100,000 posts

[hrtbps]

Congratulations in advance to whoever gets the 100,000th post.

Who's been here the longest?

Anyone remember the old Rovers website and forum from around the turn of the century? I'm trying to remember the old URL (before the club bought the featherstonerovers.net domain circa 2001) so I can look it up on the Internet Archive. 

[Fev1983]

4 hours ago, hrtbps said:

Congratulations in advance to whoever gets the 100,000th post.

Who's been here the longest?

Anyone remember the old Rovers website and forum from around the turn of the century? I'm trying to remember the old URL (before the club bought the featherstonerovers.net domain circa 2001) so I can look it up on the Internet Archive. 

Every time we get close to 100k posts some seem to just disappear and we go back to 95k.

[marklaspalmas]

I think Lorne started up wearefev long before TRL was around.

The old btinternet site had a forum IIRC. That was back in about 1998.

[Robin Evans]

Think i have registration no46 on TRL....

Made many post. Most of them utter drivel!

[Banjorovers]

Hi Roger Canning and Doug Wilford set up the first Rovers site back in the late 90s. If this helps the URL was:

www.btinternet.com/~rovers/fev.html

Maybe this can be dug up somehow to find out what the forum had in terms of posts!

[hrtbps]

3 minutes ago, Banjorovers said:

Hi Roger Canning and Doug Wilford set up the first Rovers site back in the late 90s. If this helps the URL was:

www.btinternet.com/~rovers/fev.html

Maybe this can be dug up somehow to find out what the forum had in terms of posts!

That's the one I remember!

Here's how the site looked back in 1998: https://web.archive.org/web/19981202143420/www.btinternet.com/~rovers/fev.html

Here's a more complete capture of the site, from 2000: https://web.archive.org/web/20000520012655/http://www.btinternet.com/~rovers/fev.html

No sign of the forum, but there are posts on the guestbook there up to 2000.

[Robin Evans]

Somethings never change!

Tommo in full flow i see.... caustic 2@!

[Blind side johnny]

And, of course, the counters on this forum were reset a couple of years ago when it underwent a radical restructuring.

[Fev1983]

I told you it wouldn’t happen, back to zero not the 95k I predicted, dewsbury held onto their 45k posts, let the conspiracy theories begin!!