OCAU Forums Online Users Record

Current record: Most users ever online was 1059 on 6th March 2006 at 09:21 PM

This new record was achieved in an attempt both break the 1000+ users online mark and give the new database server BBQ - which replaced Pie - a decent workout.

A screen capture of the forums hitting 1000 users for the first time.

A screen capture from the database stresstest.

The 1000+ users thread also probably set a record for fastest growing thread with just under 500 posts from 8-9PM AEST.

Previous records:

1059 - 6th March 2006 - Organised record break attempt by WaLLLY
829 - 9th August 2005 - About 10 minutes after the successful landing of the highly publicized Space Shuttle Discovery. There were also some mis-priced Dell HDD's.
808 - 9th August 2004 - Big Brother 2004 ended
652 - 13th January 2004 SCO versus the rest of the world (IBM and Novell by then)
612 - ?
607 - 5th August 2003 - SCO versus Unix?
542 - 26th February 2003 ISOnews closed, taken over by US Government
528 - ?
486 - 3rd June 2002
427 - 20th May 2002
422 - 9th April 2002
404 - 26th Feb 2002
267 - 29th October 2001
244 - 29th August 2001
205 - 30th July 2001

Entries marked with ? are mentioned in later news posts but I couldn't find the date for them.