Commissioner Beketov 9,025 Posted July 18, 2017 Commissioner Share Posted July 18, 2017 (edited) As we mark this, our 10th birthday, in the VHL I decided to go back and see what things USED to look like back when the league first opened. With the help of a Website called the WayBack Machine it's possible to look back on what sites looked like on any given day that they were archived so I did that for the original VHL link. Sadly we do not have a snapshot of the ORIGINAL design; the first archive taken however is still very early: October 11th, 2007 to be exact. Some teams had already moved at this point and a few of the images (the banner is the obvious one) are broken but if you want to take a look into the VHL's past at what so few of us remember nowadays this is a nice way to do it. So, I present to you, the VHL as it original was, or at least as close to that as possible: https://web.archive.org/web/20071011014830/http://z11.invisionfree.com/vhl/index.php Personally I had alms forgotten about that original skin or how corner some of our old graphics and logos were. Sadly you can't dig into too many of the actual tops without an account (and I doubt the sign in page works anymore) but it's still interesting to see where this whole thing came from. Especially fun is that it shows the accounts that were active when the snapshot was taken. One of note that I've noticed is @Quik (not in the original one posted as I scrolled through a bit but I saw him somewhere) who recently re-joined our ranks. Aside from him though, I don't see any names that are still around. You can also click the "112 Captures" link at the top if you want to see other dates. It was capturing straight through to November of last year when the link died (not consistently but still) so it's a fun little trip through time. Edited July 18, 2017 by Beketov v.2, JardyB10, Phil and 3 others 5 1 Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/42168-a-view-into-the-past/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowboyinAmerica 2,889 Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 I like it. The most recently created player, now one of the earliest Hall of Famers Phil 1 Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/42168-a-view-into-the-past/#findComment-452715 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissioner Beketov 9,025 Posted July 18, 2017 Author Commissioner Share Posted July 18, 2017 3 minutes ago, CowboyinAmerica said: I like it. The most recently created player, now one of the earliest Hall of Famers You can also see (sadly again it didn't archive the actual posts) that the last game simmed was the final game of the Season 1 playoffs where Vasteras defeated Calgary for the cup. Quik 1 Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/42168-a-view-into-the-past/#findComment-452719 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglesfan036 4,603 Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 wow, really interesting to see this I was 10/11 when this was going on Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/42168-a-view-into-the-past/#findComment-452722 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglesfan036 4,603 Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 @Kendrick you had a media spot called VHL Inspirations on May 2008, but it's not loading for some reason Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/42168-a-view-into-the-past/#findComment-452723 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissioner Beketov 9,025 Posted July 18, 2017 Author Commissioner Share Posted July 18, 2017 Just now, eaglesfan036 said: @Kendrick you had a media spot called VHL Inspirations on May 2008, but it's not loading for some reason Sadly this site is more designed for major websites (check out early apple sites, it's hilarious) so it doesn't archive every page on things that don't get a ton of views like the VHL. Works great for seeing the main page but individual posts rarely work. Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/42168-a-view-into-the-past/#findComment-452725 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quik 4,113 Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 Super cool! Back when Justin Pogge was still the future of the Leafs net...d'oh Phil 1 Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/42168-a-view-into-the-past/#findComment-452726 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil 5,119 Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 this is... Quik 1 Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/42168-a-view-into-the-past/#findComment-452738 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendrick 4,741 Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 2 hours ago, eaglesfan036 said: @Kendrick you had a media spot called VHL Inspirations on May 2008, but it's not loading for some reason I actually don't remember what it was really about though Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/42168-a-view-into-the-past/#findComment-452747 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JardyB10 4,865 Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 This is amazizing Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/42168-a-view-into-the-past/#findComment-453008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gudnason 607 Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Oh shit man those OLDDDDD days... Looking at the "active users" at the bottom, it brings back some vague memories seeing the names of LightItUp4126, Catch22, mikek_02, djscooter, ZeRo.O... Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/42168-a-view-into-the-past/#findComment-453053 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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