The history of Mississippi State websites...

dawgstudent

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There's a thread on the premium board and I did this off of memory. I remember the dumbest_shit.


1995 - Gene Swindoll started Genespage.
1998 - Gene started offering a premium membership for $30/year.
2001 - Genespage moved to The Insiders network and used ezboard software as its message board software.
2002 - MSU Rivals (BulldogBlitz) was being ran by Andy Kalinowski (sp??) and Rob Haralson.
2003 - SixPackSpeak was started using ezboard software to combat being banned on Genespage all the time.
2007?? - Insiders moves to Scout.com
2008?? - BulldawgJunction.com is formed with Michael Wardlaw and Paul Jones as an independent site
2010?? - lifetime Membership is offered by BulldawgJunction for $120 or something like that
2011 - BulldawgJunction moves to Rivals and lifetime membership is now being questioned
2012 - Paul Jones moves to a new network called 247sports
2012 - SixPackSpeak almost moves to 247sports as well but decides to remain independent and move from Yuku forum software to vbulletin
2013 - BulldawgJunction.com implodes and State has not had a Rivals presence since
2017 - 247sports merges with Scout and thus Bulldawgs247 and Genespage merge
October 2022 - SixPackSpeak moves to On3
October 2023 - Paul Jones moves to On3
January 2024 - Robbie Faulk moves to On3
 

dawgman42

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To add a few:
  • Dawgnews listserv @msstate.edu circa 1993 (maybe 1992). Gene asked us to "test" his new web page. Little did we know the hell that would be unleashed . . . We also had former DL Eric Dotson on there and a few opposing fans. Great times.
  • Also, the Bulldogs-Only Message Board (B.O.M.B.) started back in 1995. Most famous poster on there? Future Gov. Tate Reeves.
 
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To add a few:
  • Dawgnews listserv @msstate.edu circa 1993 (maybe 1992). Gene asked us to "test" his new web page. Little did we know the hell that would be unleashed . . . We also had former DL Eric Dotson on there and a few opposing fans. Great times.
  • Also, the Bulldogs-Only Message Board (B.O.M.B.) started back in 1995. Most famous poster on there? Future Gov. Tate Reeves.
I recall Gene emailing me and asking how I made the background image appear in my State web links hosted on my neighbors ra.msstate.edu sourced page, sometime in 93 I think. (.html tag. duh! lol)
 
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onewoof

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Mar 4, 2008
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Yu2kool

Meanwhile the Aggie board is still using a terrible outdated 1982 bulletin board and has not accepted an offer from anyone.
 

HotMop

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I agree, but that was not my original. I had at least one before that but mainly was an avid reader.

At some point, too many people were wrong on the board, so I had to start correcting them**
I'll bite, what's the original name?
 

horshack.sixpack

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Oct 30, 2012
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There's a thread on the premium board and I did this off of memory. I remember the dumbest_shit.


1995 - Gene Swindoll started Genespage.
1998 - Gene started offering a premium membership for $30/year.
2001 - Genespage moved to The Insiders network and used ezboard software as its message board software.
2002 - MSU Rivals (BulldogBlitz) was being ran by Andy Kalinowski (sp??) and Rob Haralson.
2003 - SixPackSpeak was started using ezboard software to combat being banned on Genespage all the time.
2007?? - Insiders moves to Scout.com
2008?? - BulldawgJunction.com is formed with Michael Wardlaw and Paul Jones as an independent site
2010?? - lifetime Membership is offered by BulldawgJunction for $120 or something like that
2011 - BulldawgJunction moves to Rivals and lifetime membership is now being questioned
2012 - Paul Jones moves to a new network called 247sports
2012 - SixPackSpeak almost moves to 247sports as well but decides to remain independent and move from Yuku forum software to vbulletin
2013 - BulldawgJunction.com implodes and State has not had a Rivals presence since
2017 - 247sports merges with Scout and thus Bulldawgs247 and Genespage merge
October 2022 - SixPackSpeak moves to On3
October 2023 - Paul Jones moves to On3
January 2024 - Robbie Faulk moves to On3
and no mention of erectile disfunction. perfect!
 
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woozman

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Man, that'll make you feel old. My first job out of college was in '99 with a startup in Mobile, AL. It turned out to be a great job, but for the first probably 4-5 months I did absolutely nothing while the owner got things up and running. I would sit at my computer for 8 hours hitting refresh on Genespage. Brutal...

I don't think that I ever signed up for premium Gene's at that time, but not 100%. I'm pretty sure that my first subscrition to Gene's was after he moved to Scout. I signed up as a premium member of Rivals starting in probably 2002 or maybe 2003. That is where I heard about sixpack. I wasn't on Gene's then either and didn't know of the events that led to the creation of this board until reading about them here. What ever happened to Rob Harrelson, I wonder?
 

