It was pretty wild, really. No holds barred. Mo Mods. Wars raged in the other. Up above it was just as cut throat. Last but not least, totally hard core!!!
It was also the place to get the best advice from knowledgeable people on the web, of which are no longer here. They helped me build my first rig, a 1 gig Tbird, which was the first 1 gig chip out. I've been building gaming machines every since. It's made me quite a pile of money over the years because of them.
Most of those guys are still around. We keep in touch with private email. The original posters that still post all hang out & post in the other. We'd all migrated down to the other long before the new forum came to be in 04. The other came to be our stronghold on the forum. It's a glimpse of what the forums were like, but it's more like 25% of what it was.
It was good times! Everyone was on 56k and limping along with red hot Tbird chips running Diamond Viper vid cards.