I found a 13 years old post in the TC 2000 (1993) message board. Makes me wonder how far back MovieChat preserved those old IMDb posts. It's like a blast to the past!
Did you find any older post?
I managed to beat that by one year. There is a 14 year old post by sjvickery on the board for "Long Weekend" (1978).
https://moviechat.org/tt0079482/Long-Weekend/58c735365ec57f0478f9fcfe/SEPT-2004-DVD-RELEASE
That's a good find!
shareI was disappointed when I found out that IMDB was removing posts from the past. For some strange reason I thought these comments would be set in stone forever and people hundreds of years in the future would be able to go back and read what and how people wrote and thought back to the past ... but then most of the posts in IMDB, and here, just turn into useless drivel, insults, spam, trolling and arguments.
shareLike your own posts...
shareare you sure about that? how did you find out?
shareI've seen posts from 16 years ago. Isn't that about the time the message boards were launched?
https://moviechat.org/tt0266465/A-Man-Apart/58c780c293cef4080d82a4fe/What-is-the-other-song-in-the-Trailer
IMDb forum was from 16 years ago? So this may be the oldest post here. There can't be a 17 years old post then. Nice find!
shareSome of the old IMDb regulars used to brag about joining the boards in the 1990s. I have never seen a post that old. I guess the boards probably had an overhaul as tech advanced and purged some of the oldest posts.
shareYes, I also remember talk like that. Apparently the boards were 18 years old at the time of its demise. But I don't remember ever seeing posts that old on the boards. I don't know if there perhaps was a predecessor.
"I've seen posts from 16 years ago. Isn't that about the time the message boards were launched?"
The message boards launched in 1999, which was 20 years before you made your post. I started posting there in 2002.
See my subsequent reply above:
"Yes, I also remember talk like that. Apparently the boards were 18 years old at the time of its demise."
Wow! Blasts from the past!
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There are lots of old posts for the movies that used to be at the top of the 250 like Wallace and Gromit and Shine. It was very bad back then.
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how do you search for old posts?
this site could use a nice search function with filters
You canât search them up by year. Just search boards of old, obscure films.
15 Years!! - Audrey Rose (film) board, âAudrey Roseâ thread.
what do you mean, exactly. i'm asking how do you search for posts on this particular board.
where did you search for that, and what was your search string. i'm not seeing it on google.
I didnât use Google. I used MCâs search engine at the top of this page. Do you not see the search box?
Typed in âAudrey Roseâ. Got a list of actresses but clicked âmore resultsâ at the bottom of that list.
Basically you can't. You can only "stumble" onto them.
shareyeah, or pick an old movie and go to the back pages of the threads.
a nice search would allow searching by film, user, data-range, search keywords
another nice feature would be allow people, at least when they join if not laters, to hook up to their old imdb username, so activity on their old threads would result in a notification.
Google "16 years ago" and "moviechat".
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