# Winter of our missed content **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 2, 2015, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content/726796 "2015-08-02T13:25:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content/726796/21 "2015-08-02T22:54:42Z")
I’ve been trying to see if some archive of the temp board still exists. **wulfstu** ’s thread includes a link to a capture of the temp board on June 4, 2002, of the last day it was open for new posts. It includes a few threads started as early as February 28 2002. ETA But no actual posts, just the thread titles. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content/726796/22 "2015-08-02T23:01:07Z")
missed edit window Apparently there ARE some posts in there but not all the links work. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content/726796/23 "2015-08-03T01:47:25Z")
I posted a question ‘The Strange Case of William McKinley,’ which was lost. I reposted it [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=246364) a couple of years later. Although, now as I re-read it, I suspect that even in this day and age, with that kind of damage, he would have been in critical condition and possibly might not have survived. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content/726796/24 "2015-08-03T02:26:56Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > I lost my famous “Qadgop is going to prison” thread in that disastrous board crash! We do have the report from your first week, though: [Qadgop in prison](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=106723). ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content/726796/25 "2015-08-03T16:11:35Z")
I know when it happened, **I** cried. Well not really, I sniffled a little. But that could have been allergies. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content/726796/26 "2015-08-03T16:21:50Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > Let’s see, I know I started several threads: > > **A Plan for a Just and Lasting Middle East Peace That All Sides Will Immediately Accept** > **Cold Fusion: Here’s How To Do It For Real** > **A Truly Marvellous Proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem** > > (That last one was kind of a departure for me, as I’m not usually a math guy; I think the OP for that one came to me in a dream.) The really cool thing about that one was that the proof was in verse form as a completion of Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan.” ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content/726796/27 "2015-08-04T01:42:34Z")
There was another, much shorter, time period that the boards reset on themselves too. It was after I was a member…so I seem to remember it being around 2004 or 2005. I remember, at the time, since there was a two or three day period where NONE of the posts we were making during that time would show up on the new boards, that they suspended all Pit rules for those three days. Anyone else remember that one? It was like a free-for-all in the Pit during that time. You could break any rule you wanted, make any post or topic you wanted, you could do anything in the Pit during those three days. Also it was before the “No saying “fuck you” or any variant” rules, so those things were still allowed naturally, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content/726796/28 "2015-08-04T02:50:15Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > There was another, much shorter, time period that the boards reset on themselves too. It was after I was a member…so I seem to remember it being around 2004 or 2005. > I remember, at the time, since there was a two or three day period where NONE of the posts we were making during that time would show up on the new boards, that they suspended all Pit rules for those three days. > > Anyone else remember that one? It was like a free-for-all in the Pit during that time. You could break any rule you wanted, make any post or topic you wanted, you could do anything in the Pit during those three days. Also it was before the “No saying “fuck you” or any variant” rules, so those things were still allowed naturally, anyway. “Amnesia Weekend” during the [Great Server Migration](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=481092&) of Labor Day Weekend, 2008. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content/726796/29 "2015-08-04T02:52:52Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > “Amnesia Weekend” during the [Great Server Migration](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=481092&) of Labor Day Weekend, 2008. Thank you. You’re so good at that stuff. So informative and smart and you have a good memory. I can see why they made you a mod. I think I’ll keep you on. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content/726796/30 "2015-08-04T02:55:00Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > So informative and smart and you have a good memory. Actually, I have age-related memory loss known as CRAFT Syndrome. Can’t Remember A Fucking Thing ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content/726796/31 "2015-08-04T03:57:06Z")
The temp board was the board we got Smashie. I remember that. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content/726796/32 "2015-08-05T04:29:04Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > I was thinking in particular of a thread I’m certain I started about the song “The Night Chicago Died”. I’d asked about the song’s strange take on history and we had fun excoriating the song’s inaccuracies. I remember one comment that the “east side of Chicago” would be somewhere in Lake Michigan. I remember that thread, because I remember thinking when I read that post that that line had always bothered me for exactly that reason. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content/726796.md?page=1)