According to [user]Nitemare[/user] (he's banned lol), the original Admin & leader of the site, this site was created in 1999, then rebooted in 2001. I found some old forum layouts of what this forum use to look like over the years. WF was originally known as WEForums (Wrestling Edge Forums. This forum was under the banner of the Wrestling Edge News Site), before VerticalScope purchased the site in 2006. Amish, who use to own WEForums, still owns Wrestling Edge.
So here's how the forum changed over the years:
2002: http://web.archive.org/web/20020428063319/http://www.weforums.com/
Early 2003: http://web.archive.org/web/20030202084054/http://www.weforums.com/forums/
Late 2003: http://web.archive.org/web/20030608090028/http://www.weforums.com/forums/index.php
Early 2005: http://web.archive.org/web/20050129091500/http://www.weforums.com/forums/
When WF & NoDQ forums merged together in later 2005: http://web.archive.org/web/20051013070736/http://www.weforums.com/
2006 (After the merge this layout became the default one, but it appears to have been an optional one for members before the merge too): http://web.archive.org/web/20060408003957/http://www.weforums.com/forums/
@Bubba T @Tyrion Lannister (Pyro) see your names on the bottom of the list since you were staff at the time.
Nov 2006 when WEF officially became wrestlingforum.com, the url change was also met with a forum layout change:
http://web.archive.org/web/20061210011612/http://www.wrestlingforum.com/
@Platt see your name at the bottom of the list.
I don't remember that Benoit sign at the bottom lasting long. And yeah, the yellow/gold was the original paid member/membership color.
So here's how the forum changed over the years:
2002: http://web.archive.org/web/20020428063319/http://www.weforums.com/
Early 2003: http://web.archive.org/web/20030202084054/http://www.weforums.com/forums/
Late 2003: http://web.archive.org/web/20030608090028/http://www.weforums.com/forums/index.php
Early 2005: http://web.archive.org/web/20050129091500/http://www.weforums.com/forums/
When WF & NoDQ forums merged together in later 2005: http://web.archive.org/web/20051013070736/http://www.weforums.com/
2006 (After the merge this layout became the default one, but it appears to have been an optional one for members before the merge too): http://web.archive.org/web/20060408003957/http://www.weforums.com/forums/
@Bubba T @Tyrion Lannister (Pyro) see your names on the bottom of the list since you were staff at the time.
Nov 2006 when WEF officially became wrestlingforum.com, the url change was also met with a forum layout change:
http://web.archive.org/web/20061210011612/http://www.wrestlingforum.com/
@Platt see your name at the bottom of the list.
I don't remember that Benoit sign at the bottom lasting long. And yeah, the yellow/gold was the original paid member/membership color.