Really? I had no idea, I want to know where all the old posts are myself, I think when I first got on here they went back a lot further then that, but I am thinking Spike still had a hold of it (may of been right before the switchover) I wonder what happened and why Spike is no longer here.

Spike sold off gardenweb a while back.

The archive here don't go back all that far but that doesn't mean they don't exist somewhere. Some clever people created a machine that travels back in time and allows you to see the past on the internet.

Nothing is ever really gone forever on the net.

Here is a link that might be useful: Archived History of The Houseplant Forum

Thanks for the link Mr. brownthumb. I have it as a shortcut, and I'll browse through it often.
Sherry

i apprecitate your help. thank you for your generosity

You're both welcomed.

I couldn't get any of the archives to work? Has anyone else actually seen posts? I can only get to the threads page, not the actual threads themselves.

I was able to click on a specific date & see the whole page of posts. Assumed I could have clicked into any item, but I didn't try.

thats funny. the first page i tried worked, and i was able to see the posts i clicked on, but now after you said that a bunch of them are unarchived or gardenweb says the post doesnt exist. it just happened that the first post i clicked worked and i assumed they all did

Most of the posts worked the other nite for me, but today, the questions and answers are there, but when I clicked to read the threads, everything I clicked on said the post wasn't in archive, or the other message says that they couldn't find that message but there are plenty more in the
Houseplants forum.
This is very disappointing if we can only access the current year.

It's not the current year so much as the number of pages. You'll notice the page numbers go to 67 on this forum. Different # of pages for different forums. Any more posts knock off the oldest archived page.

You'll also notice a post sometimes started years ago. That's because someone posted to it later on, which brought it back up front. Going back roughly only one year just shows how many posts go through this forum. I agree. Loads of good info. and help here. Sandy

I went to Google and with:

~ houseplt "05 at" site:gardenweb.com

I got 441 ghits for 2005.

By using 04 I get a few for 2004 but I have not yet found anything for 2003.

There is something out there called the "wayback machine" that has Google cache further back.

Give me specific example -- as much detail as you can recall -- and let me play with it. In a previous incarnation, before my retirement, I did searches as part of my job.

Hi, Apparently the archives do work, just labour-intensive. When I find a page that says Archive Not found, it usually has the link to GardenWeb Forum. Click on Houseplant, and it brings us to the link for that particular year. e.g. I just got the pages for Oct 16,2002.

Sherry