ABO in the Internet Archive
Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2014 9:09 pm
For those that don't know what the Wayback Machine is, it's a site that takes screenshots of web pages, saves them, and archives them. It's like a digital internet museum.
Well, it turns out that AstroBoy Online and the ABO forums are on there, and there's quite a few screenshots that have been taken over time of the forum. You can't access the sub-forum for the most part, but you can see screenshots of the main page dating back to April 10, 2003, which just barely after the forum began!
It's quite interesting to see how the main page of the forum has changed over time. It was originally only the Astro Boy Discussion and the General Discussion, and the page looked a little different! Even I learned a few things from looking through this, like how the Fan Creations sub-forum and the Games & Role Play sub-forum started just barely before I registered and how the "f" in Astro Forever's name used to not be capitalized, amongst other things.
While not too much has changed since 2003, it is certainly interesting to see the changes that have taken place over time. So, if you'd like to, take a look through and see what the AstroBoy Online Forums looked like back in the day:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030601000000*/http://www.astroboy-online.com/forums/
Well, it turns out that AstroBoy Online and the ABO forums are on there, and there's quite a few screenshots that have been taken over time of the forum. You can't access the sub-forum for the most part, but you can see screenshots of the main page dating back to April 10, 2003, which just barely after the forum began!
It's quite interesting to see how the main page of the forum has changed over time. It was originally only the Astro Boy Discussion and the General Discussion, and the page looked a little different! Even I learned a few things from looking through this, like how the Fan Creations sub-forum and the Games & Role Play sub-forum started just barely before I registered and how the "f" in Astro Forever's name used to not be capitalized, amongst other things.
While not too much has changed since 2003, it is certainly interesting to see the changes that have taken place over time. So, if you'd like to, take a look through and see what the AstroBoy Online Forums looked like back in the day:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030601000000*/http://www.astroboy-online.com/forums/