[Sparty]

This song is what I think of when I remember OO.

Really, OO is a place full of memories. At least many of the mainstays have wound up here.

[Andy]

Oh shit son! You got us!

Let me think, Mine is 5/something/04.

I wonder how much of the forums he has archived? I hope we don't lose too much.

Assuming he goes through with making a new site with all our old shit on it. I really hope he does.

[Riot Act]

Apr 16, 2008 23:11:26 GMT -5 Mikey said:

Damn, Riot... the shit I miss when I don't watch wrestling anymore.

I mean, too bad they can't put out any current product I really care about, but to call that video awesome would be a shameful understatement.

You mean to tell me that you missed all the retirement hoopla of the man in your avatar? If you watched 5 minutes of that, you must have heard that song and/or seen the video a dozen times or more.

But yes, it most certainly does achieve a level above awesomeness.

And I also hope he archived a good bit of the forum. I at least hope the Benoit thread is still around somewhere.

Let's not feel down, though. Most of us are already regular here at Pun's and I'm sure there will soon be an OOficial replacement for the old site. Cheer up, team.

[bdoriginal]

Is Gowings Gator?

[Spinch]

Am I the only one here hoping that whatever forums the new site holds are more robust than the old OO forums and NOT held together with bailing wire and chewing gum?

[Jack Quinn]

5/13/02

That's when I signed up. Took me a long time to really get acclimated to the place, almost 3 years to get 1000 posts, then it was pretty much all down hill from there. Some of the highlights:

- almost immediately getting into a pissing match with Slade over music

- the baseball threads. I had so much fun in those threads, it was essentially 6 months of arguing followed by 6 months of bickering

- the 2004 election debates. Heated doesn't even come close.

- The Eddie & Benoit threads. I think both of them eventually turned the corner from "heartfelt emotion" to "sappy overkill" but in the early parts of those threads, there was something touching about the genuine emotion from the posters. Its too bad it took those circumstances to bring it out

- the OOWF. Obviously. That is probably responsible for over 5000 of my posts. Before the OOWF I thought e-feds were the dumbest thing going. How wrong I was. This has allowed me to be creative and have fun with wrestling for over 4 years. The OOWF has been FAR more entertaining for me than the WWE

- The bOOardies. It was always a fun time of the year. And, at the moment, I am the last ever lifetime achievement award winner.

- The sense of community. It is coming together here on Puns, but Puns has only been around a year and a half. OO had 6 years under its belt, and a lot of the vets had been posting for that long. Everyone was familiar with each other, and with the board and its rules and quirks. Given that we all know each other from there, Puns will develop that a lot faster, but no matter how great it is here, its not quite the same (and that is not a knock on Puns at all)


Now, it wasn't perfect, but what is? I did think there could be TOO much modding going on sometimes, and I think there was this beehive mentality and dog pile attitude that was far too pervasive. I also think Rick really got to the point where he resented us, and wrestling in general. If OO is going to ever come back, I hope it can come back when Rick wants it to come back and not when he feels like it HAS to come back. I would love to get the archived stuff (especially the OOWF) but maybe this would be a chance for Rick to recharge his wrestling batteries and decide if doing this is something he really wants to do, or is it something he feels compelled to do (and maybe he has already made that decision)

So, I guess it looks like this

Online Onslaught
December 2001-April 2008
RIP
You Were a Good Wrestling Site

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Apr 17, 2008 8:45:54 GMT -5 Jack Quinn said:

I did think there could be TOO much modding going on sometimes

Really? This from the guy who censored the Sop and Creepy flamewar?

[Jack Quinn]

cause flames are fucking stupid

[OpTard]

the OO forums were created january 2nd, 2001. the first members joined january 3rd, 2001. i became a member january 4th, 2001. that makes me cooler than all of you.

[Sparty]

My join date was, I believe, July 21, 2003.

I already miss OO.

[Pun]

Apr 17, 2008 7:55:45 GMT -5 bdoriginal said:

Is Gowings Gator?

