Evolution of ATS

Go to www.archive.org.... This is basically an archive of the internet since 1995. Pretty amazing huh? It should serve as an invaluable resource for the serious researcher.

I searched for ATS on there, and it archived it!

www.abovetopsecret.com..." target="_blank" class="postlink" rel="nofollow">web.archive.org...*/www.abovetopsecret.com...

And remember the old board?

forums.abovetopsecret.com..." target="_blank" class="postlink" rel="nofollow">web.archive.org...://forums.abovetopsecret.com/

This brings back old memories....

Yeah fun times
16 users online (4 guest(s) and 12 member(s)). Woo what small numbers!!

Anyone got anything on this thread?
Link doesn't work...

web.archive.org...

internet must be shut down for 24 hours in order to enable us to clean it.

That's awesome. I remember coming to this site before there was the discussion forum, and being signed up for the abovetopsecret.com mailing list. That website shows how this website has grown since then.

"Last active: 1-1-1970 at 00:00"

I think it archives pages down to a certain depth and it might exclude things like message boards and blogs because they take up so much space. Considering that ATS takes up half the internet...

I miss those times. *tear*

Anyone have links to the older boards?

Originally posted by Saucerat
And remember the old board?
forums.abovetopsecret.com..." target="_blank" class="postlink" rel="nofollow">web.archive.org...://forums.abovetopsecret.com/

Yep, I was there...And that particular version of ATS was the *second* discussion board. I'll see if I can come up with some of the older URL's but it's going to take quite a bit of searching around in my hard drive...

I still remember the old members. Sadly, alot of them have left...

Jtal
Redwolf
NAVSPECOPS
LostProphet
Midnight Mutilator (banned)
iluv2act
theyre here (now known as William)
jrw122386

and many more...

I think I found a pic of william on there, but think it's best to keep my yap shut about it.
It is interesting to see how the site has matured.

Originally posted by MidnightDStroyer
.And that particular version of ATS was the *second* discussion board.

Nope... third.

1- EZboard
2- IconBoard
3- XMB 1.5
4- XMB 1.6
5- XMB 1.8 (previous dedicated server)
6- ATS/BTS (current dedicated server)

pub19.ezboard.com...

could be the first one. Says EZboard. Kinda funny name. hehe.

Originally posted by ktprktpr
pub19.ezboard.com...

could be the first one. Says EZboard. Kinda funny name. hehe.

Ah, there it is!!!

Thanks, I've been wanting to find that board for a long time.

I'm glad we use XMB forums now. The coding on EZBoard is really bad. I mean, just look how the posts are structured! You have to click on the links to read them, compared to here where you can have them all on one page.

It seems to have been active recently. Midnight Mutilator posted something in September.

pub19.ezboard.com...

Originally posted by William
Nope... third.

Okay, so ATS is even older than I thought it was...Sue me.