Who started Boards?

humanji

I was just wondering who created this site? That's all

chamlis

There is a wiki on the homepage.

BaZmO*

Yore Ma!!

Beruthiel

http://www.pie.boards.ie/team.php

Kiera

Holy God.

honru

God.

Femelade

oh ber..you're a supermod!

lukin

Only started in 2000?Jeez I can't believe that, I thought it was around a lot longer.

Ruu_Old

yeah read the wiki tbh.

Kinetic^

lukin wrote:

Only started in 2000?Jeez I can't believe that, I thought it was around a lot longer.

Well if you go to the after hours index and go to the last page you'll see that it was around since 98. (you've to have the from the: title set to beginning)

Femelade

Keyser Soze 5 wrote:

Well if you go to the after hours index and go to the last page you'll see that it was around since 98. (you've to have the from the: title set to beginning)

yeah i was sure someone posted a link to it before..

WizZard

lukin wrote:

Only started in 2000?Jeez I can't believe that, I thought it was around a lot longer.

I remember when this was all just fields...

danniemcq

WizZard wrote:

I remember when this was all just fields...

lol! Had to be said!

homah_7ft

The internet was in black and white back then.

Mr Magnolia

WizZard wrote:

I remember when this was all just fields...

Brilliant.. LOL'd

Sparky

WizZard wrote:

I remember when this was all just fields...

LOL

DeVore wrote:

I remember when this was all just zeros...


DeV.

Boston

I did, I more correctly Boston, back in 1996

FX Meister

I started it and then I got bored and sold it to those other guys who just rebranded it and called it their own.

Slippin Jimmy

I would just like to thank the people that created it and keep it up and running. It is really a brilliant site. I enjoy spending my time on it. Thanks a mill.

Bard

homah_7ft wrote:

The internet was in black and white back then.

White? PFFT!

Black and Green more like!

KTRIC

Back when Boards was started there was no internet. You had to send off for a floppy disk and load it up manually on internet explorer 2. If someone posted something interesting you would get a supplementary disk in the post with the update.

And you complain that its slow now !!! :rolleyes:

Gordon

DonnybrookGhost wrote:

I would just like to thank the people that created it and keep it up and running. It is really a brilliant site. I enjoy spending my time on it. Thanks a mill.

Feel free to donate and show your appreciation that way!

Slippin Jimmy

Gordon wrote:

Feel free to donate and show your appreciation that way!

Actually I have money left over in my 3V card. I will donate it, but I don't have the code for it to work. I deleted the txt message:o . If I can get the code then I will give whatever is left over.

Blowfish

Gordon wrote:

Feel free to donate and show your appreciation that way!

Hehe, I will during the summer, right now i'm suffering from 'broke student' syndrome.

gandalf

In 1996 a crack nerd unit was sent to prison by a coding court for a crime against unix they didn't commit. These men promptly cracked a maximum security server to the Dublin underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as hackers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the Boards Team.


Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith aka Vexorg [no known photo]

Lieutenant Templeton "Face" Peck aka Cloud

Captain "Howlin' Mad" Murdock aka Regi [no known photo]

Sergeant Bosco "B.A." Baracus aka DeVore

Dave!

Bloke called Jore. Jore Mah. German lad.

Zat ist all.

astrofool

Bard wrote:

White? PFFT!

Black and Green more like!

The rich kids also had an orange option

Sparky

Without Quake and Tom and John, Dan etc., we wouldn't be here, so the only way I always see fit to thank the lads for their hard work is to always subscribe for a year.
Its only €50, and you get extras.

Ruu_Old

Subscriptions are great oh the rewards for them are fantastic too. You also help keep the admins heads from rolling, with the whole cocaine habit and having to borrow money from the...oh ive said too much

Blowfish

Sparky-s wrote:

Without Quake and Tom and John, Dan etc., we wouldn't be here, so the only way I always see fit to thank the lads for their hard work is to always subscribe for a year.
Its only €50, and you get extras.

Such as the wonderfully new oversided avatars.

Doodee

and the dancing baby, you remember that, oh that thing was so kewl. It danced left, then right, then looped back. Amazing!


rofl @ Tom's pic

Hes a bearded warrior no more

Slutmonkey57b

The Wiki does fail to to convey the correct level of fetid stench surrounding the quake alumni's most vituperative venture, though. (vituperative is the wrong word but I wanted to use it so screw you guys) Boards grew organically from the carpet in sandwith street, a bit like the potato/lemon clock, I'm convinced of it.

GAAman

Is it just me or does cloud look a fair bit like gary oldman?

chillywilly

WizZard wrote:

I remember when this was all just fields...

i burst out laughin wen i read that ha!!!

kudos

Steveire

Slutmonkey57b wrote:

The Wiki does fail to to convey the correct level of fetid stench surrounding the quake alumni's most vituperative venture, though. (vituperative is the wrong word but I wanted to use it so screw you guys) Boards grew organically from the carpet in sandwith street, a bit like the potato/lemon clock, I'm convinced of it.

