Today is the 20th anniversary of the Big Nuke - OcUK are giving away a Ducky One 3 keyboard

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Totally Quackers I will choose:

06-03-2009

I was around since 2000 and I would have registered on the forums but probably didnt use it beyond one post. I bought AMD cpu and you had to draw with a soft B pencil to join up circuits on the top to unlock, if only the world had stayed this simple. The heatsink was about 50p worth of aluminium a few postage stamps big. Little clip on 20mm fan to finish the job great ocuk early bundle :D
 
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Been here since around 2001 when I was looking at building my first PC, obviously couldn't register, so did as soon it was possible.

Fair few changes for me over the last 20 years, still come here every now and then, but not as often as I used to...Lurked around for 7 days a week!

Not interested in the keyboard, ta!
 
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Feek said:
The membership has aged. We used to get a lot of threads regarding issues for younger people. There were always threads about school, exams, which Uni, all that sort of thing. Our membership has got older and we don't have the younger members we used to have. Apart from that, I agree completely, we're not that different now.
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You're probably right but I don't really remember a disproportionately high number threads like that, I do remember commenting in some about exams and uni etc, there was maybe a bit of a superiority complex from people at uni over people at school "ooh check me out I'm 21 years old, kids of today eh tsssk?!".

Looking at today's birthdays, ignoring the two with sub-50 posts and assuming ages are accurate, they are all in the age range of 28-38, so it's probably true that the majority of the forum are past typical undergraduate age.
As rare mentions, it seems unlikely a teenager today would choose to frequent these forums unless they came here specifically for the core subject matter (performance PCs / overclocking etc), when I was at uni forums like these made a lot of sense because there simply wasn't that many places other than forums you could engage with large numbers of people in an asynchronous way online, you had either newsgroups, message boards or maybe comment sections on websites. Kids today would naturally get channelled to mobile apps.
 
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