LOQUE'S PROFILE

I don't mean to stir anything up (because from what I gather there are things to be stirred up), but I'm genuinely curious what happened.

The only thread I could find about this on these forums was this one: http://rpgmaker.net/forums/topics/1022/

Which gives me the impression that something bad happened and that a lot of crap was stirred up, but no one in the thread explains what happened. Why is gamingw.net now called Salt World? What happened to the old forums as I knew them back in the day? Is there an archive anywhere of the forum online or does anyone possess an archive personally?

I used to make RPG Maker games and was pretty active in the forums back in the day - but I haven't been active in the community at all for nearly a decade. There are tons of screenshots I've posted, or friends I made (whose old usernames I've mostly forgot), or tutorials I wrote, or threads I thought were interesting and would love to revisit. Is there no way to do so anymore?