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Old 02-28-2002, 07:12 PM   #1 (permalink)
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History of techimo. Take a tour in the timemachine!!
1994 Scott founded sysopt.com
I wish I new the url those days, even webarchive starts from dec. 1998, so here goes:

Dec. 1998

System Optimization Discussion Forum Added 10/12/97!

SysOpt.com/ResellerRatings Acquired by EarthWeb! - 8/3/99

Takeover from Earthweb. SysOpt aquired by Internet.com

Moving to the new location - 2nd week of October 2001

www.techimo.com is born!!! - Oct 11th 2001

First Techimo Forum post (not sure?? - DM)

Welcome 2 , www.TechInMyOpinion.com the place to be!!!

Thanks to Scott Wainner. Mark Stubblefield, Joel Kleppinger, Robert Richmond, Mntsnow, Socalgal. Fingers, Daveleau and not to forget SurrealChereal!! (Hope I didn't forget someone )


PS this is a dedication to www.techimo.com, I don't want to see any bashing against the new www.sysopt.com in this thread, thank you.

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Old 02-28-2002, 08:27 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Hey, cool post, Dutch!
I wasn't here then, so this is interesting!
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Old 02-28-2002, 08:36 PM   #3 (permalink)
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That is really neat. Thank you for putting that together

That should be on the history channel or something
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Old 02-28-2002, 08:40 PM   #4 (permalink)
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That was pretty cool, I walked through the evolution of the whole site, wait, not pretty, very cool.
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Old 02-28-2002, 09:00 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Wow, that's pretty cool. I've never seen that old forum before! Did you guys check out the hardware specs from back then?

LOL Some things never change....

http://web.archive.org/web/199901280...ges/34448.html
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Old 02-28-2002, 09:21 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Actually the FIRST threads at Techimo were deleted prior to the site going "live" as Scott & Mark didnt want all the "junk" posts we did testing out the site and such.
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Old 02-28-2002, 09:34 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Junk?? What Junk??
Our posts may have been a lot of things... but junk? surely not
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Old 02-28-2002, 09:39 PM   #8 (permalink)
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http://web.archive.org/web/199902240...ges/34357.html

whoa! thanks for the links!

ah memories

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yea some of those things were LONG before my existence

I do remember a lot of it though
Definately a sad thing, BUT we've moved on to bigger and better things
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Old 02-28-2002, 10:40 PM   #10 (permalink)
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