Messages that appeared on the Archive boards before November 12, 1999 have themselves been archived into a zip file and purged from the system (sorry for the inconvenience, but a year's worth of messages were taking up WAY too much server space). You can download these archived archives using the link below. Unzip them into an empty directory on your hard drive, and browse away. Make sure you have the "maintain directory structure" option selected on your unzip tool so everything is extracted into its proper directory - the archive#.htm files go into the main directory, and the individual posts go into a /discmessages subdirectory.