What is the oldest topic posted on the forums?

[Snessy the duck]

Well, I'm just curious, but what was the very first topic posted on these forums? It doesn't have to still be up, it could be locked aswell as deleted, and it could be a topic made by the moderators to test the topic function or announce the forums in general, but it would still be interesting to see it!

Anyone know anything about the very first topic ever posted on the forums? If so, please comment and tell me what you know and if you have a link to the post/archived post! It could be pretty cool to see how this forum started!

[Cedur]

Reading through this, you can find "Knux pulled out of the merger at the last moment and deleted all the posts that had been made in the few days since the forum had opened", so this explains why the first posts on e.g. Joey's and Valtteri's profiles are from January 2014.

[Shadow Yoshi]

I looked through the database and it appears that the first post of this thread is the earliest post on the forums:

http://www.smbxgame.com/forums/v ... php?p=1967

All other threads start on January 1, 2014 or later because of the forum wiping incident where nearly every topic was deleted. The reason why this thread is still here is because it must've been a global announcement, which I believe were the only posts that were not wiped. The reason why other global announcements that would've ostensibly been here since the beginning do not have such early post dates, such as the Forum Rules thread, is because they were unfortunately wiped in the summer of 2014. You can see the older versions of these threads on the 07.20.14 archive of the forums:

http://archive.smbxgame.com/foru ... m.php?f=69