hmmmm... was a damn long time ago now.. lucky I still remember it...
knew waddy ages before he started the site... but didn;t know it
- he used to be an op in a chan which i used to sit in and idle often...
hmm.. first time i came to the site was from a link from waddy's bot on IRC... was a HTML page with screenshots of XP and stuff as JJB said above.. and was a UBB board, damn cool too... had about 100 members back then...
Then suddenly outta the blue the site was closed... was for about a week... then got an e-mail in my inbox.. saying site had a complete redesign and stuff... visited the link.. and the site looked damn mint (back then of course)
Originally posted by SPeedY_B
Didn't the site actually use a Windows XP Luna style theme at first ?
(i may be thinking of elsewhere..)
Yeah thats right
- was the good old luna style we had back then, using phpnuke.
Believe waddy realised the site was growing day by day... plugged in phpnuke with XMB forums... he lost the old forums and all the info on it... think thats how i partly bagged the status i got today... spent a few good hours copying and pasting XP info and stuff like programs compatable with XP from my history of the old forums into the new XMB ones... took ages
Then i followed that with mass submitting news... about 10-20 news submittions /day
- was fun... had loadsa time
Then got PM on site from waddy... asking me if i wanted to join the team... made my day
- Weshy was another cool guy who was around at the time, were recruited onto the team at the same time... first mods of the site
Then I beleive EP was recruited onto the team... then JJB, lightwave, andyp... the good ol' schoolers
Gradually managed to start kicking some butt back then... by the launch of XP we had quite a lot of members...
Then disaster struck... our XMB forums started having problems... things started to get really slow... as me + waddy were doing some coddy crappy with a site i was gonna start up (never did) we went over and gave XMB some grief... after realising it wasn;t going anywhere... installed vBulletin 2.2.2
Since then we got a few thousand new members.. things were going real smooth... started recruiting more staff... then gradually got through some nice skins and things... my side project...
www.XP-themes.org - never hit it off... as i started school and didn;t get much time on it :/
Then... disaster stuck again... servers started becomming slow... Waddy wasn't around to sort things out, was busy with real life problems and things... server loads were spiking like hell... eventually our hosts, UKshells decided to close us down, as they couldn't handle the site anymore. The site team were devastated, so were many of the members, who XP-erience.org had been part of their life for the best part of a year.
After many calls to our hosts, UKshells, over a week of outage, we finally managed to get the site back.
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MdSalih
P.S. I'll give yah part two once I dont need to iron school clothes