# 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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**Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-help-from-99ers-needed-about-ubb/987483/9 "2023-07-25T00:07:27Z")

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> [@mordecaiB](#):
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> I followed a link here from _snopes_ in 2000 sometime. I wonder if the switch to vB had been done already.
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> Too bad that wayback machine didn’t archive the actual threads. That would have been interesting.

With very few exceptions, all the threads going back to the dawn of UBB time are still right here. If you know how to look for them. Here’s the Welcome thread for all the folks coming over from AOL to join the new UBB-based Straight Dope Message Board, in 1999:

> [@Welcome](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome/430/32):
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> (emphasis added) I am intelligent, I am intelligent «sulk» Designated Optional Signature at Bottom of Post

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