Teach Plato Aployton History

[PLATO]

With every thing going on lately I have been ready a lot of posts that start with "Back when..." so I have a few questions.

What was UBB? When did it start? How did it come to be part of poly? I have seen it referred to that two sites merged to form poly. What were they? (I'm assuming UBB was one.) Was Civ their primary focus? What happened to make the Civilization Decency act occur?

Thanks!

[mrmitchell]

blah blah blah, the ultimate civilisation ii site formed, danq took it over, markos made first greek civ 2 site, blah blah, merged, used UBB forums for about 6 months to a year i guess, blah blah, then switched to vB....you can find a lot more history in peoples' sigs and in teh About section than you can in an a/c q.

[alva]

Try this..

http://apolyton.net/about/history/

[flash9286]

I can tell you that I am the only one to be given the title Poly biggest Jackass, and nobody can take that away form me.

[PLATO]

Thanks alva!

Flash, I've seen a few who could give you a run for your money!

[flash9286]

no never u cant take my title away from me

[GePap]

Long ago, in the recesses of time (1969) the great chaos loomed, and then came forth the hand of Meier, and he had delivered a game, and called it Civilization, and it was good...and time moved forward, and the date had become 1996, when a new star was formed by the Meier, and it was called Civilization 2. By this time, two simple peasants, one from the land of Hellas and one from Canadia had come into being, and when the new star came out, they plowed fertile fields of server space, and over time new shoots grew, and then the two peasants, seeing thier work was good, decided to come and jointly plow a new and greater field, and form that field spouted the beautifull works that stand before us today: and all was good in the eyes of Meier and The Great and powerfull BANANA.

Ahem!

[Rasbelin]

GePap,

excellent!

[Frozzy]

Re: Teach Plato Aployton History

Originally posted by PLATO1003
With every thing going on lately I have been ready a lot of posts that start with "Back when..." so I have a few questions.

What was UBB? When did it start? How did it come to be part of poly? I have seen it referred to that two sites merged to form poly. What were they? (I'm assuming UBB was one.) Was Civ their primary focus? What happened to make the Civilization Decency act occur?

Thanks!

You see, the problem with the "About" section is it is rather reminiscent of a primary school history book. It doesn't give you any of the juicy stuff.

Anyway...

UBB is a forum software (Ultimate Bulletin Board). Apolyton currently uses vB (vBulletin). Apolyton used UBB until mid-2001, when it switched to vB. Many believe vB is more secure, and undoubtably better.

Apolyton was created ion July 26th, 1998, after the merger of the Ultimate Civilization II Site (DanQ), and The First Greek Civilization II Site (MarkG). "Apolyton" is Greek for Ultimate. One can assume this takes Markos' "Greek" and Dan's "Ultimate" from their respective sites. Negotiations took one week, after Dan initiated the talks.

Of course Civ was the primary focus.

There is too much, history, you know. So I'll give a couple of facts from the forums.

There were two Off-Topics - One for Call to Power, one for Civilization II. There were frequent flamefests between the two camps. Soon the forums were "merged" and today we have one Off-Topic. Ming, our benelovent moderator, wasn't exactly a popular choice when he was made moderator. Many "rebelled" against him, but some were more loyal to him (aptly nicknamed the Mingophants). Also, it is rumoured Ming was quite the spammer in the pre-Apolyton days.

Area 25 and 19 were forgotten forums which were found. Common consensus is that Alexander's Horse blew the whistle on 25, and Osweld gave away 19.

Only a few have been permanently banned (excluding DLs). These include yo_yo_yo_hey and Stewart Spinks (sp?). These were banned after the Age of Heavens (?) forum invasion. IIRC, AoH was operated by the same server Apolyton was, and pressure was put on the ACS administration to do something. YYYH is not known commonly if he has returned, however it is known that Boddington's is Stewart.

Another permanently banned poster has more recently returned, namely Evan von Christoph, under the persona of "Thorn". EvC was known for his excessive trolling, and most notibly his covered up thread consisting of an argument with one of his own DLs.

Why do people have 1970 registration dates? These are people who joined before early 1999 (i.e. the old sites' members).

Back in a time long forgotten Off-Topic posts did count. A certain poster, Mao, managed to amass 10,000 posts in one year, mostly posting in the Off-Topic.

Apolyton has been through it all, no doubt. But, I have only been here since August 2002, so I know not much.

[DrSpike]

Nice summary Frozzy. Also Plato check out Darkcloud's 'Poly lists, which contain a lot of similar info.

[Heresson]

There were frequent flamefests between the two camps.

That must have been fun... A feeling of unity in each forum and a well defined enemy...
Can we separate it again?

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by flash9286
no never u cant take my title away from me

Was this a thread poll or was it bestowed on you instead of the traditional ranking?

[flash9286]

yes click the link in my sig

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by GePap
Long ago, in the recesses of time (1969) the great chaos loomed, and then came forth the hand of Meier, and he had delivered a game, and called it Civilization, and it was good...and time moved forward, and the date had become 1996, when a new star was formed by the Meier, and it was called Civilization 2. By this time, two simple peasants, one from the land of Hellas and one from Canadia had come into being, and when the new star came out, they plowed fertile fields of server space, and over time new shoots grew, and then the two peasants, seeing thier work was good, decided to come and jointly plow a new and greater field, and form that field spouted the beautifull works that stand before us today: and all was good in the eyes of Meier and The Great and powerfull BANANA.

Ahem!

Now do the history of the OTF!

[Ming]

It was NOT any kind of official title... just a BS little and very short lived thread poll that wasn't worth the time wasted on it.

It can't be taken away only because it was NEVER given in the first place. He's just full of himself.

Real titles have been given out, and he's never had one, and never will have one