On the Origins of the A&A Forum

Turtwig

Hey guys as a recent newbie I couldn't help but wonder how this all began?
Was A&A it's own forum from day one, or had ye to beg for one? If so, were there any protests? If not, how did the A&A folk get along with religious folk were threads continuously being disputed/locked?

Seriously, I'm longing to know what I missed.:)

Dades

I made a request for it twice in the "Forums" forum, having spent a lot of time in the Christianity bothering believers. Around 2005 I'd say?

The second time it got approved, and here we are.

I think it's popularity has more than justified it's presence.

Funsterdelux

It just appeared, like the big bang

Zillah

*insert Genesis satire here*

stevejazzx

Funsterdelux wrote: »

It just appeared, like the big bang

*insert Genesis satire here*

Some believe this forum is 16 billion years in the making while others contend that an 'Administrator' made it up on the spot just four years ago.

Funsterdelux

stevejazzx wrote: »

Some believe this forum is 16 billion years in the making.

that's preposterous

:eek:

stevejazzx

Funsterdelux wrote: »

that's preposterous

:eek:

Flat forum creationist alert! "Look at this forum, it's so well formatted" he says. "Look at the HTML, it's perfect, are you trying to say this happened by chance."

HTML is non random dude, come on!

Funsterdelux

Its clearly a great example of Technolution

achtungbarry

Zillah wrote: »

*insert Genesis satire here*

If I may....

Dades wrote: »

I made a request for it twice in the "Forums" forum, having spent a lot of time in the Christianity bothering believers. Around 2005 I'd say?

The second time it got approved, and here we are.

I think it's popularity has more than justified it's presence.

That's not how it happened at all. This forum is not 4 years old at all, it's actually only four months old and all those posts supposedly from 2005 were planted there by Mod to test us. This is what actually happened 4 months ago.



In the beginning Mod created boards.ie.

And boards.ie was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the froum. And the Spirit of Mod moved upon the face of the forum.

And Mod said, Let there be categories: and there was categories.

And Mod saw the catagories, that it was good: and Mod divided the believers from the non believers.

And Mod called the non believers' area the atheist forum.

And the forum brought forth reasonable debate, and theists yielding hilarity after his kind, and the hilarity yielding sulking, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and Mod saw that it was hilarious.

And Mod said, Let us make more mods in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the users of the forum.

And Mod said, Let there be smileys in the forum of the boards to divide the serious from the lighthearted;

And Mod saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.

By the seventh day Mod had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he got back to his real work before his boss caught him spending ridiculous amounts of time on an internet forum when he should have been doing his actual job.

Turtwig

achtungbarry wrote: »

That's not how it happened at all. This forum is not 4 years old at all, it's actually only four months old and all those posts supposedly from 2005 were planted there by Mod to test us. This is what actually happened 4 months .



In the beginning Mod created boards.ie.

And boards.ie was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the froum. And the Spirit of Mod moved upon the face of the forum.

And Mod said, Let there be catagories: and there was catagories.

And Mod saw the catagories, that it was good: and Mod divided the believers from the non believers.

And Mod called the non believers' area the atheist forum.

And the forum brought forth reasonable debate, and theists yielding hilarity after his kind, and the hilarity yielding sulking, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and Mod saw that it was hilarious.

And Mod said, Let us make more mods in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the users of the forum.

And Mod said, Let there be smileys in the forum of the boards to divide the serious from the lighthearted;

And Mod saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.

By the seventh day Mod had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he got back to his real work before his boss caught him spending ridiculous amounts of time on an internet forum when he should have been doing his actual job.

Brilliant, just brilliant.:)

So anyone dare do the 'second' version?

kiffer

In the begining there was a great void, all was silent. A voice in the silence spoke, let there be ether and so there was ether. Then the voice spoke again and the ether was separated forming a great Cloud apart from the rest.
The Cloud was calm and peacefull.
The voice spoke again and a great Quake shook the Cloud because the Voice was the Cloud and more than the Cloud, and the Cloud was the Voice and more than the Voice.

The Cloud quaked again and was split into 5 parts yet it was still one and greater than before.

The Cloud reached beyond and pulled from the other ether a being: DeVor. To DeVor the voice spoke and said... Name the Cloud. So DeVor registered the name boards.ie by some sort of crazy name changing shananigans... And Cloud and Voice saw that it was good...

For a less crazy story see http://wiki.boards.ie/wiki/history

5uspect

Dades wrote: »

I made a request for it twice in the "Forums" forum, having spent a lot of time in the Christianity bothering believers. Around 2005 I'd say?

The second time it got approved, and here we are.

I think it's popularity has more than justified it's presence.

So it's all your fault.

Dades

5uspect wrote: »

So it's all your fault.

Yes. I killed god. :pac:

robindch

stevejazzx wrote: »

Flat forum creationist alert! "Look at this forum, it's so well formatted" he says. "Look at the HTML, it's perfect, are you trying to say this happened by chance." HTML is non random dude, come on!

HTML, and even the ascetic XML, might certainly be nonrandom, but the melange of third-rate, cooked-up-over-a-weekend, fly-by-night, shoot-me-in-the-foot rubbish code that makes up the majority of the web these days is as persuasive an argument against intelligent design that I can come up with.

Only evolution could have produced this mess.

stevejazzx

robindch wrote: »

HTML, and even the ascetic XML, might certainly be nonrandom, but the melange of third-rate, cooked-up-over-a-weekend, fly-by-night, shoot-me-in-the-foot rubbish code that makes up the majority of the web these days is as persuasive an argument against intelligent design that I can come up with.

Only evolution could have produced this mess.

Indeed as this website testifies and I think it may well be even be evidence of evolution, that is to say it's not certaily the stuff intelligent design.

Gordon

Only four rules in the charter, not ten?

Dades

Gordon wrote: »

Only four rules in the charter, not ten?

We ran out of babies to carve the rules into. :pac: