Before Zetaboards it was using "InvisionFree". Back then it didn't even have its own domain name and used the default InvisionFree "skin" with an eye-watering yellow background.I joined back in 2010. Back then, TBT was still using Zetaboards, and City Folk was the active game. The 3DS was still a year out.
That’s very interesting. Although I liked learning from you and Trundle about TBT 1.0 and 2.0 before ACNL came out, I’m looking for more experiences from 2013 to 2015, like when I mentioned the collectible craze or when the summer events were more like today’s Christmas and Halloween events rather than a TBT Fair or Camp TBT event.Before Zetaboards it was using "InvisionFree". Back then it didn't even have its own domain name and used the default InvisionFree "skin" with an eye-watering yellow background.
Virtually all of us back then had come over from Nintendo's now-long-defunct NSider forums, where Jeremy had a long-running thread called the "Animal Crossing Ask Center". He required us to make an account on TBT as a pre-requisite for becoming part of the "ACAC staff". (He also gave us a little AC quiz lol.) Here's the first page of that thread on a random day. Jeremy's handle was "STORMTROOPER88888" and Bulerias' was... the same.
TBT's URL was s3.invisionfree.com/the_bell_tree back then, you can browse some 2005-era snapshots with that link. Unfortunately the archive don't seem to go past the home page from my random clicking around... these crawlers have to limit how deep they go. You can at least see the amusing thread names, though.
My recollection of that era was mostly me getting into meaningless arguments with other people, almost always ones I started for no reason.
i joined the forum much later but i went digging to find these ancient relics of what was 6x2One of the biggest changes is definitely the visuals. I remember there was a time when lineups were 6x6.
yeah the full house set got a bit destroyed by the 5x2 (omg i wrote 6x6 in my post I MEANT 6x2 i swear i know how to counti joined the forum much later but i went digging to find these ancient relics of what was 6x2
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lineups used to look soooo incredibly long LOL it's almost a little jarring to look back on now, but big sadge to anyone with a full house set/or alternating items that fit with 6x2. i literally got my last popsicle i needed for the alternating half line in the first image, just before the site switched over to 5x2![]()
yeah the full house set got a bit destroyed by the 5x2 (omg i wrote 6x6 in my post I MEANT 6x2 i swear i know how to count).
your 6x2 lineups look great!!
I don't think I was in the collectible game back in the 6x2 era so i have no relics to showjust memories of Days Yonder™
I actually have a few random screenshots from TBT back in late 2013 and early 2014. They include a screenshot of the shop with a collectible info window open, a shot of the main page, a winter site banner from 2014, a particularly cursed avatar, and some really weird lineup sizes caused by slow-loading internet. But now I kind of want the broken picture icon as a collectible now...
Remembering the existence of vBulletin in general is making my bones ache.I actually have a few random screenshots from TBT back in late 2013 and early 2014. They include a screenshot of the shop with a collectible info window open, a shot of the main page, a winter site banner from 2014, a particularly cursed avatar, and some really weird lineup sizes caused by slow-loading internet. But now I kind of want the broken picture icon as a collectible now...
Ohhh this brings back so many memories, I forgot that the profile pictures were aligned to the left. I was peeved by it back then so I bought the 150x100 avatar expansion just so it would look kinda centered LOL.I actually have a few random screenshots from TBT back in late 2013 and early 2014. They include a screenshot of the shop with a collectible info window open, a shot of the main page, a winter site banner from 2014, a particularly cursed avatar, and some really weird lineup sizes caused by slow-loading internet. But now I kind of want the broken picture icon as a collectible now...
As someone who just signed up in this forum back in 2020 when ACNH is still fresh. I think the screenshots of TBT in early years are actually fascinating to look at.I actually have a few random screenshots from TBT back in late 2013 and early 2014. They include a screenshot of the shop with a collectible info window open, a shot of the main page, a winter site banner from 2014, a particularly cursed avatar, and some really weird lineup sizes caused by slow-loading internet. But now I kind of want the broken picture icon as a collectible now...
Actually for majority of the years it's been 5x2 lineups, but idk TBT had this weird 6x2 phase in I think 2019 or 2020? It was definitely experimental as hell and tbh I do not want to go back to the longer lineupsIt's really interesting that it used to have landscape sized profile pictures and more collectible slots than the usual 10 collectible slots we have now. Thank you for sharing a piece of history, I do hope it's properly archived for others who were interested in TBT's history.
Oh ok, thank you for clarifying!Actually for majority of the years it's been 5x2 lineups, but idk TBT had this weird 6x2 phase in I think 2019 or 2020? It was definitely experimental as hell and tbh I do not want to go back to the longer lineups![]()
I actually have a few random screenshots from TBT back in late 2013 and early 2014. They include a screenshot of the shop with a collectible info window open, a shot of the main page, a winter site banner from 2014, a particularly cursed avatar, and some really weird lineup sizes caused by slow-loading internet. But now I kind of want the broken picture icon as a collectible now...