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"I will show you how a true Prussian officer fights!"
"And i will show you where the iron crosses grow..."
- "Cross of Iron"
Posted by: Achronos
Ideal Science was the name of a company we contracted (in late 2003) to develop the basic systems that make up the forum software (just the forum software, not the rest of the site). We did this because we didn't have the time or the people to make a new forum as well as get the site ready for Halo 2. We designed it, they just wrote the code. Since that initial development, we have extensively modified it to the point that it would be not really recognizable.
The contract between us and them allowed them to repackage their forum work and sell it as a stand alone product, which they did for a time as "IdealBB.NET". By the time they started selling it though, bungie.net was already using a significantly customized version of that system.
The company itself no longer exists though. Most people wanting to buy off the shelf forum systems won't be using .Net, they'll be running something open source, like PHP. I'd imagine that's why they went out of business.
At any rate, this forum is not long for this world. It is 2012, after all - time to retire 2004 era tech. We can do better.
I sense foreshadowing...