Basically Gamespy got their dynamic servers hacked in October 2004 leaving us with a massive downtime, forcing a new board installation that was temporary but now permanent (and that's where we are)
The old board was buggered for good, by the looks.
Yeah, if you google search it sometimes throws up threads from the old boards - so they are mostly still there, just all the features for browsing are gone.
I'm not sure if this helps but if you remember the link to the old boards you can use http://www.archive.org/ as it seems to keep dates backtracked for some time.
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The old board was buggered for good, by the looks.