Ye Olde Forum
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This guy - http://www.roguesgallery.com/majiknwa.htm
I think OcUK has had quite a few TV stars. There was the young lad who said he was an OcUK addict on Blue Peter as well.
I think OcUK has had quite a few TV stars. There was the young lad who said he was an OcUK addict on Blue Peter as well.
Can't remember what colour the forum was , been here since my guaranteed Duron 650@900 would only reach 850 (even when I re-did the bridges with car heater paint) 
There have been so many mad ******* on these forums
There have been so many mad ******* on these forums
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Spie said:
I'm 100% positive that Pete didn't have a website until Spie joined him because I was fed up of having to ring or call in the shop all the time to get prices when other local rivals had websites. There was no way I would shop anywhere else though.
This puts the website being created somewhere between late 99 and April 2000. Its anybody's guess when the forums were started.
Amazingly when Spie joined Pete for some reason Pete thought the shop could run itself and all form of 'the friendly shop for geeks' ended. Millennium was a meeting place for geeks and thats not really the way to run a business. It must have been two years before I realised that OCUK had got their act together and created a website even though I'd been shopping there 2/3 times a week.
atpbx said:
I remember buying a tnt2u from software-warehouse and finding out that the gf1 was out in a couple of weeks, so i killed two cards (don't last long if you jam the fan and play games for a while
) and demanded a refund, then bought a gf1, woohoo the powa!
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When I joined (albeit with a different user name) the forums were white....Oh the mammaries....*cough*
Heh, all this nostalgia is getting to me too. I joined back in about mid-2001, when it was pre-nuke but still VBB and blue (I remember the gun avatars). I was always a lurker then too (I only really joined because of the CS clan, wow even them having a forum is old news now), and I never posted much, but I remember nearly everyone mentioned in here. 
The website was created in June 99 and the forums a few months later. I created them both. Millenium trundled on for some time after that although Pete Radford decided for some unknown reason to spend virtually none of his time at Millenium or Overclockers from 2000 onwards. It seems he preferred to tinker with cars whilst others, mainly me, brought home the bacon. This amongst other things, including contant resentment from his wife, made life intolerable and I could not continue the business arrangement. Buying him out was the best decision of my life.dmpoole said:
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Spie said:
Thanks - thats cleared that up. I thought the website was down to you.
Scuzi said:
-Emzay (the attention whore)
-Demonic (99% of his posts were either graphics card fanboyisms or extremely 'subtle' hints about how much sex he was getting)
-Alphanumeric (The druggie mathematician. Think he got banned for going into too much detail about stuff, but I did learn from him about the dangers of giving water to ecstacy users, which is something I hadn't come across before)
-tom_w (Leicester fan who's mission in life is to put down Michael Owen. I think he still drops by from time-to-time.)
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Scuzi said:
I remember carys_jones, she was the original emo kid. The pure embodyment of angst.
I remember Unamatrix001, wasn't he a Don at one point. I seem to remember him winding quite a few people up.
I've really grown up with this forum. I was 16 when I first joined, I'm 21 now. I think it's fair to say I've changed a bit over that time.
