12000 members

[robotman]

Today the 12000 member mark has finally been reached, To honor of that I give you the history of Scioly.org, complete with pictures and a timeline.

The Beginning

First Generation wiki


Scioly.org started in 1998 and had about 10 members* subscribed to it. There where many features such as State pages, a Question and answer panel, a Java Chat room, even Event Pages that may have been similar to the present wiki



Second Gen Board

Message Board

Posting


Then around 2000 a new Layout of the Homepage Began it seemed to be hosted by Charles. There were multiple ways to Join, subscribe directly by email or email the people in charge to add you*. That board was extremely successful with 52 pages of Topics 22935 hits and a live chat twice a week.

Board gen 3


The homepage of the SOSC changed yet again in October** of the same year. there where more features added during the change,Team of the Week, Editorials, a more organized Event Info, and even Competition by State Info. Team of the week was written by Linda(a mod in the forums later).There where five people in charge of the Board
Ben:Webmaster, Main Page Design
Jim R:Webmaster, Main Page Design
Linda:Webmaster, Team of the Week, Editorials, Weekly Sections, News, Photographer.
Eric:Webmaster, Main Page Design, Logo Design, Trajectory Page.
Charles:Server and Domain Administrator
This board had around 300 topics and almost 22300 hits.
They where an enterprising bunch.They sold SOSC (what the forum was called back then) Buttons.

Board gen 4


Around October 2nd 2001 they added a bulletin board similar to thia site. This bulletin board had 175 members and 281 topics it even reached 1858 posts. There are very few members still around from that time the old hats like Jim_R Uncle Fester,Deltahat,and Mathew.
They again decide to change change so the layout changes to a blue similar to the one we know and love. The admins emerged with colored nicks. They where* Jim_R, Linda, and Charles. This version exploded into life with 1230 members 2208 topics, 36163 posts and 363781 views. In this period of prosperity for the SOSC they implemented the OBB board many of you may know this as the OBB Archive.Around April 2006 when the SOSC was put to rest and the homepage changes to the OBB forum.



this was the original wiki (pmwiki). It was a true wiki, since it was open to direct user editting. We had an approval queue implemented there and the vastly excellent behavior on that system was one of the reasons we have no approval queue on the current wiki. I say that was the original wiki because previous event information had been presented as static pages that were written by a single author. We just called them Event Pages. Only a few of the Event Pages are still around and that's because their content was not something that could be presented reasonably on the wiki. The Rocks and Minerals page is still around, as well as its hundred subpages with pictures of the rocks/minerals.

OBB achive


And the name changed to Scioly.org. This board reached 10474 members 177009 posts and 9087 topics. It was then that The Esteemed Dark Sabre was Crowned Administrator. This version had tons of great features a calendar the present WIKI, Birthdays, Team forums, and collapsible forums.


They Present Board was created in June 2008. Dark Sabre added new staff for better moderation of the forums they where gh Siegelord bah and eak227, all exmplemary members on the OBB forums. Also he added the better than ever Chat engines. The board has been running fine ever since with 12000 members at least 1000 topics and more than 70000 posts. Also we have a score tracker made by Tehkubix and the Image gallery to share pictures.

Thanks Linda Charles Jim_R and Dark Sabre for creating this and keeping it running

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Footnotes
* this information is based of of an inference
all of this information was found Here at the Wayback Machine
**date may be off problems with the achive
click on the thumbnails for a bigger image
if you find a spelling or informational error please tell me and so i can fix it

[fmtiger124]

fmtiger124 declares robotman09 has too much free time but applauds him for a job well done

[gyourkoshaven]

I applaud robotman. Job well done. Can DS archive this?

[EastStroudsburg13]

How in the world did you find all of those pictures? I never realized that scioly went through so many changes.

[gyourkoshaven]

Eyeball showed me the two before the OBB archive, but I didn't know there were more.

[robotman]

all of the pictures are screen shots
*EDIT*if you want to see more on them go to the link at the bottom of the first post

[sciolykid101]

nicely done

[sewforlife]

good job.
edit 1: "good" instead of "god"
edit 2: btw, when u made this we are still at the 12,000 mark. not over it yet.

[SOninja]

WOW!!!!

[Dark Sabre]

Nicely put together.

There was actually a stage between the SOSC mainpage (which as you can see, wasn't really ever updated after a point) disappearing and OBB becoming the mainpage. DeltaHat and Jim implemented a new mainpage based on Exponent, a module-based content management system. You can still read the thread "releasing" it to the public Here, though the links don't work any more. It was nice looking, but it turned out there was a security hole in the software that spammers were using to send emails from the scioly.org servers. Our webhost noticed and had us remove Exponent. So the domain was set to point straight to the OBB board, since it was the primary content.

I have yet to find the screenshot I've been looking for of the Exponent Main Page, but here's one of the standalone wiki module (the wiki survived even after Exponent was removed).



That was the original wiki (pmwiki). It was a true wiki, since it was open to direct user editting. We had an approval queue implemented there and the vastly excellent behavior on that system was one of the reasons we have no approval queue on the current wiki. I say that was the original wiki because previous event information had been presented as static pages that were written by a single author. We just called them Event Pages. Only a few of the Event Pages are still around and that's because their content was not something that could be presented reasonably on the wiki. The Rocks and Minerals page is still around, as well as its hundred subpages with pictures of the rocks/minerals.

:shrug: I'll try to find the exponent screenshot I'm thinking of...