Finding old topics and posts

i expect u2 die · March 2016

Hi all,

Bit of a strange one. I'm working on my first comedy/theatre show to take to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer. Naturally, it's very Bond-focussed. In one section, I want to read out some of my old posts from AJB, back from when I was around 11 years old. Hopefully they'll be nice and embarrassing.

When I click 'view all my posts' on my profile, they go all the way back to 2005, when i joined, but there are only 574 of them (I've posted around 3,000). Similarly, my 'topics' only go as far back as 80.

I wondered if it's possible to find all of my old topics and posts, or are they lost to the depths of time?

Many thanks!

Golrush007 · March 2016

Funny enough, I rewatched your very entertaining James Bond marathon video yesterday, and wondered if you are a still around on AJB, and now here you are!

Likewise, I can't find my earliest topics either. Just as well, I remember talking a lot of rubbish

Sir Miles · March 2016

I'm sure posts are only archived for a certain amount of time - no idea how long that is though ;%

Wasn't their some way of viewing the web from ages ago using some search engine ? way back when or something...? I'm sure other members used to post screen shots from years back this way ? Probably haven't explained myself very well ;%

Predator · March 2016

Wayback Machine: https://archive.org/web/

Not sure if it goes as granular as remembering forum posts. Pretty sure that Si used a proprietary forum back then - I seem to remember that not all data was migrated when we moved a forum of Si's design. Can't be sure though.

Golrush007 · March 2016

I've found Wayback Machine useful in terms of going back and browsing the forums from years past, but you can't view a user profile and check out the list of member posts, so it would take a lot of digging to find all your own posts.

Loeffelholz · March 2016

Golrush007 wrote:

Funny enough, I rewatched your very entertaining James Bond marathon video yesterday, and wondered if you are a still around on AJB, and now here you are!

Likewise, I can't find my earliest topics either. Just as well, I remember talking a lot of rubbish

Agreed, the marathon was brilliant! -{ And the difficulty factor only increases in the modern era

Silhouette Man · March 2016

Yes, the Wayback machine is a great resource to see how things were on AJB back in the day. I joined AJB in January 2003 as SILHOUETTE. This was changed to SILHOUETTE MAN (as I was called on CBn Forums since 2002) in 2012 and then changed to the lower case Silhouette Man on my return to the forum in June 2014. I believe that my first post/topic on AJB was on James Bond Radio Adaptations (MR and YOLT).

i expect u2 die · March 2016

Yep the Wayback Machine was my first port of call. Although the homepage is archived (very nostalgic - but it hasn't changed that much in 12 years!), topics themselves sadly aren't. Oh well!

Finding old topics and posts

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