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Pretty sure I recall something about the old database getting lost or something along those lines about 4 years ago.

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Pretty sure I recall something about the old database getting lost or something along those lines about 4 years ago.

awww man :( Still, whats the way to search for my older post then? I found one via google, cause I remembered I searched for cameras back  then in 2005ish. which was around when I joined.

 

This is around 2005ish https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/270093-mirc-script-help/

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i can search from my join date on but the latest are found are always from 2010... hm :/

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What was your search method?

Bing and Google.  It's hit or miss mostly, but you get a few results.  Append "site:neowin.net" and specify a date range around when you joined, use whatever your username was at the time as the keyword.  *shrug* Far from ideal, but if the forum restricts the age you can search by, kind of out of options.

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Now I want to find my first post also! n My search says: Search limited from 16-September 13

:laugh:

 

Awww such noobieness!!! Thanks!

 

I tried with google as well and came up with the one I posted in 2005.

 

I think those are my initial posts as they are  all from 22 august 2004, 3 different topics to address one problem (thermal paste) :P :laugh:

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Ugh there was a trick to easily do this, can't you specify the search date from > to? Again this is an IPB thing so it doesn't search through 13 years of posts with every search request :P I think it initially goes back a year or two, but advanced search should allow you to search by member name, topic started and (any) date range, providing it isn't a span of years. 

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In Google:

<username> site:neowin.net daterange:<yyyymm>
Where <username> is your username when you joined, and <yyyymm> is the year and month you joined.

The earliest posts of mine that I've found so far is from March 2005, a discussion about a headless chicken living for 18 months, which I doubted, and a thread started by me asking some questions about switching to Linux. Wow, that only took me...9 years to get round to doing. :laugh:

Bing might offer different results, but I'm not that interested in learning too much. Everyone looks back at their younger self and thinks, "that was pretty foolish." I don't need the evidence to go with it. ;)

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In Google:

<username> site:neowin.net daterange:<yyyymm>
Where <username> is your username when you joined, and <yyyymm> is the month you joined.

 

I tried that -- Google begged for mercy :laugh:

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Here's your first post Draconian Guppy:

https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/207322-which-is-the-correct-sensor-on-mb5/

 

Edit: Here's Steve's first recorded post after the mess that happened to the site back in '01 - Not very exciting :P

https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/5-microsoft-ip-hoax-explained/

 

Just go to Advanced Search and change the date range to around your join date. Done!

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Edit: Here's Steve's first recorded post after the mess that happened to the site back in '01 - Not very exciting :p

https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/5-microsoft-ip-hoax-explained/

Aww, Steve's steps didn't work, I still can't view the picture. Something about Geocities shutting down in 2009? What tomfoolery is this? :p
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