Wayback Machine

darenhatdarenhat The Old PuebloPosts: 2,029Quartermasters
in Off Topic Chat
Some of you may be familiar with this website. It's an online archive of sites on the World Wide Web. It's a great gallery of how websites have evolved.

Just for fun, I took a peek at what AJB looked like before I joined in 2004. Here are the links:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ajb007.co.uk

You'll find a couple of links in 2002 show the site down. Before that, AJB was quite different when it >gasp< actually showed Bond images!

For some of you, this might be quite a fun trip! Most likely some of the threads that are gone now, still remain in these archives.

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  • s96024s96024 Posts: 1,519MI6 Agent
    That is a really interesting website. Nice find. The quality of sites have improved so much over the last 10 years.
  • Mr MartiniMr Martini That nice house in the sky.Posts: 2,707MI6 Agent
    I've seen that website before but always forget about it. Thanks for the reminder darenhat!
    Some people would complain even if you hang them with a new rope
  • HardyboyHardyboy Posts: 5,906Chief of Staff
    Darenhat, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!! Egotist that I am, I looked through the forums and discovered that two often-requested posts I made in the early days of the Lit forum--"Live and Let Die: Fear of a Black Planet?" and "Moonraker--the novel that (pretty well) started it all"--which I feared were gone forever, and alive and well! Guess what I'm about to post in the Lit forum? Happy happy, joy joy!
    Vox clamantis in deserto
  • Sir Hillary BraySir Hillary Bray College of ArmsPosts: 2,174MI6 Agent
    Great job, darenhat! {[]
    Hilly...you old devil!
  • LoeffelholzLoeffelholz The United States, With LovePosts: 8,998Quartermasters
    edited November 2007
    Good Lord---I've only been here 2 1/2 years, and some of my stuff is there, too :o One of the threads, "New Bond Actor Idea," has me stating, for perhaps the first time, that I'd "certainly take Cavill over Craig!" :))

    I would encourage any newcomers to AJB (who might be curious about where we've been as a Bond site), to jump in and browse around. There is some fascinating---and relevant---stuff to be found, as the second 'Craig as Bond' film prepares to lens :007)
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    "Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
  • Mr MartiniMr Martini That nice house in the sky.Posts: 2,707MI6 Agent
    I stumbled upon "The Mole" game he had some time back. Talk about memories.
    Some people would complain even if you hang them with a new rope
  • darenhatdarenhat The Old PuebloPosts: 2,029Quartermasters
    Sir Hillary Bray wrote:
    Great job, darenhat! {[]

    Just call me Mr. Peabody ;)

    I thought it was pretty interesting to revisit some old threads as well as see the site evolve.

    It's silly. Some of the threads are probably still around, just buried under pages and pages of newer topics. But it's interesting to see waht the 'buzz' was on the front pages at various times.
  • i expect u2 diei expect u2 die LondonPosts: 583MI6 Agent
    edited September 2008
    Just discovered this - an immensely strong source of nostalgia! I'm setting the date to October 2005 - right back into AJB's 'Craig Wars' :v
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  • LexiLexi LondonPosts: 3,000MI6 Agent
    it's weird, as in the last couple of days I've found myself reading the very old "off topic" threads....and then this pops up.

    It's all very interesting stuff...and definitely a real window to the past.

    I've been in stiches, as well as outraged by some of the posts...and I also have uncovered a post by Hardyboy that I think he might want to forget :v :)) :))
    She's worth whatever chaos she brings to the table and you know it. ~ Mark Anthony
  • Dan SameDan Same Victoria, AustraliaPosts: 6,054MI6 Agent
    Lexi wrote:
    and I also have uncovered a post by Hardyboy that I think he might want to forget :v :)) :))
    Which one? :o :))
    "He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back—that’s an earthquake. and then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you’re finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory." Death of a Salesman
  • HardyboyHardyboy Posts: 5,906Chief of Staff
    Dan Same wrote:
    Lexi wrote:
    and I also have uncovered a post by Hardyboy that I think he might want to forget :v :)) :))
    Which one? :o :))

    Indeed. Do tell. Was it my ultimatum to EON after the casting of Craig? (About which, I've said many a time, I was wrong.)
    Vox clamantis in deserto
  • LoeffelholzLoeffelholz The United States, With LovePosts: 8,998Quartermasters
    edited September 2008
    I was pretty much with you at the time, Hardy, in that I wanted Eon to prove they'd made the right decision, but I wasn't as worried as you were. Quite understandable, though---it was a bold bit of 'departure' casting.

