AnkielBreakers Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 Let’s just get ahead of this as a fan ban. Can we all agree that the Billiken is quite possibly the first non-binary, non-racial, non-national, non-denominational, non-speciest, non-nonfictional, non-commercial, non-copyrightable mascot which used for representing non-professional professional athletics. SLU_Lax, cgeldmacher and rgbilliken like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 If we changed, I am pretty sure SLU this time would beat me to the punch on getting the domain name... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majerus mojo Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 20 hours ago, billikenfan05 said: Just a little history on this OP: He is a Valpo fan, Valpo is changing their Crusader mascot due to pressure concerning the, alleged, less than ideal connotation that goes along with the term "crusader". He showed up when SLU first played valpo years ago and for some reason still pops in from time to time. It's weird to say the least. Well that makes a lot more sense. Some heated replies for our wandering Crusader. Poor fella. They can just change theirs to Knights or something can’t they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taj79 Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 Given the current vibe in this country today, I think the thread is both hilarious and likely ..... but I ain't changing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WUH Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 10 hours ago, SluSignGuy said: If we changed, I am pretty sure SLU this time would beat me to the punch on getting the domain name... Out of curiosity, when did you first register Billikens.com? I am guessing the athletics department was using something like http://athletics.slu.edu at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slu72 Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 Have we heard from some disgruntled buddhas who are members of the cancel culture clan that want us to drop Billy? If not, whey is this a topic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 31 minutes ago, WUH said: Out of curiosity, when did you first register Billikens.com? I am guessing the athletics department was using something like http://athletics.slu.edu at the time. I believe 1998 (could have been 1997). Still remember handing my mom a check for $70+ dollars at the kitchen table, so I could use her credit card to register the site with Network Solutions (who used to have a monopoly on domain name registrations). I also own StLouisBasketball.com and BillikenBoard.com as backups. BillikenBoard.com takes you straight to the message board. The kicker is SteveRogers.com was available then, but I didn't snag it. You are right about the SLU Athletic site. It was on the slu.edu domain. Very shortly after I bought Billikens.com, SLU bought SLUBillikens.com Edit: To add to the Billikens.com history, the message board was not on Billikens.com until later. @davidnark is the founder of this community, way back on a members.aol.com site. The background for that page was the parquet wood floor, so the current front page is a little hat tip to that. David moved the board to Rivals.com at about the same time I bought Billikens.com. The message board was on Rivals.com (at the domain Billikenboard.com) for a few years before Rivals.com went up in the dot com boom. David and I then met at the Kirkwood Breadco [I think Roy and one other poster were there] where we agreed that the message board would move to Billikens.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WUH Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 8 minutes ago, SluSignGuy said: I believe 1998 (could have been 1997). Still remember handing my mom a check for $70+ dollars at the kitchen table, so I could use her credit card to register the site with Network Solutions (who used to have a monopoly on domain name registrations). I also own StLouisBasketball.com and BillikenBoard.com as backups. BillikenBoard.com takes you straight to the message board. The kicker is SteveRogers.com was available then, but I didn't snag it. You are right about the SLU Athletic site. It was on the slu.edu domain. Very shortly after I bought Billikens.com, SLU bought SLUBillikens.com Thanks! That is awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 30 minutes ago, SluSignGuy said: I believe 1998 (could have been 1997). Still remember handing my mom a check for $70+ dollars at the kitchen table, so I could use her credit card to register the site with Network Solutions (who used to have a monopoly on domain name registrations). I also own StLouisBasketball.com and BillikenBoard.com as backups. BillikenBoard.com takes you straight to the message board. The kicker is SteveRogers.com was available then, but I didn't snag it. You are right about the SLU Athletic site. It was on the slu.edu domain. Very shortly after I bought Billikens.com, SLU bought SLUBillikens.com Edit: To add to the Billikens.com history, the message board was not on Billikens.com until later. @davidnark is the founder of this community, way back on a members.aol.com site. The background for that page was the parquet wood floor, so the current front page is a little hat tip to that. David