# Old threads...can't find prior to 2009?

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**Created:** [November 5, 2017, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-threads-cant-find-prior-to-2009/800751 "2017-11-05T04:42:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2017, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-threads-cant-find-prior-to-2009/800751/1 "2017-11-05T04:42:35Z")

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I was doing a search on my own threads (to make sure I wasn’t duplicating an older one) and the search function now only resurrects threads for me from 2009 onwards. Is this now a thing?

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2017, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-threads-cant-find-prior-to-2009/800751/2 "2017-11-05T04:50:43Z")

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That’s why I didn’t join until 2012.

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2017, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-threads-cant-find-prior-to-2009/800751/3 "2017-11-05T04:54:14Z")

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I just checked for posts started by you and it shows 500 of them going back to 2003.

(ETA: And listing them in ascending order would show the very earliest posts.)

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**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2017, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-threads-cant-find-prior-to-2009/800751/4 "2017-11-05T05:35:59Z")

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> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> I just checked for posts started by you and it shows 500 of them going back to 2003.
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> (ETA: And listing them in ascending order would show the very earliest posts.)

Yeah, it told ME that there were over 500 of them (even though I go back to 2001) but when I tried to access them they weren’t there…☹ Weird

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2017, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-threads-cant-find-prior-to-2009/800751/5 "2017-11-05T05:46:56Z")

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> [@kambuckta](#):
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> Yeah, it told ME that there were over 500 of them (even though I go back to 2001) but when I tried to access them they weren’t there…☹ Weird

For the record, [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=91533) is your very first thread.