Old RR.net forums...

[emfinite]

Hi guys...

I know everyone was pretty pissed off when all of the old posts dissappeared, but I remembered a handy site my friend sent to me a while ago... The Way Back Machine! Check out this link: http://web.archive.org/web/*/railroad.net You can go back to a number of different dates and view the posts that were made on or before that date. It really comes in handy when looking for some old info posted wayyy back... Enjoy.

Joe

[Pensyfan19]

So I'm guessing based on the way back machine, the first post on any railroad.net website was around December 1996?

[scopelliti]

There was another Long Island Rail Road forum hosted on thermomods.com, but that one blocked spiders from crawling the website. That kept the wayback machine from indexing the site. So when the system crashed al the discussions were lost. Bummer...

[nyandw]

True, sad...

[MACTRAXX]

There was another Long Island Rail Road forum hosted on thermomods.com, but that one blocked spiders from crawling the website. That kept the wayback machine from indexing the site. So when the system crashed al the discussions were lost. Bummer...

PS: I was a member of the LIRR Thermomods web page back in
the mid-late 2000s. That site was initiated as an alternative to what some
members thought of over-moderation here at Railroad.net. What actually
happened is that some discussions became rather heated along with the
so-called "flame wars" that turned out to be rough enough for the owner
to shut down the site permanently. What was unfortunate was that all of
the posts and other information contributed to that site would all be lost.

The earlier incarnation of Railroad.net was hacked at some point in 2003
to 2004 causing that site to crash with much of that earlier information
being lost. I was not a member back then - I joined this site on 2/7/2005
and recall being informed of the cause of the problem back then. At least
some of that earlier information was able to be recovered as to not be a
total loss. This should describe the differences in how both sites were lost.
MACTRAXX

[mkm4]

So I'm guessing based on the way back machine, the first post on any railroad.net website was around December 1996?

That's when the Web Archive began.