How about doing a gallery of b1 development with pics from day 1 to present . Alot of folks who have not been around too long maybe just think this place just magically appeared. To really appreciate this place you have to know from where it came. I know I have been around since the beginning days and who would have thought that it would develop into what it is today?

Hey James55,

That sounds like a pretty cool idea...

- But -

Who took snapshots of the site from its beginning stages? Who would have thought of doing something like this at that time?

-SlickVic78

It would definitely mean finding someone with backups.
I'm pretty sure this might be difficult at best.

intresting thought, James55 ;)

didn't google used to have some cached pics of the forum index?

I have found these 2 small pictures of BetaOne when it was on Vbulletin

And this

Google only catches the page as it was when last crawled. The wayback maching has more....

BetaNET Forums, August 2001 at dblclan
BetaNET portal, Jan 2002 snapshot

BetaONE.NET Portal, May 2002 Snapshot
BetaONE.NET Forum, IBF, October 2002

BetaONE.NET Forum, IBF, December 2002 (yet another layout)
BetaONE.NET Forum, IBF, June 2002

BetaONE.NET Portal, Feb 2003

Damn!!!

I had a full backup of the front page awhile ago untill my damn hard drive died. Yea that sucks but at least we got archive.org.

Nice and slow though. :(

Me on first to last row at the very bottom under Number of Active Users Today:

http://web.archive.org/web/20020612202737/...one.net/forums/

:) Damn I'm old.

Wow, I didn't know we once had our forums in vBulletin. :)

Like I said. This place has really evolved. Even those who've been there somtimes forget just how much. A big hand for all those involved in the evolution or should I say revolution. Lol!

Not me. I remember everything. :)

:rockon:

I LOVE BETAONE!!!! :cheers: