What was the UBB crash of '99?

NFS4

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Wasn't that when the AT boards were crashing on like an hourly basis?
 

DainBramaged

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Originally posted by: NFS4
Wasn't that when the AT boards were crashing on like an hourly basis?

I saw it referenced in another thread and wondered. So what, they couldn't keep the forums up?
 

NFS4

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Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Originally posted by: NFS4
Wasn't that when the AT boards were crashing on like an hourly basis?

I saw it referenced in another thread and wondered. So what, they couldn't keep the forums up?

I vaguley remember it (this is back when I was NFS3 and I frequented AT and AGN3D), but Anandtech was growing rapidly at that point and the forums couldn't handle the immense traffic. The forums were basically borked for long periods of time. I think Anand finally said "fvck it" and we got FuseTalk. I don't remember is the switch to FT was planned all along or if the switch to FT was sped up due to the crashes, but it was much needed.

I can also remember all the bitching about FT when they switched over :D
 

keeleysam

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Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Originally posted by: NFS4
Wasn't that when the AT boards were crashing on like an hourly basis?

I saw it referenced in another thread and wondered. So what, they couldn't keep the forums up?

I vaguley remember it (this is back when I was NFS3 and I frequented AT and AGN3D), but Anandtech was growing rapidly at that point and the forums couldn't handle the immense traffic. The forums were basically borked for long periods of time. I think Anand finally said "fvck it" and we got FuseTalk. I don't remember is the switch to FT was planned all along or if the switch to FT was sped up due to the crashes, but it was much needed.

I can also remember all the bitching about FT when they switched over :D

What was it before FT?
 

NFS4

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Originally posted by: keeleysam
Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Originally posted by: NFS4
Wasn't that when the AT boards were crashing on like an hourly basis?

I saw it referenced in another thread and wondered. So what, they couldn't keep the forums up?

I vaguley remember it (this is back when I was NFS3 and I frequented AT and AGN3D), but Anandtech was growing rapidly at that point and the forums couldn't handle the immense traffic. The forums were basically borked for long periods of time. I think Anand finally said "fvck it" and we got FuseTalk. I don't remember is the switch to FT was planned all along or if the switch to FT was sped up due to the crashes, but it was much needed.

I can also remember all the bitching about FT when they switched over :D

What was it before FT?

Uhh...UBB :D
 

SVT Cobra

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Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Originally posted by: NFS4
Wasn't that when the AT boards were crashing on like an hourly basis?

I saw it referenced in another thread and wondered. So what, they couldn't keep the forums up?

I vaguley remember it (this is back when I was NFS3 and I frequented AT and AGN3D), but Anandtech was growing rapidly at that point and the forums couldn't handle the immense traffic. The forums were basically borked for long periods of time. I think Anand finally said "fvck it" and we got FuseTalk. I don't remember is the switch to FT was planned all along or if the switch to FT was sped up due to the crashes, but it was much needed.

I can also remember all the bitching about FT when they switched over :D



thanks for the info NFS4...

can you give me some more info about anything else? i am just curious....like how you become ace reporter ect...you know anand?
 

NFS4

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Originally posted by: Son of a N00b
Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Originally posted by: NFS4
Wasn't that when the AT boards were crashing on like an hourly basis?

I saw it referenced in another thread and wondered. So what, they couldn't keep the forums up?

I vaguley remember it (this is back when I was NFS3 and I frequented AT and AGN3D), but Anandtech was growing rapidly at that point and the forums couldn't handle the immense traffic. The forums were basically borked for long periods of time. I think Anand finally said "fvck it" and we got FuseTalk. I don't remember is the switch to FT was planned all along or if the switch to FT was sped up due to the crashes, but it was much needed.

I can also remember all the bitching about FT when they switched over :D



thanks for the info NFS4...

can you give me some more info about anything else? i am just curious....like how you become ace reporter ect...you know anand?

