ok so I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and it’s the right time. Almost exactly 6 years ago we closed the Skilltoys.net forums forever, removing over 7 years of historical conversations, trick information, product releases, arguments and other stuff that happens in a yo-yo forum. I’ve held on to the archive of those forums since that day, and today I’m putting it back up as part of the Museum. It’s read only so no-one can post, but I hope you find it an enjoyable look back through time.
You may recognize some names in there - for example, MasterMagic would be the one and only André Boulay. barneyakers is Steve Brown, dif-e-yo is actually Frank and I believe somewhere buried in there is the original announcement of the Konkave bearing.
Heh, that place closed down shortly after I got into yoyoing, wish I got a chance to join the forums there, oh well, reading through some of those posts seems pretty satisfying too!
Ooh, now that is a forum I wish I still had - the original “Dave’s wonderful world of yo-yos” board. Unfortunately that got corrupted before I had any concept of backups.
So much fun to read back through that stuff. It’s pretty crazy how many friends I have now whom I first knew as screen names on Dave’s board. Now if Rich/Tommy and GReg could somehow reload the ES and yoyoing.com/news boards, I’d have a 10.0 nostalgia-quake.
