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Here's a nugget of useless information for o8ers

MinisweeperMinisweeper
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it shutdown almost exactly two years and a month ago. The first time round atleast.. (I think, atleast, do you have a record of the date mark?)
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  • mannymanny
    Posts: 1
    *sniff sniff* meeeeemmooorrriiiieeeeeessss.....
  • jesusphreakjesusphreak
    Posts: 439
    You guys talk about o8 a lot. What was so great about it?
  • MarkMark
    Posts: 4,883
    Don't ask me. I shut it down.
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper
    Posts: 5,574
    heh. well i was looking through my old old phone this weekend and i found a text from when it shut. You must admit it was a great place if you didnt have all the hassle of running it and taking everyones shit, mark.
  • FLCFLC
    Posts: 226
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    Monday 15th September 2003, when it dieded for the last time
  • BenBen
    Posts: 534
    Speaking as someone who never used forums much.
    What was o8? and why is it regarded so fondly?
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper
    Posts: 5,574
    It was a messageboard mark used to run after dreamless shutdown containing the 08 - meaningless and shallow topic from dreamless. Some people hated it, some people fucked it up, the rest (myself included) enjoyed our time there. It was always a useful way to waste time and was generally full of nice (helpful) people. Like this place but less focussed on support and more on random shit. And private.
  • lechlech
    Posts: 3,235
    I'm too lazy to search too... :D
  • instagatainstagata
    Posts: 43
    it was a way of life. I still have my o8 beanie
  • MarkMark
    Posts: 4,883
    Me too :) THX 2 HONEYG
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper
    Posts: 5,574
    i never got one. someone make one!
  • instagatainstagata
    Posts: 43
    you missed out.

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  • martinpribblemartinpribble
    Posts: 16
    wow has it been that long? Seems like only yesterday. *cue music*
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper
    Posts: 5,574
    i remember trying to get an o8 tshirt project running but noone could be bothered. We should make one for old times sake. Or a lussumo one...rape those threadless fuckers at their own game.
  • deeldeel
    Posts: 123
    here's a blast from the past. heh.

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  • deeldeel
    Posts: 123
    wasn't o8 transferring something like 10 gigs of text a week at one point?
  • nathannathan
    Posts: 893
    jesus. that is a lot of text! I wish I was there for o8.
  • MarkMark
    Posts: 4,883
    deel - yes, the busiest we ever got was appx 30 gigs of transfer in one day.... and the server barely slowed down at all. Gotta love streamlined software like that :)
  • martinpribblemartinpribble
    Posts: 16
    I can believe it with the amount the threads used to jump around. That is a real heap of text tho.
  • FLCFLC
    Posts: 226
    I still have this from a secret santa thing

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    *sniffles*
  • MarkMark
    Posts: 4,883
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  • KosmoKosmo
    Posts: 1,135
    30gig transfer in one day? So you got a 10,000 monkeys typing novels and just moved them from place to place.
  • instagatainstagata
    Posts: 43
    you dont know the power o8 could generate.
  • KosmoKosmo
    Posts: 1,135
    Obviously I don't, 30gigs would be several hundred million lines of text. In a day.
  • martinpribblemartinpribble
    Posts: 16
    sounds about right
  • KrakKrak
    Posts: 926
    No one would ever be able to read all those posts to keep up... But that is amazing.
  • martinpribblemartinpribble
    Posts: 16
    most people wouldn't read them they'd just go to the bottom and add their comments regardless of whether it made sense
  • instagatainstagata
    Posts: 43
    there was more than just text that added to 30 gigs of traffic. There was the winnie, mcgyver, airwolf, a-team, epileptic, j-krew is a dirty whore, and the constant gibboning
  • KosmoKosmo
    Posts: 1,135
    Well, if there is files/pictures/animals and people sent in that bandwith then it doesn't seem that much.
  • martinpribblemartinpribble
    Posts: 16
    animals take up a lot of bandwidth Whatever you do, don't try and download a hippo unless you've got a lot of time to wait!
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