The Great TCS Crash of 2004

hmm, sounds bad. IRL, I was a workaholic in the latter half of 2004, and not by choice (I had super lazy co-workers)

but I can't imagine what it was like for folks desperately needing cat advice, posting, and then suddenly the site's down

A crash, was there a crash? A vacation thread?? Was there a vacation thread???

Originally Posted by kittylover4ever

A crash, was there a crash? A vacation thread?? Was there a vacation thread???

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Yeah, right! I was just looking at the emails we exchanged (I'm an email packrat), trying to figure out exactly how long it was. I swear it was no more than 4 days, but it felt like about 4 eternities.

oh i misread- i thought TCS was down for 5-6 months

Originally Posted by c1atsite

oh i misread- i thought TCS was down for 5-6 months

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No, not down for months, but about 5 months worth of data was lost, so some great threads are gone, and chunks out of others, and anyone who joined during that time had to re-register. 4 days was MORE than enough!

Noni's thread on Pengy continued, however, and Noni kept providing updates into 2006: http://www.thecatsite.com/forums/sho...hlight=penguin

AND.... Jana found her original post about Penguin in a google cache! It's post #304 in that thread!

Originally Posted by c1atsite

oh i misread- i thought TCS was down for 5-6 months

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Well, actually, if you go by cat years......

Originally Posted by calico2222

Well, actually, if you go by cat years......

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Exactly! That is why it was so traumatic!

On vacation threads, I was thinking the other day that it is time we had a new one - the last was four years ago, I think? For those who don't know, volunteers around the world hosted the thread for two/three days each, showing all the others the delights of their own particular country/town/region. We included tourist sites, activities, food, shopping and just fun. And of course, our cats were invited on the virtual vacation, which led to many hilarious moments. Rigel, what about it? As our social/cultural secretary, can you organise something?

Originally Posted by LDG

Noni's thread on Pengy continued, however, and Noni kept providing updates into 2006: http://www.thecatsite.com/forums/sho...hlight=penguin

AND.... Jana found her original post about Penguin in a google cache! It's post #304 in that thread!

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I think I found some other pages cached. I need to see if I ever added them to the thread.

I've had a bad enough day already....and you had to bring up this........what a terrible, terrible time! I still think it was longer than four days though.....more like four-ever, lol!

Originally Posted by gemlady

Susan, I still remember and giggle over those vacation posts and running gags.

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Rigel still calls me Esmerelda now and again

Originally Posted by clixpix

there was also a girl Julie who used to post about her orphaned kitten....I forget the kitten's name now, but it was that adorable little b/w kitten that she bottle fed.

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OMG yes!. I remember when she came back i asked her to post that picture of the kitten with that huge stuffed toy boot. She was so tiny she looked like a pea on a drum

Originally Posted by rapunzel47

We also lost a chunk of the thread about Sasha the Coyote Clubber.

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Good grief yes!. The memories are all coming back now

Originally Posted by kittylover4ever

A crash, was there a crash? A vacation thread?? Was there a vacation thread???

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Susie have you still got that picture that was supposed to be me as Carmen Miranda

HAPPY DAYS!!

Originally Posted by Rosiemac

Rigel still calls me Esmerelda now and again

OMG yes!. I remember when she came back i asked her to post that picture of the kitten with that huge stuffed toy boot. She was so tiny she looked like a pea on a drum

Good grief yes!. The memories are all coming back now

Susie have you still got that picture that was supposed to be me as Carmen Miranda

HAPPY DAYS!!

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I'll have to look Suz and see if I do....

Which country were we supposed to be in for me to look like that?

I'm still giggling just thinking of that vacation again

I remember that day. I think I hit the refresh button 1,000,000,000 times. It was such a wake up call, as to how important TCS was to me. There is no where I can go and have a whole community of people who love their cats just as much as I do.

I can't believe it's been 5 years!!!

I tried logging on this morning and the forums were down, I was cursing you Jan for jinxing TCS

Originally Posted by kittylover4ever

A crash, was there a crash? A vacation thread?? Was there a vacation thread???

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Yeah, I was trying real hard to remember who started it.

Originally Posted by icklemiss21

I tried logging on this morning and the forums were down, I was cursing you Jan for jinxing TCS

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So I wasn't the only one? I was thinking I had jinxed the site, too.

I had problems with the Cat Lounge but others were fine.

Man that was a hard few days - I wonder if that temp forum somebody created is still around

I found it! Here is the picture of Susan attending a wedding while we were on our vacation!

Who's wedding was it?, or did we gate crash it?!