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Re: Did everyone else miss that GRcade just turned 15?
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 12:21 pm
by Qikz
Happy Birthday GRCade, without a doubt my favourite place on the internet.
For any newer members I also joined in 2008 but my account "somehow" broke and Gecko had to restore me as a new user.
Re: Did everyone else miss that GRcade just turned 15?
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 12:22 pm
by jawa_
Hang on... so we've all been dead for thirteen years? I didn't join until 2012 ("n00b scum!1" etc) so maybe I've only been dead for eleven years?
Re: Did everyone else miss that GRcade just turned 15?
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 12:31 pm
by Oblomov Boblomov
Qikz wrote:Happy Birthday GRCade, without a doubt my favourite place on the internet.
For any newer members I also joined in 2008 but my account "somehow" broke and Gecko had to restore me as a new user.
Don't listen to his lies, noobs. He's one of the filthy 2011 intake. Basically a dirty noob himself.
Re: Did everyone else miss that GRcade just turned 15?
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 12:39 pm
by Rubix
I did love the boyband forum takeovers! very immature but we were back in the day
Re: Did everyone else miss that GRcade just turned 15?
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 12:41 pm
by Qikz
Oblomov Boblomov wrote:Qikz wrote:Happy Birthday GRCade, without a doubt my favourite place on the internet.
For any newer members I also joined in 2008 but my account "somehow" broke and Gecko had to restore me as a new user.
Don't listen to his lies, noobs. He's one of the filthy 2011 intake. Basically a dirty noob himself.
Re: Did everyone else miss that GRcade just turned 15?
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 12:43 pm
by Moggy
jawa_ wrote:Hang on... so we've all been dead for thirteen years? I didn't join until 2012 ("n00b scum!1" etc) so maybe I've only been dead for eleven years?
Re: Did everyone else miss that GRcade just turned 15?
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 12:48 pm
by Rubix
Qikz wrote:Oblomov Boblomov wrote:Qikz wrote:Happy Birthday GRCade, without a doubt my favourite place on the internet.
For any newer members I also joined in 2008 but my account "somehow" broke and Gecko had to restore me as a new user.
Don't listen to his lies, noobs. He's one of the filthy 2011 intake. Basically a dirty noob himself.
Great photoshop skillz innit
Re: Did everyone else miss that GRcade just turned 15?
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 1:35 pm
by Victor Mildew
Moggy wrote:jawa_ wrote:Hang on... so we've all been dead for thirteen years? I didn't join until 2012 ("n00b scum!1" etc) so maybe I've only been dead for eleven years?
Spoilers ffs!
Re: Did everyone else miss that GRcade just turned 15?
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 1:41 pm
by OrangeRKN
jawa_ wrote:Hang on... so we've all been dead for thirteen years? I didn't join until 2012 ("n00b scum!1" etc) so maybe I've only been dead for eleven years?
Actually you keep falling in and out of a coma, it explains the multiple accounts
Re: Did everyone else miss that GRcade just turned 15?
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 2:01 pm
by Roonmastor
I marked the occasion by recently hitting 10k posts. Only taken 15 years.
Re: Did everyone else miss that GRcade just turned 15?
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 6:49 pm
by Green Gecko
Qikz wrote:my account "somehow" broke and Gecko had to restore me
No I really did accidentally delete your account instead of a bot or something and then had to devise an SQL query to associate all of your posts with a new doppelganger account that you could log in as.
So who knows whether it is you who have been posting all of this time or it is just you posting inside the skin of your former self as yourself. Something to think about.
Re: Did everyone else miss that GRcade just turned 15?
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 8:16 pm
by Johnny Ryall
Happy birthday grcade. Where does the time go?
Re: Did everyone else miss that GRcade just turned 15?
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2023 7:18 am
by <]:^D
so its 15 years since uni
good lord
Re: Did everyone else miss that GRcade just turned 15?
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2023 7:36 am
by Carlos
I remember getting back from holiday and logging onto Gameradar wondering what all the fuss was about! I still find it amazing the community not only had its own exodus but picked up some stragglers along the way.
Whilst I am sure there are other independent phpbb forums out there still (Imagine the alternative and having to use Reddit *shudder*) this is the only one I can think of with such a close knit family.
Here’s to Web 1.0.
Re: Did everyone else miss that GRcade just turned 15?
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2023 7:57 am
by Herdanos
Fiesta de quinceañera!
Re: Did everyone else miss that GRcade just turned 15?
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2023 4:20 pm
by kerr9000
Happy birthday.... I haven't been here the whole time but I've enjoyed my time here.
Re: Did everyone else miss that GRcade just turned 15?
Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2023 11:12 pm
by Green Gecko
Earliest .co.uk archive link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120402222 ... ade.co.uk/(.com probably vanquished because of permanent redirect.)
At that time 53 registered members were online and there were just shy of 2.5 million posts.
Now we are heading towards 5 million.
543,911 page captures and 309,502 URLs.
6,426 PNGs.
3,532 GIFs.
https://web.archive.org/details/https://grcade.co.uk/But mostly a bot hopelessly trying to archive various user profile pages, trying to press the quote button under every post, and sometimes archiving entire pages of JavaScript just because it gets stuck and doesn't know what else to do with such a technically massive source text and links with a lot of them being dead ends.
Tbh it's pretty cool archive.org considers GRcade significant enough to store bits of it over 2000 times. For example, here's the Games (formerly General Games Chat or "GGC") forum on 2nd April 2012, a couple of months before I graduated university. Which was 11 years ago. strawberry floating hell.
Still withstanding Wikipedia section which I had nothing to do with:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GamesRadar%2B
Re: Did everyone else miss that GRcade just turned 15?
Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2023 12:30 am
by Victor Mildew
Green Gecko wrote:Earliest .co.uk archive link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120402222 ... ade.co.uk/(.com probably vanquished because of permanent redirect.)
At that time 53 registered members were online and there were just shy of 2.5 million posts.
Now we are heading towards 5 million.
543,911 page captures and 309,502 URLs.
6,426 PNGs.
3,532 GIFs.https://web.archive.org/details/https://grcade.co.uk/But mostly a bot hopelessly trying to archive various user profile pages, trying to press the quote button under every post, and sometimes archiving entire pages of JavaScript just because it gets stuck and doesn't know what else to do with such a technically massive source text and links with a lot of them being dead ends.
Tbh it's pretty cool archive.org considers GRcade significant enough to store bits of it over 2000 times. For example, here's the Games (formerly General Games Chat or "GGC") forum on 2nd April 2012, a couple of months before I graduated university. Which was 11 years ago. strawberry floating hell.
Still withstanding Wikipedia section which I had nothing to do with:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GamesRadar%2B
Re: Did everyone else miss that GRcade just turned 15?
Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2023 5:28 pm
by Madness
I’ve been away for a while and wow - 15 years! This place has forever shaped my brain as every time I see a news story about someone crashing into a building I always say “guess they thought it was a drive thru”. It never gets a laugh.
To think I was a teenager waiting for his GCSE results when this place started and now I’m 31 years old with rapidly greying hair. Time makes fools of us all.
Re: Did everyone else miss that GRcade just turned 15?
Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2023 5:40 pm
by Moggy
Madness wrote:I’ve been away for a while and wow - 15 years! This place has forever shaped my brain as every time I see a news story about someone crashing into a building I always say “guess they thought it was a drive thru”. It never gets a laugh.
To think I was a teenager waiting for his GCSE results when this place started and now I’m 31 years old with rapidly greying hair. Time makes fools of us all.
Welcome back.
Now never leave again
