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On 8/16/2004 at 2:26 PM, Lee said:

To clarify a bit.

 

I started the site right after I bought my Banshee, (purchased sometime in late 1997). Just around the first few months of 1998 I started up the site to

A ) save myself $40/hr at the local custom shop.

B ) to create a knowledge-base to share whatever I learn with the rest of the world

C ) meet new bansheeriders and learn about places to ride.

 

I started the network54 forums, then switched to some forums I had a hand in developing the source code for; merely as a test-bed for the new forums my co-workers and I created. It wasn't long, thanks to the HQ pioneer's that contributed so much to the HQ community, that the BansheeHQ needed bigger and better forums. The site quickly needed a database format and software that would sustain the amount of traffic and data on a day-to-day basis... hence the PHPBB board.

 

The Invision Boards we're currently on are a purchased software application, to increase the level of support and dependability of the forums.

 

As for the site, excluding the forums, it has come a long way as well. Starting off as straight html (yeah, back in the day!), it was over time migrated to a dynamic (Cold Fusion [CFML]) based platform. From there, not long after the PHPBB implementation, I decided to go PHP all the way. Starting off with PHPNuke was a good beginning into the L.A.M.P. environment (Linux Apache Mysql Php ). But the forum software and the PHPNuke software didn't quite mingle in the member-accounts area. So just recently a complete overhaul was done. New site software, new version of Invision, and some nifty little emoticons even to boot! :dance:

 

So you can see, if you're new to the HQ, that the site has come a looooong way; made possibly by all the supporting members, sponsors, moderators, and helping hands along the way. From day 1 it was the beginning of what is now the LARGEST Banshee community on earth.

 

I think this whole Banshee thing is going to catch on.... ;)

and the HQ will continue to lead it!

Then tyler took it over and well...

...  ... ...

 

Thanks everyone!

 

-Lee

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Didnt know Ben has been here that long

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