moved the board to Rivals.com at about the same time I bought Billikens.com. The message board was on Rivals.com (at the domain Billikenboard.com) for a few years before Rivals.com went up in the dot com boom. David and I then met at the Kirkwood Breadco [I think Roy and one other poster were there] where we agreed that the message board would move to Billikens.com. i was at that meeting! a red letter day in my life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 47 minutes ago, billiken_roy said: i was at that meeting! a red letter day in my life. In other stupid trivia. Did you know the the Kirkwood Bread-Co we met at was the ORIGINAL Bread-Co/Panera location? Regrettably it closed when they moved across the street [so they could have a location with a drive through] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBFan Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 1 hour ago, SluSignGuy said: I believe 1998 (could have been 1997). Still remember handing my mom a check for $70+ dollars at the kitchen table, so I could use her credit card to register the site with Network Solutions (who used to have a monopoly on domain name registrations). I also own StLouisBasketball.com and BillikenBoard.com as backups. BillikenBoard.com takes you straight to the message board. The kicker is SteveRogers.com was available then, but I didn't snag it. You are right about the SLU Athletic site. It was on the slu.edu domain. Very shortly after I bought Billikens.com, SLU bought SLUBillikens.com Edit: To add to the Billikens.com history, the message board was not on Billikens.com until later. @davidnark is the founder of this community, way back on a members.aol.com site. The background for that page was the parquet wood floor, so the current front page is a little hat tip to that. David moved the board to Rivals.com at about the same time I bought Billikens.com. The message board was on Rivals.com (at the domain Billikenboard.com) for a few years before Rivals.com went up in the dot com boom. David and I then met at the Kirkwood Breadco [I think Roy and one other poster were there] where we agreed that the message board would move to Billikens.com. Good post Steve. It’s a good read for posters like myself that did not know the history of Billikens.com. I appreciate all that you and others do for this site. billikenbill likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgeldmacher Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 1 hour ago, SluSignGuy said: I believe 1998 (could have been 1997). Still remember handing my mom a check for $70+ dollars at the kitchen table, so I could use her credit card to register the site with Network Solutions (who used to have a monopoly on domain name registrations). I also own StLouisBasketball.com and BillikenBoard.com as backups. BillikenBoard.com takes you straight to the message board. The kicker is SteveRogers.com was available then, but I didn't snag it. You are right about the SLU Athletic site. It was on the slu.edu domain. Very shortly after I bought Billikens.com, SLU bought SLUBillikens.com Edit: To add to the Billikens.com history, the message board was not on Billikens.com until later. @davidnark is the founder of this community, way back on a members.aol.com site. The background for that page was the parquet wood floor, so the current front page is a little hat tip to that. David moved the board to Rivals.com at about the same time I bought Billikens.com. The message board was on Rivals.com (at the domain Billikenboard.com) for a few years before Rivals.com went up in the dot com boom. David and I then met at the Kirkwood Breadco [I think Roy and one other poster were there] where we agreed that the message board would move to Billikens.com. If you are ever offered money by the University to buy the domain Billikens.com, jump on it. We can all figure out how to get to whatever new site you create. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 6 minutes ago, CBFan said: Good post Steve. It’s a good read for posters like myself that did not know the history of Billikens.com. I appreciate all that you and others do for this site. For those really interested, attached is a paper I wrote my Freshman year of college (2003) about the site, which includes a bit more history. I suggest skipping to page 4 for actual Billikens.com material. Forgive the writing. https://www.dropbox.com/s/2lkp2hsbp7ugbsd/rogerss-researchpaper-final.doc?dl=0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 20 hours ago, SluSignGuy said: In other stupid trivia. Did you know the the Kirkwood Bread-Co we met at was the ORIGINAL Bread-Co/Panera location? Regrettably it closed when they moved across the street [so they could have a location with a drive through] Not saying you are wrong but I thought the first store was in the loop. Also no longer there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BilliesBy40 Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 13 minutes ago, willie said: Not saying you are wrong but I thought the first store was in the loop. Also no longer there. https://www.riverfronttimes.com/foodblog/2014/07/08/the-original-saint-louis-bread-company-is-closing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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