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Old March 22nd, 2008, 11:14 PM   #1
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[Sat 15:00:11] <~Viper007Bond> damn, yesterday was finalgear.com's 3rd birthday!
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This site has many birthdays:
  • Somewhere around the end of October 2003 for the original site
  • December 28th, 2004 for when the FinalGear.com was first registered
  • And yesterday, March 21st, when the very first post was made to the FinalGear.com site in 2005

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Another "post" made to a temporary page: http://www.finalgear.com/news/2005/0...2005-released/
The first, real news post made to the site as you see it today: http://www.finalgear.com/news/2005/0...new-full-site/
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About half of our mods are MIA, yeah.

Check the member's list, but remember that this forum started out as my own personal forums. I later added a Gear.Viper007Bond.com section and then even later, copied the database and deleted all non-gear threads.
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