theFinn: return to development?

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Re: theFinn: return to development?

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I had a Comp. Sci. professor who was certainly over sixty, and another who I suspected was.

Oh, and there's always SamG 8)

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Yes, one of the best coders in the Danish phpBB community aged 60 in November last year.

I don't remember where I have read it, but I recall having read that it all started with theFinn was asked to code a message baord for his wife for some purpose, which I do not remember. Now see what comes out of taking orders from women! :o
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John Hjorth wrote: I don't remember where I have read it, but I recall having read that it all started with theFinn was asked to code a message baord for his wife for some purpose, which I do not remember.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhpBB


no mention of the wife :lol:
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I remember something about the Wife too... but I don’t remember where I heard that... :?
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http://www.phpbb.com/about/history/ wrote: phpBB was originally created by James Atkinson (theFinn) in June 2000, as a UBB-like forum solution for his wife. Once released to the public through Sourceforge, it gained popularity very quickly, and by December of the same year v1.0.0 was released.
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Once again, behind all this there's a woman.
Typical.
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Highway of Life wrote: Okay, how about over 60?
The Computer Science department I'm studying at has various members of staff older than 60...
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the_dan wrote:
Highway of Life wrote: Okay, how about over 60?
The Computer Science department I'm studying at has various members of staff older than 60...

We know, since the beginning of times, we all are apprentices. That's why, logically, the oldest guys are here in order to guide us.
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karlsemple wrote:
John Hjorth wrote: I don't remember where I have read it, but I recall having read that it all started with theFinn was asked to code a message baord for his wife for some purpose, which I do not remember.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhpBB


no mention of the wife :lol:


From Sitepoint.com Interview - James Atkinson , Founder of phpBB:
How and why did phpBB get started? How did the phpBB team get together? Did you ever think the product would be as popular as it is now?

I started phpBB in the summer of 2000 with the lofty goal of providing my wife with a forum for her Website. At the time, the only real options for forum software that I knew of were UBB and Phorum. UBB was too expensive for a poor college student, and I didn't like the style of Phorum at all. I wanted a good, open source, flat-style message board, so I set to work to clone the look of UBB and offer it for free under GPL.

The team came together after I posted a message on DevShed asking for people to test my new forum. Soon after that, I opened up a project on Sourceforge.net and people began to submit code and ask if they could join the team. It all kind of snowballed from there.
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