A Decade Online

[Rick]

This is the year folks ! :D

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the founding of this site.
Happy Birthday Lee; and thanks for the wonderful place we all have created here.
Kudos to you my friend. <insert applause icon here> :D

Rick

[Alam Shah]

Congratulations! on making 10. Are we going having a party?
Thanks to Lee, the moderators and all contributors. :D

[Flavio]

CONGRATULATIONS TO MR LEE, ALL THE MODERATORS AND TO ALL MEMBERS !!! :)

[Rich]

Congrats on a decade of great discussions and information providing.
Thanks
Rich

The Japanese Sword Index (12th year)
http://home.earthlink.net/~steinrl/nihonto.htm

[Joe]

Keep up the good work!

:)

And a happy new year......

[Yannis]

Thank you all, moderators and forum members for the knowledge you have offer to me. I hope all of us be here the next 10 years. We have a lot to learn more! :)

[Luc LEFEBVRE]

Good job, Congratulations !

Luc
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[TVV]

I'd like to join those expressing their gratitude to all the people, who make this forum possible. You are doing a phenomenal job! Thank you.

[David]

Thanks Lee, and everyone who contributes here to make this forum the place that it is. It has been a very rewarding experience for me which has changed my life...and enticed me to drain my savings account :D in the persuit of knowledge and new collectables. I could never have come this far in my studies without the infomation i have discovered here and the connections and links it has led me to. Thank you ever so much! :)

[RhysMichael]

Congratulations and I would like to add my thanks to all here who have helped make this forum a wonderful place to exchange information.

[Lee]

Thank you all. Andrew had pointed out to me that our very earliest forum posts, from the wwwboard era, are not presently available. Some time ago, someone hacked into that directory to place links to pornographic material and had damaged the directory structure in their assault. I was, however, able to lock the directory and referred the situation to our service provider, not wishing to change anything until they could investigate the security failure. I just never got back around to doing the repair and reopening this part of the archives.

The machine with which I manage the website is presently down with a dead power supply. A new one is on order and I expect to restore access to that part of the website soon.

So much of the 'static' part of the site so represents web design of 1997 and the 28K modem era. Small pictures and lots of annoying little pages. For 2007, I hope to go back and begin updating and expanding the static website.