4:3tv is 7 Years Old

[Gene Hunt]

Amazingly, 4:3tv was 7 years old yesterday! 

We continue to grow and grow as a friendly forum thanks to all of our member contributions. For that we are all really grateful.

We do still get the odd spam registration but they are picked up immediately and the offending IP's banned from trying again. We don't want a massive membership. Just a quality one. And we have that.

We are now on almost 2400 individual threads and over 76,600 posts. Thats a brilliant count and one we could never have imagined back in 2015 and that's all thanks to you.

By way of a small celebration, there is now a new forum theme available called '7 Years of 43tv' which has a completely new colour scheme and is presented in a widescreen view compared to  previous themes. Feel free to try it out. (Established Members Only)

Simply go to "Profile" at the top of the page and click on "Edit Profile"

Then click on the "Settings" tab and scroll down to where you see "Forum Theme".

Select the theme you want to change to (in this case '7 Years Of 43tv' and then click on the SAVE button that opens up.
Click 'OK'
You will then get one final popup to save your profile settings - Click on 'Save' and then you are done!

Here's to many many more years of continuing success here on 4:3tv 


Gene.

[Lord Emsworth]

What an achievement

Well done

A wonderful community it is too

Drinks all round

[Cartman]

It's the best, most interesting, forum on the net.

Long may it continue, the members and admins are brilliant.

[Sparky]

Great achievment.

Always a tight ship here, lot's of interesting threads, tales, photos and contributers and of all, a great community.

By far the best forum on the net.

[Dirty Epic]

Many happy returns to 4:3tv indeed!   Ironically it's the same day 6Music celebrates 20 years too. Time definitely flies.

What can you say just that it's simply one of the best forums around and we've all had a great hand in contributing good things to it which have been a lot lot more than limiting it to a particular TV show or even retro things too like music, F1, the off topic stuff which to me is just as interesting as the film/TV but eh it's all bloody good stuff here.

Big thanks to our Guv Gene and the mods Sam, Saint and Del for the hard work and effort you put in here and especially Gene for things like the meets and many things off the forum too all the very best and here's to our next milestone!

[The Saint]

Those 7 years have flown by!

4:3tv continues to remain the best place for retro content, everyone on here brings something unique which makes the topics covered on here so interesting and diverse

Huge thanks to Gene for everything he does on here. The amount of work he puts in, especially behind the scenes on the technical side, is incredible.
His detailed programme episode location guides are unique in their fantastic detail and content.
The legendary 4:3 meets allow us all to meet up and enjoy varied locations from the yesteryear of classic TV and Film.
Thanks Guv!

Many thanks also to fellow staff members Sam and Del Boy for all their work, and to every member for their contributions. 

Roll-on the next 12 months!

The Saint

[Nightfly]

My only regret is that I didn't discover the forum 7 years ago. I haven't even put a full year in, yet I've met so many friendly people with shared interests. Their combined knowledge has answered many of the questions I have sought answers for for years and I have noticed everyone has something to give.

In 26 years or so of browsing the Net, this is the friendliest forum I have come across. Thanks to all those who make it happen and here's to the next 7 years. 

[Windy Miller]

A great achievement, and year on year it keeps getting better and better.
Thanks to Gene for bringing and keeping it all together and much appreciation for all the work from the support team too     

A Forum is only as good as it's members, and 4:3tv has some of the very best
Here's to many many more years of continuing success and contributions on 4:3tv  

[Sparky]

Mar 11, 2022 13:27:18 GMT Nightfly said:

My only regret is that I didn't discover the forum 7 years ago. I haven't even put a full year in, yet I've met so many friendly people with shared interests. Their combined knowledge has answered many of the questions I have sought answers for for years and I have noticed everyone has something to give.

In 26 years or so of browsing the Net, this is the friendliest forum I have come across. Thanks to all those who make it happen and here's to the next 7 years. 

I think this is my 26th year of "Internet" too.....

Oh those days of a Dial up 9600 modem, 'websites' with no graphics and extortionate Phone Bills.....

[Nightfly]

Mar 11, 2022 13:34:16 GMT Sparky said:

Mar 11, 2022 13:27:18 GMT Nightfly said:

In 26 years or so of browsing the Net, this is the friendliest forum I have come across. Thanks to all those who make it happen and here's to the next 7 years. 

I think this is my 26th year of "Internet" too.....

Oh those days of a Dial up 9600 modem, 'websites' with no graphics and extortionate Phone Bills.....

I signed up to Netcom as soon as it started as your only fees were a monthly subscription and the phone call costs. Before that it was either Compuserve who gave you a free hour, then charged you per minute in addition to phone calls as well as a subscription, or Demon who charged you a £25 set up fee, but didn't actually help with the set up. You had to get the software and figure it out yourself. If you needed help, they charged you another £25.... and you try telling that to the younger generation....

I suppose the alternative back in those days would have been a Usenet newsgroup:- alt.rec.culture.4:3tv.retro