Before Boards.ie?

Tea_Bag

for the life of me, i cant think of what i did online before boards? i used to read threads for a long time, before being overrun by the ads, making me sign up. now i do nothing else in front of computer.

seriously, id have zero use for the internet if it wasnt for COD4 and boards.ie

[roll on the porn comments..]



what did you do before discovering Boards.ie?

tribulus

Before boards.ie I was outside, being more sociable.

It's a cruel, enjoyable curse.

Fizman

You can't remember what you did before May of this year??

thomond2006

Boards.ie is absolutely brilliant, like the OP I can't remember what I did before on the net.

Poor Uncle Tom

life's waiting go live it.....

Danbo!

I met work deadlines

Ruu_Old

I used to listen to midi files.

jumpguy

I used to only go online to go on Bebo, check out satellite passing times on heavens-above, play some games, read the news, etc. Boards is massively addictive. If I'm ever gonna sit down and watch TV, I open up my laptop and go on boards at the same time.

brummytom

watched more porn, pretnended to havea life

Holsten

Used other forums.

jhegarty

IRC FTW

Mr Benevolent

Aviation forums for me. Sadly missed

Danbo!

Ruu wrote: »

I used to listen to midi files.

Midi files were teh fcuking business! Thanks to their small size, you can easily fit over 3 billion songs on an iPod classic, and they sound the exact same! :cool:

JONJO THE MISER

Before boards.ie there was nothing before boards.ie

galwayrush

I vaguely remember having a wife.

Ruu_Old

Stee wrote: »

Midi files were teh fcuking business! Thanks to their small size, you can easily fit over 3 billion songs on an iPod classic, and they sound the exact same! :cool:

Funky Windows 3.1/95/98 canyon.midi and passport.midi were great for starters!:D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtoHxMWw354

Poor Uncle Tom

Ah she's ok, I keep her company....:D

minidazzler

I used the Ultimate-guitar.com forums alot more before boards, was on my way to being a mod to!!! But then I found boards and haven't used UG much since.

brendansmith

Fizman wrote: »

You can't remember what you did before May of this year??

rrrrrrrrrrrrrrre-reg!

Overheal

There was the Jagex Castle, porn, Roms and Emulators, Yahoo Pool, porn, Starcraft, porn, porn, porn, Ogame, Boards.ie, Porn, Piracy, Porn.

Yeah when you break it down over 10 years. Living in Ireland it was always dial-up. Florida in the summers. Cable man. They had it years before us. Talk about porn, I burnt CDs to bring back with me: I needed enough to keep me going all year.

brendansmith wrote: »

rrrrrrrrrrrrrrre-reg!

Well done stating the obvious.

Danbo!

Ruu wrote: »

Funky Windows 3.1/95/98 canyon.midi and passport.midi were great for starters!:D

,,,,,,

Mother of God, its all coming back....

Thread should be renamed to "Before http://www.mididatabase.com/ " because that's where I (and can only assume everyone) will be spending the next month.

Peace out Boards!

Rebelheart

Tea_Bag wrote: »

for the life of me, i cant think of what i did online before boards? i used to read threads for a long time, before being overrun by the ads, making me sign up. now i do nothing else in front of computer.

seriously, id have zero use for the internet if it wasnt for COD4 and boards.ie

[roll on the porn comments..]



what did you do before discovering Boards.ie?

Well, I used to go on Virtual Irish Pub, IrishAbroad and Paddynet, God bless them. That was in 1996-97 when few people had the auld idirlíon in their house. When they passed away along came IRC Chat which was all the rage and, like Boards.ie, had regular meet-ups in Dublin. A slew of geeky disturbed computer hackers there too, but it was a good set-up and a radical improvement on the first two. I can't find anybody in the #Ireland channel there nowadays. I was on that for years, and also on ICQ at the same time. ICQ was fairly cool in those days with novel ways of chatting up the auld random chick.

These are the ones that stand out at the moment.

tech77

brendansmith wrote: »

rrrrrrrrrrrrrrre-reg!

The r key on your keyboard may be broken.

petes

jhegarty wrote: »

IRC FTW

Same as.

JerryHandbag

I useda tape songs off the wireless.....none of your fancy newfangled e-pods and the like!!:D God be with the days that blah blah etc etc zzzzzzz

petes

Overheal wrote: »

Living in Ireland it was always dial-up. Florida in the summers. Cable man. They had it years before us. Talk about porn, I burnt CDs to bring back with me: I needed enough to keep me going all year.

Well at least with dial up all you needed was one picture. By the time it had loaded you were ready to knock it out.

Mossy Monk

Napster was a regular haunt back in the day. Geocities web pages were entertaining too.

KTRIC

Before I found boards.ie I was a successful big city lawyer, with a 6 figure take home, a house in the Hamptons and a nice white 911.

Now I spend 18 hours a day sitting on the couch in my one room flat in my y-fronts, drinking Stella and posting shite like this

kingtut

Why would you want us to think about life before boards? How cruel!! :mad:

aido179

galwayrush wrote: »

I vaguely remember having a wife.

lisp?

i still frequent two other forums that were around years before boards. I had a forum of my own for a while.

harney

galwayrush wrote: »

I vaguely remember having a wife.

I remember her too, she was a keeper :P