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Tru2Chevy 08-10-2011 10:33 PM

Happy Birthday NJFBOA!
 
With all the server problems today I almost forgot.....NJFBOA.org went live 7 years ago today!

- Justin

qwikz28 08-10-2011 10:37 PM

Wish I knew, would have poured a little beer out for the site! :w00t:

coolmanvette75 08-10-2011 10:37 PM

Happy B-day!!!!

chrisfrom nj 08-10-2011 11:01 PM

happy birthday

BonzoHansen 08-10-2011 11:06 PM

W00t!

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maroman88 08-10-2011 11:34 PM

wow that long ago!

The Fixer 08-11-2011 06:14 AM

Holy crap, I can't believe I've been here that long!

88WS-6 08-11-2011 06:37 AM

Happy birthday

sweetbmxrider 08-11-2011 07:22 AM

:cheers:

baddest434 08-11-2011 07:32 AM

:cheers:

deadtrend1 08-11-2011 10:01 AM

7 years ... Damn

Artful Dodger 08-11-2011 12:26 PM

Happy Birthday

V 08-11-2011 12:26 PM

wow, i need a new hobby...

91chevywt 08-11-2011 02:09 PM

Since it's NJFBOA's Bday, any chance of telling the story of its conception? There's a lot of message boards out there, and it seems like NJFBOA is pretty large considering it's aimed at owners of F-body cars in NJ. There's members from all over, many aren't even F-body owners at the moment (including myself) yet the board is still frequently visited.

BigAls87Z28 08-11-2011 02:46 PM

Long story short:

There was one site prior, NJFbody.com, and it was run like crap. Tim and Justin started to set up this site, and there was a mass-migration to here. Owner of NJFbody handed the keys over to Tim and Justin, and the two sites were merged as one.

Tada

maroman88 08-11-2011 10:37 PM

haha i remember that old site

NJ Torque 08-11-2011 10:58 PM

Dont pour the beer onto the server...

V 08-12-2011 07:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28 (Post 780046)
Long story short:

There was one site prior, NJFbody.com, and it was run like crap. Tim and Justin started to set up this site, and there was a mass-migration to here. Owner of NJFbody handed the keys over to Tim and Justin, and the two sites were merged as one.

Tada



you left out the drunken basement nights that justin had prior to the site which took the other founders credit card and made the site. at least thats the version i THINK i remember...

greenformula92 08-12-2011 07:56 AM

better late then never :toast:

LTb1ow 08-12-2011 11:47 AM

Who is this Tim?

JW 08-12-2011 12:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LTs1ow (Post 780184)
Who is this Tim?

He might have been before your Rambling days I believe, man I remember that old site too... jeez that was a long time ago, it did suck!

JW :D

Anti_Rice_Guy 08-12-2011 01:17 PM

NJSpeeder was voted off the island

Savage_Messiah 08-13-2011 11:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by V (Post 780161)
you left out the drunken basement nights that justin had prior to the site which took the other founders credit card and made the site. at least thats the version i THINK i remember...

factual

Tru2Chevy 08-13-2011 10:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 91chevywt (Post 780038)
Since it's NJFBOA's Bday, any chance of telling the story of its conception? There's a lot of message boards out there, and it seems like NJFBOA is pretty large considering it's aimed at owners of F-body cars in NJ. There's members from all over, many aren't even F-body owners at the moment (including myself) yet the board is still frequently visited.

Sure, the basic idea was laid out already.

A couple hundred of us belonged to another site (njfbody.com). There were several things many of us didn't like about that way that site was run, and there were a few things that caused the last straw to break. One night late in July 2004, while tossing back several beers in my basement with Tim (NJSPEEDER) the idea of making our own site came up. After a few jokes and a few more beers, Tim pulled out his credit card, threw it at me, and said "Make it happen!"

I spent about a half an hour researching web hosts, then I bought a basic webhosting plan, registered the njfboa.org URL, and started to install forum software. Didn't get any further that night, but in the next couple of days everything was setup, and we privately invited a few people to join the forum and test it out for a week or so before we went live. I believe we had 14 members when the site was announced publicly, and it has been one hell of a crazy fun roller coaster ride ever since. :mrgreen:

- Justin

Frosty 08-14-2011 08:15 AM

Happy Bday


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