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Originally Posted by Mithadan
"Fun?" Define, "fun." Of course, you were not an administrator during that period.
FYI, for those interested, I plan to follow up on my History post with at least one more.
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I have popcorn at the ready.
The ominous weight you put into that final line is just perfection.
I can push the date for the "earliest Downs" back a little further - the archived version of the News page contains clues to the site's original name, and the archived version of the
original site features a guestbook comment from the webmaster:
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Comment: Welcome to the Middle-Earth Resource.
We hope you spend a lot of time roaming around checking out everything. Please feel free to leave any words of wisdom here on the Guestbook. Remember, the forum is the best place to start a discussion or to get a question answered.
Date Signed: 07/24/1999 10:09:08 AM
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The other half of the design team responds on the same date, so I think the 24th July 1999 is the genuine launch date for the site.
(Avoiding links because there's real names associated with all this.)
hS