    I'm glad the Wayback Machine was revived. Some of these old threads---especially late '05 to late '06---are classic Craig WarsTM battlefields...where ghosts still walk :o

    I just read a post from exiled soothsayer Ali Kerim Bey 46 (anybody remember him? One of the charter members of danielcraigspicturenexttoamonkey.com! :D ), predicting that Daniel Craig would not be the box office draw that Pierce Brosnan had been...
    Check out my Amazon author page! Mark Loeffelholz
    "I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
    "Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
  • bondaholic007bondaholic007 LondonPosts: 878MI6 Agent
    I have just been browsing over the archived sites of the last hour. I think it is amazing how sites change over time.

    I looked up Google on there, That is very nifty.

    I like AJB now rather than any of them
    I couldnt find anything on the EON stuff though :s
  • 84208420 Posts: 721MI6 Agent
    Wow it has changed allot but i like this one much better
  • LexiLexi LondonPosts: 3,000MI6 Agent
    Hardyboy wrote:
    Dan Same wrote:
    Lexi wrote:
    and I also have uncovered a post by Hardyboy that I think he might want to forget :v :)) :))
    Which one? :o :))

    Indeed. Do tell. Was it my ultimatum to EON after the casting of Craig? (About which, I've said many a time, I was wrong.)

    Oh no, it is much funnier than that. It might put into question your status around here....do you still want me to tell? :D
    She's worth whatever chaos she brings to the table and you know it. ~ Mark Anthony
  • HardyboyHardyboy Posts: 5,906Chief of Staff
    Loeffelholz wrote:
    I was pretty much with you at the time, Hardy, in that I wanted Eon to prove they'd made the right decision, but I wasn't as worried as you were. Quite understandable, though---it was a bold bit of 'departure' casting.

    Thanks, Loeff, it's good to have support. Gads, can you imagine if I was running for president?

    Cue ominous music. . .

    Booming voice: "Hardyboy says he's ready to be president, but he can't even make up his mind about Daniel Craig. Three years ago he was against Craig, now he's for him. Which is it, Hardy?"

    Second voice: "I'm Darenhat, and I approve this message."
    Vox clamantis in deserto
  • LoeffelholzLoeffelholz The United States, With LovePosts: 8,998Quartermasters
    Hardyboy wrote:
    Gads, can you imagine if I was running for president?

    Cue ominous music. . .

    Booming voice: "Hardyboy says he's ready to be president, but he can't even make up his mind about Daniel Craig. Three years ago he was against Craig, now he's for him. Which is it, Hardy?"

    Second voice: "I'm Darenhat, and I approve this message."

    Let's hope BonditicsTM never gets that ugly...but if it does, you can bet the Cinematic Bond Traditionalists will be behind it all... :v :D :))
    Check out my Amazon author page! Mark Loeffelholz
    "I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
    "Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
  • darenhatdarenhat The Old PuebloPosts: 2,029Quartermasters
    Hardyboy wrote:
    Loeffelholz wrote:
    I was pretty much with you at the time, Hardy, in that I wanted Eon to prove they'd made the right decision, but I wasn't as worried as you were. Quite understandable, though---it was a bold bit of 'departure' casting.

    Thanks, Loeff, it's good to have support. Gads, can you imagine if I was running for president?

    Cue ominous music. . .

    Booming voice: "Hardyboy says he's ready to be president, but he can't even make up his mind about Daniel Craig. Three years ago he was against Craig, now he's for him. Which is it, Hardy?"

    Second voice: "I'm Darenhat, and I approve this message."

    :)) :)) :))
  • MoniqueMonique USAPosts: 696MI6 Agent
    That was fun looking back on so many old threads. It's like looking at an old yearbook! :)) I had forgotten about some of those members that were constast fixtures at the time! Even mods..like Parli32..whatever happened to him? Isn't it funny to scroll down, read a post you didn't remember and see that YOU, yourself had written it! :))

    The font wasn't like that back then though. Something must have changed in the archives, because it used to be just like it is now!
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