If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)

Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Where have all the old boardsies gone?

Options

Comments

Options
#152 01-04-2012 11:09pm
zAbbo

Registered Users Posts: 11,987 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: April 1998

Posts: 11457

regi wrote: »

I wonder how many of us Feb 1998ers still log on regularly...

Feb 1998 was the date Cloud imported the users from the last software in (I think!), so the first 300 or so of us date from then.

Dates don't mean much

0
Options
#153 02-04-2012 6:16am
zenno

Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭

Join Date: May 2008

Posts: 5255

MrMatisse wrote: »

Ah those were the days, many will find the above post baffling

I'm baffled. what is mcd ? medical council detective ??? if it is well known then i must remove myself from under this rock.

0
Options
#154 02-04-2012 6:42am
Rabies

Registered Users Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: March 2002

Posts: 14406

joolsveer wrote: »

I wish I had joined in 1998!

Even in 2002-2003 the posting rate was slow on Boards.
Not enough traffic to keep the front page active.

There would be times late at night/morning when there would an hour or two between posts.
Was painful if the latest post was in some place like fishing/angling forum :mad:

0
Options
#155 02-04-2012 7:53am
TwoShedsJackson

Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭

Join Date: February 1998

Posts: 8862

joolsveer wrote: »

I wish I had joined in 1998!

So do I.

0
Options
#156 02-04-2012 8:17am
kelle

Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭

Join Date: December 2003

Posts: 3159

zenno wrote: »

I'm baffled. what is mcd ? medical council detective ??? if it is well known then i must remove myself from under this rock.

http://blather.net/globaleyes/archives/2006/08/mcd_are_suing_boardsie.html

0
Advertisement
Options
#157 02-04-2012 8:28am
Zulu

Registered Users Posts: 10,965 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: November 2003

Posts: 10459

It's changed/

0
Options
#158 02-04-2012 8:33am
zenno

Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭

Join Date: May 2008

Posts: 5255

kelle wrote: »

http://blather.net/globaleyes/archives/2006/08/mcd_are_suing_boardsie.html

I see, farout. I was oblivious to this until I seen that link. quite interesting.

0
Options
#159 02-04-2012 8:40am
Xavi6

Registered Users Posts: 40,861 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2002

Posts: 39240

My join date is my mother's birthday coincidentally enough, obviously 17 year old me was putting in a lot of effort for the occasion.

0
Options
#160 02-04-2012 10:02am
Duggy747

Registered Users Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: October 2005

Posts: 13164

Unfortunately, I'm still around here

0
Options
#161 02-04-2012 11:08am
zenno

Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭

Join Date: May 2008

Posts: 5255

Duggy747 wrote: »

Unfortunately, I'm still around here

You're doing well Duggy as I thought this nutball almost excluded you from boards.ie :pac::pac::pac:

0
Advertisement
Options
#162 02-04-2012 11:37am
Kulgan

Registered Users Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭

Join Date: March 2000

Posts: 1038

Lurking...

0
Options
#163 02-04-2012 11:38am
Born to Die

Closed Accounts Posts: 830 ✭✭✭

Join Date: February 2012

Posts: 823

Kulgan wrote: »

Lurking...

and waiting to pounce..

0
Options
#164 02-04-2012 11:50am
the_syco

Registered Users Posts: 37,295 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: June 2001

Posts: 35224

I find that most only post in certain forums, ignoring the crap that goes on elsewhere on boards.ie

0
Options
#165 02-04-2012 12:15pm
Sarky

Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: February 2003

Posts: 31377

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

Mordeth was pretty awesome

I always thought he was a ****.

0
Options
#166 02-04-2012 12:16pm
Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: December 1999

Posts: 22985

Sarky wrote: »

I always thought he was a ****.

0
Options
#167 02-04-2012 12:30pm
fjon

Registered Users Posts: 2,083 ✭✭✭

Join Date: February 2003

Posts: 1769

I looked back to my first post after reading this thread. Funnily it was a post asking for advice on what to get for my first car in 2003:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=951030

Back in them days it cost more to insure a car than to buy it. I was paying over €3000 a year for a Seat Ibiza!

