OpenPandora.org - 5th Year Anniversary


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27th of August 2010 ~ Forever

I just want to congratulate ED and the entire OpenPandora/DrafonBox Pyra community for making this place the goto place for all things Pandora and Pyra (among other things too of course).

I, personally haven't been here for 5 years yet due to the fact that at the time I was sceptical about moving on from gp32x.de to here...but I must say that this community is the best community I've ever had the pleasure of joining.

And after almost 400,000 posts (10,000 are mine, but all spam though :p ) and over 8000 members I can't believe how far we have all come and how awesome we've all grown as a community.

I know that great people (Gruso, Prometheus, and a few other legends ( coincidentally an old legend has returned today just in time to celebrate, best day to make a return, lol ) ) have come and gone, but it never ceases to surprise me when new, awesome members join us.

Congrats all. :)

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EDIT: Changed GP2x.com to gp32x.de
 
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August 27 is the 239th day of the year (240th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 126 days remaining until the end of the year.

Holidays and observances:

 Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Moldova from the USSR in 1991. 
 Lyndon Baines Johnson Day (Texas)

 Christian feast day:
  Baculus of Sorrento
  Caesarius of Arles
  Margaret the Barefooted
  Monica of Hippo, mother of Augustine of Hippo
  Phanourios of Rhodes
  Rufus and Carpophorus
  Thomas Gallaudet and Henry Winter Syle (Episcopal Church)
  August 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 

Events
410 – The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days.
1172 – Henry the Young King and Margaret of France are crowned as junior king and queen of England.
1232 – The Formulary of Adjudications is promulgated by Regent Hōjō Yasutoki. (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 1232)
1593 – Pierre Barrière fails in his attempt to assassinate King Henry IV of France.
1689 – The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing Empire (Julian calendar).
1776 – Battle of Long Island: In what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: The city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.
1798 – Wolfe Tone's United Irish and French forces clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in the creation of the French puppet Republic of Connacht.
1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.
1813 – French Emperor Napoleon I defeats a larger force of Austrians, Russians, and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
1828 – Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by the United Kingdom between Brazil and Argentina during the Cisplatine War.
1832 – Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk tribe of Native Americans, surrenders to U.S. authorities, ending the Black Hawk War.
1859 – Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.
1896 – Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
1914 – Battle of Étreux: A British rearguard action by the Royal Munster Fusiliers during the Great Retreat.
1916 – The Kingdom of Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering World War I as one of the Allied nations.
1918 – Mexican Revolution: Battle of Ambos Nogales: U.S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas and their German advisors in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.
1921 – The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali (leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire) as King Faisal I of Iraq.
1922 – Greco-Turkish War: The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Kingdom of Greece.
1927 – Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"
1928 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by the first fifteen nations to do so. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
1933 – The first Afrikaans Bible is introduced during a Bible Festival in Bloemfontein.
1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.
1943 – World War II: Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
1957 – Malaysia's constitution comes into force.
1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
1964 – South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Khánh enters into a triumvirate power-sharing arrangement with rival generals Trần Thiện Khiêm and Dương Văn Minh, who had both been involved in plots to unseat Khánh.
1971 – An attempted coup d'état fails in the African nation of Chad. The Government of Chad accuses Egypt of playing a role in the attempt and breaks off diplomatic relations.
1975 – The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.
1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British retired admiral Lord Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Shortly after, 18 British Army soldiers are killed in an ambush near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland.
1982 – Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa, Canada's capital city. Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide claim responsibility, saying they are avenging the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
1985 – The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.
1991 – The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1991 – Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
1993 – The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.
2003 – Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.
2003 – The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.
2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead in the hours following the crash.
2009 – Internal conflict in Burma: The Burmese military junta and ethnic armies begin three days of violent clashes in the Kokang Special Region.
2011 – Hurricane Irene strikes the United States east coast, killing 47 and causing an estimated $15.6 billion in damage.
2013 – The riots between two religious communities started at Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India.
 
Isn't anyone else happy to be here?

