# What happened to cause the use of a temporary board after 7 December 2001 to 11 March **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 24, 2003, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-cause-the-use-of-a-temporary-board-after-7-december-2001-to-11-march/220873 "2003-12-24T17:37:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-cause-the-use-of-a-temporary-board-after-7-december-2001-to-11-march/220873/1 "2003-12-24T17:37:25Z")
…2002 thats about it, it was mentioned in **Arnold Winkelried** ’s FAQ - technical issues - please read this BEFORE posting a question in ATMB. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-cause-the-use-of-a-temporary-board-after-7-december-2001-to-11-march/220873/2 "2003-12-24T17:48:03Z")
[We were cracked.](http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?cracker) It’s known as the Winter of Our Missed Content, because all threads posted after a certain time were lost. ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-cause-the-use-of-a-temporary-board-after-7-december-2001-to-11-march/220873/3 "2003-12-24T19:20:47Z")
While you’re at it, read the other FAQ as well 🙂 . Questions about the board belong in ATMB. I’ll move this for you. - **xash** General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2003, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-cause-the-use-of-a-temporary-board-after-7-december-2001-to-11-march/220873/4 "2003-12-25T01:15:09Z")
I believe Cecil accidentally used supplied us with his [recreational hamsters](http://www.snopes.com/risque/homosex/gerbil.htm), instead of the usual worker variety. Ed Zotti was cleaning the basemetn for months afterwards. At least he _claims_ he was cleaning :eek: ---
**Author:** ![the\_first\_supraliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@the\_first\_supraliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_first_supraliminal)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2003, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-cause-the-use-of-a-temporary-board-after-7-december-2001-to-11-march/220873/5 "2003-12-25T16:05:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Derleth \* > \*\*[We were cracked.](http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?cracker) \*\* **Derleth** You were around then, so you should have recalled that the problem wasn’t cracking but file recovery. At one point they relied on a backup device (I thought it was a CD-ROM, but it might have been a server backup tape) which had silently overflowed its media. So when relied upon to recover from some minor problem, the backups were all revealed to have been overflowed for three months. ---
**Author:** ![rsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsa)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2003, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-cause-the-use-of-a-temporary-board-after-7-december-2001-to-11-march/220873/6 "2003-12-25T16:32:31Z")
**Beeruser** , **Derleth** is correct as to the cause of the SDMB going down. It was during the recovery of the board that the problem you mention caused the loss of a few months data. Happy Holidays! ---
**Author:** ![the\_first\_supraliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@the\_first\_supraliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_first_supraliminal)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2003, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-cause-the-use-of-a-temporary-board-after-7-december-2001-to-11-march/220873/7 "2003-12-25T16:52:41Z")
Well, great, now you’ve got me started and I can’t find the actual announcement of the day by TubaDiva. Perhaps it was erased? It was refered to by **Arnold Winkelried** and **kabbes** in this thread :[where have all the old posts gone ??](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=103225) It should have been between [this day of the forum list](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?forumid=2&daysprune=1000&sortorder=desc&sortfield=lastpost&perpage=50&pagenumber=45) [and this one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?forumid=2&daysprune=1000&sortorder=desc&sortfield=lastpost&perpage=50&pagenumber=44). Or perhaps I’m recalling something **jdavis** (AKA “jerry the tech god”) said after [this post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1898761#post1898761)