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    #32
    Seachmall
    Registered Users Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    Can't remember, probably looking for something about Ireland in Google.


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    #33
    CardBordWindow
    Registered Users Posts: 3,191 ✭✭✭CardBordWindow


    A friend emailed me a link to the Funny GIFs, and the You Laugh You Lose threads. Spend months checking daily. Only bothered registering last month and haven't looked back since!


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    #34
    Sanjuro
    Registered Users Posts: 4,236 ✭✭✭Sanjuro


    Whilst travelling an abandoned track one cold winter's morn, I happened upon a old man, clothes tattered and worn. 'OLD MAN,' I said, and he looked up at me, 'do not be afraid, tis knowledge I seek.' 'Knowledge?' he answered and he grinned toothlessly. 'Best keep the hell away from boards.ie'

    So, yeah, um.... google.


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    #35
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    I was looking for a new forum where I could stalk the mods, since I had been banned from the other forums.


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    #36
    Orando Broom
    Registered Users Posts: 3,351 ✭✭✭Orando Broom


    Boards approached me.


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    #37
    wild_cat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭wild_cat


    Due to the array of topics here it probably came up when I was googling something.

    As a teenager I would have hung around more archaic Irish message boards where the issue of heavy modding around here came up a lot so I waded into see what the story was and a good few people I know would have came here solely to troll and relay their experiences (this was long before trolling was a well known term). Had a much older user name that I can't remember now from 2006 or so.

    At one point I recognised the top couple of user names in the "bastards" forum.


    The modding isn't that bad after all. I'd still like to be able to call someone a c*** the odd time but hows never.


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    #38
    madmammy
    Registered Users Posts: 120 ✭✭madmammy


    well listening to biggins telling me about every post on here all the time it was bound to stick
    just thought i'd come see for myself....still get told everything about it though


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    #39
    PseudoFamous
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭PseudoFamous


    They were on the radio discussing how all of the passwords of this site were stolen. So the logical thing to do was wait a year, and then sign up.


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    #40
    partyndbs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,048 ✭✭✭partyndbs


    boards found me ;)


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    #41
    Mr Trade In
    Registered Users Posts: 1,705 ✭✭✭Mr Trade In


    Bunch of catch you next thursdays posted dumbass comments about me and I decided to join to deprive them of all the retro games on adverts,one month in and I bought some guys collection of US machines which pissed a few of them off,ever since I have lurked in the shadows waiting to strike again.


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    #42
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    A few of us used to chat through an old Irish Martial Arts discussion forum, then one by one the regulars dropped off and came over here.

    The other forum closed soon after.


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    #43
    shofukan
    Registered Users Posts: 365 ✭✭shofukan


    Was jamming with a mate a few years ago and one day he walks in with a new bassist, asked him how he found the chap and he said through boards.
    Signed up a while after that...
    I like it here.


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    #44
    phasers
    Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Junior cert forum. It provided great resources to help me cheat if I wanted to (of course I didn't, I swear garda)


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    #45
    gandalf
    Registered Users Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    Was on here before it became Boards.ie


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    #46
    Sinfonia
    Registered Users Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭Sinfonia


    Came on to read the poker forum, then branched out to the Prison Break forum I think. Eventually discovered the beautiful procrastination tool that is AH.


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    #47
    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,364 ✭✭✭cml387


    You mean this..

    http://web.archive.org/web/20000510223244/http://www.boards.ie/

    Sorry,you'll have to take my word for it.


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    #48
    sidneykidney
    Registered Users Posts: 591 ✭✭✭sidneykidney


    My brother told me about it. I dont think he posts here anymore. I dont even know his screen name :o


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    #49
    citizen_p
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,494 ✭✭✭citizen_p


    Google Search Results,
    started viewing omne or two threads,
    Left.

    Same Again Until...
    I SEEN SOMONE ON THE INTERNET WAS WRONG
    and I had to voice my opinion


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    #50
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Few other forums.


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    #51
    chloek
    Registered Users Posts: 202 ✭✭chloek


    heard about it from a friend.


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    #52
    ordinary_girl
    Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭ordinary_girl


    Constantly came up when I was doing google searches, figured I'd see what all the fuss was about.


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    #53
    Blatter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,832 ✭✭✭✭Blatter


    When I was doing my Leaving Cert mocks in 2008 I heard off a few friends in school that you could get the papers on Boards. That's the first time I ever saw the site.


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    #54
    Oranage2
    Registered Users Posts: 11,131 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    cousin was always banging on about it - so one day had to buy something and it was on adverts and ever since I've become an addict!


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    #55
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    ordinary_girl wrote: »
    Constantly came up when I was doing google searches, figured I'd see what all the fuss was about.

    ^ This

    Cant remember what I was looking for, but I followed a link here. I'm glad it did though in fairness. The site is useful, and it's good craic too :)







    /ghey


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    #56
    Cill Dara Abu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,851 ✭✭✭Cill Dara Abu


    I googled "I want to blast my boss with piss" and hey presto, Boards.ie!


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    #57
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    I sherpa once told me, whilst i was hiking the foothills of the himalayas


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    #58
    liamygunner29
    Registered Users Posts: 630 ✭✭✭liamygunner29


    Blatter wrote: »
    When I was doing my Leaving Cert mocks in 2008 I heard off a few friends in school that you could get the papers on Boards. That's the first time I ever saw the site.

    same


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    #59
    RHunce
    Registered Users Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭RHunce


    Always saw it on google searches and it had the .ie so I liked the fact it was almost exclusively Irish.

    After a couple of bans from the rugby forum I finally learned how not to just post threads but you could reply to other threads too :rolleyes:

    I became hooked!


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    #60
    Pete M.
    Registered Users Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭Pete M.


    It's so long ago I honestly can't remember.

    Been knocking round these here parts for a long time now :cool:

    Was 2002 before the internet?


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    #61
    Lucutus
    Registered Users Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭Lucutus


    cml387 wrote: »
    You mean this..

    http://web.archive.org/web/20000510223244/http://www.boards.ie/

    Sorry,you'll have to take my word for it.

    More like this...

    http://web.archive.org/web/19981111185729/http://www.quake.ie/

    The wwwboard part of the site doesn't look like it was ever archived though :(


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