# What happened?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened/857
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [February 23, 2000, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened/857 "2000-02-23T17:46:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2000, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened/857/1 "2000-02-23T17:46:00Z")
Feel free to tell me “It’s none of your beeswax”, but what happened to the board on 21/22 February 2000?
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Official winner of [Bricker Challenge #5](http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/004959.html).
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### Author:  [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2000, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened/857/2 "2000-02-23T17:50:00Z")
Why this interest in something that happened 29 years ago? 🙂
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2000, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened/857/3 "2000-02-23T22:26:00Z")
Ya know how sometimes in computing you take one step forward and two steps back?
Well, welcome to the Straight Dope upgrade boogie.
It’s gonna get better, once we get open for business again. Which should be soon. . . not soon enough for me, but soon.
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
The Straight Dope
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### Author:  [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2000, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened/857/4 "2000-02-23T23:07:00Z")
Okay, what bugs me is that the notice referred to “routine” maintenance. Just what was routine about this? Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad it’s back, but don’t anyone tell me this was routine.
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2000, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened/857/5 "2000-02-23T23:09:00Z")
> [@](#):
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> Originally posted by whitetho:
> **Why this interest in something that happened 29 years ago? 🙂**
I don’t get it.
Is it just me, or does the board seem to be faster than before?
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### Author:  [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2000, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened/857/6 "2000-02-23T23:11:00Z")
> [@](#):
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> Okay, what bugs me is that the notice referred to “routine” maintenance. Just what was routine about this? Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad it’s back, but don’t anyone tell me this was routine.
What we had here was a graphic demonstration of the difference between “sposta be” and “is.”
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### Author:  [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2000, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened/857/7 "2000-02-23T23:15:00Z")
Arnold,
This morning (well morning for me) posts were coming up as 02/23/2029…messed some of us up.
Even after 20 minutes of not replying to an email it still came up with the flood control message…kinda scary.
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### Author:  [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2000, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened/857/8 "2000-02-23T23:16:00Z")
er not email but post \< sorry, I am suffering from message board withdrawls…I had to do most of my internet communications via email not postings \>
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### Author:  [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2000, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened/857/9 "2000-02-23T23:34:00Z")
Well, I’m sort of just seeing if I’m really still here, but I’ll try and add a little public service as well. Y’all _did_ notice the advisory to change your passwords, didn’t you?
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### Author:  [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2000, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened/857/10 "2000-02-23T23:42:00Z")
Password changed, per the advisory.
I can’t help wondering if there was some sort of problem that went beyond “Upgrade had a bug.” In light of the board being down for two whole days, the password change warning and HTML being disabled, that is…
I know that’s flimsy evidence, but some of us are beginning to suspect a connection.
- Rick
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2000, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened/857/11 "2000-02-23T23:49:00Z")
You’re right Bricker. There’s some evil afoot in the land.