What happened in February 2007?!

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Sean O'Grady

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What happened in February 2007?!
« on: September 23, 2008, 06:41:45 AM »
If you look at how many members have registered on this forum, right up until February 2007 it looked like this site was set to take over the interwebs. The growth was more exponential and now it's almost linear...


What the hell happened in February 2007?! I noticed that Dead Kangaroo and Raist joined then, was there anybody else?

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Re: What happened in February 2007?!
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2008, 06:55:48 AM »
Valentine's Day, I believe.
I'm going to side with the white supremacists.

Re: What happened in February 2007?!
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2008, 06:57:12 AM »
* February 1 - British Prime Minister Tony Blair is questioned for a second time in the 'cash for peerages (Cash for Honours)' probe as a witness.
* February 2 - An unseasonal tornado in central Florida kills at least 20 people.
* February 2 - Palestinian factional violence: Hamas and its rival Fatah renew their truce after violence broke out following the initial ceasefire.
* February 2 - Chinese President Hu Jintao signs a series of economic deals with Sudan.
* February 2 - War in Somalia: Eight people are killed in a mortar attack in Somalia's capital Mogadishu.
* February 2 - Martti Ahtisaari unveils a United Nations plan for the final status of Kosovo; Serbian leaders denounce the proposal.
* February 2 - The IPCC publishes its fourth assessment report, having concluded that global climate change is "very likely" to have a predominantly human cause.
* February 3 - The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu is found at a Bernard Matthews turkey farm in Suffolk, England.
* February 3 - State of Emergency is declared in Indonesia after 'El Nino'-like flooding.
* February 3 - A truck bombing in a crowded Baghdad market kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339 others.
* February 11 - Portuguese voters agree to legalise abortion in a national referendum.
* February 12 - An armed gunman shoots and kills five people at the Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City, Utah, before being killed by the police, bringing the evening's rampage death toll to six.
* February 13 - North Korea agrees to shut down its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon by April 14 as a first step towards complete denuclearization, receiving in return energy aid equivalent to 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil.[9]
* February 13 - Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.
* February 22 - A large fire causes 26 fatalities in care center "Reģi" which is located in Alsunga, Latvia.
* February 25 - The 79th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, takes place at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. The Departed wins Best Picture.
* February 26 - The International Court of Justice finds Serbia guilty of failing to prevent genocide in the Srebrenica massacre, but clears it of direct responsibility and complicity in the case.
* February 27 - The Chinese Correction: world stock markets plummet after China and Europe release less-than-expected growth reports.
* February 27 - 2007 Bagram Air Base bombing: A Taliban suicide attack at Bagram Air Base while Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney is visiting kills 23, but he is not injured.
* February 28 - The New Horizons space probe makes a gravitational slingshot against Jupiter which changes its trajectory towards Pluto.

Re: What happened in February 2007?!
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2008, 06:59:18 AM »
Looks like lazy admin.

Site probably started in 05 and they thought it would be fun to chart the usuage. Then they got bored so just make it go up a tad every month.

Also it was my 28th Birthday so maybe it's because of all the street parties that went on

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Sean O'Grady

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Re: What happened in February 2007?!
« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2008, 07:05:19 AM »
Well thanks, I was meaning something on the forums.

I think I figured it out, it was around then that the new forum came in (I think) so I'm guessing it means less spambots were able to get through after that.

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Dead Kangaroo

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Re: What happened in February 2007?!
« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2008, 07:07:09 AM »
Yeh, the forum was originally phpbb but Daniel converted it to smf.

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Re: What happened in February 2007?!
« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2008, 09:54:33 AM »
I joined in January of '07.

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Re: What happened in February 2007?!
« Reply #7 on: September 23, 2008, 10:56:12 AM »
I think I joined in feb '07, just after Kanga and Raist methinks
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