ARCHIVE: Visual history of TOL.

**Knight** · January 17th, 2007, 04:37 PM

2007 is TOL's 10 year anniversary.

**BillyBob** · January 17th, 2007, 04:41 PM

I must have found TOL right at the beginning, I've been posting here since the 90's.

**Poly** · January 17th, 2007, 06:41 PM

10 years of smack . :::sniff:::

Little TOL is growing up. :::sniff sniff:::

It's bad enough that my oldest "baby" will be 20 in a few months and now this.

**Ask Mr. Religion** · September 1st, 2007, 02:16 AM

Not all the page links work, but the internet archive shows many of the evolutions of TOL, including links on the forums that work for some pages.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://...logyonline.com

Amusing to review some of the forums having the same questions posted by the same persons asking the very same questions today.

**johncalvinhall** · December 20th, 2007, 11:00 PM

Originally Posted by Poly

I do too. If my scanner was working I'd post them.

Hey,

Email them to me and I'll scan them in for you!!!

**Knight** · December 21st, 2007, 12:53 PM

Changes are on the horizon.....

But here is how we looked in 2007.

TOL 2007.jpg

**Jahdal** · April 5th, 2008, 10:14 AM

Knight,

Did you start this site yourself or did you take over for someone else? I ask because your "join date" isn't 1997.

How many people were on the forum at first and about how many did TOL increase in the following years?

What happened to Knight cam?

**chickenman** · May 6th, 2008, 08:31 AM

Originally Posted by Knight

This is when TOL really started to get rolling.

I think this is 1998-ish?

I remember posting back in the days of this look. Do you have a database of old usernames and/or posts from those older forums?

**chickenman** · May 6th, 2008, 08:32 AM

You can also find a lot of old looks on the Alexa website, where they somehow chronicle the site's appearance throughout the years.

**Knight** · October 7th, 2008, 11:35 AM

TOL in 2008 just after the massive upgrade.

TOL 2008.jpg

**Knight** · April 20th, 2010, 12:31 PM

Bump for the newbies.

**Knight** · April 20th, 2010, 12:41 PM

I realize this is a 2 year old question but....

Originally Posted by Jahdal

Knight,

Did you start this site yourself or did you take over for someone else? I ask because your "join date" isn't 1997.

We got a entirely new forum script in 2001 that's why the oldest members are from 2001 and not 1997. I created the username "Knight" in 2002 prior to that I was webmaster and Nathon Detroit.

**Ktoyou** · June 24th, 2010, 04:57 PM

Here is my original TOL avatar, perhaps it will be resurrected someday?

**JoeyArnold** · January 19th, 2011, 04:43 PM

Originally Posted by Knight

In this thread I will do my best to catalog a running history of TOL though the ages.

Look what I dug up! A screen shot of the very first version of TheologyOnLine. Notice we didn't yet own the domain name "theologyonline.com".

This screen shot was taken Oct 27th 1997 - I am not sure how long TOL was up and running before this shot was taken.

"Comments may be removed for any reason." has now evolved into "You may be banned for any reason," now. Oh, did I say that? Forgive me. But I was just looking at the original rules on this picture of yours from 1997. I was only observing the differences between the internet world then and now. I think the rules for all sites have changed from then to now, policies to so many things. I was only about twelve back then, anyways, so, what do I know?

**JoeyArnold** · January 19th, 2011, 04:46 PM

Originally Posted by Knight

TOL in 2008 just after the massive upgrade.

Less ads on this ones. Or no ads, I see between the topic of the day and the active threads.

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