Why boards?

scojones

Ok, so seeing as it's my 4000th post I said I'd make an attempt to make sure it's not a complete waste. This might have been done before, infact I'm fairly sure it has been done before but I'm doing it again. Booyah.

So, how did you come about boards? Did a mate tell you about it? Did you find it from a web search? Did the admins kidnap you and say they'd steal your first born if you didn't use it?

For me, I was sitting in college and saw someone next to me on a site called boards.ie so I said I'd check it out... and I've been hooked ever since.

whiteghetto

I am from the states looking to visit.
was recomended to check this forum out from a guy at offtopic

Tar.Aldarion

Hah, who was it?
Also, it has been done to death. :P


A mod called NeoslicerZ suggested I join as he said the board needed somebody like me.
I joined for the cs forum and branched out.

LadyJ

I had a few friends who were big into it and I could never understand why they would bother to spend their time posting on an internet forum. Turns out it's quite addictive!

Also,I really wanted to get opinions on a certain topic but it didn't go down too well....:o

pbsuxok1znja4r

I think for me it was seeing someone at college with boards open in the browser, too. Took a long time for me to warm to boards and for certain long periods still I prefer avoiding the place. (Some people fit in well here, others don't. I'd like to think there's a good cross-section every type of person, but there ain't always).

Anyway, yeah, random net browsing at college brought me here. I'd nothing better to do than stick around.

Doomspell

Was searching for a book and this was one of the results.

Terry

whiteghetto wrote:

I am from the states looking to visit.
was recomended to check this forum out from a guy at offtopic

hmm.

anyway, it was a web search for me.
i was looking for an Irish wrestling discussion forum and this was the first one that came up. then i came back a year or so later, had a look around the rest of the place and decided to stay.

The TCD boards were created, and a user who was then called Triceradon told me about it. From there I got hooked.

Tar.Aldarion

Hands up who remembers Ladyj's arrival topic on boards, I sure as hell do.

Ruu_Old

I joined through looking at the IrelandOffline forum, the rest is history. It helps me keep in touch with news at home and friends there.

pbsuxok1znja4r

^^No, what was it? lol

scojones

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

Hah, who was it?

You know, I can't even remember his boards name - but I do know his real name. He's a dead on chap, was a year below me in college.

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

Also, it has been done to death. :P

I know, but the way I see it is that there is a big influx of new users who didn't post in the previous threads, and with a beers just around the corner it may help for them to get a feel for the other users on here.

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

A mod called NeoslicerZ suggested I join as he said the board needed somebody like me.
I joined for the cs forum and branched out.

You mean, they were short on us geeks? hehe.

byte

I came to boards when the ICDG Forums moved from EZboards and were hosted by boards.ie

My, that was a while ago now.

It's amazing how boards.ie has expanded so much over the years.

Crucifix

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

Hands up who remembers Ladyj's arrival topic on boards, I sure as hell do.

\o.
Anywho, someone told me about it, I signed up, and haven't looked back since.

whiteghetto

julep wrote:

hmm.

anyway, it was a web search for me.
i was looking for an Irish wrestling discussion forum and this was the first one that came up. then i came back a year or so later, had a look around the rest of the place and decided to stay.

Is being from the states and wanting to visit a bad thing?

Terry

not at all.
we welcome american tourists with open arms. no joking,

takola

Billy the Squid told me about it! Said I'd check it out and have been hooked since!

stevenmu

Someone I was stalking signed up for an account so I did what any good stalker would do ... I hacked their account and now use it as my own, spending my days impersonating them on the internet.

Rabies

sjones wrote:

Ok, so seeing as it's my 4000th post I said I'd make an attempt to make sure it's not a complete waste. This might have been done before, infact I'm fairly sure it has been done before but I'm doing it again. Booyah.

*grumble*

Why back in my day we walked to school bare foot and monty banned users for posting threads like this

Ruu_Old

Rabies wrote:

*grumble*

Why back in my day we walked to school bare foot and monty banned users for posting threads like this

Showing your age now. over 4 years like myself, brings me back to the formation of Sigpo.

Tchocky

Mikado shut down so I dropped in for a bit.

Boards has a much wider range of fora, but I know none of ye, so back to mikado

godtabh

Came across it while searching for info on a computer. Took a while to get into it. But it was well worth it

Terry

Tchocky wrote:

Mikado shut down so I dropped in for a bit.

Boards has a much wider range of fora, but I know none of ye, so back to mikado

i don't know anyone either.
i still stick around though.

Dooom

Was looking for somewhere to sell some stuff, and was recommended here. Stuck around ever since.

scojones

It's scary Ruu, both you and I joined in Jan 2002 and you have more than double the posts I do hehe.

