# Didja know that some of the Threadspotting threads in the archive. . .

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**Created:** [June 23, 2002, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didja-know-that-some-of-the-threadspotting-threads-in-the-archive/115507 "2002-06-23T00:23:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didja-know-that-some-of-the-threadspotting-threads-in-the-archive/115507/1 "2002-06-23T00:23:30Z")

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don’t link to the thread it’s supposed to? Why?

Signed  
Curious in New York

testing sig too while I’m at it.

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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didja-know-that-some-of-the-threadspotting-threads-in-the-archive/115507/2 "2002-06-23T02:31:45Z")

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Examples?

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**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didja-know-that-some-of-the-threadspotting-threads-in-the-archive/115507/3 "2002-06-23T03:08:02Z")

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**This thread bought to you without commercial interruptions** gets you this: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=107059](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=107059)

**Namedropper** gets this: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=110188](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=110188)

**The Straightdope on Christmas songs** this: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=103110](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=103110)

**My money’s on the bear** : [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=108829](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=108829)  
It’s quite a few actually. Those are the ones that I remembered off the top of my head.  
Yea I was bored and spent my Saturday reading old Threadspotting threads. I went to The Brooklyn Museum of Art too, so I’m not a total loser.

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didja-know-that-some-of-the-threadspotting-threads-in-the-archive/115507/4 "2002-06-23T07:55:17Z")

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I don’t know for sure, but my educated guess follows. I think they were threads that were started during the Lost Times, early Dec. to early Feb. We lost all the posts from that period becuase the backup medium had insufficient capacity to store them all. (That situation has since been rectified). After we got back online from the hacking incident, the old threadid numbers were then assigned to new, unrelated threads.

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**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didja-know-that-some-of-the-threadspotting-threads-in-the-archive/115507/5 "2002-06-23T14:19:07Z")

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Ah! More repercussions from that dark, dark time.