| Museum
The museum is where you can see what this website looked like and was
about/what happened since it's launch!
2002
| June 2002: After Dave's old website, Ultimate Emulation Board (UEB)
was closed down by it's web host, he started planning the launch of a new
emulation forum, using an old closed message forum name, Brit Board (which was
originally launched by britroms.com in 2001.) The Brit Board name was then changed
to buttonBASH! after deciding that using the Brit Board name would be too
controversial (thousands of people hated the original Brit Board!) |
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July 2002: Dave then started talking to a friend (Kez) in a Leisure &
Tourism lesson at secondary school, and decided to start designing the website
in that very lesson! Also Dave and Kez teamed up with another friend from
secondary school (Furbag) to create the main buttonBASH! website team.
| August 2002: The domain buttonbash.com was purchased and a phpBB message
forum was setup and launched. The forum started to slowly gain members,
including old members of UEB and Brit Board, members of Emu World, Emulation
Galaxy and DC Emulation. The forum was left for 2 weeks under the control of
Furbag while Dave was on holiday, during this period there was a massive
revolt from an old member of Emu World for being banned. |
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| September 2002: Version 1 of the website was launched during September
featuring ROM and emulator downloads. Unfortunately, the only screen dump we
have of version 1 is missing the images (yes it really is that old!) If
anyone has a screen dump of version 1, please submit it to us! |
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November 2002: Version 2 of the website was launched, the layout was
designed by our forum member, Xaos, and it looked fantastic, the website
basically featured the same content as version 1.
December 2002: By this time the message forum had over 500 registered
members.
2003
January 2003: Version 2 of the website was removed to make way for Version
3, which was a PHP Nuke website, unfortunately the password for the PHP Nuke
system was given to someone who wasn't as trustworthy as we thought and the
password was passed onto to another person who deleted most of the websites
content and forced the website and forum offline, leaving everything from
August 2002 to January 2003 gone, which was deemed 'the end' of buttonBASH!
February 2003: A temporary web page was put up on the buttonbash.com
domain which the splash page (pictured) linked to when the visitor click
on 'enter website',
the web page had an explanation of what happened
during January 2003. Also during this
month a temporary Invision Power Board message forum was setup by Dave so the
old members of buttonBASH! could still talk to old members. |
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| March 2003: Dave completed and launched version 4 (also named
version X) of buttonBASH!, which was designed by Neil (webmaster of
angelroms.com) and was no longer an emulation website (as we
could not find a suitable host for an emulation website) the website featured
over 30 online games. Also a phpBB message forum was added to the website,
where all the temporary message forum users registered. |
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| August 2003: The website was then moved to our old web host who hosted
version 1 of the website, the phpBB forum was converted across and version 5
of the website was launched, which was back focusing on emulation. Also during
this month we held a 'Member of the year 2002-2003' competition on the message
forum which was won by Xaos. |
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October 2003: Version 6 of the website starts development.
| December 2003: The phpBB forum was converted to vBulletin to allow our users
to have more features. |
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2004
April 2004: Version 6 of the website is close to completion and the website
is moved to a new web host, vBulletin was then converted to the new host which
nearly resulting in all of the forum database being lost, we were very lucky that our
old host had an up to date backup and converted the forum across successfully
for us! Dave nearly killed himself when he saw that the 'users' table of the vBulletin MySQL database was missing!
| May 2004: Version 6 of the website is launched. |
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August 2004: During this month we held the 'Member of the year 2003-2004'
competition on the message forum which was won by poke50uk.
2005
Early 2005: The website was barely updated in early 2005, due to Dave
finishing off college, this led to the website losing thousands of visitors.
Summer 2005: Dave and Kez got together again to discuss the website, and
change some things around the place... the forum team now consists of original
members Dave, Kez and Furbag.
August 2005: During this month we held the 'Member of the year 2004-2005'
competition on the message forum which was won by Soylent Green.
October 2005: All the changes made by Dave & Kez in the summer pay off with
thousands of visitors returning every day. Dave is at work on a new
embedded forum skin!
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