>This is true; the way DCForum handles link embedding is pretty crocky,
>and if you put on the protocol tag, it parses that as the server you
>want. I don't know if it's actually "older than Google", but it's
>true that SSL was far less commonplace in those days (and tended not
>to be used on the kind of site that people on web forums were going to
>be trying to link to very much, I should suspect).
>

Release dates might be a very near thing. I know neither Google nor this forum existed (at least in a publicly available form) when I first started college back in '97 at any rate.

Going by the copyright date in the footer, I'm actually impressed by the forum software, I'd honestly have expected it to stop functioning by now given newer versions of underlying OS, web server, etc.

	-={(Astynax)}=- "At least I -hope- those things have been updated since 2002, otherwise I expect the forum to try to sell me Russian vodka-flavored Viagra any day now."