The "Zone" has come a long way !
http://web.archive.org/web/19970710133547/www.synthzone.com/msg/szboard.html


SeeYa,
Larry

It was a different crowd back then.
Don't recognize to many people.

Eric

I joined shortly after it started, but don't recall the date. About the only ones around way back then there are still here now are Bob Gelman and Uncle Dave.
DonM

And I was there back then .... and in 1994 .... but that is to be expected I guess.

Nigel,
Is that when the Zone started? 1994? That means a salute to you sir on your 10th Anniversary!
Larry

Yes Larry !!!!! It was 1994 when I was pissed that there was no central portal that gave me links to all the synthesizer related websites. I collected the ones I could find into my own bookmark and then put that online as my homepage and called it Synth Zone. Even today I occasionally come across links to www.rain.org/~nigelsp which of course haven't worked since 1996 when I bought the domain synthzone.com

When I first put Synth Zone online people started coming here and it continued to grow. In 1997 I decided to start up that old BBS so people could talk together. Unfortunately because there were no security controls that BBS ended up getting spammed to death so in 1998 I bought the current UBBS system that provided the password system that allowed me control over troublesome users. I know the UBBS software is very simple and lacks some of the bell and whistles of newer systems but I really don't want to lose the past messages in the BBS and I am reluctant to start again from the ground up.

Thanks Larry for the 10 year birthday wishes. A decade seemed like a long time to me once but somehow it quickly passed me by. It's just great we are all here in 2004 !!!!


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Nigel,

You have made all the right moves.

Happy 10th !

Larry

As one resepected senior forum member poste on a similar topic:

Uncle Dave
Member posted 09-03-2004 02:54 PM
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Hey Nigel .... make up the 10th anniversary Tee Shirts and I'll buy one !!!!
(I'll bet EVRYone will !! )

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GOOD THINKING DAVE !

I bet it would be a big seller.

Wow, the WWW was around in '94? I had no idea, I knew there were BBS's you could dial into and AOL had some stuff but not the WWW. No doubt it was probably more expensive back then since there weren't as many local providers as there are now.

The World Wide Web started in 93 I think it was. I remember the first web browser I used was Lynx on a remote server which was a text browser only. Netscape was launched in 94 and was derived from the Mosaic browser. This of course before Microsoft Internet Explorer even existed.