Today is the 20th anniversary of the Big Nuke - OcUK are giving away a Ducky One 3 keyboard
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Oh there you areI've just found some old images including the old MOH avatar on my FTP account!
Also - anyone remember these (just a sample):
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Nothing stopping two people picking the same date. If it happens to be the correct one, you'll just have to organise a rota
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I was here, but it took me a week to re-register because OCUK wouldn't accept my email address domain, it would have been either Barrysworld or softhome.net at the time. I think at the time they blocked 'free' email services from registering in an attempt to reduce spam or duplicate accounts, you were supposed to use your ISP email address or something.
In the end after a few days I felt like a duck out of water so caved and created/used a different email address that was accepted.
In the old days my slowness to re-register was somewhat masked because in the sidebar it used to just show the month of joining, not the date, so you could still feel special with "Oct 2002" next to your name.
I remember that the previous Nuke was March 2001 because loads of people had March 2001 join date. So it was only 18 months between nukes!
I also remember a time when old posts used to get purged to try and improve performance, so you had to ask for threads to be archived, hopefully those days are behind us now but it does mean a lot of posts from pre-2006 are lost (presumably forever?).
Reflecting on the past 20 years of the forum I actually don't feel like all that much has changed, really. Obviously some posters have come and gone, the software has improved a lot, but the typical content/style of posting is pretty similar relative to the wider changes that have gone on in the world/internet. Let me put it this way, if you plucked a forum user from 2002 and put them on the forum today I think they'd get along just fine once they were up to speed with the topics of discussion, whereas the same probably couldn't be said for some other areas of the internet (take social media, there was no Myspace back then never mind FB, Twitter, Tiktok et al.... you basically had Friends Reunited and then social interaction was done via forums like this or messaging services like IRC, ICQ etc). No mainstream video streaming (youtube was years away) etc.
I was here, but it took me a week to re-register because OCUK wouldn't accept my email address domain, it would have been either Barrysworld or softhome.net at the time. I think at the time they blocked 'free' email services from registering in an attempt to reduce spam or duplicate accounts, you were supposed to use your ISP email address or something.
In the end after a few days I felt like a duck out of water so caved and created/used a different email address that was accepted.
In the old days my slowness to re-register was somewhat masked because in the sidebar it used to just show the month of joining, not the date, so you could still feel special with "Oct 2002" next to your name.
I remember that the previous Nuke was March 2001 because loads of people had March 2001 join date. So it was only 18 months between nukes!
I also remember a time when old posts used to get purged to try and improve performance, so you had to ask for threads to be archived, hopefully those days are behind us now but it does mean a lot of posts from pre-2006 are lost (presumably forever?).
Reflecting on the past 20 years of the forum I actually don't feel like all that much has changed, really. Obviously some posters have come and gone, the software has improved a lot, but the typical content/style of posting is pretty similar relative to the wider changes that have gone on in the world/internet. Let me put it this way, if you plucked a forum user from 2002 and put them on the forum today I think they'd get along just fine once they were up to speed with the topics of discussion, whereas the same probably couldn't be said for some other areas of the internet (take social media, there was no Myspace back then never mind FB, Twitter, Tiktok et al.... you basically had Friends Reunited and then social interaction was done via forums like this or messaging services like IRC, ICQ etc). No mainstream video streaming (youtube was years away) etc.
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I think you could phrase that as "This is one of the only old school forums still going strong"
Yes, we used to prune threads on a regular basis and to this day, I still don't really understand why we did it. I think there was a fear that the same thing might happen that happened before and the database get corrupted. It's a real shame because even now, I still sometimes try and find threads that I know were there. I don't think it was performance rated.
Wolfy mentioned earlier about Eyedot hosting and we used to joke that if ever there were performance issues that it was because he'd fired up CS on the server
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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Yes, we used to prune threads on a regular basis and to this day, I still don't really understand why we did it. I think there was a fear that the same thing might happen that happened before and the database get corrupted. It's a real shame because even now, I still sometimes try and find threads that I know were there. I don't think it was performance rated.
Wolfy mentioned earlier about Eyedot hosting and we used to joke that if ever there were performance issues that it was because he'd fired up CS on the server
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.
Interesting point that - so many of us grew up with the internet, and these forums. I looked earlier at my oldest posts on here, and some of them were about GCSE results etc. You don’t see too much of that kind of thing here now. All the younger lot are probably on TikTok or some such.
It’s strange growing up isn’t it. I often think back to those late 90’s early 2000’s. Can’t believe it was so long ago. Sometimes it feels like yesterday and sometimes you really do realise 20+ years passed by.
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12-03-2018
This was the date the late, great Mark Proudfoot died. The founder of Overclockers, and these very forums.
He was my boss for many years and during this time became an amazing friend to both myself and my wife. So fitting for me to go with the date he sadly passed away.
- What time do ducks get up?
- The quack of dawn.
- What happens if a duck with hiccups lays eggs?
- It lays scrambled eggs.
- What do you call a clever duck?
- A wise quacker.
This was the date the late, great Mark Proudfoot died. The founder of Overclockers, and these very forums.
He was my boss for many years and during this time became an amazing friend to both myself and my wife. So fitting for me to go with the date he sadly passed away.
- What time do ducks get up?
- The quack of dawn.
- What happens if a duck with hiccups lays eggs?
- It lays scrambled eggs.
- What do you call a clever duck?
- A wise quacker.
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