No, GimmickMan

[Army Dice Clay]

Even though I don't post alot, it should be noted that I somehow managed to stay around on the fringes of the site from 11/21/2002 all the way until the end. 5+ years on one board and I only accumulated around 1400 posts. Stuff I'll remember:
-Iraq War debate: this is where I made my first splash in OO. I kinda lurked despite registering finally but really got into the war debate as a start. I kinda noticed I was one of two for sure possibly a third at the time who shared the same belief against about 10 people who opposed by views. It was alot of fun but it was just a prelude and rolled quite nicely into a legendary debate...

-2004 Election Debate: As Moose said, heated is an understatement. There was just a constant even changing mob of debateness between myself, Krydor, Jeb, Ultra Magnus, BBMN, Slade, Ecosystem, Lucky, BTR, Moose, and various assorted guys that would jump in and then jump out (hope I'm not forgetting any obvious ones there). Personally, I was almost temp banned twice I'd say for amazingly inflammatory comments along with just about everyone else. I really think that was the high point for good, quality drama on the entire board and after the election it never really was the same, AGAIN.

-Baseball thread: Granted, I didn't contribute anywhere near as much as certain other people, but it was a good read for me and I frequently got my news from there before I saw it on various other pages. I love baseball and it was always good to know that I could lurk and take a peak at some good takes from some great baseball minds who share the same love I have for my favorite sport.

-The bOOardies: Alas, the last year of the bOOardies I didn't even get to run it but I really did have fun doing it. It did take some work to put it all together but I always thought it was a nice way to end the year for our little community. It never really fizzled out, I felt it actually got my popular and more people got involved as it went on to year 5. It all started out as I thread I started asking what was the thread of the year back in 2003 between Best Build-up and The Fuck List and it magically became the bOOardies and I volunteered to quarterman it. We had Rick involved the first year, we had the mods involved almost every year, we even were treated to a BTR and Jeb special which was awesome. Good memories.

Even for someone who didn't post and still doesn't post as often as others, I still enjoyed my time with it. It was nice that I didn't have to post everyday but I was still familiar to people around the place. Got to know some cool online people to go along with my real life friends. I appreciate the 5+ years I got from OO and I'll do what I can to lurk, post infrequently, and stay on the periphery around here and bide my time until 2008 election so I can spew more venom. Thanks again OO and thanks again you guys, because it wouldn't be OO without you. Tear

[Army Dice Clay]

Apr 17, 2008 9:56:48 GMT -5 OpTard said:

the OO forums were created january 2nd, 2001. the first members joined january 3rd, 2001. i became a member january 4th, 2001. that makes me cooler than all of you.

Eh, I think you got your year wrong. I'm pretty sure January of 2002 was when OO popped up. It would be amazing if it was early 2001 because somehow Rick would have had to see into the future that WrestleLine would shut down just after 9/11 and he'd need his own site. Which begs the question, did Rick know about 9/11? We must get answers.

[Batman]

[OpTard]

Apr 17, 2008 10:18:20 GMT -5 Army Dice Clay said:

Apr 17, 2008 9:56:48 GMT -5 OpTard said:

the OO forums were created january 2nd, 2001. the first members joined january 3rd, 2001. i became a member january 4th, 2001. that makes me cooler than all of you.

Eh, I think you got your year wrong. I'm pretty sure January of 2002 was when OO popped up. It would be amazing if it was early 2001 because somehow Rick would have had to see into the future that WrestleLine would shut down just after 9/11 and he'd need his own site. Which begs the question, did Rick know about 9/11? We must get answers.

ok. 2002. whatever. it was still day 2 of public membership and i'm still cooler than everyone else because of it.

[Mikey]

Apr 17, 2008 1:38:27 GMT -5 Riot Act said:

You mean to tell me that you missed all the retirement hoopla of the man in your avatar? If you watched 5 minutes of that, you must have heard that song and/or seen the video a dozen times or more.

I saw the match, and I saw the following evening's festivities. I had not seen the tribute video and did not know they had put one together.

