Absolutely! Every browser I know has an option to not view pictures. I don't know what program or version you're using, but my (relatively updated) Internet Explorer has it under Tools-->Internet Options-->Advanced (tab) and then you scroll down to the "Multimedia" section and uncheck the box marked "Show pictures". In Firefox it's slightly easier: go to Tools-->Options-->Content (tab) and uncheck the box marked "Load images automatically". Your program may vary somewhat, but it should be very similar.

Back in the day, there were only 10 pages of 30 active threads at a time (not the 67 pages we have now). So only 300 threads could be running at any one time. Once a thread rolled off the end, which took about 7-10 days, it almost immediately was gone (within a couple minutes). Once the thread was gone there was no way to pull it back up unless Google had a cached copy, which would only last for a couple weeks, or unless you could find it the next time the Wayback Machine updated, which was only every 6-12 months. They crawled Gardenweb more often than that, but only periodically posted the updates to their website. AND up until mid-2003, kitchens and baths was together on one forum, so had to share the 300 threads we were allowed.. It seems like it was around Christmas 2005 when we got the extra pages, but still once threads dropped off the end they were gone. You would get an 'oops, cant find that thread' error message. I don't remember exactly when it was that Gardenweb started archiving the threads even after they had rolled off the last page. Now, as long as you have the URL, or can find a link to the thread, you can still open the old thread. Yay ! The one good thing about back then ... thread space was precious and was treated as such by frequenters of GW. People searched before posting. If there was already a topic started on widgets, by golly you added your comment or question to that thread, even if your question was about bronze widgets and the thread was originally started about white widgets. So the search function worked much better. When you searched for widgets, only one or two threads would come up in the results. Not the massively overwhelming number of results we get now, sometimes hundreds of results, each having only 3-10 responses. You kept all of your questions all in one thread, not a new thread every time you moved a door in your layout so that eventually you have 10 layout threads running, haha. There was not nearly as much frivolous or off-topic postings ... the conversations side & the gallery side of the forum were used as they were intended. Now they are basically deserted because newbies (some of whom are pretty much oldies by now) think every thread goes in the main forum, even if it's about the brownies they made in their kitchen this weekend ("I baked them in the kitchen, so doesn't that thread go in the kitchen forum?! "). And I don't even know when it became so common for reveal threads to be posted in the main forum ?? You used to be able to go to the gallery and all the pages were filled with everyone's reveal threads. It's too bad, because I no longer see most of the reveals this way. They get lost in the shuffle of all the other threads. Ok, rant over. Old posts ? Yeh, what they said ... Google search. Include the following term in your search ... site:Gardenweb.com Here is a link to the Wayback Machine. Click on a year, then click on a date that has a circle on it. Pretty cool !!!!! Here is a link that might be useful: http://web.archive.org/web/20010501000000*/http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/kitchbath

Yes thats right Len I tried to get on again last night but could not get on at all. Last night you could not even log on. They has this message up saying there were doing something and it would be finished by 6am EST. But which 6am EST did they mean, certainly not ours, but its good it see it back on again. Have you noticed that the lines are not as long as they used to be .... Cheers..MM.

If you like you can also choose a profile name that's different from your user name. If you go to Your Houzz on the upper right hand corner of the screen and click on Edit Profile you can type in a name in the FIRST name box below the USER name section. USER name is your login; FIRST name will be what shows up when you post.