After a lot of work, the site's history has finally been compiled. Due to the length of the history, it is going to be released one year at a time. So, let's start off with the year 2001:

http://www.pso-world.com/sections.ph...cle&artid=2416

If any of the links do not work, let me know. It is easy to over-look something when there are this many.



Day 7 Content
For today's Site History content, I'll be listing "interesting" PSO-World trivia. These are things you may have wondered about, but never really knew the answers for.

Top 10 PSO-World Posters (including FKL)
Since the site is missing a large number of threads from 2001/2002, the next few lists are based on what is in the forum archive.
1. Tact - 14186 posts
2. Sef - 14180 posts
3. Mixfortune - 9676 posts
4. ABDUR101 - 9527 posts
5. Kuea - 9070 posts
6. Ness - 8633 posts
7. navci - 7667 posts
8. LollipopLolita - 7381 posts
9. Solstis - 7280 posts
10. HAYABUSA-FMW- - 7153 posts

Top 10 Threads with the Most Replies
1. The not-long awaited return of - 5320 replies
2. The Day's Finds - 2847 replies
3. Character Gallery - 2393 replies
4. Caution, RL Pics inside - 1952 replies
5. The NEW NEW NEW not-very-long awaited return of - 1524 replies
6. The NEW not-very-long awaited return of "The person above me" thread - 1476 replies
7. The NEW NEW not-very-long awaited return of "The person above me" thread - 1476 replies
8. PSO Mini Wars - 1465 replies
9. The NEWER () not-very-long awaited return of "The person above me" thread - 1425 replies
10. Official Blue Burst Screenshot Thread - 1287 replies

Top 10 Threads with the Most Views
1. Character Gallery - 78107 views
2. Official Blue Burst Screenshot Thread - 61324 views
3. The Ended Theory (Sealed J-Sword) - 56069 views
4. The Day's Finds - 46159 views
5. Site Additions and Suggestions - 43531 views
6. RUN FASTER1111!!!!!!!!111 - 42576 views
7. The pic post: Caution, RL Pics inside - 41280 views
8. PSOW RL PIC THREAD - 41280 views
9. Oops - 37121 views
10. Salvation Army - 36296 views

Historic Posts
#500000 was made by Maki_Nomiya on 2003-05-04 in this thread.
#750000 was made by Kasumi on 2004-01-06 in this thread.
#1000000 was made by Sef on 2004-08-21 in this thread.
#1250000 was made by Tact on 2006-02-21 in this thread.

Top 5 Items with the Most Views
1. Agito (AUW 1975) - 177701 views
2. Demolition Comet - 133303 views
3. Twin Brand - 118843 views
4. Soul Banish - 118520 views
5. God Hand - 111042 views

Top 10 Guides with the Most Views
1: Armor and Weapon Combinations - 597515 views
2: Converting Enemy Parts Into Weapons - 364818 views
3: Master Mag Gallery - 314876 views
4: Episode 1 & 2 Feeding Charts for All Mags - 261180 views
5: Photon Drops Prize Chart & Photon Sphere for Gamecube/XBox versions of Gallon's Shop - 257772 views
6: Hunter Mags & Evolution - 185682 views
7: Episode 1 & 2 Mag Cell Combinations - 154663 views
8: Enemy Parts Locations - 143487 views
9: Force Mags & Evolution - 139732 views
10: Ranger Mags & Evolution - 126047 views

Top 10 Stories with the Most Views
1: Someone has found a way to get the TRUE AGITO - 23170 views
2: PSO *REAL* PK possible - 15611 views
3: 10 more PSO version 2 shots! - 10115 views
4: Japanese Easter Quests... ^_^ - 7761 views
5: Episode 4 Announced - 6805 views
6: Another Technique for Making Back-up - 6487 views
7: Goodbye PSO World - 5913 views
8: Possible prevent on the BSoD. Never lose anything again. - 5762 views
9: PSO ver. 2 - The Screens. - 4490 views
10: Update from Sega on Server Changes to Backups! - 4376 views

Top 10 Stories with the Most Comments
1: PSO *REAL* PK possible - 112 comments
2: PSO v2 info from East Coast Sega Distributer Rep - 103 comments
3: PSO version 2 release date set to 9/11 - 93 comments
4: Episode 4 Announced - 92 comments
5: New PSU Details - 92 comments
6: Someone has found a way to get the TRUE AGITO - 90 comments
7: PSOBB Open Beta - 80 comments
8: US Delay Reasons? - 77 comments
9: Halloween Event On PSOX, Not? - 76 comments
10: GCSCCC Hackers are in for a real treat! How does PERMANENT BAN sound? - 69 comments

Top 10 Polls with the Most Votes
1: Let's get honest, exactly why do you play PSO? - 10555 votes
2: Are you going to resort to a cheap deck to win in EP 3? - 9772 votes
3: Which *Force* support/recovery tech is the most valuable for online team play? - 8416 votes
4: What do you think of Episode 4? - 7836 votes
5: What character class will you choose for PSU online? - 7525 votes
6: Will you buy EP III when it is released stateside? - 7336 votes
7: Assuming that you actually spend time away from PSO, what is your reason for not "getting it on?" - 7256 votes
8: Who could take on Batman and kick his ass?! - 7228 votes
9: What are you most looking forward to in PSOver.2? - 7163 votes
10: Which Ep1 song is your favourite? - 6978 votes

Miscellanious Trivia:
-Uncle_bob was the first person to use the wacko in this thread. The wacko has been used over 20,000 times since then.
-"God" was the name Gideon used to post news stories.
-In the first PSO-World showdown, ABDUR101 was defeated by the Rag Rappy.



Day 6 Content:
Did you ever wonder what PSOW looked like back in 2001? Well, I'll be posing some screenshots from late April 2001 today.

Front Page
At this point in time, PSO-World was running its first Fan Art Contest and was asking people to vote for the winners. Also, the release Version 2 loomed on the horizon.

Item Database
Do these items look familiar? They should. We've been hunting them for the last 5 years! Of course, most of the rares from this period looked like standard items. Something else to note is the non-standard weapon-types.

Lavis Cannon
Back in 2001, the Lavis Cannon was the ultimate rare weapon. The only way to earn it was to win an official Sega contest or hack it.

Forum Index
Most of these forums should look rather familiar. The unique things that should jump out at you are the Petition forum and "Moderated By" column. Also, anonymous posting was allowed in certain forums.

First Topic
Gideon posted the first forum topic on January 12th to welcome people to the new PSOW forums.

Member Profile
The member profile page has evolved over the years, but you can still see many of the basic elements here.

Old Complaints
Three weeks after PSO first came out, people were already complaining about Sephiroth clones. Some things really haven't changed that much at all over the last few years.

KodiaX987 - The Newbie
Speaking of newbish behavior, even certain older members of the website exhibited newbish behavior. Still, most of them grew up. In some cases though, it is debatable as to whether they did...

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