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CougTek
01-14-2007, 02:02 PM
Go to www.antec.com.

This is shameful. How could a big company like Antec, one of the biggest computer case distributor, let its website go down like this? Someone, somewhere, isn't doing the job he's paid for.

LOST6200
01-14-2007, 03:00 PM
How can yuo tell? Site is down for me.

ddrueding
01-14-2007, 03:22 PM
It happened to hotmail.com at least once, and one of the apple domains as well. I must admit, it has happened to me (well, my clients) a few times. It's unfortunate and annoying, but hardly shameful.

Mercutio
01-14-2007, 05:15 PM
It's happened to Hotmail.com TWICE. Two years in a row.
The second time it happened, Microsoft gave the guy who renewed it for them a check for $1000, which he sold on Ebay for considerably more (close to $10k) which he then gave to charity.

Handruin
01-14-2007, 07:24 PM
I was a couple days away from renewing SF. I did 2 years and forgot/procrastinated/forgot/renewed.

LunarMist
01-14-2007, 07:37 PM
What is this, about the 5-year anniversary of SF?

mubs
01-14-2007, 11:39 PM
Seems ok now.

Handruin
01-15-2007, 11:03 PM
What is this, about the 5-year anniversary of SF?

01-15-2002, 02:55 AM is the earliest record I can find. I think that is wrong though, I thought we started in 2001.

timwhit
01-15-2007, 11:11 PM
I think it was 2002. I am pretty sure these Join Dates (http://www.storageforum.net/forum/memberlist.php?&order=ASC&sort=joindate&pp=50) are correct.

Handruin
01-15-2007, 11:16 PM
I guess Lunar is right, we're at a 5th year here.

CougTek
01-15-2007, 11:37 PM
SR's MBF happened on December 28 2001 IIRC and you created SF two weeks later. Up to six months ago, I had all the e-mails sent to me while the "twelves" were discussing the future of the community.

LunarMist
01-15-2007, 11:50 PM
Yes, I was talking to Tim Z (Holywood) that evening and when he told me about the disaster I was shocked and saddened. What a dark day that was!

ddrueding
01-16-2007, 01:57 AM
Indeed. I joined not long after, but it was many months before I posted here regularly. I stuck around at SR for quite a while, then realized I wasn't hanging around at any forums, and felt that should change, so I popped in here.