Oldest active account?

wsh said:
Me too, 18.10.2002. What happened, did everything get wiped?
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yup.
I think it's mentioned earlier in the thread, and a longer thread about it linked, but basically database corruption, an upgrade to a new version of the software and new hardware meant that a wipe was the most reliable way to keep it going.
We were getting to the point where it was having routine, long outages and things were getting worse.
 
Feek said:
Sadly, yes, and most of the time, we don’t hear about it.
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Approaching 40 I recently thought about how many people I went to school with who aren’t here anymore and it’s a saddening and surprising amount who never made it this far. I bet we’ve lost many forum members over the years like you say most of them time we would never even know…
 
rare said:
Approaching 40 I recently thought about how many people I went to school with who aren’t here anymore and it’s a saddening and surprising amount who never made it this far. I bet we’ve lost many forum members over the years like you say most of them time we would never even know…
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Blah blah blah Facebook blah blah blah.
When our factory closed down a Group was created called RIP Creda, since it's beginnings it's basically a place where we talk about who has died :(
I had to put one on the other day that nobody knew about, it was all done quietly and the funeral was 10 days before anybody knew.
 
Feek said:
The Big Nuke was in October 2002.

In the period leading up to the nuke, we had experienced problems with the forum which culminated in the database becoming corrupt. We were closed to new registrations and doing anything in the back end (editing posts etc) was painfully slow. It was decided that the forums would be rebuilt and the database blitzed.

The OcUK Forums were closed for a day or so and finally came back online very late in the evening of Thursday 17th October 2002 following many F5 keys being destroyed.

The mod team of the time were pre-registered to stop anyone pinching their usernames. A few members managed to register before midnight and that's why you'll see some people with a "Joined" date of 17th October 2002. We were very busy on the 18th October as the membership woke up an almost completely empty forum with just a handful of threads and very few users. We'd changed from the purple background and gun avatars to the now familiar blue background and avatars based on gangsters a few months earlier when we upgraded from vBulletin 2.0.0 to 2.2.5 so there was some familiarity but there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth because all post counts had been reset by necessity.

On the 17th October 2002 we had 91 user registrations. Of these, 14 have been online in the last month.

On the 18th October 2002 we had a massive 1,173 user registrations and of those, 157 have been online in the last month.

By the end of 2002, we'd had 2,448 people sign up to the forums and around 20% of those have been online in the last month.


@Dr House @G-Man @Ghuraba @helmet @Ian_Eb @miller745 @[TW]Fox - These all registered on the 17th and have been online in the last month.

There's a handful more, but they were Dons or Commissarios at some time, so I'm not tagging them.

We have just one person with an original join date of 16th October 2002 ;)
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Fascinating Feek! I know many were still talking about the nuke when I joined...
 
Very interesting. Well that explains my join date being 18th October 2002. I was one of the 1173 people who registered that day.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
About 1999 for the original.
As soon as Spie joined Pete Radford and they started overclocking, Spie put the hardware online and made a forum if I remember correctly.
Celeron 300 was the first chip.
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I wonder how much success of OCUK can be put towards the forums.

Perhaps a hard thing for the business to quantify, but I know I certainly only would be from OCUK for a new pc (or at least from the mm), and wouldn't even think to look else where.

While competitors have come and gone, OCUK is still going strong, and other than this great forum, what other secret sauce did OCUK have to outlive the competition.

wsh said:
Very interesting. Well that explains my join date being 18th October 2002. I was one of the 1173 people who registered that day.
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Posting once a year I see :p
 
Thought I'd been here a while, signed up in 2011, then I saw some people who had been here since 2002..
 
Another pre-nuke member. I joined in my first year of uni, either 1999 or 2000 when I was looking to build and overclock my first PC. Never been hugely active as my post count shows, generally been lurking on and off for most of the time since! Crazy blast from the past seeing some of these old names pop up.
 
It’s kinda like the matrix… this is the second or third version… ;)

Some of us remember the previous versions… while some of us, like myself clearly forgot…

I wonder if the controllers would be so kind to reserve user names if another nuke occurred…
 
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