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

Tea_Bag

midi FTW!

antodeco

I used to download images of what I would be hoping would be naked ladies. Over a nice 56k modem, a 1.3MB file took around 10 minutes. Id wait till the face and see was she hot. If so, I would continue on to the shoulders. If I saw any form of top I cancelled it. Wasnt paying loads per minute!

I also used to use oceanfree chat. That was alright. Lots of young 'uns with hormones to spread. Ah them were the days.

Actually, leisure suit larry was played alot. Woah, this is mid 90s flashbacks here. I miss hanging around 14 year old girls without looking weird

My name is URL

I was a mod on tv-links.co.uk and then another similar site which still exists, then I got banned for posting while drunk =(

Dangerous work but someone has to do it :pac:

andrew

Before I found boards I was in 6th class, so I dunno, played with crayons?

phasers

KTRIC wrote: »

nice white 911.

For future reference, white cars look knackery

Before boards I used Habbo Hotel

Jesus Juice

I remember having a pure,innocent mind.:(

AnonoBoy

I remember when the only things on the internet where the Beastie Boys website, William Shatner songs and Playboy. But since we had a 28k modem, crappy monitors and had to browse with images off Playboy was really just for the articles.

Wazdakka

Overheal wrote: »

Well done stating the obvious.

ooooohhhh
Someone has a sandy vagina today :P

Abi

Tea_Bag wrote: »

what did you do before discovering Boards.ie?

Some work probably. Ugh! the thoughts of it.

Riamfada

mIRC, Oceanfree, Geocities Websites, HTML coding and Day of Defeat 1.2 Beta

and drawing boobies in MS Paint

Jayeire

Before boards the people with 20 something thousand posts had even less of a life...

ChocolateSauce

Porn. Not much has changed since the days when netscape.com had the whole internet indexed!