PT Is there anywhere where I can read forum member's reactions to Episode I at release?

I imagine this would be hilarious, a lot of hate and denial going on with the occasional Crucifixion.

 

I don't see anything for Episode I, but Episode II is here:

http://boards.theforce.net/threads/official-ive-seen-the-movie-here-are-my-thoughts-thread.6818160/

 

The original forums that were in place in 1999 was different from the IGN boards that were in place by the time AOTC came out. I think some stuff was lost in the transition.

 

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Wow, thanks for the link to the AOTC pages! I didn't truly 'discover' Star Wars until 2007, so it's really cool to go back and read fan reactions.

This set of posts made me laugh:

"The CLONE WARS!

how cool would that be?"

"Star Wars: The Clone Wars? Very repetitive."

Heh. If only they knew. XD

edit: Could anyone link to a similar thread for ROTS? That would be amazing!

 

Not forum members (well, who knows? ), but immediate reactions from "special audiences", inculding Shaquille O'Neal (from about 5.25 min onwards):

Seems like an innocent time, 1999.

 

Much was lost in server crashes and server moves. You can google individual user names of that era (e.g. http://www1.theforce.net/forum/Archives/Archive-000003/HTML/19991108-8-004331.html) and track down isolated, unlinked pages. You can google theforce.net and add a bunch of -2014 -2013 -2012 back to 2000.

 

I'm not sure if regular users can view our Inactive Forums, but there is an old TPM board here. I think it pre-dated our use of the PT board for the combined PT discussion. There is also an old AOTC board in the same section.

 

Vintage September 6, 1999:
http://www1.theforce.net/forum/Forum7/HTML/002234.html

Depending on how archeological you are, you can use advanced search, plug all years back to 2000 into the DON'T, plug 'phantom menace tpm' into the ANY, and plug theforce.net into the domain. The story is frequently the same that no one page has working links to any one other page. Much was lost.

 

Yeah, I can see everything. Thank you for linking that part of the forum. I wasn't registered then and it's nice to read some of the comments from years ago.

 

Just a note that those older forums might be incomplete. I think we've done 2 or 3 moves since 2000. I know we moved from Snowboards to IGN prior to our move to Xenforo. When I joined in 2002 we were on IGN. I know if you go into very old archived threads there are missing posts - I saw that on YJCC when we were on the IGN boards.

 

That's the gist of it. I didn't start lurking on the boards regularly until the fall of 2000, but I garner a peak the previous year when "Vector Prime" came out and was seeing what all the hoopla was about with the book. The boards were very different back then. And yes, there was a lot of server problems in 2000 after the move to IGN. One of the more noteworthy ones in the day was the midnight bug. At midnight pacific standard time, the boards would crash for a few minutes and become inaccessible for ten to fifteen minutes. Back 2001-2004, I used to be up at around that time, checking posts and talking to certain people and it was a pain when that happened. It was worse in 2001 in that the crashes would happen during the day.

So it isn't surprising some things were lost.

 

Yeah, that midnight bug (when the boards did the date roll and other scheduled tasks like autolocking old threads) got me quite a few times. Being in the UK, I'd be trying to mod early from work and the admin section and mod controls would be sluggish at best and nonfunctional at worst til the jobs finished. That seemed to ease off after Zerosleep (IGN board programmer) and others did the code rewrite from .asp to .aspx. Of course that introduced its own bugs.

 

Good thread. It's a shame that some forum history was lost.

 

Ah, I remember that Snowboards. That's the one with the odd big bold text.

 

I never saw the boards on Snowboards so I couldn't say. I came in at IGN.

 

I don't know what's more surreal, seeing a piece of news media treats Episode 1 in an overwhelmingly positive light, or the nostalgia blast I got from seeing the Pepsi kid interview Sporty Spice.