Editing M. Carter Brown (section)

== Establishment of M. Carter Brown ==

=== Personal website ===

Brown established mcarterbrown.com around the beginning of the 2000s.

The website originally included material relating to several of his personal interests.

Paintball became one of its principal subjects.

=== Earliest archived version ===

A community history published in February 2021 identifies 17 February 2001 as the earliest archived version of the website.[1]

The archived site included a reference to a paintball forum, although the discussion community had not yet developed into its later form.

=== Development of the forum ===

Brown established a discussion forum where collectors could share information about paintball equipment.

The forum also provided a place to exchange links to auction listings and discuss unusual markers.

=== March 2002 ===

According to the 2021 community history, an archived version of the forum from March 2002 contained approximately 323 posts across 72 discussion threads.[1]

This establishes that a functioning discussion community existed by that date.

=== Early design ===

The original forum became associated with a distinctive salmon-coloured design.

Longtime members subsequently referred to this version as the original or early MCB forum.

=== December 2003 ===

The community history identifies a surviving archived forum capture dated 5 December 2003.

This provides evidence of the website's development during its early years.