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  • Nice now do PHP-Nuke!
    by rcstank
  • Any reason to use Debian Squeeze? Was it because it's the only with the packages you needed?
    by krystalgamer
  • Is there a good forum stack that is as moddable as phpbb was back in the day? Every Discourse instance I see seems _very_ similar so I've assumed there's not much of an interesting plugin ecosystem
    by rtpg
  • Just on the off-chance anyone should see this: if you were one of the brothers involved in running the Blinkys "R" Us forum back in the early 2000s - I still think of it regularly. I can't even remember what my username was these days, and Archive.org never archived it at the time, but I still remember it very fondly.
    by robotmay
  • I accidentally SQL injected phpBB without even trying. Registered user "*" (just the asterisk), searching posts for * resulted in a list of everyones post together. Fun times.
    by tosti
  • Wonder if anyone will make memory/injection-safe imitations of old software like this. I'd imagine it'd be pretty eye-catching if you did run a public discussion board with exactly the vibe, syntax, etc. of old phpBB.
    by LoganDark
  • > Let's say you want to go back to 2001 and experience the glorious days of the early forum-sphere.

    ‘Peak’ would have been Invision Power Board 1.3 IMO, but still cool archaeology project :)

    And lo:

    - https://github.com/ernestbuffington/IPB-1.3.1-LegacyArchive

    - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invision_Community#Version_1.x...

    by Lammy
  • For a real trip down memory lane, here's how "mods" were installed for phpBB: https://github.com/MapBBCode/mapbb-phpbb2/blob/master/1_0_to...

    You'd download a mod that contained installation instructions like the above, fire up your code editor of choice and then would manually change the source code of phpBB.

    Later on, automated mod installers started being somewhat reliable, but especially if you had multiple mods touching similar parts of the codebase you had to learn how to adjust the instructions.

    I don't really miss these times, but I did learn a lot about PHP through it.

    by bartman

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