Anyway back on topic, this is fairly cool. It seems most people just happend to stumble onto boards... I wasn't quite expecting that. Thanks for playing.

Dirk Gently

The brother was always on here on the music forums. I just thought it was just some dance music site because that’s all he ever posted in but I was in a hurry to use the comp one day and told him to get the fuck off his little dance website and it was then he informed me of the rest of the forums. I still picked him up out of the chair and told him to fuck off but it was then that I actually had a proper look around boards.ie. Now it’s him who moans at me to get off my stupid forums so he can use the computer. He's trying to get me off the computer right now as I type but I like waiting untill his eyes are popping out of his head with rage before I let him near it

dbnavan

My cousin* uses it but we never let on to users that we are anyway connected, so I suppose he got me hooked.

*Dont ask or guess cause we will never tell

Dudess

I joined because Phantom FM uses Boards for its message board (it's in the hosted category). That's how I originally joined - just to post to Phantom FM's message board - but then I found all the other forums and you lovely guys .
Now you're like a family to me /me blows kisses to you all.

fuzzywiggle

A friend wanted to show me some ridiculous thread. Linked me. And here I am

Rhyme

Friend mentioned it, i joined, promptly forgot and got reminded and ive never left... I blame AH.

Rabies

Ruu wrote:

Showing your age now. over 4 years like myself, brings me back to the formation of Sigpo.

I think the OP should be banned for blatant disregard for an old rule
It is gone of the front page, but the fear that Monty gave posters should remain

Dudess

To Fuzzywiggle,
Let me guess: it was in After Hours, right?

Ruu_Old

dbnavan wrote:

My cousin* uses it but we never let on to users that we are anyway connected, so I suppose he got me hooked.

*Dont ask or guess cause we will never tell

dbfarrell is your cousin? Spill it!

Rabies

Dudess wrote:

Now you're like a family to me /me blows kisses to you all.

Ahhh... I'm all embarassed now



a girl kissed me... woohoo \o/
can't wait to tell my mammy

Terry

Ruu wrote:

dbfarrell is your cousin? Spill it!

nah. it's dbtrim.

gandalf

Aw look the newbies started this thread again (althou its been a while since the last one!!).

Dirk Gently

Ruu wrote:

dbfarrell is your cousin? Spill it!

I'm actually the cousin in question.

Dudess

You were once a newbie, Gandalf.

Dun laoire

Actually heard it from another forum i browsed. There was some conversation going on between a few members and somebody typed up this.

"they wouldnt take that ****e over on boards.ie

So i waddled on over, admission was free so in i went:)

Rabies

Dudess wrote:

You were once a newbie, Gandalf.

Gandalf is a '98 user. Pretty much part of the furniture.

Posters from '98 started off with 1,000 posts to offset the newbie remarks from later posters

ferdi

was using the Phantom FM message board which was (is) hosted by boards.ie

gandalf

Rabies wrote:

Gandalf is a '98 user. Pretty much part of the furniture.

Posters from '98 started off with 1,000 posts to offset the newbie remarks from later posters

'98's are now hardwired into the system. Except for wwman he is the ghost in the shell !!!

eamoss

I 1st found boards.ie when someone on another forum had boards.ie as their sig that was back in 2002 but I only had like 4/5 posts. Then I rejoined to in 2005 to get help with fixing my computer I think.

Rabies

gandalf wrote:

'98's are now hardwired into the system. Except for wwman he is the ghost in the shell !!!

There is always an exorcism

Nightwish

A google search found this glorious site for me.

InFront

I googled something about horseracing AFAIR and I came across the site.

I was delighted cos there arent any other Irish internet fora... or are there??

gandalf

Rabies wrote:

There is always an exorcism

Only if its painful he is a Spurs fan afterall

Terry

eamoss wrote:

I 1st found boards.ie when someone on another forum had boards.ie as their sig that was back in 2002 but I only had like 4/5 posts. Then I rejoined to in 2005 to get help with fixing my computer I think.

i hope your original account wasn't banned.
'tis frowned upon 'round these here parts.

Lust4Life

I stumbled across this forum on Google one day.
One of the liner tags for that days was a posting in the Personals Forum titled "How To Ask her Out".

Well, I started reading and got so caught up in it, I had to come back each day just to see the outcome! Such a romantic story!

Then, I started browsing the rest of the site and was completely hooked! I stopped lurking and signed up. Been here most every day since! I am a total addict!

L4L

Rabies

julep wrote:

i hope your original account wasn't banned.
'tis frowned upon 'round these here parts.

Sssshhh.... Monty is on some time off. The new mods don't know all the rules yet

Multiple accounts are ok. We all have them*





*not true. multiple accounts are evil

Terry

monty is back with a vengeance.