How did you find out about boards?

ARGINITE

how did most people find out about boards?
I found out from a friend, i guess thats how most people found out.

Fobia

Yore ma told me.

Seriously tho, I havent a clue, think I just stumbled upon it one day

Pacifico

Did a search ages ago for Irish Message boards

BEAT

oh how I love repeat threads...but I will play along


I was an online listener of Phantomfm and they have a link in thier main page for message boards...I clicked on it in dec 2001 and posted as a guest until I registered in 2002.
I have lived happily ever since

Waltons

One of my friends goes to lans and stuff like that and mentioned boards one day. Me, being my curious self, wandered in and didn't post for...about a year. Now I post! Hooray!

kelle

I found out through my brother. I told him how I regularly send messages through Rabbitboard http://www.rabbit-on.com/phorum/list.php?f=1
then he told me about Boards!

Piste

I went to CTYI this year and my friend told me to go to boards as there is a whole CTYI forum so everyone can stay in touch and whatnot,I stayed around the CTYI part for a while and wandered around and ended up here.....

JBoyle4eva

Well, I was searching for some Irish digital tV company on google. stmuble upon ICDG, then a link to their message board was on their website, then it showed me boards, and I registered there and then!

honru

Through a pop-up on MSN.

Healio

Looking for mock papers, google showed me the leaving cert forum, here i am now

rainbow kirby

Smiles e-mailed me to get me to join when I finished CTYI for the last time 3 years ago. I'm still here... had another user name with about 450 posts before I became rainbow kirby.

Kappar

Ireland Offline can't remember the exact circumstance.

Creamy Goodness

from the CS community back in 2001

ando

IOL unlimited was cancelled and I found myself being kicked off their flat rate service, then I somehow found IrelandOffline forum... dunno how I found it, possibly given a link by someone, cant remember

therecklessone

I was stung by one of their scam e-mails. I expected busty Irish teens...

BEAT wrote:

I was an online listener of Phantomfm and they have a link in thier main page for message boards...I clicked on it in dec 2001 and posted as a guest until I registered in 2002.
I have lived happily ever since

Actually, much the same as Beat. Only without the listening online, and the unregistered posting.

embee

My mate Dave and I were in a net cafe, way back in the day...

He was browsing boards, looking at the Humour forum.

He read out some jokes, I laughed, I asked him for a link.

I registered there and then but didn't post for some time.

Et voila!

JackKelly

cant remember exactly but i was searching for something irish, and came upon this. Soon after i found out a good friend of mine had been using it for a while. Then an other

tman

Fobia wrote:

Yore ma told me.

Seriously tho, I havent a clue, think I just stumbled upon it one day

god damn it!
knew i should've posted that zinger earlier

erm... SMAK or Kraken introduced a bunch of first years to boards in college... think i now have a higher post count than SMAK

byte

I registered here when ICDG (Irish Cable and Digital Guide) moved from EZboards to Boards.ie after getting its own section. Still here!

JohnK

I heard about Ireland Offline a few years back and followed a link to here.

keu

Have a relative here who used to link me to funny posts occasionally. Eventually decided to jump in. (still feel like an outsider though)

Big Ears

My brother showed it to me .

Agent Smith

i joined when megalan started, then i didnt post for like 6 months.... then i just never left really

seamus

agent smith wrote:

i joined when megalan started, then i didnt post for like 6 months.... then i just never left really

Despite our best efforts

woosaysdan

i found out about this through friends in the college (tippinst) they had a forum set up to chat about college thingies though its mostly just used for spam now!!!

therecklessone

Big Ears wrote:

My brother showed it to me .

Did you show him yours?

tk123

I was bored and starting posting on Entertainment.ie forum and then one day somebody asked for links to chat sites and somebody else mentioned boards. The rest is history!

Hello Kitty

Big Ears wrote:

My brother showed it to me .

Same here!

pork99

When I joined the Ireland Offline mailing list I started using the IOFFL board as well in order to whinge about not having broadband. Now that I have broadband I never visit that board.

