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Five Years Ago on OCAU
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(link) Friday, 24-September-2004 16:45:39 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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It's pretty cool that we can do this kind of newspost now. :) I thought I might do a regular "5 years ago on OCAU" newspost from now on, perhaps once a week. This will also be a good opportunity to convert the older articles over to the new database-powered format.
Of course, this time 5 years ago OCAU had been running for a couple of months already, so this post will be a bit of a catchup. July 1999 and much of August was spent testing and selling pre-tested Celeron 366 CPUs. That was how OCAU started, as a "backyard business" selling pretested chips and coolers. That idea didn't last long, but from memory we sold about 60 CPUs, before changing the site over to content-based instead of sales-based.
At the time, the Celeron 366 was king. ABIT's BP6 had just come out, and could run two C366's at 550MHz each. David Alvarado sent in a series of 4 small articles about his experiences with C366's and BP6's, which I've combined into the new article system here. My own desktop machine was a BP6 with the two best C366's from my pre-testing days. When we had to change hosts in a hurry, it ended up being the basis of our server Odin, which served OCAU well for a couple of years. For the moment, though, OCAU was still served from my personal webspace at Zip Internet.
Kat from QLD sent in a pic and info about his P2-350 at 522MHz. It's funny to look back at what we considered hardcore back then. There were some other general snippets of info submitted in late August - I've compiled them here. The first-generation Athlon had just come out, but we hadn't seen one yet. TomsHardware had a guide to overclocking them by manipulating the "golden finger" connector on the CPU. This lead to a huge market of "GFD's", or Golden Finger Devices, which allowed you to choose multiplier etc on your slotA Athlon.
On the 27th of August 1999 the site officially changed focus from selling coolers to doing reviews and news etc. However, I cautioned that "This will not be a daily-updated news-of-the-world site"... and almost immediately started posting daily news, which continues to the present day. :)
The 29th of August saw what I believe is my first article for OCAU - my first published article anywhere, in fact - a roundup of Socket370 CPU coolers, which I've put in the new format here. This was done mostly for my own interest, and published so that a few other people might benefit from it. As it happened about 5000 people read it over the next few days, the writing bug bit me hard.. and the rest is history.
That brings us up to the end of August 1999. I'll start on September next time.
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