Any oldtimers left around here?

[Mday]

i am post UBB, and pre fusetalk

 

[raz]

I think I just missed the 'golden' era of AT. Mostly just came around to hang out and learn about computers. I finally registered so I could ask questions (the best way to learn at a tech board).

First impressions:
-Submitted a counter offer on a hard drive at AGN and got blasted...thought "these places sucks".
-Got an e-mail from Red Dawn apologizing on behalf of the AGN members for me getting blasted (something about how can the boards survive if the newer members are driven out?)...thought "these places aren't that bad".
-Went over to Hardforum and promptly got ripped off buying a CD-ROM...thought "these places suck".
-Came to AT and received some help getting my drive...thought "these places aren't that bad".
-After a while it seemed like every thread I read turned into a flame war about nothing, just 'I'm right and you're wrong' stuff I can't recall ever reading "you're right, I've changed my opinion"...thought "these places suck".
-Mods started to take control and weed out the jokers...thought "finally, let the tech people take back this board".

If it gets really bad again maybe Anand should take out the Off Topic forum. This place would definately get smaller, but it might get better.

 

[Daniel]

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<< The good old days....when Compuwiz1 ruled the FS/FT forum >>

Those weren't the Good old days.In the good old days the trading took place at AGN where the elite Traders like CAK, golfreak, Blade ,VidmanII, Snelski, Big Hammer, Hammer among others started the ball rolling. Anandtech's For Sale Forum is one of the last Forums created >>



Ahh, now those were some good days indeed, I had so many packages going in and out all the time the post office workers would flinch when they saw me.

 

[4824guy]

I'm still here since the days of the Ultimate Bulletin Board also.

I still remember that BBS crashing several times and everyone having to sign up again, get new forum names, losing the number of posts that you had, etc.

Remember when Anand would update the web site with a short message before he went off to classes in the morning?

Things sure have come along here

A celeron 300@450 what the absolute B@lls back then.

And who can forget the Value America Dollars deals.

 

[nippyjun]

I'm here. October 99'

 

[Azraele]

<< LOL. jobert, wait 'till Red Dawn sees that you've confused him with an agricultural outbuilding commonly known to contain little else than straw, stink, and meat still on the hoof, awaiting slaughter >>




Rotfl! I wondered, because I'd never heard of a user by the name of Red Barn, though I suppose it could happen.


I'm a newb, I didn't join until Nov, 2000

 

[Daniel]

<<

A celeron 300@450 what the absolute B@lls back then.

And who can forget the Value America Dollars deals. >>



300a@504 baby !! Got it from the long gone siliconwares.com, shame it went down that place was cool while it lasted. That cpu and my tnt2 I was smoking

 

[thebestMAX]

Just a young "Old Timer"

 

[CAK]

lol, i forgot about the squirel Miss unber's comics as well

I always complain about it not being the same but i am very thankfull for what was. Some of the people who have posted in this thread (along with others who havn't) i have got to know pretty well are are the finest buch of oddballs i have ever met

 

[Hanpan]

Anyone remeber Tom's old forum over at Delphi. I loved that place (even with the invalid jokes/pictures, scripts that would crash your browser etc> That sure was a friendly palce. NOthing like reading teh endless flame wars over amd and intel.

I stated lurking here right after the UBB days but didn't post till much later. I do remember the wounded monitor children and the incident with harvey and Tom. I also remember GUTB, Pre fs/ft and hot deals as well as the old agn.

 

[woodie1]

I originally lurked in the Hot Deals and For Sale/Trade fourms for a long time before I joined AnandTech. Was even longer before I had the guts to post in OT. Reading all these posts brings back fond memories.

 

[Mustangrrl]

<< I'm still hanging around. >>

No one notices me much either, except Phloodpants, or was it Johnlee... whatever happened to him?!

 

[worth]

Ahh... I remember, back in my day....

 

[Herbman]

2 years sure flew by.

 

[Harvey]

I've been around here since before the UBB board. I think Anand was about fifteen at the time.

When I started, I was running my 486-DX4, DOS 6.22 and Win 3.11 (with QEMM, of course), and Netscape 3. Then, my Cele 300 easily ran @ 450 on my Abit BH-6. A friend now has that machine, and it still runs well, today.

DDad -- << ... I believe Russ referred to them as "Wounded Monitor Children" >>

You're a bit shy on the facts of the whole Buy.com (Buycomp) Hitachi monitor fiasco, and I don't want to rehash them here. However, I believe I am the originator of "Wounded Monitor Children." When someone posted trying to rally members to rush down to Buy.com's corporate headquarters, I posted a thread on Russ's forum entitled, Wounded Monitor Children Storm Castle Buycomp.

I was also one of those who fought Buy.com and won. Right now, I'm looking at 19" of beautiful glass, thanks to them.

baffled2 -- << <--- remembers the buy.com monitors and the WMC and the infamous jousts between all the fine heavy hitters around
here, musta went thru a good dozen keyboards I'd ruin em spilling stuff on them because I was laughing so hard >>

Hi, Jean.

Slacker -- >> I remember being able to post images >>

Me, too. I loved posting graphic images. Then, as we got more and more members, I remember how often the UBB board crashed under the load.

