Schol-R-LEA wrote:
the OS forums were originally a single forum that were part of a larger board called Mega-Tokyo
wrong
originally there were 2 OS development forums, one here at osdev.org, and another one over at MT... they were 2 different forums, and when the MT site owner decided he no longer wanted to host the much more active OSdev forums, he transferred them here where the 2 different forums were merged into a single forum
this was actually his 2nd attempt, as he had earlier tried to move the OSdev forums to another site (don't remember which one now) but it didn't work and was reverted, after that failure, chase (our site owner/admin) volunteered to merge the MT forums with our forums here
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The OS group split away in 2004, when the Megatoyko site - which I think was on Geocities originally - went offline.
the original site was online for a while after the merger (I don't know how long, since I stopped visiting that site after the merger)
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The new site was populated from a backup of the old site.
wrong, it was transferred from the original site -- in fact, over at MT, there was a banner at the top of the site for a while, informing everyone that the OSdev forums had been moved here
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I don't know what forum software was used,
the original forum software here was custom written by chase (our site owner/admin) and did not support fancy advanced features like accounts and logging in, attachments, italics/bold, fonts, images, and smileys (we switched to phpbb a few months before the merger, iirc)
the forum software used on the MT site was, iirc, called YABB
disclaimer:
this is all from my personal recollection, as I was a member of both sites and a mod here on osdev.org before the merger, and some details might be slightly miss-remembered