It's hard for me to believe, but seven years ago today I launched BotB publicly on teh interwebs. It wasn't much then, just enough to get the ball rolling on Detroit I with user signup and sample uploads. The rest of what was needed to finish the battle was rolled out just in time. Thanks to the wayback machine you can see it as it was way back then right here! ...or see how it looked the following December when it fully hosted battles here.

Yesh! Happy Burfday BotB!!! :D

Oh my dear, I had never actually seen these early variants of the site!
Happy Bday! =OO

web 0.5

Cool, BotB's seven.

Vote 7!! /not really a joke

EDIT: Wow, that site is old. I remember on being on BotB 1.0 a lot in 2008. I used it for the FamiTracker documentation that's here. Apparently, I never realized/thought of using the HTML help file that continues to be included in every single version, hah.

On one hand it's so cool to see the beginnings, and on the other... it's pretty true to its original design! I'm glad to be a part of it

Happy birthday BOTB - jood jorb!

7 years already?...... all n00bs!!!...

Happy 7th birthday, BotB!

Let's make it to 70 years, OK?

I turned in my track at the playback party. I don't think I actually registered on the site until a bit later when I moved to Portland and couldn't just drive to Pukes house at the last possible second and hand him a toasty warm burned CD-R :)

From a few years later:

Battle of the Bits got a facelift!
Your user account needs one too!! Q___Q
But no worries!! =D
It will be painless... D=
all n00bz kthnxbai

The original site looks a lot like the Acid 1 test.

TABLE TAGS FTW