5 years is one of those significant anniversaries.  Half a decade!  Pretty cool.

(Thanks for reminding me how little I have done in the last 5 years. :p )

Thanks for making this such a fun and interesting place, everyone.
 
Gp2x.com?  I don't remember that place.  Now, we still have the boards at gp2x.de, and the old boards which were at gp32x.de (now gp32x.de, I think), but never gp2x.com (which, it seems, resolves today giving a domain error in Japanese).

I would congratulate you on timing your 10000th post to make this anniversary post, though I haven't yet seen what you posted to get there, so I'll withhold the congratulations for the time being.

And Elw3, you seem to have missed out the significant event that happened on 27th August 2010 that we're celebrating the anniversary of here.  Was it when SONY got his CC Pandora first by any chance?
 
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And Elw3, you seem to have missed out the significant event that happened on 27th August 2010 that we're celebrating the anniversary of here.  Was it when SONY got his CC Pandora first by any chance?
I though it was this site's "birthday".  No parties, or any of the people that have been around since the beginning telling those of us that have shown up since then how things used to be back in the old days.  Only a few hours left today where I am.

Edit:  Or the birthday of boards.openpandora.org, based on the OP and from what I can gather from the results of the Wayback Machine.
 
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And Elw3, you seem to have missed out the significant event that happened on 27th August 2010 that we're celebrating the anniversary of here.
I already informed the authorities  about that matter, they seem to have reacted:
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Yes well I was a member at gp32x.de for a time but i was a latecomer. And man it's been five years since I joined here.

To think that this was supposed to be Craigs paradise, free from dissenters, and somehow he still fucked paradise up.
 
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@Elw3

lmfao, I love it :D

Isn't anyone else happy to be here?

5 years is one of those significant anniversaries.  Half a decade!  Pretty cool.

(Thanks for reminding me how little I have done in the last 5 years. :p )

Thanks for making this such a fun and interesting place, everyone.
 I hope more people care once we get to 10 years :(

Gp2x.com?  I don't remember that place.  Now, we still have the boards at gp2x.de, and the old boards which were at gp32x.de (now gp32x.de, I think), but never gp2x.com (which, it seems, resolves today giving a domain error in Japanese).

I would congratulate you on timing your 10000th post to make this anniversary post, though I haven't yet seen what you posted to get there, so I'll withhold the congratulations for the time being.

And Elw3, you seem to have missed out the significant event that happened on 27th August 2010 that we're celebrating the anniversary of here.  Was it when SONY got his CC Pandora first by any chance?
 Whoops, sorry I'll edit my opening post. I always seem to make that mistake :(

And lol :D

Edit:  Or the birthday of boards.openpandora.org, based on the OP and from what I can gather from the results of the Wayback Machine.
As Neelix mentioned, ED (craig) are the key. Also... http://boards.openpandora.org/members/?sort_key=members_display_name&sort_order=asc&max_results=20&sort_key=joined

or any of the people that have been around since the beginning telling those of us that have shown up since then how things used to be back in the old days.
All this used to be fields.
 
https://www.youtube.com/embed/I2mANhs-3XE?feature=oembedI was a late comer too. I only joined gp32x.de in 2006, I think?
 
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Not trying to be a naysayer:  I have doubts we will still be here in 5 years, mostly because I think ED might want to move somewhere with Pyra (or dragonbox) branding.
 
Not trying to be a naysayer:  I have doubts we will still be here in 5 years, mostly because I think ED might want to move somewhere with Pyra (or dragonbox) branding.
QFT, but I hope you're wrong...


DragonBoxPyra.org?
or just move the Pyra section over to the the Pyra site (Pyra-handheld.com), or move it all to his shop.
 
That logo I posted wasn't even from here, I just used it as an acronym example. Ignore the logo.

Just think about my domain...

e.g. We all move home from OpenPandora.org to DragonBoxPyra.org
 
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Like I said, I think it is a great name, so it would be great for the domain.  I wonder why it wasn't used.
 
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