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Title: BCU Was Saved!
Post by: Kirk on December 22, 2008, 11:53:02 AM

BCU (http://web.archive.org/web/20070622010744/bridgecommander.3dactionplanet.gamespy.com/phpBB/), or at least an incredibly small portion of it, was saved. Sadly, you can only look at the forum and long to view the content because waybackmachine only archived a small portion of BCU. :(


Edit: For more reminiscing:
BCFiles: Dec 14, 2001 (http://web.archive.org/web/20011214183827/http://www.bcfiles.com/)

Title: Re: BCU Was Saved!
Post by: ACES_HIGH on December 22, 2008, 04:33:38 PM

*sigh* those were the days

Title: Re: BCU Was Saved!
Post by: Aeries on December 23, 2008, 04:48:14 AM

Aww man. Kinda wish I was around back then.

Title: Re: BCU Was Saved!
Post by: 1DeadlySAMURAI on December 23, 2008, 05:25:23 AM

Too bad they don't have BCN. All the links to that was a 404.
Those where the days. :P

Title: Re: BCU Was Saved!
Post by: NeoKaede on December 23, 2008, 06:52:55 AM

So, what really happened to BCU? The site talks about a hacker, but if they really lost all the databases, it must have been something worse.

Title: Re: BCU Was Saved!
Post by: JimmyB76 on December 23, 2008, 09:52:37 AM

BCU did have a number of errors, and for a short while, there was a message saying the forums were closed, but had a link directing traffic to here... soon after, a hacker (which we all kinda have a good idea who it/they were) altered that link to go to an adult site instead...  i brought this to Raven's attention and things have been as they are now since...

Title: Re: BCU Was Saved!
Post by: Aeries on December 23, 2008, 01:17:19 PM

Quote from: JimmyB76 on December 23, 2008, 09:52:37 AM

BCU did have a number of errors, and for a short while, there was a message saying the forums were closed, but had a link directing traffic to here... soon after, a hacker (which we all kinda have a good idea who it/they were) altered that link to go to an adult site instead...  i brought this to Raven's attention and things have been as they are now since...

It's a real shame, though. Lots of history there... I found it to be really interesting.

Title: Re: BCU Was Saved!
Post by: JimmyB76 on December 23, 2008, 02:03:14 PM

indeed - BCU contained alot of information; just about anything ever asked about BC from day one was at BCU and alot of that info is priceless and can never be retrieved :(
not to mention all the history, and good times also...

Title: Re: BCU Was Saved!
Post by: DJ Curtis on December 23, 2008, 02:13:28 PM

well, if nothing else, BCC has already become quite expansive.  Though when you think about it, a lot of the knowledge of the earlier modders who really deconstructed the game is lost.  At least MLeo is still around! :)

Title: Re: BCU Was Saved!
Post by: tiqhud on December 23, 2008, 07:52:09 PM

Yep, kind'a sad the amount we've lost.

Title: Re: BCU Was Saved!
Post by: NeoKaede on December 24, 2008, 07:24:19 AM

Quote from: JimmyB76 on December 23, 2008, 09:52:37 AM

BCU did have a number of errors, and for a short while, there was a message saying the forums were closed, but had a link directing traffic to here... soon after, a hacker (which we all kinda have a good idea who it/they were) altered that link to go to an adult site instead...  i brought this to Raven's attention and things have been as they are now since...

Forum drama, I love it :roll:

A pity. BCU was one of the first forums I registered in, along with BCFiles, after Dreamyards and Unimatrix Zero closed.

Title: Re: BCU Was Saved!
Post by: Aeries on December 25, 2008, 12:10:28 AM

BCC was my first. :] And I love it.