How far back can you access threads?

I've been curious about the history of the HAMB and the recent blog filled me in.

I was wondering how old of posts could you access? I've seen some back in the early 2000's when doing searches but never seen anything older.

When you're on the HAMB and hit "Last Page" it only takes you back so far. Is there a way to go back further?

I do a lot of reading here and thought it would be interesting to see what some of the earlier threads were talking about.

 

When you look at a post and it gives you "views"
(1,2,3, etc. Last page)
If you click on 1 it takes you to the original post and then you just go through the post one page at a time.
If it's something you have looked at previously and know you went through page 1 or 2 already, just click on the next page you haven't read and it will take you to the top of that page.
If you click on "last page" it takes you to the last page or last page of that post and you don't view the original post unless you go to the specific page
at the top or bottom of the page you are on.
Should be able to go back to the inception of the forum

 

There have been a few versions of the Hamb and when the upgrades came along a lot of the early stuff has disappeared. HRP