[Outback Frito Pendejo]

I joined in March 03, being mainly interested in the "Ask the Rick" Retro thread. It wasn't until I plowed through the Who Beat Debra thread and some of the other pre-mod trainwreck threads, however, that I fully realized the potential of teh interwebz. Given the history of poop posters and the like, I understand why OO had to be modded as it was.

There were some fun times that I only vaguely remember now, like the Orton board invasion, the Mafia game, the 4 faces of Parvini, Moves that Mark Henry Can Do, The Parking Lot of Doom in OOWF (topped off by Cap's line about taking a cab), the catfight between Alana and RJ, I Miss Kurt Angle (can we get that tk guy on here?), etc.

[BFG]

So are people using their first join date of when the boards were deleted...or after when v2.0 hit and people started to post besides Eli and the big blue guy?

[eliasvict]

Apr 17, 2008 11:02:29 GMT -5 BFG said:

So are people using their first join date of when the boards were deleted...or after when v2.0 hit and people started to post besides Eli and the big blue guy?

..and Denethor and Supermercado.

[Byrntrigan]

I dunno guys.

I appreciated OO along with everyone else. I started reading Rick & Mike back in the late 90's on Wrestleline as well. They were the best sources for wrestling information on thye web, period in my opinion. And CRZ, lest we forget CRZ...

I am not knocking OO's Forums at all as I realize they are special to people (a nice 5 hour read of the wankipedia shows that) - but the forums were , ahh, not so easy

I lurked for close to 2 years before even registering. It just seemed that OO was so closeknit, so tight, it was virtually impossible to assimilate yourself into that scene. Plus, with so many people, your opinion was put up there while you were either still forming it or typing it up, and sadly, usually much better then you could have done.

I mourn you OO Forums, but I cry in joy for PH. Maybe it's just because I'm in the ground floor now

It just seems a little more laid back, a little more familiy ribbing, and a lot less Gang Warfare.

OnlineOnslaught begat his only forsaken son, and lo, his name was Pun's House. And it was Good!

EVAR!

[davel]

This might interest you. It interested me.

www.oowrestling.com

Its registered to Rick or somebody claiming to be him.

[punk/core]

Apr 17, 2008 13:15:12 GMT -5 Byrntrigan said:

I lurked for close to 2 years before even registering. It just seemed that OO was so closeknit, so tight, it was virtually impossible to assimilate yourself into that scene. Plus, with so many people, your opinion was put up there while you were either still forming it or typing it up, and sadly, usually much better then you could have done.

I still don't care much for you.

[Mikey]

Apr 17, 2008 17:01:12 GMT -5 @davel said:

This might interest you. It interested me.

www.oowrestling.com

Its registered to Rick or somebody claiming to be him.

EXALT for the find. Welcome to the board.

Now go post or something.

[sackings108]

Awesome news about OO! And here I was all set to post about the old forums and such, but it looks like they might be back. Well, I remember I first signed up because my brother showed me OO a few years ago, and I was just starting to get back into wrestling at the time. Those first few months in the RAW chats were pretty crazy. I got temp banned for the stuff that went on in there, which included my myspace being visited by every guy in there, and all kinds of other good stuff. I definitely deserved all of it though.

Since then, my time at OO had been great. I normally posted in the baseball thread, but still enjoyed the other threads as well. And now, hopefully OO will be back. I do like Pun's House plenty, though, because I mean Pun is a fellow Cubs fan. (Jesus Christ Lilly sucked cock today...)

Speaking of which, Pun, can I finally get some Cubs gear for my sig line?

[Pun]

Apr 17, 2008 17:36:30 GMT -5 sackings108 said:

I got temp banned for the stuff that went on in there, which included my myspace being visited by every guy in there, and all kinds of other good stuff. I definitely deserved all of it though.

Wait! Were you the guy Jeb posted pictures of from your MySpace account and everyone ragged on?

Speaking of which, Pun, can I finally get some Cubs gear for my sig line?

Dude, you do realize you can add that stuff on your own, right? Just steal it from other people. That's what I did.