Will you rewrite it then? I probably wrote whatever it is in the biki you're talking about, and I never really played quake or doom, and I wasn't around this site then either. I just picked stuff up from old posts and a bit of creative googling.

Rollo Tamasi

Blowfish wrote:

Hehe, I will during the summer, right now i'm suffering from 'broke student' syndrome.

i have a dislocated bank account at the moment too, but when it gets mended up there is no chance in hell i'm parting with 50euro for extra membership.

Bixmoo

Ruu wrote:

yeah read the wiki tbh.

i hate that tbh crap.

WizZard

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

i have a dislocated bank account at the moment too, but when it gets mended up there is no chance in hell i'm parting with 50euro for extra membership.

Why not?

Ruu_Old

Bixmoo wrote:

i hate that tbh crap.

tbh i dont care

Tar.Aldarion

'I hate that to be honest crap.'

Yes, I do too.

RuggieBear

Bixmoo wrote:

i hate that tbh crap.

TBH

Bixmoo

lmao tbh

Terry

bunch of bleedin' nerds.

Slutmonkey57b

Steveire wrote:

Will you rewrite it then? I probably wrote whatever it is in the biki you're talking about, and I never really played quake or doom, and I wasn't around this site then either. I just picked stuff up from old posts and a bit of creative googling.

Meh. The history goes as follows:
Brown Plastic chairs in the Hamlab, a dark hot geothermal subterranean computer lab in Trinners, probably around 1am.
Twitchy nerds in the process of dropping out of college, along with twitchy nerds who supposedly have grown up and have real jobs play quake with other twitchy nerds on the opposite side of the country, while Slutmonkey points out that quake is brown and frankly seems to be a lot of effort, unlike typing rubbish commentary into Valhalla MUD, much to the disinterest of all concerned. Said nerds then dissipate once the gladiatorial ructions have reached their epic peak, with much weird commentary about the various "tactics" involved, which may or may not involve watching things twitch about on a screen and shouting random gibberish, while apparantly not cheating, for reasons best known to themselves.

Dublin nerds then repair to the local doss house, a hovel by the name of Something Sandwith Street, what might be best described as an ill-planned cardboard box halfway under a railway bridge containing one (1) right angle between its walls, two bedrooms (containing anything between 5 and 7 occupants), a sitting room containing no television, and a door off what is used as a kitchen that is passed off by the landlord as a bathroom but is effectively a corner of the back yard with a tin roof over it. Only worse smelling. Meanwhile, the country nerds repair to what Slutmonkey dismissivly refers to as cow-**** ridden hovels, quietly enjoying the missed irony while attempting to stop the never-cleaned carpet from growing over his feet while he sleeps.
Meanwhile, Tom "DeVore" Murphy babbles excitedly at high speed about the latest brainwave to course through his skull until Joe, the Most Sarcastic Nerd In The Universe, a man who could make an orgasm sound like a chore, tells him to shut up, which only causes him to change tack breifly until he realises that his audience is unconscious and talks to the wall instead, probably getting a better reaction in any case. On the opposite side of the country, his erstwhile partners in future crime sleep blissfully unaware of the horror he is about to unleash on their lives, while Regi has his life ruined by The Slapper From The Black Lagoon.

The fateful day comes. The culchies and the faux-snooty Trinners crowd meet for weekends of quake, drinking, and talking absolute rubbish at high speed, a contest hotly debated between Reaper (points for vehement blinkerdness), DeVore (points for being several steps ahead of himself in many cases), Zero (points for aggression but generally too quick to realise he's wasting his time and finding something else to do) and PJ, the non-quake playing resident asylum escapee (points deducted on all counts as he is usually arguing about something completely different to the rest of the table, with no recourse to logic, without listening to a word anyone else says, at a very high volume). Slutmonkey observes all the attempted one-upmanship until such time as he feels the need to point out that the rest of the table are, in fact, nerds, papishers, Irish, culchies, or quake players as appropriate, to which the rest of the table conspires against him by accusing him of being a snobbish west brit proddy, to which he enquires what their point is.

And thus boards croaks into existance, powered by buckfast, brown lumps bought from the ultra-scobes in Fenian St flats, desperation, mexican showers, Zero's almost-unnerdy normal bloke exterior, and Bunny's obsessional enthusiasm as he debates the merits of Philosophy vs. professional quake playing. Personally I blame Cloud for providing Dev with the facilities to actually implement one of his crazy ideas, which as anyone who knows him can tell you is not usually a good idea as it takes over his life, and several other people's as well.

Boston

Jesus Slutmonkey57b, It took me years to piece all that together.