P45.net

Tapes

www.p45.net was a very popular website a few years ago, It was probably as big as boards.ie at one stage but now nobody uses it anymore. Its as dead as bebo

The Minstrel

I used to enjoy that forum. Ended up getting kicked off it for upsetting one of the mods. More so than boards*, p45 had a core of total objectionable d!ckheads who were Taliban-like in their adherence to rules etc.


* Boards has its fair share of total and utter knobheads obviously, but the difference was that you couldn't escape them in p45. It was such a small community that it was almost as if everyone knew each other.

iMax

It seems that time has finally run out for P45.net, a fine site in it's day which unfortunately ran out of steam as the years went on.

Kudos to Busáras & all those who were involved over the years.

Gordon

The domain has now not been renewed, it is no longer Shame that.

DeadParrot

Just saw that.
I was a long time member there.
It had gone downhill over the last few years
traffic dropping off etc
it's a shame
The 5 O'clock shadow and the like were brilliant

sealgaire

Must only have gone off the air in the last few days. No harm, was nothing on it anyway

Skerries

Gordon

It went back up recently as they renewed the domain but it's down again, strange.

Slaphead07

It's gone. For years it boxed well above it's weight division but people just grew up and moved on. Fond memories and many many good friends. RIP.

Jumpy

Goodnight sweet prince and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

Dr Bob

yeah , there was a twitter announcement yesterday
http://twitter.com/#!/archiseek/status/68351052008800257
I was a poster there (dr_bob)since ...oh ..1999, had some good times , met some decent people and had a few great drinks sessions outta it.
I know of at least one married couple who met there (theres a few I believe)
The mass banning/exodus after "loungegate" in mid 05 killed it though.
At one time it would have been a rival site to boards (albeit with an older "office" crowd to Boardsies then "mainly college age" posters..)

Jumpy

A friend of mine that I knew via one of the P45 drinks was the person who introduced me to my wife.
Didnt think properly about that until now. Even though it has been years since I posted, it is sad to see it go.

Dr Bob

yeah
I popped my head in there a few weeks back and it was down to a trickle of posts a day .I posted what I didnt realise at the time was my last post, in a MIA posters thread funnily enough.

Gordon

luas_dublin wrote: »

yeah , there was a twitter announcement yesterday
http://twitter.com/#!/archiseek/status/68351052008800257
I was a poster there (dr_bob)since ...oh ..1999, had some good times , met some decent people and had a few great drinks sessions outta it.
I know of at least one married couple who met there (theres a few I believe)
The mass banning/exodus after "loungegate" in mid 05 killed it though.
At one time it would have been a rival site to boards (albeit with an older "office" crowd to Boardsies then "mainly college age" posters..)

It was a similar size to boards when I joined. Different, more relaxed vibe to it, I really liked the crowd over there although I didn't post much.

What was loungegate?!

I used to be a poster there years ago. I remember the trolling they did with the media lol

Gordon

There's an obit up on the site, worth a read. I'll copy here for archive purposes. RIP P45

Obituary: P45.net (1998-2011)

P45.net RIP

The death has taken place of P45.net (killed in action). Removal this Thursday evening at 5pm. Funeral Mass tomorrow, Friday, at 12 noon. Burial afterwards at sea. House private please (no followers).

Obituary: P45.net (1998-2011)

Brendan Behan once remarked that there is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary, and then the Irish author explained (shortly before keeling over) that your standard obituary ought to kick off with an opening sentence that gives the Accused's name, followed by a comma, then a brief descriptive phrase, then another comma, and finally "died". Or "passed away". Something along those lines, anyway.

One little sentence, a tiny little phrase, tightly caught between pairs of little typographical nipple-clamps, reducing all the gloriously chaotic complications, twists and turns of a human life down to a neat and tidy little clause. The magnificent flux of a fellow creature's existence is squished betwixt twin commas. It is no more. Pretentious or wha'?

Anyway, it has come to pass that P45.net has passed away, kicked the bucket, the proverbial dead parrot pushing up daisies, having gone to feed the fishes, in Abraham’s bosom - no, yuck, that's horrible - deceased, terminated, shuffled off a lot of mortal coils which require one of those special sockets that you can only find on eBay. Yes, after a perilous life between commas and a courageous battle with a semi-colon or two, as well as a shedload of asterisks and a barrel of exclamation marks, P45.net has given up the ghost estate, as it were. With great sadness and regret, this thread, and every other thread, is finally closed.

* * *

Born in 1994 but not officially launched until four years later ("we couldn't be arsed"), P45.net was Ireland's first social networking site. It was also Ireland's first anti-social networking site. At one point in 2001 a major traffic spike on P45 caused the dot-com bubble to burst, during the infamous "That's It I'm Getting Another ****ing Handle" incident, which was sparked by a jetsetting thirtysomething airline hostess who turned out to be Robbie from Dundalk aged 19. It's a long and sad story.

Yes, P45.net was not without its enemies and controversies, though some of its members are still arguing that "detractor" is an agricultural term. The site incurred the wrath of the high and the mighty, from the Italian government and Bill Gates to the Knights Templar, the Tanaiste's helicopter pilot, Google and Roy Keane (where are they now huh!), as well as Galway Corporation's cleansing department, the Navy Seals and the Navy Seal Trainers at Dublin Zoo, you name it. Solicitors' letters from far and wide were a not uncommon occurrence, although most of the ones about Premiership footballers were ignored because "that handwriting is a bit gay".