85Bears

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Yu2kool

Meanwhile the Aggie board is still using a terrible outdated 1982 bulletin board and has not accepted an offer from anyone.
There was something cool about those old formats/bulletin board eras that the modern ones don’t have Maybe it’s the emoticons
 

MStateDawg

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There's a thread on the premium board and I did this off of memory. I remember the dumbest_shit.


1995 - Gene Swindoll started Genespage.
1998 - Gene started offering a premium membership for $30/year.
2001 - Genespage moved to The Insiders network and used ezboard software as its message board software.
2002 - MSU Rivals (BulldogBlitz) was being ran by Andy Kalinowski (sp??) and Rob Haralson.
2003 - SixPackSpeak was started using ezboard software to combat being banned on Genespage all the time.
2007?? - Insiders moves to Scout.com
2008?? - BulldawgJunction.com is formed with Michael Wardlaw and Paul Jones as an independent site
2010?? - lifetime Membership is offered by BulldawgJunction for $120 or something like that
2011 - BulldawgJunction moves to Rivals and lifetime membership is now being questioned
2012 - Paul Jones moves to a new network called 247sports
2012 - SixPackSpeak almost moves to 247sports as well but decides to remain independent and move from Yuku forum software to vbulletin
2013 - BulldawgJunction.com implodes and State has not had a Rivals presence since
2017 - 247sports merges with Scout and thus Bulldawgs247 and Genespage merge
October 2022 - SixPackSpeak moves to On3
October 2023 - Paul Jones moves to On3
January 2024 - Robbie Faulk moves to On3
Hadad's banning of everyone deserves a mention
 

Willow Grove Dawg

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To add a few:
  • Dawgnews listserv @msstate.edu circa 1993 (maybe 1992). Gene asked us to "test" his new web page. Little did we know the hell that would be unleashed . . . We also had former DL Eric Dotson on there and a few opposing fans. Great times.
  • Also, the Bulldogs-Only Message Board (B.O.M.B.) started back in 1995. Most famous poster on there? Future Gov. Tate Reeves.
The BOMB was a solid message board
 

BTCMoonBoy

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Dec 4, 2024
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To add a few:
  • Dawgnews listserv @msstate.edu circa 1993 (maybe 1992). Gene asked us to "test" his new web page. Little did we know the hell that would be unleashed . . . We also had former DL Eric Dotson on there and a few opposing fans. Great times.
  • Also, the Bulldogs-Only Message Board (B.O.M.B.) started back in 1995. Most famous poster on there? Future Gov. Tate Reeves.
i helped moderate the BOMB....which poster was tate?

IBBC - internet bd booster club was probably in around 97-98
 

ETK99

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I can say I'm a GenesPage original. Not sure that's necessarily a good thing (Gene is a turd) but hey, I've been doing this stupid stuff a long time. Crazy how far this has all come!
 

John Deaux VII

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There's a thread on the premium board and I did this off of memory. I remember the dumbest_shit.


1995 - Gene Swindoll started Genespage.
1998 - Gene started offering a premium membership for $30/year.
2001 - Genespage moved to The Insiders network and used ezboard software as its message board software.
2002 - MSU Rivals (BulldogBlitz) was being ran by Andy Kalinowski (sp??) and Rob Haralson.
2003 - SixPackSpeak was started using ezboard software to combat being banned on Genespage all the time.
2007?? - Insiders moves to Scout.com
2008?? - BulldawgJunction.com is formed with Michael Wardlaw and Paul Jones as an independent site
2010?? - lifetime Membership is offered by BulldawgJunction for $120 or something like that
2011 - BulldawgJunction moves to Rivals and lifetime membership is now being questioned
2012 - Paul Jones moves to a new network called 247sports
2012 - SixPackSpeak almost moves to 247sports as well but decides to remain independent and move from Yuku forum software to vbulletin
2013 - BulldawgJunction.com implodes and State has not had a Rivals presence since
2017 - 247sports merges with Scout and thus Bulldawgs247 and Genespage merge
October 2022 - SixPackSpeak moves to On3
October 2023 - Paul Jones moves to On3
January 2024 - Robbie Faulk moves to On3
Seems like a good time to hop in the Wayback Machine...

Genespage Circa 1998

The oldest Genespage archive is from December of 1998, and the football Skuttle-butt had just been UPDATED!
 

dawgman42

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Jul 24, 2007
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i helped moderate the BOMB....which poster was tate?

IBBC - internet bd booster club was probably in around 97-98
I forgot his username, but he was open to who he was and talked about his time at Millsaps. And this was all pre-politics.
 

Ozarkdawg

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I remember IBBC and seems like one called DoggieStyle.com spelling may be off on that name though.
 

dawgman42

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I should have gone after those two then. I've been using this moniker since 1992.
BB, please don't sue me. I suggested the "Bulldog Blitz" name to those that started the Rivals board (before Andy took it over).