July 15th, 2007 - What happened?

[rancor]

Not sure why, but I always look at who's online as well as how many people are using the site at one time. Usually there are between 30 and 50 people browsing the forums when I'm on...

...However I always see this:

"Most users ever online was 257 on Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:38 pm"

What happened on that date? Why was there such an influx of people on the site at one time?

[E. Randy Dupre]

I don't know, but I'll bet it was DRAMA-related.

[ROBOTRON]

shmup day

[Elixir]

I came back.

Really, I have no idea.

[evil_ash_xero]

Not sure why, but I always look at who's online as well as how many people are using the site at one time. Usually there are between 30 and 50 people browsing the forums when I'm on...

...However I always see this:

"Most users ever online was 257 on Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:38 pm"

What happened on that date? Why was there such an influx of people on the site at one time?

That was 3 days after I joined. I remember it so vividly, it was a humid day.. wait, I don't remember anything.

[CMoon]

<Ryo> Do you remember what happened that day? The day it rained...?</Ryo>

[1up]

probably something to do with the ketsui pcb being donated to Guru? Or was is not that long ago`?

[mesh control]

Never Forget

[The Coop]

Never Forget

Too late.

[Vexorg]

Probably an outbreak of spambots. I seem to recall that was back when there were a bunch of problems with those.

[BulletMagnet]

Probably an outbreak of spambots. I seem to recall that was back when there were a bunch of problems with those.

That was the day when Bloodflowers, a single tear running down his cheek, as the blood-red sun slowly set behind him and the wind gently fluttered his iconic, tattered scarf, looked to the sky and whispered, "never again".

[drauch]

Day after my birthday. Belated party.

[ROBOTRON]

Probably an outbreak of spambots. I seem to recall that was back when there were a bunch of problems with those.

That was the day when Bloodflowers, a single tear running down his cheek, as the blood-red sun slowly set behind him and the wind gently fluttered his iconic, tattered scarf, looked to the sky and whispered, "never again".

lol

[Slump]

<Ryo> Do you remember what happened that day? The day it rained...?</Ryo>

"Hey, about that day..."

[GaijinPunch]

It was The Event.

[charlie chong]

i poasted a picture of my epenis if i remember rightly

[neorichieb1971]

Probably a Cave release like Death Smiles.

[Smraedis]

Looking at my youtube stats, the months around July are always the most popular, also wasn't it just before the start of STGT '07?

[sven666]

guwange box on kotaku?

[xris]

The governments of the world were recruiting shmuppers to fly experimental space fighters to fight off an alien invasion.

[TrevHead (TVR)]

if it wasnt spambots then maybe it was a big news topic that broke on this forum and other gaming sites wrote about it and linked it. Maybe ikuragu 360?

EDIT
I still prefer Xris' idea where alien invaders had killed off most of the fighter jet pilots so the embattled army turned to the shmups forum for pilots to fly their birds in the planned final attack with other pilots from all around the world as soon as they planted a virus in the mothership

The shmups pilots fought hard but soon found themselves without missiles of which the only pilot with a missile left was the half beer sozzled DJ Incompetent who destroyed the alien battleship (He mistook the ejector lever as a bottle opener but luckly the pilotless jet rammed the alien ship)

Unknown to everyone bullet magnet flew a captured alien fighter to the mothership. Unfortunatly he never escaped and is still there to this day where he gets daily anal probes and is forced to play Xenon 2 all day.
Our current BM is really a bot, but one day the shmups forum pilots will rise up and free their comrade in arms!

[BulletMagnet]

Unknown to everyone bullet magnet flew a captured alien fighter to the mothership. Unfortunatly he never escaped and is still there to this day where he gets daily anal probes and is forced to play Xenon 2 all day.

Another fun fact: said probes are personally administered by GaijinPunch.

[Ed Oscuro]

Trains flying through the sky.

[GaijinPunch]

Unknown to everyone bullet magnet flew a captured alien fighter to the mothership. Unfortunatly he never escaped and is still there to this day where he gets daily anal probes and is forced to play Xenon 2 all day.

Another fun fact: said probes are personally administered by GaijinPunch.

W/o surgical gloves.

[emphatic]

i poasted a picture of my epenis if i remember rightly

Screw July the 15th, 2007, charlie chong has fixed his CAPS LOCK!

[Specineff]

July 15th 2007.

War was beginning.

[moozooh]

July 15th 2007.

War was beginning.

!!!

Most excellent use of a long-stale meme in a good while.

[system11]

Site migration when we moved to our first dedicated server after the hosting company started crying about memory usage, I think.

[nasty_wolverine]

July 15th 2007.

War was beginning.

I like this version better than system11's story...

[Bloodreign]

Only took 3 years to get an answer to something that happened 6 years ago.