the anthems forum, 2005–2010

By the numbers

Counted from everything that survives. The board itself reported 223,941 posts by its final days; the gaps are mostly the crawlers' fault, not yours.

Dips are mostly gaps in what the crawlers captured, not quiet months. The forum was busiest from late 2005 to 2007.

Busiest single day in the archive: 8 Jan 2007, with 651 posts.

Where it came from

Everything here was captured by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and the Australian Web Archive (National Library of Australia) between 2005 and 2010. Thread pages, printable and lo-fi copies of threads, attachments, and images hosted elsewhere were all pulled together and de-duplicated. Posts marked r came from those alternative copies.

What's missing

• About a third of all posts. The board reported 223,941 posts; 151,719 survive.
• Members-only forums (an estimated 26,000 posts). Crawlers browsed as guests and never saw them.
• About 2,000 uploaded images and attachments that were never archived, and around 500 images hosted on other sites that have since disappeared.
• Member profiles and private messages. Those aren't published here on purpose.

Got something we don't?

Saved forum emails, photos you posted, old hard drives and CDs: if you've got copies, they can fill the holes. Anything in an "image not archived" box is a gap.

Privacy & removal

Email addresses and phone numbers in posts have been removed automatically, profile pages are not published, and nothing that sat behind the member login is here. If a post or photo of you is here and you'd rather it wasn't, email paul@anthems.com.au with the page link and it will be taken down. No questions asked.

Thank you

This archive is published by anthems. Every post here is the words of the person who wrote it, kept as it was written. The rebuild was only possible because the Internet Archive and the National Library of Australia saved copies of the forum while it was live. Thank you to them, and to everyone who posted and kept the crowd together.