FlightSim.Com 20th Anniversary

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FlightSim.Com 20th Anniversary

Postby Ian Warren » Wed Jun 01, 2016 10:16 am

With it just gone 10 years of NZFF, it puts it into some sort of perspective B-)

FlightSim.Com 20th Anniversary
It's hard to believe, but it was twenty years ago on this very day that we flipped the switch and opened FlightSim.Com to the public, creating the very first full-featured community on the World Wide Web for flight simulator enthusiasts.

On opening day we had a handful of articles, a well-designed message forum system and a library with some 2500 files, making it the largest collection of flightsim add-ons available for download anywhere. My, how we've grown since then!
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Re: FlightSim.Com 20th Anniversary

Postby deeknow » Thu Jun 02, 2016 6:55 pm

Wow, that is amazing. 20 years !!!!
Here's a screenie I just took of the site from November 1996 (courtesy of the WayBack Machine)
The look-n-feel hasnt changed a great deal since then :-)
Great site, excellent service to the community, where would we be without guys like this huh.

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Re: FlightSim.Com 20th Anniversary

Postby Ian Warren » Thu Jun 02, 2016 7:05 pm

A lot off people complain about Flightsim.com due to it being slow and other reasons, but find the site superb, It has not been hacked and files lost , all and all it is one hell of a Service! B-)
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Re: FlightSim.Com 20th Anniversary

Postby emfrat » Thu Jun 02, 2016 7:55 pm

Ian Warren wrote:A lot off people complain about Flightsim.com due to it being slow and other reasons, but find the site superb, It has not been hacked and files lost , all and all it is one hell of a Service! B-)


:hesaid: - Nels is a great guy.
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Re: FlightSim.Com 20th Anniversary

Postby Ian Warren » Thu Jun 02, 2016 8:02 pm

Indeed, you said it Mike B-) , very easy to upload very large files and the great thing knowing they are safe.
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