click here. Weird, ay?

i found this archive thing that lets you go back and see how different URL's used to look: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

There's quite a few older versions of the site stored in archive.org, the full list of them can be found here.

You can actually click through to the forum in some of them aswell, right back to when we had the old YaBB board.

Some of the graphics don't work any more because they are absolute URLs and link to the current equivalents, such as with the header graphic in the version of the site you've linked to in your post above.

That is brilliant! A real blast from the past. I knew THAT thread with jesusfreak was locked, so I'm not going crazy I'd never have guessed ye olde' yabb board would still be flaoting around cyberspace somewhere.

Jimmy Potzenpans, now he was one of a kind.

I wish I still had the url address when the site was named The Encyclopaedia of the Unexplained (was it Bravenet that use to host your site?), that would really give everyone an idea of how you've progressed over the years. Not to get nostalgic on you or anything, but what a difference, hey?

I've still got all the early versions of the site, even the very first one which I did back in 1998. It was originally hosted on some free web space which came with my ISP account, and later moved to Freeserve which was when I had the BraveNet discussion forum. Most of that was before I even had the domain.

The first version had about 10 pages, lots of animated stars, a midi tune and was admittedly awful - maybe it's just as well that one isn't in archive.org

We've been through seven incarnations of UM since then.