Where is the First PF Thread and Its Author Now?

[tionis]

Where can I find the very first thread posted on PF? Is the author still around?

 

[robphy]

You can try here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010306054610/https://www.physicsforums.com/

 

[Evo]

That's embarrassing.

We've come a very long way and I'm proud to have been allowed to have been a part of it.

 

[Borek]

If memory serves me well webarchive doesn't store individual threads, just a main page of any forum (well, it is more complicated than that, but I don't expect it to have more than just a bunch of main pages stored).

From what I was able to quickly check this is the oldest surviving thread: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/the-source-of-all-the-mind.18/

 

[zoobyshoe]

IIRC, Greg was running out of space after only about a year and deleted the first year of PF to make room for more. However, he put what he'd deleted on a disc that he would send to you (for $20 or something).

That disk is where you would find the true first thread.

 

[robphy]

From what I was able to quickly check this is the oldest surviving thread: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/the-source-of-all-the-mind.18/

... a thread dated Mar 7, 2003, started by user #2, with first response by user #7.
Too bad that the Wayback Machine doesn't have that stored circa 2003.

 

[robphy]

[/PLAIN]
web.archive.org/web/20011123113121/http://physicsforums.com/encyclo/default.asp?catid=11&cattitle=Misc.+Theoretical+Physics[/URL]
has reference to a link (which is unfortunately not archived):
http://web.archive.org/web/20011123113121/http://physicsforums.com/encyclo/redirect.asp?linkid=6

Are Force Fields Possible?
Hits : 53 since 2/21/2001
URL : http://web.archive.org/web/20011123113121/http://physicsforums.com/encyclo/redirect.asp?linkid=6
Sounds cool in sci-fi, but are they realistic

Possibly Interesting thread titles as far back as 2/24/2001
[URL]http://web.archive.org/web/20010306052023/https://www.physicsforums.com/active.asp

Something posted 2/13/2001
http://web.archive.org/web/20010306060020/https://www.physicsforums.com/view_announcements.asp#top

Some members (the earliest is 12/24/2000)
http://web.archive.org/web/20010708180058/https://www.physicsforums.com/members.asp
Member id=1: http://web.archive.org/web/20011112003146/http://physicsforums.com/pop_profile.asp?mode=display&id=1

Early feedback:
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?16278-physicsforums-com-review (2/2001)
http://forum.snitz.com/FORUM/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=37808 (10/2002)...apparently my first post: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/twisted-forms-and-intuition.18963/#post-194240 (2004)
my first post in relativity: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/invariant-under-lorentz-transformation.23094/#post-199146 (2004)

 

[Borek]

Didn't know there was a forum "How Stuff Works".