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How many around here came from Motorweb/Motornet?

  • 07-08-2011 5:54pm
    #1
    Dilbert75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,724 ✭✭✭


    Just wondered that the other day - how many came to Boards when the forums on Motorweb / Motornet closed down? I'm one....


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  • #2
    Matt Simis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Matt Simis


    Im on forum.alfa156.net too, but Motorweb.ie? Isnt that still running? I always thought it to be a Gay Bryne-esque generic fluff piece.


  • #3
    Dilbert75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,724 ✭✭✭Dilbert75


    Believe it or not, there was once (late 90's, early noughties) a thriving discussion forum on there - not well moderated though which, as it turns out, apparently was its downfall...


  • #4
    unkel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66,122 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    I was on boards and motornet, but on boards first :)

    Jeez, how many years ago is it now that motornet just disappeared overnight, Dilbert75? At a guess, more regulars went to octane than to boards. Octane was very, very quiet before the demise of motornet :D

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  • #5
    Absurdum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    I used to read it a lot and I occasionally posted there, the lack of moderation was the best thing about it :p


  • #6
    Dilbert75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,724 ✭✭✭Dilbert75


    unkel wrote: »
    Jeez, how many years ago is it now that motornet just disappeared overnight, Dilbert75?

    Must be close to 10 years, I'm guessing.... doesn't time fly? I briefly browsed Octane but never really settled into it. Seemed to have more of a focus on the cruising set at the time, I thought.


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  • #7
    unkel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66,122 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    Dilbert75 wrote: »
    Must be close to 10 years, I'm guessing

    Or maybe a year or two or more less. Sure motors on boards is only around about 10 years :)

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  • #8
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,363 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    I used to be on motornet regularly before it's death. Same user name too.


  • #9
    Zubeneschamali
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,686 ✭✭✭✭Zubeneschamali


    bazz26 wrote: »
    I used to be on motornet regularly before it's death. Same user name too.

    I was on Motornet, but I don't even remember what I used for a handle. It shut down in Jan 2005, according to this boards thread.

    Thinking about it , I think I registered on Octane.ie when motornet shut, with the same user name, which means I was called Pham on motornet.


  • #10
    Absurdum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    whatever happened to 528i?


  • #11
    cjt156
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭cjt156


    I was there too, lurking in the long grass. I'd say it was 98-99-ish. Seemed a very small community at the time; internet access and an interest in cars? Simultaneously? In 90's Ireland?
    :P


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  • #12
    Dilbert75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,724 ✭✭✭Dilbert75


    Zubeneschamali wrote: »
    It shut down in Jan 2005, according to this boards thread.

    Was it that recent? Must have been. Back in my Motorweb / Motornet days I was Scrawny, both by name and by nature. How times have changed...:o


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