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Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« on: September 01, 2014, 08:54:02 pm »
In this new age of tablets, smartphones and causal gaming such as Minecraft, calculator programmers have become increasingly sparse. The few that still ventures into calculator programming now usually stick to Github, Facebook, their personal blogs or IRC to showcase their projects instead of forums. As a result, the days of the calculator community have been counted for well over 8 years now, despite a few waves of newcomers resulting from calculator-related novelties every now and then, and the day when smartphones will no longer be banned from any class nor exam in the world, calculators could possibly either become a thing of the past or be adopted by vintage computer programmers and the like.

No matter what, Omnimaga still get new members from any school age, some who were not even born when it originally started. Because yes: Today it has now been 13 years since Omnimaga as a group was founded (the site itself started two and an half years later)!

Hundreds of calculator games and programs have been released by its staff over the years, as well as many PC programs and several electronic songs. It went through ups and downs, including a 6 months shutdown in 2008, reaching record TI community activity levels during its glory days and today the forums is slowly approaching 400,000 posts!

So basically, thanks to everyone who have allowed Omnimaga to last this long and let's hope it lasts even longer in one form or another! There is no 13th anniversary Youtube video available to celebrate Omnimaga's birthday (maybe for the 15th?), but for people who have missed some of the past Omnimaga releases, here are the 6th through 10th anniversary videos, as well as the HP Prime, TI-Nspire and Axe tribute videos below:

6th anniversary (2007)
6th anniversary (unused)
The Resurrection (2008)
8th anniversary (2009)
9th anniversary (2010)
10th anniversary (2011)
Axe Parser Tribute (2010)
Ndless: Nothing's Gonna Stop us Now (2010)
The first ever TI-Nspire Lua games (2011)
HP Prime Tribute (2014)
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Re: Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2014, 09:02:09 pm »
Happy birthday Omniamga!

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Re: Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2014, 09:09:11 pm »
Long Live Onmi! One year older then me!

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Re: Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2014, 09:09:55 pm »
Testing something. Also long live omni. I cant believe how old it is now.

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Re: Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2014, 09:13:44 pm »
It's now old enough to sign up on forums! With the permission of its parents! How cool is that?

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Re: Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2014, 09:16:28 pm »
Omni signs up on Omni :P

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Re: Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« Reply #6 on: September 01, 2014, 09:32:25 pm »
Heck yes! Happy Birthday Omni!
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Re: Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« Reply #7 on: September 01, 2014, 09:33:55 pm »
I was four. Never knew.
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Re: Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« Reply #8 on: September 01, 2014, 09:34:44 pm »
I was -1 :P
perhaps the only member that was not born :P
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Re: Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« Reply #9 on: September 01, 2014, 09:35:41 pm »
I was -1 :P
perhaps the only member that was not born :P
I'm sure there are many younger members, just maybe not very frequent visitors.
Omnimaga is quite huge after all.
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Re: Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« Reply #10 on: September 01, 2014, 09:36:15 pm »
How about mostly-active-every-day members?

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Re: Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« Reply #11 on: September 01, 2014, 09:37:20 pm »
How about mostly-active-every-day members?
I would not know that lol
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Re: Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« Reply #12 on: September 01, 2014, 09:48:32 pm »
Testing something. Also long live omni. I cant believe how old it is now.


I pretty much stopped bothering about its age after the 10th anniversary, waiting patiently for its 15th. But then came the day where Omni became as old or older than some of our newer members :P


Also yeah not everyone shows their age so perhaps we have more 12 years old lurkers than we think. Also plenty of regulars are like 13-14, a few of which are even contributing stuff like contests and notable looking programs
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Re: Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« Reply #13 on: September 01, 2014, 09:59:45 pm »
out of interest, What's about the average age of Omni members?

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Re: Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« Reply #14 on: September 01, 2014, 10:08:51 pm »
Normally they join around 14-16 but we sometimes get 12-13 years old members too as well as adult ones who programmed calcs for ages before joining or older people in their 40s who are just interested in old school hardware. People who join past 14 usually stay until they start college and turn 18 and the 12-13 years old members usually stay for less than 6 months since at this age they have a much shorter attention span.