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Tanglewood

Tanglewood

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I sorry if this was already posted and I know Mitthrawnuruodo will have several links to different threads in like 2 minutes flat but oh well...

Has anyone ever been to archive.org?

They have this 'Waybackmachine' search engine where you can look for what sites looked like back in the day.

Heres a screenshot of macrumors.com from Oct, 13 2000.








If you want to look see macrumors as it slowly evolved into what it is today check here.


Also don't forget to check out apple's site they have pages up that date back to 1996.
 
You can also check out the forums as they used to look on that site.

I kinda liked the old school purple-y look it used to have.

Ah the good old days. :p
 
Abstract said:
Here's something that'll make some of us feel old (here): Who remembers that message board with the purple?
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*Raises hand*

I remember those icons across the top of the front page too :)
 
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We would all want to win one of those :cool:
 
OutThere said:
You can also check out the forums as they used to look on that site.

I kinda liked the old school purple-y look it used to have.

Ah the good old days. :p
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Wow... look at all of the most recent posts... King Cobra, Jelloshotsrule, Beej, Durandal7, Dukestreet (read: Mr. A). A lot of those members don't even post anymore, but they were everywhere back in the day.

I believe I first found this site in December 2002, when TechTV mentioned an Apple rumor and quoted it as being from macrumors.com. So I still remember the purple forums :eek:
 
I forgot about the 'Archive'. I'm having all sorts of fun looking back at Apple's websites, which suprisingly enough are still intact except for videos. I love reading the advertising, really 'tongue-in-cheek'. When I was browsing the site I saw an ad for "Star Wars: Episode 1", that felt like yesterday!! It was 8 years ago:eek:

It's also funny to read the computer specs. Also frightening to know that in eight years it'll be 'Merom-who? Conroe-what?Woodcrest-where?' hahaha scary!
 
The "check out MR on archive.org!" thread pops up here every once in a while. I started lurking around here in July 2001, so I remember the old format (main and forum pages) even though I didn't start posting until years later. Even back then, MR was a terrific source for the "news and rumors I care about."
 
Capt Underpants said:
Wow... look at all of the most recent posts... King Cobra, Jelloshotsrule, Beej, Durandal7, Dukestreet (read: Mr. A). A lot of those members don't even post anymore, but they were everywhere back in the day.
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Yeah seeing that definitely brought back a lot of memories. I used to be called hitman back then and it was a lot smaller of a community. I don't even think more than 5 people had avatars haha.

Do any of the aforementioned posters still regularly post?
 
Ah the days of the purple forums, and the cool frontpage. I do miss them. If you look on the Purple Forum page you can see I just posted in the Hardware rumors on Sept 22 2002!
Ah to think I had been a member of the forums for a year and half by then. That was a long time ago.

Its also funny to see who was active, a lot fewer people used the forums then!
 
Capt Underpants said:
Wow... look at all of the most recent posts... King Cobra, Jelloshotsrule, Beej, Durandal7, Dukestreet (read: Mr. A). A lot of those members don't even post anymore, but they were everywhere back in the day.
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Heh, I can remember each and every one of the posters from that time, about a couple months after I joined including the ones you didn't menion. :eek: The forums used to have an OS X theme along with the purple one for awhile until they were upgraded.

job said:
Do any of the aforementioned posters still regularly post?
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Only j-lo and Mr. A, everyone else has pretty much left. Both spend a bit more time in the Private forums than around mere mortals. ;)

krossfyter shows up every now and again, mostly in the design and graphics forum.
 
I guess this is just me being out of the loop, but whatever happened to Eyelikeart, Backtothemac, medea, and RowerCPU?

Are they still randomly popping up in the forums from time to time?
 
medea and rower still make appearances. even backdawg does occasionally. eyelikeart has been gone for a while, and i believe he had some issues with katrina last year (though i can't imagine that's what's keeping him away now)
 
job said:
I guess this is just me being out of the loop, but whatever happened to Eyelikeart, Backtothemac, medea, and RowerCPU?

Are they still randomly popping up in the forums from time to time?
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backtothemac and Rower_CPU are still around...don't post a lot (which means they're averaging only a post or two a day), but they're here. (Rower_CPU still does some mod duties when he's around.) eyelikeart pops in once in a while, but hasn't posted in a long time. medea recently returned after a long hiatus and has been fairly active.
 
WildCowboy said:
backtothemac and Rower_CPU are still around...don't post a lot (which means they're averaging only a post or two a day), but they're here. (Rower_CPU still does some mod duties when he's around.) eyelikeart pops in once in a while, but hasn't posted in a long time. medea recently returned after a long hiatus and has been fairly active.
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I believe there were a few mods and friends who made contact with eyelikeart during and just after Katrina hit to see that he was okay. He's still on the docket as a mod.
 

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