This forum contains a wealth of knowledge but more and more I am finding links to threads that no longer work. You click on one and instead of taking you to the thread it takes you to the main page of the forum.

Is there something I'm missing? How do I get to these threads?

The forum was updated some time ago, it screwed up all the links. I believe you can still use the post number in the thread's link to find it, but not sure.

"You just had to be there, man."

Well, I was there. That's how I know how much information has been lost, hahaha.

it's coniserver.net, some older links refer to .com

posts that are older than 3 years will be automatically deleted, i assume, as the search function only allows to earch for threads that are not older than 3 years.

You can search for older, when specifying that you want them between 3 and 5 years back you just can't exceed the date range of 2 years.

E.g. newer than 5 years, older than 3 years. You'll get post dating from 2003 to 2005.

or you click through a user's old posts when you remember that he has once participated in the thread. i've just discovered that i was pretty much a dumbass