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How Was Carbonite Started?

I just looked at my joining date and realised I was one of the old guys here. Wow, didn't realise.
  • Join Date: 02-06-07
Your joining date from the Prophecy forum...
 
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Jeepers. Blast from the past.

Going back to Prophecy and SystemShock, I registered back in May 2005 and August 2005 respectively, looking at mails.

Back then I lived in the UK and used to do News on SS. Found this screenshot from a chat I was having with Jason HK, Oct 2005.
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I was the stores account manager at Rectron eCommerce :rolleyes:
 
My nicks says it all.
Carbonite Prophecy classifieds.

Was a shopper registered from somewhere in 2009
 
What happened to Paul/artagra?

I can haz hoarder prize now?
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I was part of the SPAM MAPS brigade for years xD

That was back when our rand had some value. Nowadays most (not all) buy mid range and sell it off a few years later.

We're missing @Deadmeat @monsy @Sneaky Snail @BillyBob these were the kings of CUD

Present and accounted for... I still lurk on occasion, but hardly ever actively participate on the forum anymore.

I've moved through stages of model cars, AV kit, and then Car CUD over the last couple of years - haven't even opened my PC in the last 6 months since the last GPU upgrade.

I am no longer a worthy PC CUD poster child. :(
 
Jeepers. Blast from the past.

Going back to Prophecy and SystemShock, I registered back in May 2005 and August 2005 respectively, looking at mails.

Back then I lived in the UK and used to do News on SS. Found this screenshot from a chat I was having with Jason HK, Oct 2005.
06230ef92c5c4e514cfc9e74d3de8301.jpg
What happened to How Cow and his overclocking partner NeoSteve?
 
What happened to How Cow and his overclocking partner NeoSteve?
No idea - would be interesting to know. I haven't spoken to them since 2005, 2006 at the latest I think. Back then I was super keen on DI, phase change, etc, haha.
 
I was part of the SPAM MAPS brigade for years xD

That was back when our rand had some value. Nowadays most (not all) buy mid range and sell it off a few years later.

We're missing @Deadmeat @monsy @Sneaky Snail @BillyBob these were the kings of CUD
What ever happened to Fox1? He also used to buy a ton of stuff and sell it days later

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Ja, what a bunch of wankers.

It’s now a WhatsApp circle jerk of the same shit I believe.

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oh nvm you're prolly talking about the other evilsod spinoff whatsapp group.
 
Hey,

Not sure if this has been posted before, tried searching for it but nothing came up, but how was Carbonite started or why. I read a few posts a while ago that said this forum had another name before Carbonite. Please no personal information but rather a general idea of how it all began. Thanks

prophecy forums (ph forums) we originally a small shop front and forums. then early early NAG magazine started punting the forums as a place to hang out with NAG staff (they later started their own website / forums). then they added a small classified section. the classifieds kept getting noisier and noisier and the drama from it kept getting more and more spun out till nobody could take it anymore and they got kicked off to have their own selling space (carbonite) - also firestar was always kinda annoyed at who may or may not be competing with the prophecy shop.

there was also a kinda off topic shit talk section called flame zone where you could swear unfiltered and was loosely modded compared to the other sections so it became the place for loads of us regulars to hang out. this became one of the more popular sections with loads of regulars. then firestar kept getting more and more restrictive over everyone who used to talk a bunch of crap in the flame zone and found us offensive. so we moved from flame zone to evilsod.

with the regular morons from flame zone gone and the noisy traders from the classifieds gone, the forums became this empty space attached to a shop. then the forums closed and firestar was "totally fine with that" coz he wanted to focus on his shop. till somone realised that half the shop traffic came from the people hanging out around and in the shopspace and were a natural feeder marketplace

now carbonite lives on here, the evilsod flame zone crew are kinda dispersed around in whatsapp / telegram space in a few smaller subgroups but still loosely connected.
 
I vaguely remember the flame zone, had some entertaining threads. I remember Mother and Larch, both seemed to be quite the intellectuals lol
 
there was also a kinda off topic shit talk section called flame zone where you could swear unfiltered and was loosely modded compared to the other sections so it became the place for loads of us regulars to hang out. this became one of the more popular sections with loads of regulars. then firestar kept getting more and more restrictive over everyone who used to talk a bunch of crap in the flame zone and found us offensive. so we moved from flame zone to evilsod.
Apparently there were rules. Ask @Ageless_ZA how many times he banned me.
 

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