The NBR Ol' G Thread

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37 minutes ago, TheRealTechGeek said:

Ok cool I'll probably will. Thanks for the welcome

Welcome (back?) to the forum, Im not completely aware of all mods, and I do think Techtarget, despite basically giving up on forums generally speaking also had a hand in the rules that were put in place.

 

Some of the mods are here and have thankfully agreed to help us run the moderation team, that being said, if you feel slighted in some particular scenario please PM us. We are just as human as the rest of us and there times where mistakes are made. I am certainly not above this either. 

Heres to helping the forum grow and spreading knowledge to the consumer! :) 

[Yotsuko]

I remember when I first signed up.  I needed help with a Compaq laptop I had at the time and the rest was history.

 

[Mr. Fox]

On 2/13/2022 at 5:49 PM, TheRealTechGeek said:

Ok cool I'll probably will. Thanks for the welcome

Nice to have you here, bro. Long time no see, bud.

[KING19]

I wish screenshot my profile but I registered on NBR around 2008 after lurking for several months in 2007 and i only joined NBR because i was having overheating problems with a HP DV5 and i needed help to solve it.

[Ishayin]

On 2/13/2022 at 1:54 AM, Sandy Bridge said:

I think the real cultural differentiator is those who grew up without, and with always-accessible information in their pockets.  Yes, it's 2022, so 2000 is a good dividing line for being obviously young if your year or birth starts with 2 instead of 1.  But I suspect the real difference is when phones, and especially smartphones, started becoming ubiquitous at younger and younger ages.  I don't know exactly when that happened; it was after I graduated high school by a few years, but by less than a decade.

Now you do have a calculator with you all the time so you don't need to know math, GPS navigation so you don't have to know how to actually navigate, Google so you don't need to memorize any facts, social networks and video chats as a poor but easy substitute for in person interaction.  And perhaps most of all, a great source of distraction in the Internet - both in being able to scroll mindlessly, and if you aren't careful, get notifications constantly.

Not that being old enough to remember the time before that necessarily innoculates one against it, but it made math class both more practical and less prone to distractions.

The other differentiator I see, probably more specific to the U.S., is those who graduated high school before and after the start of the Great Recession.  I see a lot more economic fatalism among the latter.  Thoughts of never paying off student loans unless the government does, for example.  What's interesting is the change seems to be those graduating high school, not college - those who graduated college directly into the Great Recession seem to have a more pre-Recession mindset of the economy has ups and downs, they had bad luck with hitting a down but things will improve.  Maybe it's just the difference in messaging that people heard when they moved out on their own and became adults - if you graduated high school in 2005, the message was life is good, and that carried through even when you graduated college in 2009, whereas if you graduated high school in 2009, the message was the economy stinks, and perhaps it did for long enough for that message to sink in.

It certainly isn't universal, but IMO the Great Recession did have an impact on the cultural psyche.  Which probably shouldn't be surprising; the Great Depression certainly did, but again more so on those who were more affected by it.

Pre-9/11 world... that's one I didn't experience as an adult, but aside from the obvious air travel, and the eventual Vietnam-like impact on the American political psyche from the resulting overseas adventures, I wonder if it really made that big of an impact?  Or maybe it doesn't look as big to me because I never worked/lived in an area with big skyscrapers until 15 years later, by which point the concern had died down.

I mean, sure, I remember the events of the day (although our school continued with the regularly planned lessons) and the TV news that evening, but I'm not sure it had a major impact on "people who grew up before vs after".  A milestone, yes, but on the scale of, say, Vietnam or Watergate?

 

Interesting comments about the post-recession change in attitudes thanks. I think it is not just in the US. I have noticed in Europe too that young people have a far less rosy picture of the future compared to say, back in the 90s. There is a lot of anxiety around in general, and probably not helped by some of the less positive effects of the internet that you mention. What frustrates me most is just how far away our current technological world is from what it could be (in terms of positive social engagement).

 

Edit: Oh yeah, the topic at hand... I'm not an 'OG' at all I'm afraid. I only joined NBR ~ the start of 2015.

[User]

On NBR I was '4W4K3' and I joined roughly 2006 as I was graduating high-school and wanted a laptop of my own. I did not have a super large post count as I mostly lurked, but was more active in the last few years. I miss all the 'Rep' points and comments though; those were fun. I changed names when joining here simply because I could. Thankful NBR did not fall into obscurity and many members resurfacing here. 

[John Ratsey]

On 2/13/2022 at 6:14 PM, TheRealTechGeek said:

I am so very happy to be part of this community again, I used to be known as Freedom16 a decade ago and I actually forget my second account name. The moderators banned me twice. Freaking ridiculous, over very petty stuff, It really jaded me so much regarding joining other forums. In many ways the end of that forum is the end of the abusive horrible moderators. They truly were such jerks. Reminiscing now I remember so many people used to complain about Asus so much. I had Asus and Alienware at the time in 2010. I met so many great people from the forum. It's great to be back. 

Some of the old mod squad are here so be careful what you say about them. 😁 It's sometimes prudent to choose the words you type to avoid being offensive.

 

I joined NBR in April 2005 to make some comments about my new Asus W3A. Most were positive but I was annoyed that the advertised weight was 4.2 lbs and the actual weight was 5.5 lbs (which discussion concluded was due to my W3A having a battery and the advertised weight being for a small battery). Since then many manufacturers have got slightly more careful with their words and prefix the weight with "starting from".

 

[micman]

I was micman on NBR and I'll be micman here as long as this site is around. Huge thanks for everyone who archived NBR. I am not always active on there but I had been a member since around 2007-2009 (can't remember actual date). Many of you can probably imagine my shock last week when I did a search for content I expected to be on NBR only to find a massive internet black hole on google. 

 

I'm glad we have that preserved and I look forward to being part of this community! 

 

I considered reddit and LTT as alternatives but you know those folks just don't know what NBR people know.

[ryan]

I wont lie I'm an OG from 2004 I think my addy was ryan0840 or something ended up just reading and contributed later on 4 years ago

 

 

anyone else remember lewdvig and magnus? some people just stand out

[Asleep]

So if you want to find a capture of your old NBR user page google 'notebookreview members/your-old-username'

 

It should give a search result that has the URL. Mine was  http://forum.notebookreview.com/members/asleep.59228/

 

Plug that into the Wayback Machine and it will show you old captures. 

 

 

And speaking of old... 👴

[saturnotaku]

Just picked a random date to find my info from NBR. Seems like a lifetime ago. I don't remember how I found the form originally nor why I joined. I think at least part of it was to find a new home after nV News was either on its final legs or had shuttered completely.

[Aeny]

I managed to screengrab my account as well, still using the same username and picture. I hadn't visited NBR for a while so I was shocked to see it was gone. I didn't post much and mostly lurked there 🙂

[jaybee83]

cool idea for this thread 😃

OG jaybee83 on NBR:

[K4sum1]

Taken from archive.org. I didn't bother filling out my profile there I guess.

 

[kojack]

My old tag. Ha ha. The memories!