Set the wayback machine for 2002...

[Boyd]

http://web.archive.org/web/20020923...modules.php?op=modload&name=phpBB2&file=index

I recently learned about the "wayback machine" at archive.org. Their webcrawlers have been archiving everything on the internet since 1996. The earliest NJpinebarrens site I could find is the one above. Looks like there were 9 members and there were 4 posts online!

Quite an remarkable website - type any URL into the wayback machine box and it will show you a list of all the pages it's archived. I found an entire site I built in 1997, complete with all functioning links. Start here: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

 

[Teegate]

That is interesting but there is something odd with it. I was the second person to sign up on Ben's site and it shows I am the newest with as you said about 10 other members. Strange!

Guy

 

[Boyd]

I imagine that might be explained by the fact that a web crawler archives the sites, so it probably isn't a snapshot of a specific moment but a composite of visits made over a period of time. Regardless, it boggles my mind that a database of this depth exists at all... it's kinda scary in fact!

 

[Teegate]

Robert Blanda had a website back then that many of us were members of. I found his fishing site but have not yet been able to find his pine barren site. There were many interesting posts there if I can did them up.

Here is his fishing site.

http://web.archive.org/web/20020123020738/http://familyfishing.com/

Guy

 

[Teegate]

Here it is! This will bring back memories. And some of the posts tell locations of many of the secret places in the pines

http://web.archive.org/web/20010804060248/www.familyfishing.com/pbc/

Guy

 

[Teegate]

It looks like the forums are not there.

Guy

 

[Teegate]

Here they are!!! You all can be fascinated by JeffD's posts!!! He was a colorful charactor and you won't want to miss out on his ramblings

http://web.archive.org/web/20020821070837/www.familyfishing.com/pbc/toast/toast.asp

Looking it over, I see many of the posts don't work which is good in some ways. There were things posted there that should never see the light of day again.

Guy

 

[Boyd]

Thanks for posting that link, some fun reading there. Pretty cool to have a time machine at our disposal

 

[Ben Ruset]

Wow, that brings back memories.

Not a bad design either.