Relics of Blockland's past

[Wedge]

I got sufficiently bored today that I decided to go through the Internet archives and see what I could pull up from the past.

The forums from early 2005.

Send a private message to Satan! Also, if you click the drop down menu labeled ----, you'll get a current list of all the forums at the time the page was archived. Note that Badspot is a Jerk forums, the spiritual predecessor to the drama forums. It's not the direct ancestor because for quite some time there was no drama forum at all, and none of the Badspot is a Jerk threads were ever moved to drama (they were actually deleted in the forum crash).

This lovely picture graced the media section for several years.

Badspot hates you all. Every last one of you. Also, someone named Waddles owes him a couple of stab and gunshots wounds.

Did you know Rotondo made the vehicles for the old RTB? Did you know he made mods other than zombies? Did you know that the ATV, bike, etc that RTB was so well known for were actually made before RTB even came out? Now you do.

A hotel with many details! Make note of the sparkly black paint!

What happens when you zip every single mod on the forums together with no quality control? This! It's a big piece of Blockland history.

Want to try out the old game? Here it is, straight off the 2005 website.

And if you're playing the old game, you absolutely need this map, which was apparently good enough to get posted straight on the website instead of hidden away in the map forums.

Another classic map.

Some old mods. These are on the new current forums, but the threads and forum has been deleted. This section is remarkably well preserved. You can visit the first page of all the mods. You can see pages 1-2 for RTB, 1-2 and 9-10 for SBL, you can see all the pages for BLM1.6a. Go ahead and take a look around.

Some things never change.

The original funky shirt!

The avatar museum.

Thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoyed read through some of this stuff as much as I did.

The Internet archive contains a lot of interesting stuff. Deleted topics, banned users, old avatars, dead mods. Interesting topics and others better left dead. You can browse through the whole archive here: http://web.archive.org/web/*sr_1nr_10/http://blockland.us/*
It's got over 8000 unique pages but some of them are repeats, and the blockland/forums/blockland topic urls that end in & are all broken. None the less, there's a lot of content there.

The Internet archives aren't the only place to look for Blockland history.

The "secret backup forums." It's basically where everyone who knows about them spams when the normal forums go down. Banned people also like to whine here. Quite a bit of the mod drama (when TBM was banned) was also fought out here.

There's also this list of some of the old really big/popular clans:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Blockland/Archive_1#Blockland_Clans

There's some other sites as well, but I really don't feel like posting them at the moment because I don't know them off the top of my head, and  now I've found something else to do, so I'm not bored enough to go look. Maybe later.

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[Caution]

Holy moly, everything's changed so much...

[Packer]

Hmm was that my avatar...?

Edit: Oh god I just realised its the v1 forums, we are currently in v2 :O
Edit edit: The bridge between v1 and v2 http://badspot.us/img/Blockland-forums.html

[Caution]

...Why does Badspot have a collection of "shapely and scantily clothed female figures" on his website? ...

[Deep2]

Checked out google!
http://web.archive.org/web/19990125084553/alpha.google.com/

Its Google!(yes Google! not Google)
Beta.

[Caution]

http://web.archive.org/web/19990420024530/http://www.newgrounds.com/

http://www.newgrounds.com/

Huge difference.

[Packer]

...Why does Badspot have a collection of "shapely and scantily clothed female figures" on his website? ...

He draws them.

[Creola]

Very nicely by the way :D

[Packer]

Very nicely by the way :D

Keep your pants on.

[Creola]

As in put them back on or get ones without "protein stains"? :o

[Hugums]

/nostalgia

[Truce]

When did badspot.us get a makeover?

[Solid]

When did badspot.us get a makeover?

I'm not sure.

Wow Wedge, that's really cool. I didn't know what v1 forums looked like. :o

[DrMobius]

I'm trying to find my avatar in there...

[Khorde]

I like how the wiki refers to the "war".

And theorizing that Yuki started it.