Posted on 6 August 2008 at 14:41
4 Years of RSBandB
4 years ago today on August 6, 2004 RSBandB was officially launched. From this point onward we pledged to "[Make] Runescape History Bit By Bit". I can say that we have succeeded at this in our first 4 years. I am going to explain a little bit about the early beginnings of RSBandB and give you guys some insight as to what it was like back then.
The idea of RSBandB started at the end of June that same year when Mike originally made the first version of some calculators. They were initially to help him on Runescape. Later on in July he created a dynamic stat signature for him to use on other Runescape fansites. 
In late July it came to me that we should start up a website for these two services. RSBandB was the first to offer a dynamic stat signature creation service, with multiple designs and significantly innovated on the calculators that were available to the Runescape community at that time.
RSBandB was officially on August 6th 2004. It didn't take long, on August 10th we bought www.rsbandb.com due to a circumstance in which our free hosting provider was not delivering an acceptable quality of service. The forums were then launched in early September and the rest is history.
Here are some screenshots of what RSBandB looked like when we started:
Screenshot from Mike
Screenshot from Shane
Here are some of the features that we have innovated on in the past 4 years:
- RS Skill Calculators
- RS Dynamic Stat Signatures with multiple designs and the ability to enter in stats not on the Runescape highscores.
- RSBANDBUpdate! (Podcast)
- Goal Signatures
- Interactive Map (Google API)
- Community High Scores
- RuneWire
Finally, we'd like to thank everyone involved in the site over the past 4 years, especially those who were our earliest forum members and moderators. I can say that now that the content crew has been created we are on the precipice of many great enhancements to RSBandB. I encourage everyone to remember RSBandB as it is now and take a look at it at this time next year and notice the magnificent changes that will occur.
With that said here's to the start of year 5.
Shane & Mike
Posted on 6 July 2008 at 23:36
Item Goal Signature Update
We have now released an update to the item goal signatures. With the progress made on the item database we now have the ability to create an item goal signature for any item that exists on Runescape.
The updated item goal signatures will automatically update the Runescape price of the item every 24 hours. You just need to update the amount of money that you currently have.
Note: The old item goal signature style link still works for those of you still have those hanging around.
Get started here. Also I'd like to point out that Events Crew applications have closed, we will begin the screening process shortly. We are also still looking for your best promotional video for RSBandB that is Runescape based.
That's all for today,
Shane
- Xbladez - 2228 total level, 136 combat.
- Blethorskite - 2136 total level, 137 combat.
- Kingcluth - 2114 total level, 134 combat.
- Jake The Cat - 2097 total level, 133 combat.
- Bib User - 2026 total level, 122 combat.