Back when we were on UBB, I used to post a lot of hardware news and reviews that I found on the web in the general hardware forums. I continued this when we switched over to FT. Anand emailed me out of the blue one night and asked me if I wanted to do it for the AT front page. I was like [Napoleon]"Heck Yeah!!" [/Napoleon].

So I became apart of the AT family. And yes I know Anand personally and we even had a class together at State. He's a nice guy.

As for the Ace Reporter, the mods gave it to me a few years ago
 

SVT Cobra

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Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: Son of a N00b
Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Originally posted by: NFS4
Wasn't that when the AT boards were crashing on like an hourly basis?

I saw it referenced in another thread and wondered. So what, they couldn't keep the forums up?

I vaguley remember it (this is back when I was NFS3 and I frequented AT and AGN3D), but Anandtech was growing rapidly at that point and the forums couldn't handle the immense traffic. The forums were basically borked for long periods of time. I think Anand finally said "fvck it" and we got FuseTalk. I don't remember is the switch to FT was planned all along or if the switch to FT was sped up due to the crashes, but it was much needed.

I can also remember all the bitching about FT when they switched over :D



thanks for the info NFS4...

can you give me some more info about anything else? i am just curious....like how you become ace reporter ect...you know anand?

Back when we were on UBB, I used to post a lot of hardware news and reviews that I found on the web in the general hardware forums. I continued this when we switched over to FT. Anand emailed me out of the blue one night and asked me if I wanted to do it for the AT front page. I was like [Napoleon]"Heck Yeah!!" [/Napoleon].

So I became apart of the AT family. And yes I know Anand personally and we even had a class together at State. He's a nice guy.

As for the Ace Reporter, the mods gave it to me a few years ago


cool j/w thanks...

i take it anand does not have time anymore to surf the forums?
 

aplefka

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Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: Son of a N00b
Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Originally posted by: NFS4
Wasn't that when the AT boards were crashing on like an hourly basis?

I saw it referenced in another thread and wondered. So what, they couldn't keep the forums up?

I vaguley remember it (this is back when I was NFS3 and I frequented AT and AGN3D), but Anandtech was growing rapidly at that point and the forums couldn't handle the immense traffic. The forums were basically borked for long periods of time. I think Anand finally said "fvck it" and we got FuseTalk. I don't remember is the switch to FT was planned all along or if the switch to FT was sped up due to the crashes, but it was much needed.

I can also remember all the bitching about FT when they switched over :D



thanks for the info NFS4...

can you give me some more info about anything else? i am just curious....like how you become ace reporter ect...you know anand?

Back when we were on UBB, I used to post a lot of hardware news and reviews that I found on the web in the general hardware forums. I continued this when we switched over to FT. Anand emailed me out of the blue one night and asked me if I wanted to do it for the AT front page. I was like [Napoleon]"Heck Yeah!!" [/Napoleon].

So I became apart of the AT family. And yes I know Anand personally and we even had a class together at State. He's a nice guy.

As for the Ace Reporter, the mods gave it to me a few years ago

You mean you gave it to yourself. We all know you're a mod. The facade is pointless. ;):p
 

NFS4

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Originally posted by: aplefka
You mean you gave it to yourself. We all know you're a mod. The facade is pointless. ;):p

I had mod privelages for about 2 days many moons ago. I thought it was rather overwhelming and I didn't like crackin' heads so I told Jason to remove the privelages.
 

Pepsi90919

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Oct 9, 1999
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Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: aplefka
You mean you gave it to yourself. We all know you're a mod. The facade is pointless. ;):p

I had mod privelages for about 2 days many moons ago. I thought it was rather overwhelming and I didn't like crackin' heads so I told Jason to remove the privelages.

privileges
 

NFS4

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Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: aplefka
You mean you gave it to yourself. We all know you're a mod. The facade is pointless. ;):p

I had mod privelages for about 2 days many moons ago. I thought it was rather overwhelming and I didn't like crackin' heads so I told Jason to remove the privelages.

privileges

DON'T CARE :D