link : http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://forums.digitalpoint.com how we can make similar DP forum ? ( lol ? )
http://web.archive.org/web/20040227042737/http://forums.digitalpoint.com/ This one was the oldest.. there were only two user... and even the forum software was Phpbb..
From the first archive on Feb 27, 2004 to the second on Mar 25, 2004 it had changed to vB and had 117 members. That's not a bad uptake rate. But by then Shawn was already well known and most of us were refugees from another forum that had been sold and overloaded with ads. Access on dialup was impossible and so dp thrived where the original forum sank.