Long shot, but does anyone happen to have any screenshots of the very first version of lustria online? I realize it's ages ago and it's migrated four or five times at this point, but I was getting nostalgic and was curious. Dunno if there's anyone still even around from then but it would be fun to see if there is!
It would be interesting to see. If anybody has any screenshots of previous incarnations of our beloved forum, I reckon it'd be our glorious leader @The Red Devil.
luckily for all of us, even those who werent around during the beginning, like myself, the wayback machine has us covered! https://web.archive.org/web/20080330084148/http://www.lustria-online.com/
I'm surprised how diligently the Wayback Machine has captured our most sacred of forums... it had even taken two separate captures of my introduction thread way back in 2017. It was also great to just look through the forum as it passed through time and see the first known greats like @Scalenex, @Rikard, @Pinktaco, @Qupakoco and even @Gary_M pop up way back in the days of older Fantasy editions, and then subsequent generations emerge. And it was interesting to see the boards evolve too... I must say it was a shame to see the Lesser Races board go - though we now have the Other Armies subforum, it was a pity to lose the original and all the posts associated with it.
I could not remember whether that board was still there when we merged into the new system, as all available posts on the old forum was imported. But when doing a quick search for the name of one of the initial posts on that board from WayBackMachine. I located the post, the board was imported into the Lizardmen Discussion board. https://www.lustria-online.com/threads/speed-of-asuryan.48/#post-10918
I saw this! There was actually an earlier version than even that i was hoping to get a peek of, but i guess 16 years is old enough