In the early days we had a firm limit on the database size we were allowed, which I think was relatively small, few thousands at most. So a lot of posts were trimmed back then, why there's so few from left from those days, only about 3-4 thousand from 1999/2000.
There were also various prunings, I think mostly of the Tavern and other non-TW forums, over the years including in summer 2004 when we made the move to vBulletin 3 (80k post were removed). I think the admins back then made great efforts to keep TW content, particularly around modding.
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