HAHA! Vb.org from year 2000 to now!
 

Hey,

Click here to see how different vBulletin.org was in the year 2000! Personally, i like the most popular hacks, number 2. I never knew they didnt even have PM system back then! :O

I think Nov 28, 2001 site design could look better then the current one if they replaced a few ugly images..

Sept 23, 2002 They did some keystroke program thing.. looked cool so i went to the current version but it is closed :(

August 15, 2004 is when they finally got a good style, which personally i think is better then the one they use now!

And there are a few more cool things in there, i love the wayback machine, take a look at how fugly google's old logo was!

Thanks, Jay!

I've never actually seen vB1 before, how come it's no longer available?

[high]* Shazz gusses insecure[/high]

Haha, that kind of inefficiency would kill any site with more than ten concurrent users these days...

lol wow someone just discovered archive.org

Third thread already on this this year:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ht=archive.org
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ht=archive.org

archive.org is a great site :)

And for good reason :P Who gona make fourth? :)

I accually did some googling to try find the earliest version of vBulletin i could find, i got vB 2.0.0 beta or something, then my hard drive cracked and i dont have it anymore, but you can find it on google :) Theres no way i would run it live however.

Winamp's Forum still uses 2.x last time I checked :p.

Nah, they most likely use the latest version but just patch and when you patch it doesnt update version number in footer and other places.

No, I'm pretty sure it's 2.x. And it looks like it too...http://forums.winamp.com/admin/

Hmm, perhaps they just patched with security patches?

What is the this meta tag for.I found it on the website you posted:

<meta http-equiv="MSThemeCompatible" content="Yes">

Ill google it! 8)

Edit: It seems it was used when XP first came out, it would let people using IE6 in XP have the blue bars XP has now >> because by default it was the old crummy block style ones.

It's probably something which one of the Mircosoft products uses. They drop all sorts of crap into page sources. Could be Word, Publisher, FrontPage, Web Design Express or whatever.

You cannot patch a 2.x board with 3.x files.

You missed my post?

@ fleabag, i was talking about manual patching... They have a secure forum, or else it would be hacked!

And if you read the post, he says that queries have been cut in half. I'm kind of surprised Jelsoft hasn't blocked archive.org to erase past embarassments like that.

Its not an embarassment, its showing how we have moved on from the past and became better then before, unlike other paid bulletin boards who are just in it for the money, all they do is try and stop hackers and make it look good when its instability has the opertunity to crash a forum 8 times in the time span of one year!!! >=[

They block archive.org on their own site.

I will submit my site there :p

If they are cut in half, according to his statement, vBulletin will crash with 20 members online. Not to be a smartass or anything ;)