Looking for Old Posts
 

I would very much like to find all posts I've made at the old BT after
Sept. 10, 06 to December 1, 06. Can anyone help me to do that?

barbara

bt didn't save (archive) or keep any backups of the old forum.

it would be best to ask at that forum if anyone knows anything else. or pm one of thier mods.

we are glad doc backs everything here, so all the posts are safe. :D

sorry i couldn't be of help barb. :hug:

Braintalk was down from mid July 06 until 10-02-06. I searched you there
and found 7 posts since it returned.

I think your dates may be off? On Sept 10,06 it was down.

The dates from 3-04 thru 7-06 are the new first vBulletin format. Those posts are
all lost. An archive was never posted for it. All the cached posts which were on Google for a few months after BT came back are gone too.

Wayback Archive does have a spotty saved portion of the 2000 forum until
3-04. It also has most of the 1996 forum saved.
I did some research and found that BrainTalk (and MGH as it was called) was NEVER saved each time it was updated. There are at least 8 and maybe 9 archives lost from there. (over a decade or so. each improvement or change in format resulted in lost data)

Wayback Archive is very slow, very frustrating to use. But some posts are there prior to 3-04.

Thank you.

befuddled2

If you use a desktop-client tool/search engine such as Web Ferret or (an even older application) NetPuller, and not exlude "finds" that cannot be validated, you may be able to find some of your older posts by keying (or running a search on) your username+braintalk, username+brain.hastypastry.net, and other combos.

It might draw up references to the posts and brief, but readable abstracts (by placing your cursor over the "finds").