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Boards.ie in the year 2000

[Deleted User] · 2017-09-22 15:57:07

https://web.archive.org/web/20000510223244/http://www.boards.ie:80/ Mad to see how much has changed. One moderator for AH:pac:, it's own for sale section and usernames that have long since moved on. Anyone remember using the site back then? Twas long before my time

22-09-2017 3:57pm

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https://web.archive.org/web/20000510223244/http://www.boards.ie:80/
Mad to see how much has changed. One moderator for AH:pac:, it's own for sale section and usernames that have long since moved on.
Anyone remember using the site back then? Twas long before my time

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#2 22-09-2017 4:05pm

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Back in the days when a flat screen was a shower screen.

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#3 22-09-2017 4:08pm

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Im led to believe it was all fields, though it was a ghost estate when I joined (10 years ago yesterday oddly enough).

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#4 22-09-2017 5:42pm

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did it start as an online forum for gamers ?

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#5 22-09-2017 5:43pm

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I've heard it was a forum for the game quake but before my time.

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#6 22-09-2017 5:59pm

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Awwwwww

I cant open up the 'Hairy Women' thread in AH.

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#7 22-09-2017 6:31pm

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Everyone had a name like M1ck or RasTaBoy

People were civil as everyone nearly new each other

Boards discussions involved joining a team to battle it out on quake in the main

An ISDN line was fast

All those early posters are 30 plus now......cringe there late teens forever preserved for future generations

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#8 22-09-2017 6:34pm

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Zero polls on boards back then :pac:

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#9 22-09-2017 6:40pm

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The_Valeyard wrote: »

Awwwwww

I cant open up the 'Hairy Women' thread in AH.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=6101

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#10 22-09-2017 6:42pm

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The_Valeyard wrote: »

Awwwwww

I cant open up the 'Hairy Women' thread in AH.

I tried too

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#11 22-09-2017 6:45pm

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Ah the good old for sale section on boards.
Everyone knew everyone and you wouldnt be asked to trade your new console for a half eaten mars bar.
Much better times.Adverts ruined it all!!!

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#12 22-09-2017 8:10pm

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joefuss1986 wrote: »

I've heard it was a forum for the game quake but before my time.

I could be wrong, but I believe it was an old old wooden ship that was used during the civil war era.

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#13 22-09-2017 8:26pm

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Hellrazer wrote: »

Ah the good old for sale section on boards.
Everyone knew everyone and you wouldnt be asked to trade your new console for a half eaten mars bar.
Much better times.Adverts ruined it all!!!

It wasn't always on the level. That lad that bought a CD burner from Bubbles will be remembered forever.

Can't remember who he was though.

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#14 22-09-2017 9:07pm

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What happened there ?

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#15 22-09-2017 9:17pm

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Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

What happened there ?

https://web.archive.org/web/20080207102152/http://wiki.boards.ie/wiki/Bubbles

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#16 22-09-2017 9:21pm

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There were less than 75,000 posts across the site in 2000. That's about as many as you get in a week nowadays. I'm sure there are some who remember it well, but I suspect it was a very different place in those days

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#17 22-09-2017 10:24pm

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super_furry wrote: »

https://web.archive.org/web/20080207102152/http://wiki.boards.ie/wiki/Bubbles

Cheers man, I have some good reading later

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#18 22-09-2017 11:37pm

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Sure we used to go drinking cider there before they developed it all!

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#19 25-09-2017 2:57pm

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I started College at UCC in 2000

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#20 25-09-2017 2:58pm

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Back in the days when a CD Burner was a lighter :pac:

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#21 25-09-2017 2:59pm

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super_furry wrote: »

Can't remember who he was though.

Dre as in Dray I think it was if memory serves me right.

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#22 25-09-2017 3:15pm

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super_furry wrote: »

It wasn't always on the level. That lad that bought a CD burner from Bubbles will be remembered forever.

Can't remember who he was though.

I remember Bubbles. I played quake with him. I met him a few times, not the most socially adapt person (And this is me saying it).

I didn't realise he was the guy who tricked a guy into paying for a taxi in the middle of the night. That poor guy got a hell of a lot of slagging, in real life, for it.

All in all, Bubbles was a bit of a dick. Wouldn't be surprised to see he's on 4chan assisting with gamergate and sh1t like that.

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#23 25-09-2017 3:29pm

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Grayson wrote: »

I remember Bubbles. I played quake with him. I met him a few times, not the most socially adapt person (And this is me saying it).

I didn't realise he was the guy who tricked a guy into paying for a taxi in the middle of the night. That poor guy got a hell of a lot of slagging, in real life, for it.

All in all, Bubbles was a bit of a dick. Wouldn't be surprised to see he's on 4chan assisting with gamergate and sh1t like that.

What was the story with this?

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#24 25-09-2017 4:55pm

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Doesn't seem that long ago initially until you consider all the changes that have occurred since then. The first PC in my home was only bought in 2000 along with unbelievably slow and unreliable dial-up internet, while today I've got something in my pocket with as much power.

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#25 25-09-2017 7:40pm

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DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

What was the story with this?

Some poor guy outside Dublin got duped into getting a taxi into the city centre in the middle of the night. He has been chatting to a girl on something like yahoo chat or msn, it was going really well and he hopped into a taxi when she said come see me now. It turned out he'd been talking to a guy. The guy posted his details and the chat transcript onto boards (I think) and it ended up on his colleges forum too. I was a mod on the college forum at the time and I remember cleaning up the threads on it.

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