OpenPost: The Legacy

Notice!
Not all dates are correct.

02/2003
"Phantasy Yuusha",
a Phantasy Star Online clan
site is started. Forums use "proboards"
message boards.

03/2003
"Phantasy Yuusha" > "Orenji Yume"
The Phantasy Yuusha forums pick
up slowly. No one's really interested in
PSO discussion, so the boards are
renamed to Orenji Yumi, which
means Orange Dream in Japanese.

04/2003
Phantasy Yuusha dies.
The site officially closes and the
forums are kicked into full-time
maintainance, getting a
relatively good amount of
posts per day.

05/2003
Unfortunantly...
OY suffers a month of dead-ness.
I start things up again, get some friends
to join, and rename the forums to
Orange Dream for a little less confusion.

06/2003
I create my 3rd ever proboards
template. It used a simple
orange/white scheme, with
a japanese inspired logo.
It was awesome.

07/2003
I submit OD to support.proboards.com,
they love it. We easily gain
a new member a day just from
the proboards.com support
forums. We affiliate with over 4
commercial message boards.
ODv2 is created.

08/2003
DeckonFrost takes a leave of absence.
That's one month I'll never forget.
We missed you Frosty!

09/2003
First ever comic of
"Taco Sauce"
appears in OD's gaming emag:
PRG Monthly.

10/2003
Orange Dream v3 arrives.
It owns even more.
At this point I've had
some practice experience
with JavaScript, so I can
finally code my own scripts -
giving the forums a unique edge
that a lot of others didn't have.
The OD newsletter begins.

11/2003
OD gets a lot of critisism for
v3 - people think it robbed OD's
originality. We lose some members.
So I scramble to get out v4.

12/2003
OD4 is claimed the "best of proboards"
for 2003 by proboards staff.
I put up a holiday theme.
Rez is getting interested
in coding, so work together to make
a custom RPG hack.

02/2004
To celebrate OD's one year anniversary
I release OD4.5.

03/2004
OD is hacked.
DeckonFrost donates
web space to use
for a new Orange Dream!
OMG! THX FROSTY! THX DAVE!
I OWE YOU GUYS SO MUCH!!
So we switch to phpBB.

04-08/2004
Orange Dream is wiped from
the face of the earth to make way
for my new project, Dreamcastonline.net.
The OD vets hate me.

08/2004
OD returns by the name of Orange DX.

1/2005
I open the first build of "Open Post" - a completely new unrelated forum to start a new book in my work of a webmaster.



Again, I apologize for the messed up dates
and the lack of details. I would love to hear comments,
q's, or errors.

Thanks for appriciating our legacy!