History of Ajb007

James Suzuki

Hey, i was wondering about this forum. When it was created, if there are any members who were there from the real start. And if someone can file through the archives and find the first few posts and stuff like that, i was just interesed I've been here for quite awhile now, and theres type of stuff interest me.

Moonraker 5

On 7th March 2002, the great God SiCo proclaimed "Let there be AJB007.co.uk!!" and there was!

It's been around for nigh on 10 years now. There's still a few of us kicking around that have been here from the very start or, in the case of myself, not long after. As for going back in time to find the first posts, pass, I'm not technically minded like that, but there's probably some sort of way to do it.

TonyDP

One website you can use to see what old versions of websites looked like is The Internet Archive Wayback Machine, located here...

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

...just plug in the website, click the "Take Me Back" button, select your year and look for dates that have snapshots of the website.

James Suzuki

thanks

Mr Martini

Moonraker 5 wrote:

On 7th March 2002, the great God SiCo proclaimed "Let there be AJB007.co.uk!!" and there was!

It's been around for nigh on 10 years now. There's still a few of us kicking around that have been here from the very start or, in the case of myself, not long after. As for going back in time to find the first posts, pass, I'm not technically minded like that, but there's probably some sort of way to do it.

Wow!!! I just realized I started posting here just about two years after the birth of AJB. Time sure does fly when your having fun. I don't know what I'd do with out AJB. Great conversation with great people. Thanks SiCo for making AJB the best James Bond fan site on the internet. And thanks to all the members here who help make this the best Bond site on the internet.

SiCo

It was the night before my exams, and all was quiet, nothing moved not even a mouse. I had a vision of a man in a Tux with a bottle of champagne holding a gun. I thought to myself this is odd, I know I'll build a James Bond website... :007)

Ok it's not that interesting! The site started in 1998 while I was revising for my GCSE's I think it must of been. It launched the night before my Geography exam I believe. It started as a general James Bond history website with Midi Music playing in the background (it was a whole lot of class!). It moved from free web host to free web host and gradually got bigger and more detailed. Then came the news and a forum hosted via a free service (unfortunately all these posts are no more).

As I grew I became more tech savvy and developed a forum for the site, this was probably launched in 2002 as M5 says. During the heyday I was spending more time gathering news and sifting through gossip than I did living! Then dark clouds formed above us and we went through some dark days! The site relaunched shedding most of the information and all of the graphics leaving the forum at the centre of attention.

A couple of years ago the forum was technically in need of some love so I moved it over to a new platform and in turn, unfortunately lost even more of the information (from the web at least, it's sitting waiting to be dusted off) as I didn't have the time to sort it all out.

However the site is still here and will still remain through 2012 and beyond hopefully! Thanks to you the members (group hug!).

James Suzuki

yeah when i went on that site that TonyDP told me about i saw an old format. and
thankyou for making this great site

Predator

I migrated across to AJB from Si's original ez message boards ... I seem to recall this was in around 2000 or so. Or perhaps earlier because I seem to remember discussing TWINE when it was released. Si gave it a huge amount of spit and polish around the time of DAD (shame the same couldn't have been said for that film).

There have been ups and downs, but we're still here!

James Suzuki

best bond forum, i can say that

SiCo

Predator wrote:

original ez message boards

That was it, that brings back memories, Ezboard. I am pretty sure it's all gone now. They seem to be called Yuku now. It had banner ads and everything. I wish I could of kept everything in an archive now.

DEFIANT 74205

Wow, 10 years. I thought I had been posting here a while ...

In the time I've been here, I don't believe the overall look of AJB has changed - not that that's a bad thing, mind you.

BestBondSean

Good thread to come back to AJB, and congratulate everyone involved to the best Bond Forum on the net.
Cheers

ke02eww

Wow nostalgic....

Using the excellent Wayback link - thx tonydp - these are a couple of screenshots of the site.

2000 version...



2001 version



And 2002 version..

SiCo

Thanks for posting the screenshots, it's good to see a little bit of the past!

thesecretagent

It really is a great site. -{

The mods are pretty good really as well - topics can go far enough before being reined back in so things aren't over sensored.

Anyway happy new year to all on here!

Bond_James_Bond

I cannot believe I have been a member here for almost 10 years. How time flies!!

I haven't posted that many posts considering - some people have only been on here a year and posted more.

Silhouette Man

This is a very interesting thread on the history of AJB and should be celebrated as such.

Asp9mm

High point - 5th Nov 2004

Low point - 17th May 2005

Silhouette Man

Asp9mm wrote:

High point - 5th Nov 2004

Low point - 17th May 2005

Agreed.

Asp9mm

Damn. He said we'd see eye to eye )