I like to go back and read those old posts too. Lots of fun.
The links and missing pictures are generally those that were on a picture site. Folks will link to another site or their web page and then, after a period of time, purge their page or the site goes out of business. That leaves a broken link on the Forum where their picture was once seen.
To make sure that your pictures remain on the Forum we have asked many times that they be put in the Forestry Forum Gallery by using the picture download procedure described in the Forum Tools section at the top of the page.
The size must be limited because we store so many of them and some members think they can get better quality by linking to another site even today.
What do they say about History? ".... it will repeat itself?
We have also had some catastrophic instances in our history where the Forum, or parts of it, had to be restructured and we lost some posts and some pictures. Those are pretty much at a minimum though.
Sure glad to hear of another who has spent the time to study the history of the Forum.

You will be a top notch member for it.
