Programming Forum Warning

[Joe Johnson]

Originally Posted by Beth Sweet

...since.... ummm, when were these forums started?...

Yet another use for the waybackmachine !!!

If you search the waybackmachine for chiefdelphi.com you will find an old copy of Chiefdelphi.com from 1998. Even at that early date, the ChiefDelphi.com website already featured "Our famous discussion forums"

To find the REAL roots of the ChiefDelphi.com fora, you have to use the waybackmachine to find pchs-delphi.com, our old name (dorky as it was but what it seemed like a good idea at the time). If you do, you will find an old copy of pchs-delphi.com from June, 1997 that has a reference to the discussion forum.

Bottom line, from its earliest days, Team 47 has had the vision of using the web to be more than a "look at me and my team" type tool but a resource for team to team and person to person communciation. Remember that at this time in FIRST, they sent out updates via FAX machine that literally took multiple days to get out to every team on their list (really, no kidding).

I say it often and I know I run the risk of sounding braggadocious, but the ChiefDelphi.com site did not arrise spontaneously as a sort of cosmic www_accident_com.

It is what it is today because Team 47 had a vision and decided to build that vision brick by brick.

Many folks have worked hard to build this place on the web. Brandon certainly is high among those who have worked the hardest, but others, many not even associated with Team 47, have made signifcant contributions as well.

So, I lift my glass to ChiefDelphi.com, to Brandon, yes, but also to all those (perhaps even, you, fair reader) who made it great and continue to keep it great.

May it remain great for years to come.

Joe J.