1 Years Old

[Marked 197]

A while ago I installed a "Members Anniversary" modification on the forums, and had forgotten all about it. Today I got a PM, from myself, saying this:

Hello Marked, today is your 1 year anniversary with RMXP Unlimited. Happy Anniversary!

It has been one year since I created these forums, a forum that we actually owned ourselves. You will notice that my registration date is the 3rd of October 2006. I remember the day very clearly.

 

I found a link to 110mb.com on SCMike's invisionfree forum, and I was talking to him about it(Check your pms on the old forum SCMike :lol: ), and we were discussing if this was possible or not. I though i would try it out. At the time I had no experience with Invision Power Boards(Only invisionfree) or using FTP, or uploading files or anything. I had no experience. Also I had dial-up internet at the time, it was soooo slow. It literally took me three days to upload all the files. Three days! I stayed up until 3 in the morning each night trying to everything to work right. I had no idea what i was doing. I had no clue how i was going to CHMOD anything....

 

Eventually I figured it out. After three days I managed to finish uploading, and get the database info right, and tried it out... and it worked. I couldn't believe it. I was so excited because we finally had our own forum, and we could move form invisionfree. Thats how this forum came about. Its been through so much... you wouldnt believe what I've had to do with the database. But its still here, and its working. I then sent SCMike, Ravenclaw and Blazinks(The all mighty RPGXP Unlimited Team), and we started the new forum(Which was actually called RMXP Revolution but we changed back to Unlimited).

 

SCMike, you will receive the same PM tomorrow, or whenever its the 4th of October where you live.

 

From what we started out from(This: http://z3.invisionfree.com/RPGXP_Unlimited...ex.php?act=idx), I think that we have achieved a lot. From an invisionfree forum with a handfall of active members, that barely pulled through, we are still here, and now have paid hosting and even a domain name(thanks to Kevan). Despite things going slower than we really want, I am proud of what we have achieved. And even if the forums died tomorrow, I can say that we were successful. We made it. I achieved all of the goals that I aimed for with this forum. So I am happy with the way everything turned out. Now its up to everyone here now to make the forum more active.

[ryanrulz_11 0]

Happy Anniversary! ^.^

[EmilyAnnCoons 7]

yay! One year since we made this forum! Amazing isn't it? I didn't think it would be possible...figuring all the re-installs we've run over the year, it's kind of a surprise to think that we made it all the way through. I also can't believe I'm getting my webcomic going after so long either, but that's another story hehe.

[Marked 197]

Yeah, it is quite amazing... Did you notice all the member having the anniversaries? All the originals from the first forum. Lets see if we get around to our second anniversary.