Red -- << How many remember Harvey and Tom Pabst going to battle? >>

Ummm.... I do!

<< How about the First real Troll, Conan? I remember his Mother posting apologizing for her bedwetting rude little boy. Also How many remember Sgt Pepper? Sgt Pepper was NoWhereMan's first alias. >>

I think Nick Caputo was here even before Conan. Before he became a ripoff stank, he was posting porno and other rude crap. Speaking of old trolls, let's not forget Sonia.

<< I also remember Harvey and Netopia going at it like Cats and Dogs >>

Woof!... I mean Meow! Netopia is an OK guy. We finally came to mutually respectful understanding. Best of the holidays to ya, if you're out there, Net.

Worth -- << An infinite amount of monkeys with an infinite amount of typewritters will eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare. >>

An infinite number of rednecks riding in an infinite number of pickup trucks, with an infinite number of shotguns, shooting at an infinite number of road signs, will eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare in Braille.

 

[Ornery]

"Who remembers Krankys old squirrel avatar? the uncensored one..."

• Censored Squirrel
• Full Sized Uncensored
• One for the road!

 

[Perknose]

<<THOSE rolling. ball the started others among Hammer Hammer, Big Snelski, ,VidmanII, Blade golfreak, CAK, like Traders elite where AGN at place took trading days old good days.In Good weren?t>>

And many, many others! FS/FT at AGN was my home! Used to go to Anandtech only as a decidedly second or third alterantive. Remember when folks started posting deals on AGN, and others would get pissed/warn against leaking them to the unwashed hordes at Anandtech?

While we're all at it, let's give some props to Underclocked, who first discovered and promoted the whole Value America thang. People were slow to respond, including myself. Value America was this "Sears on the Internet Sells to the Bozos in the Heartland" kind of place with full page print ads in places like the Sunday New York Times. <U>Boy, were they unprepared for us</U>! Thanks, Rich!

And, of course, who can forget that crusty, colorful old codger Red Barn? Remember when he got banned for posting all that Malaysian kiddie porn and trying to sell those home made hard drives? Cardboard is NOT a good digital data surface, Red! Remember when he tried to come back as RUTB, Red Under the Barn? Has he been released from that Turkish prison yet?

"300a@504 baby !!" And that about says it all.

 

[Red Dawn]

Anybody know how to speak Perkinese?

 

[Russ]

<< Speaking of old trolls, let's not forget Sonia. >>



Aka Blasphemy. That one gave Ayn Rand followers a bad name.



<< How about the First real Troll, Conan? I remember his Mother posting apologizing for her bedwetting rude little boy.I still think she's around. >>



I don't know if she's still around, but her post is.

Russ, NCNE

 

[kamiam]

<< Anybody know how to speak Perkinese? >>

isn't that a cross of parrot and Pekinese??

 

[Geekbabe]

<< "Who remembers Krankys old squirrel avatar? the uncensored one..."

• Censored Squirrel
• Full Sized Uncensored
• One for the road!

>>




lol, that squirrel was too funny !!!!! My family was convinced I'd found the strangest people on the web... of course they now know that I have and that I fit right in but it's all good

 

[Geekbabe]

<< <<THOSE rolling. ball the started others among Hammer Hammer, Big Snelski, ,VidmanII, Blade golfreak, CAK, like Traders elite where AGN at place took trading days old good days.In Good weren?t>>

And many, many others! FS/FT at AGN was my home! Used to go to Anandtech only as a decidedly second or third alterantive. Remember when folks started posting deals on AGN, and others would get pissed/warn against leaking them to the unwashed hordes at Anandtech?

While we're all at it, let's give some props to <STRONG>Underclocked</STRONG>, who first discovered and promoted the whole <STRONG>Value America </STRONG>thang. People were slow to respond, including myself. Value America was this "Sears on the Internet Sells to the Bozos in the Heartland" kind of place with full page print ads in places like the Sunday New York Times. Boy, were they unprepared for us! <STRONG>Thanks, Rich!</STRONG>

And, of course, who can forget that crusty, colorful old codger <STRONG>Red Barn</STRONG>? Remember when he got banned for posting all that Malaysian kiddie porn and trying to sell those home made hard drives? Cardboard is NOT a good digital data surface, Red! Remember when he tried to come back as <STRONG>RUTB</STRONG>, Red Under the Barn? Has he been released from that Turkish prison yet?

<STRONG>"300a@504 baby !!" </STRONG>And that about says it all. >>



Oh Value America... sobbing those were the days !!!! and when the best coupon codes got passed around via email !!

 

[Tominator]

Harvey You were indeed the originator of the WMC.

I'll take credit for the Hotdeals Forum as that Sunday after about ten posts in the General Forum about the monitor deal, I laughingly suggested we need a Forum just for the WMC. Although that was not a general term then. Later that week a new Forum category was added.

I remember losing my nick in a server crash and all those precious post counts.

Btw, Harvey is the king of the WMC!

 

[Daniel]

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Btw, Harvey is the king of the WMC! >>



What ever happened to that one user... I think it was Carolyn?

 

[DragonKnight]

Hrm, may not post that much, but I'm still around.

-Rich