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A dead programming forum with posts dating back to the early 90s
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Re: A dead programming forum with posts dating back to the early 90s
#12It seems like a news group dump. Compare http://computer-programming-forum.com/80-microsoft-visual-c-... https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/%22Don$27t$20want$2... Wayback Machine earliest snapshot is from 2012. It probably never was a proper forum.
That was my guess without even looking. Forum software did not exist in the early 90s.
Re: A dead programming forum with posts dating back to the early 90s
#13From the title I was guessing "Experts Exchange." Does anyone remember that?
Re: A dead programming forum with posts dating back to the early 90s
#14It seems like a news group dump. Compare http://computer-programming-forum.com/80-microsoft-visual-c-... https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/%22Don$27t$20want$2... Wayback Machine earliest snapshot is from 2012. It probably never was a proper forum.
Also the domain was registered in 2012. Probably a newsgroup dump in support of some spam or ad fraud scheme. https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=computer-programming-...
For fun, notice the Chinese IIS 404 page.
http://computer-programming-forum.com/foo
My guess is that someone just wants this to rank in search engines to any degree and then boost some SEO juice off it.
I tried using old Usenet archives for a content site before and couldn't overcome Google's dupe penalty despite my own value-adds.
Re: A dead programming forum with posts dating back to the early 90s
#15Ahh, some thing never change [1]. 1: https://i.imgur.com/Kc5xPLG.png
That seems to be a commom theme. Reading this, I feel guilty for not actually understanding how to compose a regular expression. I use a generator when one is necessary.
http://computer-programming-forum.com/39-ruby/b1f5cedd082572...
Re: A dead programming forum with posts dating back to the early 90s
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also the domain was registered in 2012. Probably a newsgroup dump in support of some spam or ad fraud scheme. https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=computer-programming-...
For fun, notice the Chinese IIS 404 page. http://computer-programming-forum.com/foo My guess is that someone just wants this to rank in search engines to any degree and then boost some SEO juice off it. I tried using old Usenet archives for a content site before and couldn't overcome Google's dupe penalty despite my own value-adds.
Also the "Powered by ybChaxun" link goes to a page that seems to be a listing of Chinese postal codes.
Re: A dead programming forum with posts dating back to the early 90s
#17From the title I was guessing "Experts Exchange." Does anyone remember that?
I remember Expert Sex Change. Strangely, it didn't have the expertise I expected.
Re: A dead programming forum with posts dating back to the early 90s
#18Each sub forum seems to have died suddenly at some date, different for each one. What's going on here? It's like the scene in a book where they're going through the remains of some dead civilization and saying "food still on the table, doors open... Whatever happened here, it happened suddenly."
I guess with this revealed as being fake, the solution is: each "subforum" is really the copy of a different newsgroup, and each copy was covering a different time range.
Re: A dead programming forum with posts dating back to the early 90s
#19It seems like a news group dump. Compare http://computer-programming-forum.com/80-microsoft-visual-c-... https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/%22Don$27t$20want$2... Wayback Machine earliest snapshot is from 2012. It probably never was a proper forum.
That was my guess without even looking. Forum software did not exist in the early 90s.
That's not true. It was just bespoke. The first general-purpose "forum" software was mid-90s per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum but initial one-off implementations grew out of the BBS scene that goes back to the 70s and 80s. They were pretty universally crappy, and just north of "guest book" comment lists, but they did exist.
That said, enough of the early stuff in here mentions newsgroup that it was at least seeded from Usenet. By 2000, though, Usenet was essentially dead for actual communication use so I'm guessing the later stuff in here was done within a forum.
Might not have been this forum, though. It's on phpBB, which only goes back to 2000, and more tellingly, the domain was registered in 2012.
Re: A dead programming forum with posts dating back to the early 90s
#20From the title I was guessing "Experts Exchange." Does anyone remember that?
That one has only faded into obscurity in the last 5 years or so. I remember specifically searching for programming related content on Google as late as 2012-2013 and getting Experts Exchange results. I search every single day now for programming related content though and haven't seen an Experts Exchange result in at least the last 3-4 years.