I've got what I want and that's all that counts.

uberwolf

myself and seamus were working on a project together.

Corruptedmorals

My brothers a moderator (Gerry) and boards was the homepage on this computer for years.

SprostonGreen

BEAT wrote:

oh how I love repeat threads...but I will play along


I was an online listener of Phantomfm and they have a link in thier main page for message boards...I clicked on it in dec 2001 and posted as a guest until I registered in 2002.
I have lived happily ever since

Just like me then.

The Charlatans had cancelled their gig at the point in Dec 2001 and I logged on to Phantoms chat board, to see if anyone wanted to talk.

They didnt.
But I got over it.

Dr. Loon

The Devil told me to come here! Haven't looked back.

jinxycat

ah i found out about it through a bands website, dunno if they still have it up tho.
www.theflaws.com

radiospan

Through the IrelandOffLine message boards I think. It's been a while...

Miguel_Sanchez

Whilst adventuring in the Belgian Congo I stumbled across a very interesting device......... as I ran they were shooting at me using these little blow-pipes, which I found tremendously frightening....... completely soaked to the skin but at least I was still alive...... there were two of them hanging upside down inside my tent........ she was quite beautiful and half-naked..... I smiled naturally but that just seemed to anger the warlord further......... SNAKE!!!!......... a small furry rodent of some description had managed to burrow all the way up into my........ intestines of a pig boiled in some manner of sauce which I was forced to eat.......... several days of unpleasant regurgitation and incontinence....... I think Kharn mentioned boards to me first....... needless to say I was very, very drunk.

ApeXaviour

Hmm.. figured most people woulda found out like I did. Seems not. Was searchin google.ie irish websites for certain things. Seems there was a thread on what I was searching for and now here I am..

flogen

Phantom myself.
Was looking at the forum and using it a bit... then one day I looked up and saw a list....
then Bang, Zoom! Straight to the moon!!

flogen

the_syco

Moonbeam :cool: showed it to me, whilst I was @ IT Carlow.

monkeyfudge

hmmm... September last year I was at a Radio Conference in Cork and someone was telling me about a documentary they saw on BBC4. I said that I could not receive BBC4 on my Sky Digital package and he told me that all the information on how to set it up was available on boards.ie. And indeed it was.

ferdi

through phantomfm.com also

billy the squid

Someone from boards went over to Radiowaves offering to host their message board on Boards. so I went over to see what the site was all about .

Nala

My boyfriend at the time introduced me to it and I was hooked!

445279.ie

A guy in work gave me a copy of how to get the BBC channels on sky and the address was at the top of the page, so I decided to look it up.

Dave

Here's the synopsis,

4 and half years ago (jesus that's a long time) I bought halflife, started playing, found an IGN server, found out about the then popular halflife board, and i've been here since.

blondie83

ApeXaviour wrote:

Hmm.. figured most people woulda found out like I did. Seems not. Was searchin google.ie irish websites for certain things. Seems there was a thread on what I was searching for and now here I am..

Yeah same with me - I started reading all the after hours threads then. I'd gotton through 2 pages of "do you want to be a ninja?" when I new I'd be staying!

CuLT

When I got set up with ADSL, a friend gave me a CD with all sorts of stuff on it to help get me into counter-strike (RogerWilco, IRC, etc) and I was told to sign up to boards.ie for the CS forum.
So I did.

Still in my subbed list, though I don't read it; just there for the sake of old times .

Third_Echelon

I stumbled across boards when I was at Dundalk I.T. It was all the rage back then... I think most of the class was on the site all day.

Can't quite remember the reason i signed up though! I think it might have been something to do with xbox?

pickarooney

Asked a friend if he knew any decent Irish radio stations online and he sent me a link to PhantomFM, from whence a short step brought me here.

simu

It used to come up on google a lot when I did searches on Irish web pages only but I never used to lurk or anything. I joined one day to ask a question about a college course and whilst waiting for a response, discovered many of the other forums.

Sarky

It's SyxPak's fault. He promised me Elf Pr0n. He lied.