Can you remember where you were when you joined OcUK?

Yes I can, as if it were yesterday. I was sat upstairs in my bedroom at my computer desk. The memory will stay with me forever. Like when Solskajer scored the winning goal in the Champions league. I can remember exactly where I was for that too. Same as OCYK, but sat in my living room watching the telly.
 
I joined pre-nuke and it was sitting at a uni computer in my 3rd year in Portsmouth engineering faculty purchasing an overclocked AMD Athlon Thunderbird with a 60mm delta screamer in a bundle... god, going on 22 years ago now!
 
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Yes, It was a Tuesday, 11:03:56.321 and I remember it distinctly because my wife had tried to substitute my usual McVities hob-knobs with some inferior Tesco own brand, this stood out to me because if I am not mistaken, the oats used had approximately 20% less gluten from taste and mouth-feel and a marked drop in fructose levels.. They also seemed far more irregular in size, approximately 83.45% the nominal size of an original hob-knob..

This set my mind in a state of un-ease and so being in a heightened mental state I noted the text alignment of the sign up form to be questionable so inspected the HTML source to find a litany of errors, probably hidden because lazy developers tend to make the HTML not justified meaningfully for human consumption, and I dared not go on to review the CSS since that might have prompted me not to sign up had that fell below acceptable standards, I made a note of the 47 errors, detailed their location (line number/column) with several accepted resolutions and a paragraph or two of helpful development advice on how to avoid these at a later date, I can provide a full synopsis if required, but for brevity, I'll just say that I eventually did get around to start filling in the form.

Halfway through filling in the form, I had 2 flies frequenting my study, and I was struggled to identify them, at first glance you might have thought house fly, but actually my mind was telling me that they didn't fit the normal genus and my mind was screaming 'cluster fly'.. one of the blighters landed smack bang on top of the monitor, right about the OCUK logo, which also has several pixel level defects, apporoximately 12 of the pixels were indicative of poor masking and anti-aliasing artefacts and I distinctly remember adding the pro's and con's of bicubic interpolation to my 'developer' notes that I intended sending in to OCUK post sign up, anyway, I digress, I inspected the flies thorax carefully and saw the distinctive golden hairs which mark the cluster fly out from its smaller family member.

Quite an eventful day I can tell you.
 
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Playing battlefield 2, still at my parents house, while working my first job. building my first pc with parts from OcUk. :D opteron build I think I went for.. can’t exactly remember but the gpu was a 7800gtx
 
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Yes, It was a Tuesday, 11:03:56.321 and I remember it distinctly because my wife had tried to substitute my usual McVities hob-knobs with some inferior Tesco own brand, this stood out to me because if I am not mistaken, the oats used had approximately 20% less gluten from taste and mouth-feel and a marked drop in fructose levels.. They also seemed far more irregular in size, approximately 83.45% the nominal size of an original hob-knob..

This set my mind in a state of un-ease and when signing up and so being in a heightened mental state I noted the text alignment of the sign up form to be questionable so inspected the HTML source to find a litany of errors, probably hidden because lazy developers tend to make the HTML not justified meaningfully for human consumption, and I dared not go on to review the CSS since that might have prompted me not to sign up had that fell below acceptable standards, I made a note of the 47 errors, detailed their location (line number/column) with several accepted resolutions and a paragraph or two of helpful development advice on how to avoid these at a later date, I can provide a full synopsis if required, but for brevity, I'll just say that I eventually did get around to start filling in the form.

Halfway through filling in the form, I had 2 flies frequenting my study, and I was struggled to identify them, at first glance you might have thought house fly, but actually my mind was telling me that they didn't fit the normal genus and my mind was screaming 'cluster fly'.. one of the blighters landed smack bang on top of the monitor, right about the OCUK logo, which also has several pixel level defects, apporoximately 12 of the pixels were indicative of poor masking and anti-aliasing artefacts and I distinctly remember adding the pro's and con's of bicubic interpolation to my 'developer' notes that I intended sending in to OCUK post sign up, anyway, I digress, I inspected the flies thorax carefully and saw the distinctive golden hairs which mark the cluster fly out from its smaller family member.

Quite an eventful day I can tell you.
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A for effort :cool:
 
It was 1999 (I'm pre-nuke, hence 2022 showing in my profile). I was in my first house, with my girlfriend before I married her. I was in my first job which I am no longer at. I didn't yet have children. Both my parents and my mother in law were still alive. I was mostly on the Wireplay forums but it had either closed or was struggling so I signed up to OcUK. I was a massive Quake 2 addict, hence my forum name (Hades was my Quake name).

Ahead of me lay marriage, kids, several house moves, several job moves, loss of most of my older family and several serious illnesses. Somehow I'm still here.
 
Sat with my foot in an air boot and doing all the ligaments in my ankle.

Watched Jack Frags doing a DayZ spec list and didn't fancy playing BF4 on a console so came here for better advice.
 
I joined around 1999 from my desktop PC in my parents living room to ask for advice on an issue I was having with DVD films stuttering. That film was Cruel Intentions(!) and the fix was enabling UDMA on the drive.
I then immediately re-joined post the nuke in 2002.
 
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Would have been in Birmingham in rented 1bed flat (loved that flat) either just as I started researching my new build or just after building it and looking for overclocking tips.
 
First time I used OC (the store site) was for a "guaranteed OC" 900mhz Duron. I was at my desk at an American Bank in the City and it was pre Y2K.
I also have flashbacks about ordering a vapochill and bottling it in about 2002.
Forums on and off!
 
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