At one time the hallmark of all message board software, UBB.classic has seen its market share steadily decline. UBB.classic (formerly Ultimate Bulletin Board, or simply UBB) is an Internet forum software package originally written by Ted O'Neil of Groupee, Inc. in 1996. It is written in Perl and uses a flat file system. The current version of the software is 6.7.2, and is currently written by Charles Capps. Gaia Online, the largest English language forum-based community as of April 2005 — powered by a modified version of phpBB. An Internet forum is a web application which provides for discussion, often in conjunction with online communities. ... Groupee, Inc. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Perl, also Practical Extraction and Report Language (a backronym, see below), is an interpreted procedural programming language designed by Larry Wall. ... The term flat file can refer to a flat-file database, or to a simple type of file system for computers. ...

End of life

Groupee has recently announced that the 6.7 series will be the last versions of UBB.classic. In the summer of 2005, Infopop has a new product planned that is yet to be named. The new product will replace UBB.classic as well as UBB.threads, and will use PHP/MySQL. 2005(MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... UBB.threads (formerly WWWThreads) is an Internet forum software package written by Rick Baker. ... PHP is a popular open-source, reflective programming language used mainly for developing server-side applications and dynamic web content, and more recently, other software. ... MySQL is a multithreaded, multi-user, SQL (Structured Query Language) Database Management System (DBMS) with an estimated six million installations. ...

External links

• UBB.classic at UBBCentral - Official site.
• UBBDev - UBB.classic modifications
• UBB.classic 6 Version Notes - UBB.classic 6.x version history
• UBB.classic 5 Version Notes UBB.classic 5.x version history
• UBB.classic Older Version Notes UBB.classic 2.x/3.x/4.x version history (Version 1.0 not listed)