Of course, P45.net would have been the very first to shoot down a cliche-ridden obituary. P45.net did not "die in a blaze of glory, doing what he (or she) (or it) loved". P45.net did not "only see the best in people" or "choose his (or her) own path". P45.net was never a Renaissance person - the timing was all wrong, and everyone knows the Renaissance didn't have VBB bulletin board software.

Anyway, P45.net is not now sitting next to Phil Lynott, Seve Ballesteros, the Diceman and Jedward (OK, not strictly dead yet but you can but pray). P45.net has not gone past the bouncers at the pearly gates and is not now having a cup of tea and a Kimberly Mikado with George Best and Alex Higgins, or jamming good with Weird and Gilly and the Spiders from Knocknagoshel (a truly awful bad tribute band who are also dead).

Maybe P45.net did indeed live each day to its fullest except when the server was down or we had to go to the pub. And P45.net could not only talk for Ireland but could indeed talk to anyone, from a CEO to a humble toilet cleaner, a bit like Dara Ó Briain or Princess Di (we mean the way Princess Di could talk to anyone, not that she was a toilet cleaner). Yes, P45.net could talk to anyone, enhancing the lives of all around them, although when we say "talk" maybe we really mean "type".

* * *

Above all, though, P45.net was a bundle of contradictions: it was both local and global (didn't it coin the expression "lobal"?), it was big and small, "Massive meet up in London anyone?" and "HUGE in the Indo this morning" or a tiny email newsletter every Friday at 5pm that couldn't get past the spam filter because it didn't like the c***ts in the subject line.

P45.net was "a private person", yet "whose door was always open" and with "a personality larger than life" - particularly after posting at two o'clock in the morning in the "Oh **** I'm ****in pissed!?!" thread. Yes, P45.net was truly one of a kind, whose fleeting existence can't be compressed between a few commas - a wild animal, a child at heart, with an inexhaustible love of truly improbable pornography involving vegetables or Lego.

Or maybe then again P45.net was just a little full stop between six letters.

Today P45.net is survived by - oh ****e they're gone too - the "Five O'Clock Shadow", the "Ballyhoo Examiner - now available on the Google News!", Ireland's first blog by Dolly, Ireland's first webcam "Pat the Plank" (a live real-time 24 x 7 feed showing pictures of a real block of wood in virtual cyberspace), Ireland's first "Bonomatic", the other stuff that's too long to mention because we've forgotten it already, you name it.

All that stuff, bringing joy and sanity (OK, and insanity) to a dull grey day down on the cube farm. On P45.net we saw things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Darren. A photo of Sheila's donut on her desk. We watched Berlusconi glower in the darkness at Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die, the bloody hosting's gone...

popebenny16

sad to see this, i used to be on there for years, but since i took most of 2009 off the internet I just lost touch with it, almost totally lost touch with boards.ie too.

Yes, I agree with that comparison of p45.net (there was also a p45 rant thing???) being office/workers and boards being more college/studently back in the day. I also remember that it was more relaxed then boards, and that was before the changes here the last few years. In the end, the title probably made it more attractive to office workers and with the recession i guess most of the posters lost their connection with the place.

bridgetown1

though it was as dead as a flat hedgehog for the last 18 months i am genuinely gutted at the final death of p45.

was a regular there from 2000 to 2009, but with a different name.

the obit makes good reading, though.

how many hours did a waste wonderfully waste in that excellent place. ah, what memories.

will be missed.

Palimpsest

I never posted it on but it breaks my little porcelain heart to see it go. It kept me terribly happy all the years I was out of Ireland.

Fair fecks to the lot of them.

Funny obituary, funny to the last!

parsley75

just saw this. i used to post on there alot & it was responsible for one of my most dramatic coming off the rails moments thanks to being suspended from work for abuse of the internet facilities in the same weekend i was to go to london to meet a load of them. great in its day, not so much sad to see it go, just loads of fond memories of it. it a proper record of all the dumb things i used to do


so i've just registered on here (even tho its got nathan to do with p45) to say nice one chaps & good luck to all who sail in you.

dumac

P45.net is now apparently the most popular dead site in the world: http://sitekarma.com/www.p45.net/

jam_mac_jam

only saw this today, I am very sad now. It had been very quiet the past few years although its sad because it was small you felt you knew people. snif.

JoeyJJ

Ah my ould flower... only seen this now, used to waste a lot of time on there. The 5o'clock shadow was great Friday afternoon pre-pints read. Some great threads over there as well as a couple of hoax stories that made the papers, thanks to lazy journalism.

padmundo

A lot of fond memories... hilarious rants, drunken postings, friends made... nights out... the various gimicks like the culchie test, various o-matics and the 5 O'Clock Shadow that made every Friday in work. Then somehow I ended up being the admin of the lounge for a bit... Busáras if you're out there... I know your pain.

P45 I'll miss thee... though half of me is glad, while another half will miss that 50 odd pages of search results from my username that led to some of my funniest and oddest public ramblings. It will soon be gone into the ether...