TDPRI Forum History 101?

[KYTele]

Ok...so I goto the last page (649 I believe) on this forum and see a post from Dec 31, 1969. And I recognize a few of the names on the last couple of pages from 1970 that are still postin' today.

I couldn't read the posts, but, got a kick outta some of the thread titles.

Is there a little history recorded somewhere on how this thing got its start and how it became the RI version?

[yegbert]

Reckon they used a card punch, or paper tape for those posts ?

[BritishBluesBoy]

That would have been the pre CBS internet I suppose...

[KYTele]

Definitely tubes.

Saw the dates jump to 2003 on page 647 (I believe). Figured that had something to do w/ the "RI".

[TDPRI]

We moved from MATT's WWWBOARD software to PHPBB SQL software on March 3, 2003 unofficially and officially on March 17, 2003.

We moved from PHPBB to vBulletin on June 14th, 2006.

When we imported posts from PHPBB to vB less than 50 posts were orphaned and they were giving the 1969 date.

The Internet didn't gain popularity until the beta version of Netscape browser was released in 1995.

The TDPRI was started on May 3rd, 1999.

[getbent]

Ha ha! anybody know the significance of the orphans being set to 1969?

[Ed Bickert]

I like hearing about it. Why is this a TDP-RI? Just because it went to a new software for the BB service? Did it go down and "reissue" itself later?

I must say this BB is a very comfy place. Friendly, knowledgeable, and good people all around. On top of all that, this is easily the best place to find out anything on all things "Telecaster." Which is actually a pretty big compliment as far as I'm concerned. You'd think the net was a wellspring of information. And it is. But this BBS has most of what's out there all in one place. And you get real-time answers from some very knowledgeable people. A great service. That's how I originally ended up here. I joined so I could ask a single question.

[milkshape]

Just a swag, but the 1969 made me think of the UNIX epoch, read geek stuff here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

[getbent]

That is good knowledge! Sometimes folks associate it with the invention of the floppy, but typically (especially in OS's and DB apps) it is exactly what you said.... oh yeah, one other potential argument (specioius but fun) is that it coincides with UCLA becoming the first node on the network.... aha! anybody know node 2? Sorry... I do love internet history.

[Mike Rice]

Originally Posted by Ed Bickert

I like hearing about it. Why is this a TDP-RI? Just because it went to a new software for the BB service? Did it go down and "reissue" itself later?

A gentleman named Ken Goldstein bought a Tele in the mid 90s and fell in love with it. So much so that he launched a page on the internet he called the Telecaster Appreciation Page. His intent was to hook up with other Tele onwers/lovers, exchange stories, pics, etc. In short order Ken was being flooded with questions and emails, as folks just assumed he was a Tele expert since he owned the page. The fact that he didn't consider himself an expert coupled with his job cauing him to travel more and more led him to install some free discussion board software and he called this link the Telecaster Discussion Page. I'm thinking this was sometime in 1995, maybe Fuzzy can help me out here.

It ran this way for a very short time, certainly less than a year, before our original group of 10 or 12 became dozens (whoda thunk??) and Ken couldn't handle the board any longer. He asked for a volunteer to take it over and a young man (15?) named Noam Pikelny stepped forward. In no time the board really grew in popularity and we even got our own domain name of TDPRI.COM. Up until then we were just hanging out of someone's ISP account.

I'm not going to go into detail, but suffice to say that in the time frame Paul mentioned Noam decided to shut down the original TDP. Within weeks Paul came to the rescue with the TDPRI and the rest, as they say, is history. I don't think Paul ever imagined the kind of history he would actually make here, but that's probably true of most great ventures.

Hope this helps!

[TexGoneNW]

I remember Noam...

[fasteddie455]

it just the TDP.com during Noam's tenure? I thought it received the "reissue" moniker when Paul took over.....or else my memory has just up and left me

fasteddie

[milkshape]

I just got the RI in TDPRI, duh! What's that about the forest and the trees?

[aznrambo481]

Well, a long, long time ago, a fellow named Leo opened a radio repair shop. Things snowballed, and the rest is history.

