The Phorum, Part 7: Stolen!

When we’d left off last time, I had set up a landing page for the Phorum, an online messageboard I had taken offline. I happily paid the $10 or so a year for the domain registration, and the hosting was free.

The Phorum, Part 6: Not With a Bang, but a Whimper

I’ve been telling the story of the Phorum, an online messageboard. At the end of our last installation, I had (at the request of the previous owner) taken over ownership and full control of the Phorum.

The Phorum, Part 5: New Ownership

You’ve been following me on the saga of the online message board known as the Phorum. Though it started with humble beginnings, it grew into a stand-alone website owned by my brother’s friend Josh.

The Phorum, Part 4: April Fools’ Day

As moderator, administrator, and chief maintainer of the message board known as the Phorum, I always played some sort of prank on April Fools’ Day. At first it was usually pretty low-key. But with the switch to the new SMF software, I had complete control over the entire system. The pranks began escalating.

The Road to a Marriage, Part 2

Earlier, I told part of the story of the events that led up to my proposal to my wife. Since we’re nearing the anniversary of that proposal, I thought now would be a good time to continue that story!

The Phorum, Part 3: Hacked!

As you should recall from the last part, in 2003 my brother’s friend Josh purchased a domain name and a license for Invision Power Boards, some commercial forum software. He and I shared admin duties and ruled benevolently over a kingdom of between 20 to 40 active users.

The Phorum, Side Story: Inside Jokes

I’ve been posting some tales about the online message board I helped run called the Phorum. This is more of a side story in the whole Phorum saga. Any community of friends that lasts for so many years will develop its own inside jokes and references.

The Phorum, Part 2: Invision Power Boards

Previously, I recounted the tale of how The Phorum began. Now I will tell how it was liberated from its shackles and set free into the world.

The Phorum, Part 1: The Origin Story

When I was in high school, my brother and some of his friends decided to start a website for reviewing music and movies from a Christian perspective. This website was called (for reasons I was never quite clear on) The Rebel Base.

2020

So, that’s it for 2020. What a year.