and it's cookie cutter offspring, and Delphi can't hold a candle to Beehive! :)

 

See I'm late again.

I checked into Delphi for the first time in ages, last week. They made some big UI changes, last year, and now, apart from a seasoned few, it's deader than dead.

Tend to divide my online life between mumsnet, a regional bus enthusiast forum (littlewibbly's a bit of a bus basher and I've conceded that there's worse hobbies to have) and twitter. i do have a faceache account, but I'm a rebel who refuses to give my real name and I don't actually use it for anything other than logging into mindless games on my iPad.

*waves*