voyager's cosmic bbarr

[Voyager]

What have I done.

Honestly, I'm amazed; I wasn't expecting it to go on long when I recreated the thread for April Fool's Day; to be honest, I kinda forgot about it until it came back.

The original was the first thread I think on the entire forum? Almost 15 years ago though hard to remember.

[hotdogPi]

Topic 3 is the earliest I'm able to view, and it's January 15, 2009. I'm unable to view 1 or 2; I don't know if they're admin-only or just non-existent. 0 redirects to the home page.

I can't view 4. As the first reply to 3 and the OP of 5 are both January 17, and I can't imagine a 2-day delay between the first post ever and the second post ever, the bbarr was probably in there.

[Voyager]

Topic 3 is the earliest I'm able to view, and it's January 15, 2009. I'm unable to view 1 or 2; I don't know if they're admin-only or just non-existent. 0 redirects to the home page.

I can't view 4. As the first reply to 3 and the OP of 5 are both January 17, and I can't imagine a 2-day delay between the first post ever and the second post ever, the bbarr was probably in there.

I think you're right. There was a testing board that contained 1, the bbarr might have been 2 or 4. I actually originally created it as a homage to an old Flickr thread I used to be a part of in a group called DeleteMe! (a photo game), someone had named a thread "<b>bbikkerr's bbarr</b> (to make fun of the bbcode) and it was extremely popular there, so I thought "why not make one here, but I'll call it voyagers cosmic bbarr since my name refers to the show Star Trek: Voyager". It was popular for a while, started some controversy, the rest is boring history.

So now everyone knows why there was a weird thread called voyager's cosmic bbarr. Yay.

[Alex]

Topic 3 is the earliest I'm able to view, and it's January 15, 2009. I'm unable to view 1 or 2; I don't know if they're admin-only or just non-existent. 0 redirects to the home page.

I can't view 4. As the first reply to 3 and the OP of 5 are both January 17, and I can't imagine a 2-day delay between the first post ever and the second post ever, the bbarr was probably in there.

I think you're right. There was a testing board that contained 1, the bbarr might have been 2 or 4. I actually originally created it as a homage to an old Flickr thread I used to be a part of in a group called DeleteMe! (a photo game), someone had named a thread "<b>bbikkerr's bbarr</b> (to make fun of the bbcode) and it was extremely popular there, so I thought "why not make one here, but I'll call it voyagers cosmic bbarr since my name refers to the show Star Trek: Voyager". It was popular for a while, started some controversy, the rest is boring history.

So now everyone knows why there was a weird thread called voyager's cosmic bbarr. Yay.

Topics 1 and 2 were likely deleted by Jake when he went on a spree of deleting everything he deemed unworthy or superfluous. Topic 3 and Message 4 from the US 101 - Widening - Novato to Santa Rosa thread is the first entry in the messages table of the database.

There is no topic 4, topic 5 is "T-rex project" for Denver, topic 6 is "Favorite Interstate"
topic 7 is "Portland" from rawr_apples, a long gone member who I totally forgot about until just now.

The first post not in any of the aforementioned topics is message 33, Hampton Roads Article Corrections by DTP

[Voyager]

Topic 3 is the earliest I'm able to view, and it's January 15, 2009. I'm unable to view 1 or 2; I don't know if they're admin-only or just non-existent. 0 redirects to the home page.

I can't view 4. As the first reply to 3 and the OP of 5 are both January 17, and I can't imagine a 2-day delay between the first post ever and the second post ever, the bbarr was probably in there.

I think you're right. There was a testing board that contained 1, the bbarr might have been 2 or 4. I actually originally created it as a homage to an old Flickr thread I used to be a part of in a group called DeleteMe! (a photo game), someone had named a thread "<b>bbikkerr's bbarr</b> (to make fun of the bbcode) and it was extremely popular there, so I thought "why not make one here, but I'll call it voyagers cosmic bbarr since my name refers to the show Star Trek: Voyager". It was popular for a while, started some controversy, the rest is boring history.

So now everyone knows why there was a weird thread called voyager's cosmic bbarr. Yay.

Topics 1 and 2 were likely deleted by Jake when he went on a spree of deleting everything he deemed unworthy or superfluous. Topic 3 and Message 4 from the US 101 - Widening - Novato to Santa Rosa thread is the first entry in the messages table of the database.

There is no topic 4, topic 5 is "T-rex project" for Denver, topic 6 is "Favorite Interstate"
topic 7 is "Portland" from rawr_apples, a long gone member who I totally forgot about until just now.

The first post not in any of the aforementioned topics is message 33, Hampton Roads Article Corrections by DTP

I guess the bbarr was likely 2 then, I remember 1 being a feature test for the admin staff.

[vdeane]

I guess the bbarr was likely 2 then, I remember 1 being a feature test for the admin staff.

The Wayback Machine seems to say it was topic 212, although the title saying [found!] is odd.

[Voyager]

I guess the bbarr was likely 2 then, I remember 1 being a feature test for the admin staff.

The Wayback Machine seems to say it was topic 212, although the title saying [found!] is odd.

No, that's actually what it said (15 years ago I have no idea why...) but interesting that I made it so much later than I thought I had. There were a lot of forum game threads back then that no longer exist, so that's likely what came before the bbarr thread.