Highlights on MyBroadband over the last 10 years: Your views needed

[ichigo]

In the last 7 years my highlight was when I won the Samsung Galaxy Tab

Another was all the complaints and stuff about Telkom when I joined in 2006 and now they are good.

 

[ernstn]

The first myBB conference and meeting RPM and IC
Celemaisko and Slimothy
Frangelico and Jannie's pool
Henry's bursary problems

and of course

DEBBIE

 

[Fudzy]

The flop that was the much adored SNO until they rolled out their products, and they were rubbish.

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

Too much to mention to be honest .....

The PS vs Xbox thread was epic in it's day
Winning stuff
Getting the 300 000 th post in the TK and getting nothing for it
The 'lounge' saga
Afrihosts 1 gig for life give away
The uncapped revolution
The late night TK chats with the oldies back in the day

 

[PostmanPot]

Boodles.

 

[alloytoo]

Hi there

MyBroadband was launched 10 years ago, a few months after Telkom launched its ADSL service in South Africa. Since then there were many highlights on MyBroadband, including Sentech’s MyWireless launch and the fight for better service levels, Vodacom’s 3G launch with Vodacom3G on the forums, the ADSL regulations, MWEB’s uncapped ADSL announcements, the start of Threadkiller and the like.

Can you please tell us what you think the highlights were on MyBroadband over the last 10 years? What do you remember the best?

Please post your highlights in this thread.

I remember searching for assistance with Sentech's Mywireless product. Every google search bought me to this forum filled with people who even if they couldn't help at least could sympathise.

A highlight was recently receiving the unexpected good quality shirt and cap. (Many people have BTW commented on the shirt)

 

[Wall]

The now deleted and probably forgotten saga of Dean**** -some number- and when he was rude to PostmanPot and his facebook details and picture and his mother picture etc showed up..

That was brilliant!

 

[adsl2]

Who was the guy that provided international access to local accounts?

 

[Billy]

When MyADSL stopped being just about ADSL and became MyBroadband. (Thanks to My Wireless?)

 

[APoc184]

Aaah... The good old days of RouteSentry.

It feels like a big blast from the past but it isn't that long ago that we all used it.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

The flop that was the much adored SNO until they rolled out their products, and they were rubbish.

And, sadly, they're still flopping around.

 

[LazyLion]

My Top 10 Highlights....

1) The early days of 30 Gig ADSL accounts back in 2005, before Telkom closed the loophole. We also used to get free local back then.
2) WebAfrica offers their 30 Gig for R199 Red Africa Promo in 2010 and then adds 100 Gig Download Plus in 2011.
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/325851-Red-Africa-130GB-Web-Africa-ADSL-data-for-R199
3) Sharing Files on the UUNET FTP Server! (The original thread was deleted years ago for some reason, but there is this one)
4) The Days of Mweb LOCAL uncapped Trial several years before Mweb "Freed the Web"
5) Guys begging for Invites on the local Torrent Sites
6) The Local Only thread - Things to do when your Cap runs out!
7) The Early days of the Local SAIX and IS News Servers!
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/103290-News-server-related-queries
8) The day that the Seacom Cable was announced! (And the day that Local ISPs told us not to expect prices to drop because of Seacom!)
9) Afrihost's R29 per Gig Revolution!
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/194235-R-29-per-GB-ADSL-will-it-start-a-price-war
10) Gmail goes live in early 2005 and offers 1Gb of Mail storage in the day when the highest was 100 Mb.

 

[ernstn]

Aaah... The good old days of RouteSentry.

It feels like a big blast from the past but it isn't that long ago that we all used it.

Yes forgot about that one!

 

[LazyLion]

* R7-00 callmore internet
* ISDN on R7-00 callmore

haha, that was awesome, I could download a whole Gig over a weekend!

 

[Devill]

Boodles.

Haha, and Gru spamming the forum with pointless threads.

 

[ShaunSA]

Haha, and Gru spamming the forum with pointless threads.

Remember LoneGunman

 

[supersunbird]

Boodles.

Ah yes! The string!!!

 

[akescpt]

i loved R7-00 callmore internet

ahhh the sound of the dailup modem. good times.

for me mybb is a place where you learn lots of things. across the usual categories. i have learnt lots of stuff. for one, i know how important bacon is to forumites. there better be at the anniversary!! lol.

i love the fact that we mostly hear about stuff first. be it through official articles or forumites posting. cheers.

 

[Hosehead]

4 banned identities merged into 1. My fave posession a now frayed MYADSL golf shirt back when clothes were real quality.
Making real life pals and having the forum as a little black book. Need help on...........PM.......and get problem resolved within hours.
Taking long leaves of absence and returning to find absolutely nothing has changed

 

[HavocXphere]

RedAfrica - First time I could download some serious gigs
Afrihost 1 gig free
Affordability of data cap. 1 gig a month a while back vs 200 gigs a month now.
Seacom
1-2mbps upgrades
Found a glitch in Virgin Mobiles data accounting - data usage not showing up on their systems (wasn't public though)
Various forum drama