[GuitarJonz]

Before TDPRI, there was the original TDP, run by a young man named Noam. He went off to college and Paul took over as webmaster calling it TDPRI, the RI as in Reissue. I believe the original TDP was started back in 1997, maybe a bit earlier?? I remember being on there back then. I went looking to see if I could find it on the Internet Archives, but I don't see it there.

HERE's a link to an early TDPRI page from Feb. 2000, from the Internet Archives. Some names from the past, but geez, do the topics look the same??

[showman(tx)]

Originally Posted by fasteddie455

it just the TDP.com during Noam's tenure? I thought it received the "reissue" moniker when Paul took over.....or else my memory has just up and left me

fasteddie

Correct, I think the TDP became the TDPRI when Paul graciously volunteered to re-open the page after Noam decided to retire from it ...

[MulliganChebichev]

...Are you serious?! WWWBoard?! Way too confusing for me.

Hmn...I always wanted to ask why its a RI board, never got around to it. Well thanks for the info, and thanks to Paul for (re)opening this wonderful website!

[Rick Towne]

have heard him with the Leftover Salmon acoustic jam band and John Cowan more conventional bluegrass band. I do remember Mike Rice and Larry Rosen from the original pre-TDP days.

[Buckocaster51]

Noam and I played together a few times in bluegrass bands in Illinois.

Wow! What a talent. Guitar or banjo - it made no nevermind. I had known him for several years before it came out in a conversation that we were both into Telecasters. What a surprise that was!

I haven't seen him in a few years, but back then he was a darn good kid...I'm sure he still is. During one night of craziness in Louisville KY, he convinced us that every time we played a B note, we HAD to flat it out to Bb. Every song...every key. It was a hoot. We got the wildest stares from people. There were a couple of Alaskans listening to us...I am convinced that they thought we had just landed from Mars.

[Johnny Isaacs]

HERE's a link to an early TDPRI page from Feb. 2000, from the Internet Archives. Some names from the past, but geez, do the topics look the same??

I used to post a lot more back then I guess....

I've been on the page since around '97 or '98.....

Johnny Isaacs

[nasonm]

Like I mentioned to Ole Fuzzy the other day, I've been around since the Noam days (but I don't post nearly as much as some of you addicts!)

Still the best place on the net.

[customtele]

I've been around since the old days too. Remember seeing blackguards for sale in the classifieds. Last one I saw was for $9K right about the time I bought mine which must have been '99. Might have been Nacho - was it?

[woodman]

Originally Posted by GuitarJonz

HERE's a link to an early TDPRI page from Feb. 2000, from the Internet Archives. Some names from the past, but geez, do the topics look the same??

wow, what a blast from the past, seeing all those names from a bygone era ... like a neighborhood you used to live in but so many have moved away.

but as far as subject matter ... nothing new under the sun, except the flavors-of-the-month have changed!

[0le FUZZY]

...Back then jes before Noam we had tried several different chat places.

...I had come onna NET jes tew type TELECASTER and found that jes like in real life none body cared.

...Ward Meeker of Vintage Guitar started a page for us (he wood dent jes dew a TELECASTER onlee) and there was the Music chat page and won udder chat page that I kant member in 96 but none satisfied the itch.

...Ken and I dent cee eye tew eye at all and then Noam took over with a new attitude and it werked.



...We were all very close back then. We even got together and purchased Noam a TELECASTER. I have (and sum udders dew tew) the video tape of that presentation taken by a feller by the name of Alan P. He iss still roun but don't post here much if at all for the same reasons I shouldn't but still dew.

...Cee anyone yew noe?



...When he got fed up with folks like the Les Paul Overlord and the porn and he had started skool he decided tew pull the plug.

...He leff without much hoop-de-la and many were hurt.

...I started several pages and a nutter Ken started the "Ship" and Ted Weber gave us a dedicated TELECASTER page Which is still on line and looks much like the original TDP (click)

...I waz offered the job by Noam and dent even wanna go there cause of my attitude of TELECASTER onlee and I new it wood knott werk.

...Paul Green took over and called it the TDPRI (RI fer reissue) jes like the 52 Reissue. The new TDPRI had different sections but Paul kept on changin and adding new software and changin the page structure till we haff watt we haff now.

...Our founders together ---Thanx tew both of yew!!



...I bin here from the very beginin and hope tew be till the very bloody end ( I keep my fingers crossed).







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