How old is Novaload?

[Novadex]

As the tittle? I Just wonderd when Novaload was created? just out of interest..

[Ste L]

8 or so years i think

[Mike]

a long long time ago, when street lamps were black and white! and random parts of the M6 were in colour :D

[Novadex]

lol i was just looking back as far as i could in general chat and some date back to 02-01-70 lol :s

[Mike]

lol i was just looking back as far as i could in general chat and some date back to 02-01-70 lol :s

told you so :D black and white ehh what ;)

[Ste L]

2000, might be before then, think it may of been

[Mike]

is that 2000BC lmfao!

ive known of this site since about the age of 13 lol i know that you Ste have been here since the dawn of time, or there abouts :D

[Ste L]

yea, been on here since i was 16/17 or so

25 next month so, quite a while lol

[Timmy]

ask admin the'll know i know date got messe up on the move to the site site.

[Mike]

yea, been on here since i was 16/17 or so

25 next month so, quite a while lol

hows it going Grandad :D lol lol lol lol

[dan16v]

it was around in before 2000, i first came on at college in early 1999! used to have a white gsi on the log in page!

[krobinson]

I've been viewing the site since 2000, back when novas were everywhere still, and rust wasnt as big of problem!

[Geth]

and rust wasnt as big of problem!

Sounds like a dream world to me

[carls nova sri]

time flys just think another 5 years or so they will be gettin extinct

[Lee]

I've been viewing the site since 2000, back when novas were everywhere still, and rust wasnt as big of problem!

Since when has rust ever been a problem for you? lol

[Dave.]

on ians join date it says 1969, dont know if thats real but if it is its bloomin old

them again, were novas invented in 69?.... ill just shut up now ...lol

[Jack]

Thats when Novas were proper cars

http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/jdavis/skedaddle/images/0417905-R1-039-18.jpg

hmm, Jamaican yellow too lol

I think the old dates are due to the previous forum database not being able to port dates across, or not being able to handle dates before a certain date.

A lot of dates that a computer doesn't know often defaults back to 01/01/70, its when Unix was "born".

[Ste L]

it was around in before 2000, i first came on at college in early 1999! used to have a white gsi on the log in page!


mikey owen's iirc?

[Stuart]

i found the site in march 1999, apparently it had been going a couple of months before that. It was a really poor forum at the time with the way you posted etc making it look like windows explorer lol.

the join dates got fecked up with various forum moves.

[wisewood]

That original forum was one that kev coded himself as a little "i wonder if i can make a forum" project. He then made a much better one (which people mentioned as having the white GSi on the welcome page).

Then we switched over to phpBB 2.0 for increased reliablity and speed - and shortly after that novaload.net stopped being hosted on a server under kevs desk in his bedroom, and got a proper hosting deal. The most recent change twelve months ago switched from phpBB 2.0 to vBulletin for greater stability and vast improvements in security.

Somewhere along the way swapping from one forum to another the "joined date" got lost for some of the old, really old, members and as such the system treats the empty date field as the unix epoch - which is defined as either 31st December 1969 23:59 or 1st January 1970 00:00 depending what system is processing it really.

So, the site was created in 1999. The members with a date joined showing prior to that are most likely to be the members who were around right at the start... and still use the same account.


56k... sorry.

http://www.wisew.co.uk/random/novaload1.jpg
http://www.wisew.co.uk/random/novaload1_1.jpg
http://www.wisew.co.uk/random/novaload1_2.jpg
http://www.wisew.co.uk/random/novaload2.jpg
http://www.wisew.co.uk/random/novaload3.jpg

[Novadex]

well thanx for that, it explains alot.

[Lee]

What does the latest forum look like then? lol

[novadiamond]

I started up and old computer of mine and the homepage was exactly like the fourth pic down

[wisewood]

What does the latest forum look like then? lol

its a secret.

[french riggy]

i was a member about six years ago when i just stated driving. just rejoined this week

[rc]

yea i started lookin on here in bout 2001ish when i left school! but only joined up once i actually got a nova! its ur lots fault why i endded up with so many lol

[french riggy]

i've never had a nova but i've grown up with them as rexy and riggy a obsessed i just humour them. i love the site though and novas are still fun. maybe one day they will pursuade me to get one. till then i'll just keep reading about them and messing about with their novas:)

[Rexy]

ha ha ha old skool, i've been a member since I was 17, anybody remember MIRC we used to have as the chat room.

[wisewood]

i remember that. we should bring it back.

[Stuart]

every time we try to bring back the fun and games of MIRC and sybering with Kev, it falls flat on its face as people a) cant cope with old skool software and b) its boring lol.

I remember when new people would come in, if they could take an evenings abuse they passed the test lol

[Rexy]

lol Oh the many many nights of MIRC abuse. "slaps Stuart across the face with a wet fish"

[Jon_nova1]

i only registered 4 years late lol, i remember the white and red skin

[Stuart]

/me slaps rexy with a brick

[Rexy]

thats the one, forgot the command... :D Clever stu clever clever stu

[mikey14sr]

The wise ones first pic is how I remember first seeing the site too, think back then it was mainly known as novatrader, or at least thats how I first came across it.

[Chris]

TriviaBOT that was great fun

[draper]

when i first found the site it was the last incarnation, personally when using the other forums i find vbulletin best/easiest to use altho thats prob cause im just so used to novaload lol