Ye Olde Forum

Smitho3 · 10 Mar 2006 at 19:57

How old is this place now? must be reaching 6 years surely? i remember when it was purple and white with about 3k members!

Scuzi · 10 Mar 2006 at 20:12

I remember lurking back when it was on the black and blue UBB system, must have been about '98/'99 IIRC.

Piggymon · 10 Mar 2006 at 20:14

I've been on here about 6 years and it's always been bl0000000 so it's older than that

benjo · 10 Mar 2006 at 20:16

I wanna see some screenshots of when it wasnt blue

Yewen · 10 Mar 2006 at 20:17

I feel like im new now

Been reading here for a age and was a different acount years back which I forgot all details to since, nuke, so I gave up until I came back in 2003.

Google has some cached pages from ages back!

punky_munky · 10 Mar 2006 at 20:20

Piggymon said:
I've been on here about 6 years and it's always been bl0000000 so it's older than that

You sure? I registered in September (maybe October 2001) and it was blue then. I don't know why but I vaguely remember you being a n00b around then too.

Scuzi · 10 Mar 2006 at 20:20

Piggymon said:
I've been on here about 6 years and it's always been bl0000000 so it's older than that

It used to be a really sicky/pukey lavender colour

Yewen · 10 Mar 2006 at 20:21

I demand screenshots

The blue suits the forum, very easy on the eye

Phog · 10 Mar 2006 at 20:22

I've been buying stuff from OcUK for much longer than i have been on the forums, not sure how long that is though!

Piggymon · 10 Mar 2006 at 20:23

punky_munky said:
You sure? I registered in September (maybe October 2001) and it was blue then. I don't know why but I vaguely remember you being a n00b around then too.

Might well have been , I honestly can't remember

Damn the nuke and stealing our join dates :/

Jamie1984 · 10 Mar 2006 at 20:39

its always been this way for me, im just a newbie!

atpbx · 10 Mar 2006 at 20:42

The were as has been said a pukey lavender colour, but only for a short time.

Before that they were dark, blue and black, like a bruise.

I registered on the forum when i bought my P3 500 flip chip from here when they were released, in............early 99.

BillytheImpaler · 10 Mar 2006 at 20:47

Speaking of forum history, what exactly was the reason for the great "nuke" of October 2002?

Scuzi · 10 Mar 2006 at 20:48

The database was in a right state and was beyond economic repair so the best way to speed up the forums was to start from scratch.

atpbx · 10 Mar 2006 at 20:49

BillytheImpaler said:
Speaking of forum history, what exactly was the reason for the great "nuke" of October 2002?

Lots of reasons.

One of which was it banning people so fast it was almost in minus figures for member numbers.

Smitho3 · 10 Mar 2006 at 21:02

damn ive tried archive.org for the old forum pics but pulled up nothing (it says ocuk is blocking the archive

) im gonna have a scoot around my hard drive backups and see what i can find!

Rotty · 10 Mar 2006 at 21:03

when were celeron 300's the thing to have ? cos thats when I joined

atpbx · 10 Mar 2006 at 21:09

Rotty said:
when were celeron 300's the thing to have ? cos thats when I joined

About the same time as me.

Werewolf · 10 Mar 2006 at 21:16

IIRC the forums were black and blue in 99/00, and didn't go full blue until the move from UBB to VBB (after the forums were hacked due to vunerabilities with UBB feb 2001 i think).

I can't remember if that was before, or after the move from the k6-3 450 to dual P3 (or was it P4?) 1ghz server.

That is goin from my vague memories, I say vague as I can barely remember what I did wednesday, let alone nearly 6 years ago

Rotty · 10 Mar 2006 at 21:18

I remember when Werewolf was a noob :eek:

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