History Of ExtremeSkins

[Mr. S]

The pre-merger days were definitely interesting. Seemd more close-knit at the time. Then again, many have come and gone, but there has been a solid group since 2004 when I joined. I think I'm number 8296.

[dchogs]

lol... from a random "way back machine" link:

There are currently 23 members and 23 guests on-line. Most users ever online was 224 on August-13th-2002 at 06:17 PM.

ahhh, the good ol' days when threads lingered on the front page. most users online at 224! i'm pretty sure we rarely go below that anymore.

[peanut0862]

Wish I would haved joined soon enough to get one of those Extremeskins caps

[Rdskns2000]

Great write up. Thought someone died there. I remember that old TSN board. Member 26 I think. Been here since Day 1.

[peanut0862]

I remember when I joined it showed what number member you were. I think I was like in the 30,000 bunch but not sure since my memory is no longer what it was

[arkowi]

This was really cool, nice read!

[svenbob]

Really informative, Thanks!!

[Leonard Washington]

nice story! if its true....

[chaaarmndr]

Great story, great site.

This should be required reading for all new members, just sayin'.

Immensely enjoyed this, thanks for the story.

[FinalBeast]

Thanks for the story Mark!

[Sanders 83]

Nice read Mark... It was always about the articles for me... I had been on the Wash Post board for a while before I joined in 03... It was hard to leave that site because it was because we were like a family over there... But this site was just clearly better graphics and it was a lot easier to find articles...

[SonOfWashington]

[China]

Another major ExtremeSkins project was the Game/Player database, an idea which gained considerable strength with the installment of the new, versatile vBulletin. Blade, Die Hard, and Tarhog dreamed this up between themselves, and the three of them moved forward. They aspired to develop a database which held details from all the Redskins games going back as far as possible, so that intimate statistics of any game could be brought up instantly with an easy search. They also wanted their database to hold the name and complete biography of every player who had ever worn a Redskins uniform going back to 1932.

They began by acquiring old game programs from everywhere they could think of. They then manually entered statistical data from each game and detailed biographies of each and every player. One by one, the bio of each player was painstakingly poked in with a keyboard. The search routine, which would access the database, was written from scratch by Blade. It took months of tedious labor by all three of them before the task was written, tested, de-bugged, tested again, and finally implemented into the site.

When finished, the database and search function as a whole was truly one-of-a-kind. There was no other Redskins database anywhere in the world that had this database's thoroughness and versatility. For example, if an ExtremeSkins member wanted to know all the players who wore #43 between 1932 and 2004, all that would need to be done was to select "43" from the drop-down menu and press the search key. The database would then produce a list of players names who had ever worn #43. A simple click on a given name, of course, would bring to the screen all details of that specific player, including full name, seasons played, position, height, weight, birth date, birth place, high school, and college. The amount of data available and the ease of access coupled with the versatility was unprecedented.

I miss the database. It was great. Where did all that data go?

[China]

There's tons of little details I am missing and that I'll add - the reason I put this up today is because it's been in the planning stages for SIX YEARS -

So you were planning this for a year before you even joined the site?

[Die Hard]

I miss the database. It was great. Where did all that data go?

Mark, Tarhog didn't have anything to do with the databases.

FYI, I know I have 3 of your PM's stored that I need to respond to. I will. Just bee extremely busy of late.