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Boards.ie.... back in the year 2000

giveth · 2007-05-31 20:26:59

Awww, look what boards looked like when it was shiny and new. It was so cute! http://web.archive.org/web/20000510223244/http://www.boards.ie/ (takes a while to load) RTE.ie in 1996 looks like a caveman designed it: http://web.archive.org/web/19961114070121/http://www.rte.ie/ Type in a url to see what a website looked like…

31-05-2007 8:26pm

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Awww, look what boards looked like when it was shiny and new. It was so cute!
http://web.archive.org/web/20000510223244/http://www.boards.ie/ (takes a while to load)

RTE.ie in 1996 looks like a caveman designed it:
http://web.archive.org/web/19961114070121/http://www.rte.ie/

Type in a url to see what a website looked like in the past:
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

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#2 31-05-2007 8:43pm

Earthhorse

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Castor Troy was a real poster?

Holy shít, I thought they made that guy up!

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#3 31-05-2007 8:48pm

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The internet has nostalgia now?...AAAAGHH lousy arrow of time always battling against me.

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#4 31-05-2007 8:50pm

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Man, I miss those days

"Boards, where everybody knew your nick..."

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#5 31-05-2007 8:52pm

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Yeah I sometimes have a look through it to see how things have changed. I would have seen along the lines of this when I joined. Where did Ricardo Smith go to?

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#6 31-05-2007 9:48pm

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Ah! Remember the mysterious spammer Q?

Mike.

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#7 31-05-2007 9:50pm

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Was something more like this tbh...
http://web.archive.org/web/19991013234132/cloud.ign.ie/

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#8 31-05-2007 9:55pm

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Jesus it actually looked a bit better back then. Probably not as functional.

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#9 31-05-2007 10:04pm

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the black cloud skin is the only way to read boards tbh

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#10 31-05-2007 10:21pm

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Earthhorse wrote:

Castor Troy was a real poster?

Holy shít, I thought they made that guy up!

He is still here i think. One of the first to get a name change also.

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#11 31-05-2007 11:46pm

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Earthhorse wrote:

Castor Troy was a real poster?

Holy shít, I thought they made that guy up!

He's not called that now...

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#12 01-06-2007 12:36am

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And I said: "Let's all meet up in the year 2000,
Won't it be strange when we're all fully grown?
Be there, two o'clock by the fountain down the road."

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#13 01-06-2007 2:04am

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Ruu wrote:

Yeah I sometimes have a look through it to see how things have changed. I would have seen along the lines of this when I joined. Where did Ricardo Smith go to?

i think it looked like that back when i started perving on boards...

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#14 01-06-2007 3:42am

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The days when Hobbes had the obscenely high post count. It was something like 1,000 posts.

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#15 01-06-2007 4:18am

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SantaHoe wrote:

Was something more like this tbh...
http://web.archive.org/web/19991013234132/cloud.ign.ie/

Oh man, no wonder you all went for vBulletin, UBB really did suck.

I was lurking around here since 2005 when I actually got this wonderful invention called "broadband" :P Before I joined, any time I search for something, more often then not, links to some thread on the forum kept popping up in my google's.

Oh, heres something to laugh at: Microsoft's Webpage circa 1996:
http://web.archive.org/web/19961022175331/http://www.microsoft.com/

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#16 01-06-2007 6:33am

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Best thread ever => http://web.archive.org/web/20070601063006/http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=66624

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#17 01-06-2007 7:18am

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I miss Typie

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#18 01-06-2007 7:21am

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Me too.

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#19 01-06-2007 7:23am

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The main thing I miss about past-boards is being able to click a button that showed you every post you made. It made tracking what you wrote and what you needed to get back to so much easier. Of coarse everybody else being able to check every post you ever made had its disadvantages aswell!!! I know it slowed down boards and all that but I miss it!!! We were promised we'd have it back some day im still waiting.

Oh and I know it wasnt that long ago!

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#20 01-06-2007 7:49am

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BigTommyBomb wrote:

Jesus it actually looked a bit better back then. Probably not as functional.

But the search worked!

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#21 01-06-2007 8:12am

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That thread is class. Miss Riding Hood in the way it was meant to be written.

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#22 01-06-2007 8:25am

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BigTommyBomb wrote:

Jesus it actually looked a bit better back then. Probably not as functional.

I think it looks better now.

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#23 01-06-2007 8:57am

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David Michael wrote:

He is still here i think. One of the first to get a name change also.

Kharn wrote:

He's not called that now...

Interesting, so who is he known as now? Or is it a big boards sekrit?

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#24 01-06-2007 9:01am

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It is I!

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#25 01-06-2007 9:02am

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zuutroy wrote:

The internet has nostalgia now?...

It's also available on computer now too...far less messier than when it was available by pidgeon only.

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#26 01-06-2007 9:29am

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Tar.Aldarion wrote:

It is I!

They said name change, not gender change man. Woman. Whatever.

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#27 01-06-2007 4:53pm

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Earthhorse wrote:

Interesting, so who is he known as now? Or is it a big boards sekrit?

Google says Twopossiblywoodenmadeouthousesuntbackgardenstoragetypefaciliteswhosthesonofjack

Also...why do the links not work for me? Is there a sekrit to them?

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#28 02-06-2007 1:49pm

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If you mean the links in the OP, I have no idea. If you mean the links once you get to the archive site, most of the suff isn't actually archived and the links appear to bring you to different places intermittently (i.e. every time I click on After Hours it returns a different set of threads).

Thanks for the info.

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#29 03-06-2007 10:24pm

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Who at the time would have guessed that this site would one day dominate the internet!

Whoa, glad boards.us changed it's look and feel!

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#30 04-06-2007 4:08pm

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is it just me or are those links not working?

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#31 04-06-2007 4:13pm

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faceman wrote:

is it just me or are those links not working?

They all work fine for me!

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#32 04-06-2007 9:26pm

David Michael

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faceman wrote:

is it just me or are those links not working?

I have this feeling its an NTL thing.

Not working for me either. Or at work which is also an NTL line

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#33 04-06-2007 9:32pm

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David Michael wrote:

I have this feeling its an NTL thing.

Not working for me either. Or at work which is also an NTL line

Is this just with my links or all the links from that site?

Can you access the site web.archive.org? Try the links by typing them into the search box.

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#34 04-06-2007 9:41pm

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Yeah I'm getting the same problem on NTL. Web.archive.org doesn't show up at all.

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#35 04-06-2007 9:47pm

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r3nu4l wrote:

Is this just with my links or all the links from that site?

Can you access the site web.archive.org? Try the links by typing them into the search box.

I can access the raw site but every time I search (or click on one of the links here) there is nothing but a blank page yet it says "done" on the bottom bar.

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#36 04-06-2007 9:56pm

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Weird! NTL were my first ISP in the UK but I never had a problem with archive.org.

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#37 04-06-2007 10:08pm

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Not working for me either I'm also on an NTL line btw.

I really wanted to revisit the UCC website when it looked like a packet of Custard creams.

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#38 05-06-2007 12:04am

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Wow, I forgot this show even existed, but it even had its own homepage
http://web.archive.org/web/19961114082804/www.rte.ie/tv/echo/index.html
and look how much they were selling this site for at the time
http://web.archive.org/web/20031002185613/http://bebo.com/

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