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The History of Forum-N; September 22, 2004 - Present
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[size=7]Forum_Nintendo History[/size]

**It is currently unfinished. If you remember something I don't feel free to PM it to one of the active admins.**

September 22, 2004 - Linkums founded "forum_NINTENDO" and invited his friends, MasterTyranitar, Krushrpants, and Grand Admiral Bob to come to it. The original URL was www.s6.invisionfree.com/forum_NINTENDO .

December 21, 2004 - Chat room added from spinchat.

September 22, 2005 - The first anniversary of the forum. There was a word search and an online scavenger hunt. Trivia in the chat room also made its debut here, though it was largely unattended and later discontinued.

November 1, 2005 - We got a new URL: www.forumnintendo.cjb.com .

February 15, 2006 - the thief proposed buying us a domain name in this thread. This is the OFFICIAL date the domain "Forum-N.com" was proposed. Don't let other rival forums *coughN-forums.comcough* say that we copied their domain. <_< Some other names which were proposed were 'nintendome.com', 'nintenbox.com', 'nintenx.com', and 'Forum-N.net'; (All of which were available back then.)

April 1, 2006 - April fools day. Linkums thought it would be a fun idea to close the forum for the day and have a board that said something to the effect of "Forum_Nintendo is closing, and we aren't going to reopen." After several members panicking and trying to find a new forum, the "April Fooled" rank was given to pretty much everyone, and returned the forum to how it was the following day. Here is the formal apology for the prank Really though, I can't see why we had to end it early. :rolleyes:

April 16, 2006 - The Group Avatars Contest began; a search for better group icons. We ended up choosing a matching set from Ron the Stormtrooper.

April 23, 2006 - the thief purchased our domain name http://forum-n.com . It used to be http://forumnintendo.cjb.com

August 21, 2006- The first SoTW [Sig of the Week] contest was made. It ran for 14 weeks, and has been discontinued recently because of lack of interest. We will most likely resume it once interest becomes apparent again.

Sepember 22, 2006 - The second Anniversary of the forum. We had a survival game where the members were split up into teams and competed. There were also other games like messing up the pictures of admins and a word search.

November 19, 2006 - Wii release date

April 1, 2007 - Ah, another April fools. This year we changed the forum to "Forum-S.com" where "We take sports seriously." Yep, we were a sports forum for the day and the banner and board names were switched accordingly. Of course we had to add "April Fools" and "prank" to the word filters to confuse things a bit more...[Thief's official thread] [The banner (stolen from Google search)]

April 9, 2007 - FN reached 100,000 posts! Post was made by _________ ? [Not sure at the moment.] Grand Admiral Bob guessed the closest in our 'Guess a date for 100k' contest with his guess of April 4, 2007.

April 16, 2007 - Linkums removes postcount and ranks, huge uproar ensues. A month later, we still have no way of grouping people...

May 31, 2007 - We've come up with a solution: Clans. Clans will group people, giving diversity to the color of names [and clan icons], and will make it easier to hold contests and tournaments :D

August 4, 2007 - Linkums, the head administrator, 'stepped down' from adminning to be 'just a regular member. He appointed Chuggaboo, Dude2000, and the thief to be admins to help compensate.

September 16, 2007 - The official Nintendo Nsider forums closed unexpectedly. Because of the message on their main page telling people to go find other, temporary sites to chat on, naturally people go to google and search "nintendo forum" - and what do you know... we are third down on the list. Needless to say, we have gotten well over 100 regularly active members in just a few weeks, and the forum has been more active than ever.

October 2007 - Ranks have been brought back, but postcount is hidden - not only to bring diversity back to the name colors, but also to keep spam minimal. [The whole clan thing kinda died, so its unsure what we are going to do with it.]

October 19, 2007 - The Original SSBB Update thread was deleted in the madness of the forums largest spambot (not real people) attack in its history. The thread had over 1,000 posts and was around for about 9 months prior to this date. You can view the new SSBB Update thread here.
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[Sorry crimson, I took over your post kinda... here... :lol: :rolleyes: ]

[size=5]The Old [other] Banners[/size]

The banners have changed a lot... pretty much whenever Ron, crimson, or milton felt like making a new one XD [The oldest ones are first]

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^ That was one of the first banners
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^ That one I dont remember... but we had it for some short time [Its animated... so if u want to see the animation, just refresh the page]
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^ The trivia banner, we still use on rare occasion
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^ I made that one :o
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^ Crimson made that one, and its my personal favorite XD
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Back in the day, we had some crappy affiliates [no offense to ANYONE]. Some of the icons included:

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^ DSZ wasnt too bad, until they remade the forum, then it went dead.
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Bastinian
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Hey, do you guys remember when we had those members who would post like twenty pictures in one post and flood the forums? That was over a year ago, around the time I joined. I was just wondering if anyone remembered.
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CrimsonEXE
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yeah its called forum spamming :P

i remember it
we have admin validation on now so its not likely to happen now
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Crash

you forgot the good old Forum-S april fools

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I actually was going to add that, but I don't remember when that happened... it was towards the end of the school year last year I believe. I remember cleaning it up w/ Slayer_07 and chuggaboo while I was in math class. That was our only real, organized, spam attack that wasn't just bots. Thankfully they weren't able to follow through with their threats of continued stuff during the summer. I'm so glad chuggs told me so I could turn off images...
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wow, i joined right after the april fools joke! to bad i missed it... :( XD
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many great things have occured. i missed a lot
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chuggaboo

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Apr 4 2007, 12:58 PM
I actually was going to add that, but I don't remember when that happened... it was towards the end of the school year last year I believe. I remember cleaning it up w/ Slayer_07 and chuggaboo while I was in math class. That was our only real, organized, spam attack that wasn't just bots. Thankfully they weren't able to follow through with their threats of continued stuff during the summer. I'm so glad chuggs told me so I could turn off images...

Yep. It was totally sick. I have no idea how somebody could be perverted enough to do such a thing. -_-'
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wow i only came here last year... i truly wish i was here from the beginning....(sigh)
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Apr 4 2007, 07:13 PM
Yep. It was totally sick. I have no idea how somebody could be perverted enough to do such a thing. -_-'

It's amazing what some people will do for attention. I remember being so scared that, since they came only a few days after I joined, people would think that I brought them here and the Administration would ban me. I'm glad I wasn't.
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oh i think i remember the scavenger hunt game! i dont think i participated b/c i was at your house playing the wii! =P
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Nice. Kida a repeat of the year on FN, but still very nice :)

[and more official because its in this board :P]


Should we include that the first week of Jan '07 was the height of the activity on here ever? We got like 5k posts that week O_o
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Crash

I wanted to see all this stuff. :'(

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i remember the first day of the new year i was actually there
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