# Some help from '99ers needed about ubb

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 24, 2023, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-help-from-99ers-needed-about-ubb/987483 "2023-07-24T18:11:16Z")\
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> [@AHunter3](#):
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> It looked like this:

That doesn’t look familiar at all. I seem to recall only having 2 or 3 forums at the beginning, maybe not. Maybe on AOL?

> [@AHunter3](#):
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> vBulletin was pretty decent at the time.

That’s what kept me reading and not posting. Time out errors and double/triple posts. IIRC, no tabs back then so you needed different a whole new window to open multiple tabs.

> [@AHunter3](#):
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> Wellllll… all the threads that had originally been UBB but had had subsequent posts made in the vBulletin, they converted fine. And all the threads that had been created in vBulletin-the-first-version were converted fine. But any threads that had had no posts added to them after the UBB days, those threads lost their usernames. Nobody noticed for a long long time, because those were, by definition, long-dormant threads.

Yes, I remember losing a bunch of posts, tho I didn’t remember why we lost them.

> [@hajario](#):
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> As a starting point, I started in April of 2001 and the vB conversion had happened already.

I followed a link here from _snopes_ in 2000 sometime. I wonder if the switch to vB had been done already.

Too bad that wayback machine didn’t archive the actual threads. That would have been interesting.

> [@Chronos](#):
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> IIRC, there was at the time a newer version of vBulletin that could handle our increased size, but we were frozen at several versions older than that, because versions past that point would have broken… something or other we had.

That’s a bit like I remember, tho I don’t recall what the fix was that had been done. I don’t think even Jerry would remember if he was still around. 🙂

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