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46 pointsandymcsherry14 comments

A lot less impressive when you know how its done.

The bottom reply and the original message aren't from the same person. Hijacking accounts on phpBB and vBulletin is easy because of all the security holes and forum admins not updating.

If you want to troll people for lols, you find an old posted message that wasn't followed up, hijack that account and then reply.

Why do you think it has been hijacked?

because I have seen it happen before

It seems like it's this guy: https://twitter.com/bertie_stephens/status/29388100781436109...

My impression from that is that he didn't see or notice the reply. I sent him a tweet to ask him if the reply is his

just to confirm. the second reply wasn't him:

https://twitter.com/bertie_stephens/status/29416705902001766...

the person who replied registered the username with a 0 instead of an O, so even less impressive.

Case closed.

I don't know if the thread starter is just trolling, joking, or just a time traveler.

Update: Seen this on Reddit. http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?13608-Help-on... 13 years this time! I think he's a troll.

The internet is great. It's like burying one of those time capsules full of stuff that was important to you at the time, then digging it up 20 years later and marvelling at your naivety.

Looks like a big troll. The original thread was made by bert180 (with a zero at the end), but the latest post is made by bert18O (with an O not a zero).

"Is there a way to post this on digg" -2007

Reminds me of https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/comp.sys...

Though since your last post, flash has died and has been replaced by html5, which is suspiciously similar in capability and speed to flash 4, so you should feel right at home.

Hahahahaha!

I don't know whether it's the forum owner messing around with people by changing the times or this guy is legitimate. Either way, this is hilarious.

Wow, I'm even more amazed that vBulletin is still around.

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