DNForum roots?

[lukeeales]

How did DNForum start out..... was it free? How was the paid membership implemented? I'd be interested to know.... :-D if a moderator or admin could tell me

 

[James]

How did DNForum start out..... was it free? How was the paid membership implemented? I'd be interested to know.... :-D if a moderator or admin could tell me

Hi lukeeales,

I'm not here that long but this might help

http://www.dnforum.com/showthread.php?t=1

jim

 

[Anthony Ng]

http://web.archive.org/web/20020524155747/http://www.dnforum.com/

 

[dmyre]

Here's a brief summary:

1) DNforum was started by a 16 year old, by the name of Dan Gessler.
2) Dan was going to sell it to the Moderators, until he received a higher offer from Gregr. ($5000 I believe)
3) Being Young, and unexperienced, he sold it to the highest bidder, after coming to an agreement with the moderators.
4) The moderators became upset, and started DomainState.com.
5) A few months later. Gregr started charging members for access, then sold it to the current owner.

 

[Prosperous]

The forum as it was back then; Archive.org claims it was first indexed by them on Dec 27, 2001:
http://web.archive.org/web/*sa_/http://www.dnforum.com

Cheers,
Rob