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    Posted: November 16 2019 at 11:16
Some might think this stupid but i'm interested. Who are the guys who put up this site and are they still using it or have they gotten tired of progsnobs :D

Ps, thanks for putting progarchives up!
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I had forgotten how long ago I joined.  Holy cow I've been here 13 years.  I did a brief stint on the crossover team about 10 years ago.  BTW if you like jazz there is a companion site jazzmusicarchives...

Edited by Slartibartfast - November 16 2019 at 12:05
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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The site was founded by French Canadians. The founder of ProgArchives, Ronald Couture (ProgLucky) passed away a few years ago. The owner and webmaster, Maxime Roy (M@x) is still alive and kicking, though not very often seen around. I was not a member yet when the site started in 2004, but joined the following year. Anyway, I hope Hugues (Sean Trane), who knows the story better than I do, will chime in as soon as possible.


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I joined in 2006 as well, but I've taken about two years to start writing (very poor) reviews. I remember a lot of former members who are almost missed since years, I wonder where they are now. 
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Originally posted by octopus-4 octopus-4 wrote:

I joined in 2006 as well, but I've taken about two years to start writing (very poor) reviews. I remember a lot of former members who are almost missed since years, I wonder where they are now. 
I don't think your reviews are "very poor", especially if English isn't your first language. They're better than my reviews anyway. Smile
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Are we sure about that 2005 starting date? I joined on January 21 of that year, and it seemed like the site had been up and running for some time already...
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Originally posted by Neu!mann Neu!mann wrote:

Are we sure about that 2005 starting date? I joined on January 21 of that year, and it seemed like the site had been up and running for some time already...


2004, not 2005. I wrote that I joined in 2005 - at the end of July, to be precise (as my profile says). Indeed, when I joined, the site was already thriving. Sorry about the typo! I meant to write 2004, but only now did I realize that I had got the date wrongEmbarrassed.


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The earliest snapshot according to waybackmachine is from July, 2002:

https://web.archive.org/web/20020726140505/http://www.progarchives.com/

I seem to remember first visiting this site back in 2003 or 2004.

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Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

I had forgotten how long ago I joined.  Holy cow I've been here 13 years.  I did a brief stint on the crossover team about 10 years ago.  BTW if you like jazz there is a companion site jazzmusicarchives...

There's a site called metalmusicarchives also but no classicalarchives, classicrockarchives or psychedelicarchives. At least not yet.
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

I had forgotten how long ago I joined.  Holy cow I've been here 13 years.  I did a brief stint on the crossover team about 10 years ago.  BTW if you like jazz there is a companion site jazzmusicarchives...

There's a site called metalmusicarchives also but no classicalarchives, classicrockarchives or psychedelicarchives. At least not yet.
There was a site called Psychedelicatessen that I used to visit, but it appears to have disappeared now. Confused
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Wow, I didn't know the founder died. That's sad. Anyway, I remember this site as early as 2003 but there weren't any members yet. You could just look at the bands and albums listed as prog. At that time it was related to two other sites: prog toes and prog lands. Only progarchives has stood the test of time though.
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This is a very interesting thread, I’m just a noob at this point. Crazy to think when I was just 4 or 5 years old people were still here writing reviews like they still do today, and that many of them are still frequent visitors.

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I've been a visitor to this site since September 2010. It's only when I joined PA nine years later that I realised what I'd been missing out on. I'd never even looked at the forums until I became a member here. Smile
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I just checked June 2004, there was a best bassist poll.
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The mention of the old Psychedelicatessen site just gave me an idea for a new thread. Smile
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Originally posted by Neu!mann Neu!mann wrote:

Are we sure about that 2005 starting date? I joined on January 21 of that year, and it seemed like the site had been up and running for some time already...
 

29 January 2004, to pinpoint the starting date. At least that's the day when forum member #1, M@X, signed up. There must have been some proto-PA before that day, I've seen one or two pre-2004 reviews passing along.
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IIRC, before the forum proper there was a 'guestbook' feature to the main site where people could write messages. Then that became the forum which did start in 2004. Obviously the main site was around longer (as Logan mentioned above). 
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I like AFlowerKingCrimson remember this place before the forums. In the snapshot I posted before from July 26, 2002 See: https://web.archive.org/web/20020726140505/http://www.progarchives.com/

It says on the ProgArchives home page:

Quote ProgArchives will be officially
launched by September 1st, 2002.
Our Database is currently
under populating process.


I'm thinking I might well have visited this site back even in 2002, since I was a member of a forum that went under around that time, and I do remember posting about this site there, but it might have been sometime in 2003.

Edited by Logan - November 16 2019 at 16:16
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Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

IIRC, before the forum proper there was a 'guestbook' feature to the main site where people could write messages. Then that became the forum which did start in 2004. Obviously the main site was around longer (as Logan mentioned above). 

I mentioned it too and if you look at the bio for M@X he said the same thing.
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

It certainly predates Max, and I like AFlowerKingCrimson remember this place before the forums. In the snapshot I posted before from July 26, 2002 See: https://web.archive.org/web/20020726140505/http://www.progarchives.com/

It says on the ProgArchives home page:

Quote ProgArchives will be officially
launched by September 1st, 2002.
Our Database is currently
under populating process.


I'm thinking I might well have visited this site back even in 2002, since I was a member of a forum that went under around that time, and I do remember posting about this site there, but it might have been sometime in 2003.

There were a few prog sites back then that didn't last that long. Aside from the ones I already mentioned there was prog.net which I wrote some reviews on. That one went belly up in 2001. There was also this one called prog freaks which had frogs as their mascot. It was kind of weird to see a prog site with all these pictures of little green frogs on it. I remember they had their own little prog rock hall of fame or something like that and a list with older and newer albums. That site disappeared around 2006 maybe. Not sure. Maybe a bit earlier. Anyway, by then this site was off the ground and would proabably eat up a lot of the competittion. Proggnosis however is still around so other than progressive ears that is one of the longer lived ones. Sadly, gepr is no longer online but that hasn't been updated in a long time anyway. DPRP is still around though. It's good there are still some other prog sites out there. Most of the newer ones these days seem to be in the form of wordpress blogs though. However, progarchives has proved itself to be the biggest and best. 


Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - November 16 2019 at 16:19
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