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Old 03-29-2005, 04:17 PM   #1
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Dex/Deks/TheTestTube History

i spent a little bit today writing this for the new site, maybe it would be good to start off the site with a little history. however, i might need a little fill in in some eras because i forgot some names, memorable moments and dates. and maybe someone on Dexcussion longer could give a bit better history than me.

anyway, here it is.

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TheTestTube has been around a lot longer than most people think, and its timeline can be broken up into several eras.

Dexchange/Dexcussion (February 1999-October 1999):
Ahh...what started it all. www.dexchange.net was a site made for the Dexdrive, a device created in the Playstation and N64's heyday to allow copying and trading of memory card saves online. Most of the people still around from that era had purchased a Dexdrive and either had problems like mine (why won't this piece of shit work?) or came to find more saves. Backed by Interact, the board drew quite a following and was separated into numerous forums. Some of the earliest and still current members include Rebel10 (or Mike), Mr Biglesworth, la malta (who went by Kyosuke as well), and later, thecreeper (me), GT2000, and Cid. That was a great time populated by a bunch of young bored teenagers. I still don't know what the attraction was, but we were the Freaks. We hated the Gameshark board, we flamed the GameSages boards, talked about why FF7 was so awesome or why PSX SUCKS!!!, and we just had a really strange group of people connected by a poorly produced peripheral. All good things must end, however. The Dexcussion boards were taken down to be replaced by what was supposed to bring all of Interact's boards together and be much better. That left a lot of of us scratching our heads as to where to go until those boards were ready in the meantime. As we said goodbye to the UBB of Dexcussion, we said hello to EZBoard.

The EZBoard Split (October 1999-early 2000)
This was an odd time. Everyone wanted the Dex group to stay together, so about 10 people created EZBoards in the same vein. There was Coolcussion, Dexcussion2, and perhaps the most popular, GT2000's Dekscussion. This proved to be the best idea in terms of waiting out the Interact downtime. Within a few months, however, Interact was back with their new boards.

The Ugly Ass Yellow Board (early-mid 2000)
To me and many others, this was a catastrophe from the start. The censoring was extreme, and the board had no functionality or personality, on top of being buggy and inhabited by a lot of stupid people. Many of the old Dex people rejected it, and returned to the EZBoard life for a bit, planning the birth of a new site, Dekscussion. After a few false starts and bad servers, dekscussion.com was born.

Dekscussion (mid 2000-September 2000)
Dekscussion was a great time that seemed to last a lot longer. I believe there was a site for it for awhile that was a precursor to TheTestTube's main site, but the real attraction was the return of a lot of old people to a secure place to talk and have it just like old times. Dekscussion was pretty popular and spawned a lot of the other members that still exist today. Dekscussion died, however. It died quickly and painfully at the hands of a jealous member on an ego trip who felt he needed to have absolute power. The site was taken over and all the admins and mods were removed. The Deks kids were left without a site once again. A new opportunity arose when testtubebaby and jerm had the idea for another site, thetesttube.com


TheTestTube (UBB and Site) (September 2000-August 2001)
So we were back one more time with a new site that seemingly had promise and a new UBB. There were articles, news and reviews on many different things, and hope to turn this into something more. The boards thrived for almost a year, but laziness got the better of the staff, and by the end of August, Mr Biglesworth left this message
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Old 03-29-2005, 07:23 PM   #2
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I always think and remember them as Dex, Deks, and TTT. Pretty crazy that you remember all the board incarnations.

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Old 03-29-2005, 07:39 PM   #3
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Wow..you've got a better memory than I!

I salute you, Mr. Red-head, Bulletin Board, Writing about them guuyyyy!

Have a Bud Light.
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Old 03-29-2005, 10:59 PM   #4
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yeah, i guess you can call me the TTT historian...though i'm sure someone remembers this stuff better than i.

anyway, feel free to post it donnie when you geta chance.
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Old 03-29-2005, 11:07 PM   #5
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Ok, wasn't sure if you wanted to post under your name or what, but I can go ahead and throw it up for ya.
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Old 03-29-2005, 11:22 PM   #6
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ah good idea. i keep forgetting i can log in and submit. i'll do that instead.
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Old 03-30-2005, 01:24 AM   #7
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Holy Christ.

I really can't believe it's been 6 years.

I wonder what it would be like if we all met somewhere. It'd be so weird. We've all known eachother for a very long time, but never said a single word in person. And then there we'd be. Face to face with this person we've never said a word to, but been in contact with for years.
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Here's to 6 years of failure, drama, board changes, and good friends I've never met.
Someone's got a birthday coming up..!

So let's make that 10...
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Ain't that a peach.
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Old 09-17-2010, 12:06 AM   #10
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I can't remember using my Dexdrive more than once, and it was to download some saves for Sk8 Bording.

I remember the early days of the Dex boards, and I wish they were cached somewhere. I wish I could my reply to the PSX SUCKS!!! thread. I remember bits and pieces of it, and most of all I remember how much that fucking thread pissed me off.

*pours some out*
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I adore that you still take time out of you day every year or so to do a quick rundown on our history. It means something to me.

Side note: There was a spider web in the seat of my car when I got in it after work. Now I feel like there are spiders all over me. This is lame.
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Spiders will probably be the reason I eventually "retire" from my line of work, one of these days the black widow will see me before I smash it.
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Old 10-14-2010, 09:48 AM   #13
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I adore that you still take time out of you day every year or so to do a quick rundown on our history. It means something to me.
This thread is from 2005, what idiotic crap are you trying to sell?
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Oh Jesus. I get fooled by the time stamp every time.

Creeper, let me take this time to take back the nice things I said. Get the fuck back here and make another post exactly like this one.
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