Originally Posted by
SQ421
Here I am, browsing FT before falling asleep and I started to wonder, which was the first post and the first thread on FlyerTalk.
Anyone care to help me find it.
Sort of complicated because FlyerTalk has a few iterations. Because it was the very first forum and well before it's time, FlyerTalk first started in October of 1995. Then it restarted itself in May 1998. Likely there are at least two "first posts" though I can absolutely tell you for sure that the very first post with either of these start dates no longer exists as I deleted them. I do distinctly remember it though and it was "where's the chicks". In the early days of FlyerTalk, we were so far ahead of the curve that many of the "first adopters" of FlyerTalk were from the Scandinavian countries which were somewhat ahead of the U.S. in online activity in 1995/1998 and were just surfing the new World Wide Web for "conversations". And I somewhat sheepishly also hate to admit it but as i recall, the second post was also deleted as it contained profanity. Boy, did we get off to a "not so much" start.
I had looked this up years ago and know the answer but it escapes me. Perhaps we can engage Carol to unbundle the current search restrictions and look back in time and see what might be captured here. It won't be exact because when moving between some technology platforms years ago we lost some of the archived posts, but at least we can have a little fun looking at what we do have for this part of our history.
BTW, hope your night's rest was a peaceful one and you didn't toss and turn all night long wondering the answer to this!