About this archive
A fan-made, non-commercial history project: how the Rave Adelaide forums were rebuilt, and what could not be recovered. It is not run by, or connected with, the people who ran the original site.
The site it rebuilds
| Years | Address | What ran there |
|---|---|---|
| 2003–2005 | raveadelaide.net/forums | Invision Power Board 1.2, with a portal front page, a mobile (WAP) version and photo albums |
| 2005–2006 | raveadelaide.net, then raveadelaide.com.au/forums | Invision Power Board 2.0 in the "SparAzero" skin, with an MKPortal front page |
| 2006–2008 | raveadelaide.com.au/forum | Invision Power Board 2.1, later IP.Board 2.2 |
| August 2008 | both | the server began answering every request with an error, and the site never returned |
Sources
- Internet Archive (Wayback Machine): every capture of both addresses was listed (about 109,000), and every forum page, front page, calendar page and image worth keeping was downloaded.
- Thread pages were captured in different years, and the board listed posts newest-first until 2006 and oldest-first after, so each thread is merged from every monthly copy of every page, post by post.
- Other copies of the threads recovered posts that no ordinary page had: 1,229 from the lo-fi version, 3,980 from printable copies, 905 from the 2004 mobile (WAP) copy and 669 opening posts from the site's front page.
- Pictures linked from posts were looked up in the Internet Archive wherever they had been hosted; 2,606 are shown here, copied unchanged from the archived originals.
- Common Crawl holds three captures from 2008, all of them already in the Internet Archive; arquivo.pt and archive.today hold nothing. The Australian Web Archive does not allow automated access, so its copies could not be included.
Other parts of the old site
The forum was the heart of Rave Adelaide, but the site had other sections. Only scraps of them were captured, and they are not rebuilt here; the Wayback Machine has what there is:
- Online mixes (2003–2004): lists of DJ mixes by style.
- The RA online shop (2005): CDs, vinyl, DVDs and clothing.
- Photo galleries of parties: the 2003–2005 albums and the 2006–2008 gallery. Most of the photos were never captured.
- The WAP version (2004): the forum for mobile phones of the day. Posts recovered from it are in the threads here.
What survives, board by board
| Board | Threads | Known only by title | Posts survive | Board's own count | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shoot The Breeze | 303 | 204 | 23,264 | 569,818 | 4.1% |
| Past Events | 273 | 112 | 12,006 | 178,914 | 6.7% |
| Upcoming Events | 489 | 46 | 9,562 | 6,111 | |
| Music & Production | 183 | 349 | 5,991 | 66,173 | 9.1% |
| Insight | 88 | 154 | 5,474 | 77,530 | 7.1% |
| Buy & Sell | 220 | 275 | 2,244 | 13,464 | 16.7% |
| Gold Threads | 13 | 0 | 1,286 | 1,682 | 76.5% |
| News | 71 | 1 | 367 | 2,380 | 15.4% |
| Help & Feedback | 30 | 107 | 348 | 1,891 | 18.4% |
| Board unknown | 84 | 8 | 113 | ? | |
| Competitions | 18 | 8 | 95 | 776 | 12.2% |
| Local Mixes | 11 | 35 | 38 | 673 | 5.6% |
| Hard Dance | 14 | 38 | 38 | 142 | 26.8% |
| Drum and Bass | 7 | 39 | 28 | 197 | 14.2% |
| Freeform / UK Hardcore | 14 | 0 | 24 | 92 | 26.1% |
| Techno | 3 | 0 | 8 | 29 | 27.6% |
| Interviews | 3 | 0 | 4 | ? |
The board's own totals
| Captured | Posts | Members | Software |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003-12 | 18,619 | 436 | Invision 1.2 |
| 2004-04 | 128,205 | 969 | Invision 1.2 |
| 2004-07 | 187,506 | 1,206 | Invision 1.2 |
| 2005-01 | 325,761 | 2,096 | Invision 1.2 |
| 2005-07 | 453,275 | 2,953 | Invision 1.2 |
| 2006-01 | 623,435 | 4,182 | Invision 2.0.4 |
| 2006-07 | 766,001 | 5,065 | Invision 2.0.4 |
| 2007-01 | 857,098 | 6,000 | Invision 2.1.7 |
| 2007-07 | 896,394 | 6,474 | Invision 2.2.2 |
| 2008-01 | 940,304 | 7,014 | Invision 2.2.2 |
| 2008-07 | 966,391 | 8,684 | Invision 2.2.2 |
Privacy
Email addresses and phone numbers are removed from posts, titles and names, except in adverts and business posts, where contact details were the point. Members' profile pages and profile photos are not published, and links to them are removed. Pages that only logged-in members could see were never captured and are not here. To ask for something to be removed, see takedown.