Wanna see what Boards looked like years ago?

RUCKING FETARD

http://wayback.archive.org/web/20000815000000*/http://boards.ie

Goes all the wayback to May 2000.

El Weirdo

Silverfish

Shades of brown, as far as the eye could see.

ejmaztec

Those halcyon carefree days, before "The Man".

Madam_X

Interesting to see how it looked, IMO.

o1s1n

Ugly as sin, but still look better than the new skin. :pac:

anncoates

o1s1n wrote: »

but still look better than the new skin. :pac:

It doesn't, really.

Dav

Silverfish wrote: »

Shades of brown, as far as the eye could see.

Ah, good old DM6 but weirdly in FOV 360. I remember when games let you set things like your field of view and if you didn't want to see all 256 shades of brown, you could change that too!

darraghdoyle

Way back when we pulled all of the old designs into a blog post

http://blog.boards.ie/2009/07/13/the-changing-designs-of-the-boards-ie-homepage/

Here's 2000



2001



2002



2003/04



2005



2006



2007

Earthhorse

Oddly enough the only one I don't remember from them is the 2005 design. Wonder what I was doing that year.

seamus

Earthhorse wrote: »

Oddly enough the only one I don't remember from them is the 2005 design. Wonder what I was doing that year.

It was quite short-lived, as far as I remember. Cloud did a good bit of work slotting in the "new" Web 2.0 features like xml feeds and DHTML feeds.

Not long after that, the site was moved to vBulletin 3, which was quite a departure from vB2.5, and all of John's hard work would have either had to been rewritten, or they could just use the "Web 2.0" stuff that came with vB3.

They went with the latter, which explains why there was so little drastic change to the homepage from 2006 to about 2010, aside from moving some columns about and such.

Earthhorse

That's all very well, seamus, but it still doesn't tell me what I was doing in 2005.

Beruthiel

Back when you actually knew every poster on the front page.
/Sheds a tear.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Earthhorse wrote: »

That's all very well, seamus, but it still doesn't tell me what I was doing in 2005.

Isn't that when the both of us went hiking in the Alaskan wilderness before getting lost and starving to death?






No wait, that was just Christopher McCandless.

seamus

Earthhorse wrote: »

That's all very well, seamus, but it still doesn't tell me what I was doing in 2005.

According to your post history, you were reading Joss Whedon and listening to a lot of Whipping Boy.

Oh, and taking the LUAS to work.

Ronan|Raven

Memories, sweet precious memories

Madam_X

Now would have been a better time for post #2.

Dustaz

RopeDrink wrote: »

Too much Nostalgia for my liking... Stop it... Stop it now... Oh no, the memories, how they flood back

Amp's iron-fisted hold on the rampant 24/7 flame fest that was the Counter-Strike Forums of old...


...LittleTinyMan, Slydice, Bubbles, Shinji, WhiteWashMan, Richindub2, BobTheUnluckyOctopus - Names like this crop up in mind...



Oh Boards... Thou hath ruined/saved my Internet-Childhood so many times...

CS:GO is out rope. At least 1 of those names is back playing it. Its just like old times! GONNA SMASH UR FUK @ LAN

Beruthiel

RopeDrink wrote: »

Bubbles... Oh Bubbles... .

His ordering of a Russian Bride on the net thread.

I also remember a thread of Film Posters with everyone's picture on them.

Legendary stuff.

4zn76tysfajdxp

I can't remember ever reading a post by Ropedrink where he doesn't pine for the good old days with the gathering cards etc.

Dustaz

Lyle Helpful Cargo wrote: »

I can't remember ever reading a post by Ropedrink where he doesn't pine for the good old days with the gathering cards etc.

I can't remember ever reading a post by Lyle Helpful Cargo before 2006.

anncoates

Dustaz wrote: »

I can't remember ever reading a post by Frada before 2006.

How can he live with the shame?