# Another search questions:  Threads older than a year?

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**Created:** [January 28, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-search-questions-threads-older-than-a-year/287179 "2005-01-28T20:30:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-search-questions-threads-older-than-a-year/287179/1 "2005-01-28T20:30:20Z")

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I was trying to find an old thread I started back when _Joan of Arcadia_ premiered. It seems only the ones within the past year come up.

Are threads older than a year archived somewhere and inaccesible? Or have they been deleted?

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**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-search-questions-threads-older-than-a-year/287179/2 "2005-01-28T20:54:11Z")

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Click “Search” up above, then “Advanced search.” Once on the Advanced search page, in the “find posts from” field under Search options, select “A year ago” and then, in the box next to it, select **“and Older”**.

Or you can just choose to find posts from “Any Date.”

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**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-search-questions-threads-older-than-a-year/287179/3 "2005-01-28T21:07:46Z")

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Is this the thread?

[Joan of Arcadia 1/16, Or When the Parents Are Away, God will Play](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=235286)

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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-search-questions-threads-older-than-a-year/287179/4 "2005-01-28T21:23:54Z")

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No. \*Joan/i] premiered in the fall of '03, and I was looking for the thread where I admitted that I watched it.

I did the advanced search as you stated, **jackelope** , but it appears threads from 2003 are no longer accessible.

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**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2005, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-search-questions-threads-older-than-a-year/287179/5 "2005-01-29T00:55:00Z")

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Did you mean [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=220838), is the one that is no longer accessible?

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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2005, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-search-questions-threads-older-than-a-year/287179/6 "2005-01-29T01:51:03Z")

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Yes. How did you find it? When I searched, using threads started by me in Cafe Society with “Joan” in the title, nothing came up prior to 2004.

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**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-search-questions-threads-older-than-a-year/287179/7 "2005-01-30T00:09:33Z")

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> [@ivylass](#):
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> Yes. How did you find it?

I’d tell ya, but then I’d have to kiil ya.

😛

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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-search-questions-threads-older-than-a-year/287179/8 "2005-01-30T01:41:08Z")

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Ha ha ha, very funny.

Fine, then. I shall contact you every time I can’t find a thread. 😛