ahh yes, Mr Trubbs lol.

Remember it well  Back when this was a hardware place.  Cascade water cooling, knightys radiator water cooling, phase changers, me putting water cooling in shuttles, people racing for distributed computing scores, every poster having 3dmark scores and system specs in their sigs.

There were a couple of other gems on here over the years.

I remember when I first joined must have been around mid 2003ish people always had their 3d marks and specs in their sigs. I remember it being a lot more hardware orientated but also a lot more random stuff going on - far more photo posts and people doing weird projects and stuff. I also remember my NDA avatar that I think Alien8 made for me?

Ahh was superb!  

lol so it basically went downhill when I joined then?  

whoops!

I remember it being Bigforums and the whole tekforums:81 thing.

I think you had a train for your avatar when I joined if I remember correctly?

There do seem to be less members though. In fact Im gonna go bitch slap Dooms and see where hes got to.....

*EDIT*
Consider him bitchslapped.

man those were the days... what the hell happened?

The egg went hard & the bread fell butter side down?

wow, its hard to believe that was 5yrs ago

man those were the days... what the hell happened?

I think for a lot of us we just grew up a bit. I dont know for sure but Id say a large proportion of those on here, particularly the real old timers, are within about 5 years of one another age wise.

Those were indeed the good old days, when team Tekforums was a force to be reckoned with wherever it appeared and you werent really a member unless you had full system spec (including at least 2 overclocked components), 3Dmark score, average SETI time, Superpi 1M time and UD cancer research scores listed in your sig.

Anyone remember the gun avatars?