[Article] Test out the fancy new UF theme?

[Valve1138]

Hey @fly

Is there a theme that'll make this place look like AOL?

 

[kiwi]

He was running forums before we were all even thought of.....

He’s been running forums before the internet was even invented!

 

[NukesII]

He’s been running forums before the internet was even invented!

From a slide rule plugged into DARPAnet

 

[Dory Berkowitz-Bukowski]

He’s been running forums before the internet was even invented!

He was running messaging boards since they were fabricated from cork and had metal push pins!

 

[Hoff Kinkmeister]

He was running messaging boards since they were fabricated from cork and had metal push pins!

Metal? Dude pinned his posts with flints.

 

[HipHugHer]

Shards of antler

 

[Hoff Kinkmeister]

Shards of antler

Ooh, that's good. Turns out I don't know my neolithic tools too well.

 

[Strings]

 

[HipHugHer]

Ooh, that's good. Turns out I don't know my neolithic tools too well.

I don't either I just got lucky.
Do know that bone can be used for a great many things though.

 

[Hoff Kinkmeister]

I don't either I just got lucky.
Do know that bone can be used for a great many things though.

Antler tools were common enough.

 

[HipHugHer]

Antler tools were common enough.

Of course you need the flint to get the first bone.

 

[HipHugHer]

Well not really but you get the idea.

 

[Hoff Kinkmeister]

Of course you need the flint to get the first bone.

Not necessarily, scavenged perhaps? But bone/antler makes the most sense for a pushpin.

 

[Strings]

Thorns for pushpins.

 

[HipHugHer]

There's some cactus around here you could use for a sewing needle, of course you'd have to make the thread.

 

[HipHugHer]

Making fabric has to be way up there on the list of things that brought humans comfort.

 

[Strings]

Making fabric has to be way up there on the list of things that brought humans comfort.

Yeah, that held them over until pharmaceutical grade narcotics became widely available.

 

[Hoff Kinkmeister]

Yeah, that held them over until pharmaceutical grade narcotics became widely available.

There's a line of thought that large-scale alcohol production (labor/resource intensive, not gonna be doing that on your own) was a primary driver of early human society.

 

[Hoff Kinkmeister]

Birthday cake animal cookies, kids these days are so spoiled.

 

[HipHugHer]

There's a line of thought that large-scale alcohol production (labor intensive, not gonna be doing that on your own) was a primary driver of early human society.

Water purification and topical antiseptics are good things.