0
Options
#168 02-04-2012 12:52pm
yossarin

Registered Users Posts: 932 ✭✭✭

Join Date: November 2000

Posts: 876

Psygnosis wrote: »

Old school here,more a lurker than a poster

what he said

0
Options
#169 02-04-2012 1:00pm
Wookie

Registered Users Posts: 171 ✭✭

Join Date: September 2001

Posts: 142

Still here, a lurker.

0
Options
#170 02-04-2012 1:04pm
hardCopy

Registered Users Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭

Join Date: December 2003

Posts: 5876

I've been lurking for years, basically since I started college.

0
Options
#171 02-04-2012 1:04pm
Sarky

Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: February 2003

Posts: 31377

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

Fine.

A sexy ****.

0
Advertisement
Options
#172 02-04-2012 1:05pm
deecom

Registered Users Posts: 425 ✭✭

Join Date: July 2003

Posts: 371

I would say, partner, kids, house they cant pay for... Or like me left the country and all of the above.

0
Options
#173 02-04-2012 1:10pm
D

Registered Users Posts: 2,173 ✭✭✭

Join Date: March 2003

Posts: 1924

regi wrote: »

I wonder how many of us Feb 1998ers still log on regularly...

Feb 1998 was the date Cloud imported the users from the last software in (I think!), so the first 300 or so of us date from then.

I also think that there are a few manually imported users that have join dates of 1970.

Also 2003 is not old.

0
Options
#174 02-04-2012 1:10pm
Sleepy

Registered Users Posts: 24,150 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: May 2003

Posts: 23402

There's a few posters I miss, though I don't know if they've just re-regged and I've not found them as funny since...

0
Options
#175 02-04-2012 1:23pm
Earthhorse

Registered Users Posts: 14,715 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: September 2002

Posts: 14662

We all got promoted in our jobs and have less time to post or fired from our jobs and have no computer to post on.

0
Options
#176 02-04-2012 2:17pm
spoofilyj

Registered Users Posts: 579 ✭✭✭

Join Date: February 2004

Posts: 540

Bit of a lurker myself, I dont tend to post as much in AH anymore but more in specific forums or I just read and dont post.

A lot of the AH threads are just rehashes of arguements that happen way to often...

Still its great that so many people are still around and active on the site, it nice that old and new are using Boards and long may it continue :-)

0
Options
#177 02-04-2012 2:18pm
Latchy

Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: March 2007

Posts: 21068

Doc wrote: »

Most post when we have somthing to say not to just add to our post count.

Indeed .

I could never understand the importance on post counts just for the sake of getting the numbers up but if you post in a private forum or a busy one like for instance soccer ,then you can run up the post count fairly quick over the weeks and months .

the_syco wrote: »

I find that most only post in certain forums, ignoring the crap that goes on elsewhere on boards.ie

Nail on head ...while there are some interesting threads on boards.ie there's also lots of crap .

0
Options
#178 02-04-2012 2:23pm
IM0

Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭

Join Date: October 2007

Posts: 5256

feck them, its the cowboys Im intreested in

0
Options
#179 03-04-2012 12:34am
wilkie2006

Registered Users Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭

Join Date: December 2011

Posts: 1000

I heard that all the old boardsies got into a boat and fcuked off like the Elves in The Lord of the Rings did. It mightn't be true though - I heard it from a hairy little midget (and y'know what they're like... :rolleyes:)

0
Options
#180 03-04-2012 12:49am
Sugar Free

Registered Users Posts: 1,639 ✭✭✭

Join Date: February 2010

Posts: 1591

Rabies wrote: »

Even in 2002-2003 the posting rate was slow on Boards.
Not enough traffic to keep the front page active.

There would be times late at night/morning when there would an hour or two between posts.
Was painful if the latest post was in some place like fishing/angling forum :mad:

And let's not forget the dreaded 03 30 server maintenance! I think it was possibly the main reason for the formation of the nocturnal forum also.

0
Advertisement
Options
#181 03-04-2012 2:19am
Rabies

Registered Users Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: March 2002

Posts: 14406

Sugar Free wrote: »

And let's not forget the dreaded 03 30 server maintenance! I think it was possibly the main reason for the formation of the nocturnal forum also.

-_-

Who are you?
Have we met on a previous server?

0

This discussion has been closed.