After Hours is over 18 years going

JupiterKid

So I accidentally hit the posts button and was taken to the oldest posts on AH. I couldn't believe it was from February 1999! That's almost 19 years ago. The same span from birth to starting college. Wow!

Did anyone else realise AH had been going nearly 18 years and has anyone on here been here from the very start.

The posts were very different back then. Much more frivolous and light-hearted!

dxhound2005

Everything was better back in the day.

Omackeral

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Everything was better back in the day.

Especially nostalgia.

tigger123

Would love to see the meltdown in the Saipan thread.

Odelay

What was it called back then? Forget the name.

Omackeral

Odelay wrote: »

What was it called back then? Forget the name.

Hours.

Ghost Train

This was after hours back in 2000
https://web.archive.org/web/20000511141107/http://www.boards.ie:80/cgi-bin/bulletin/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&number=1

And the homepage
https://web.archive.org/web/20000511004119/http://www.boards.ie:80/

milehip

Nearly time for it to start acting like a grown up.

KERSPLAT!

And as you can see from some threads the fun is almost completely sucked out of it. Not long now!

Don Kiddick

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

And as you can see from some threads the fun is almost completely sucked out of it. Not long now!

I've just seen a thread that was good fun now closed and will be reopened without chat or quoting pics.... that's the end of that thread right there

MyStubbleItches

Don Kiddick wrote: »

I've just seen a three that was good fun now closed and will be reopened without chat or quoting pics.... that's the end of that thread right there

Is that the hotties thread? Please no...

iLikeWaffles

Ghost Train wrote: »

This was after hours back in 2000
https://web.archive.org/web/20000511141107/http://www.boards.ie:80/cgi-bin/bulletin/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&number=1

And the homepage
https://web.archive.org/web/20000511004119/http://www.boards.ie:80/

Do you know what is really weird Boards still has the same smilies! No wonder everyone has been disappearing.

Same emoticons for 19 years... :eek: ← I feel neither

Ghost Train

iLikeWaffles wrote: »

Do you know what is really weird Boards still has the same smilies! No wonder everyone has been disappearing.

Same emoticons for 19 years... :eek: ← I feel neither

And 5 days worth of threads fitted on one page, today threads from the last hour fill the page

Threads back then included "hairy women!" , "my top 5 women"
Threads today are "ladies with short hair", Most beautiful women in the world"

jamesbere

It's too boring, everything is racism thus and I'm offended by that thread.

falinn merking

jamesbere wrote: »

It's too boring, everything is racism thus and I'm offended by that thread.

I blame the smartphone revolution people can keep posing away on the potty for goodness sake.
Smartphones equals dumb users.

To post on those old boards you had to wait for your super slow computer to boot up and pray your dial up session did not put you into debt.

Posting on the internet in those days felt a bit wild west like you were on some untamed frontier. Oddly it was also a lot more polite and chilled out as well. Nowadays the internet is just full of corporate advertising and w@nkers. I miss the 90s

whoopsadoodles

Don Kiddick wrote: »

I've just seen a thread that was good fun now closed and will be reopened without chat or quoting pics.... that's the end of that thread right there

MyStubbleItches wrote: »

Is that the hotties thread? Please no...

Bloody hell. That's shocking.

King George VI

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Posting on the internet in those days felt a bit wild west like you were on some untamed frontier. Oddly it was also a lot more polite and chilled out as well. Nowadays the internet is just full of corporate advertising and w@nkers. I miss the 90s

Fùck you no it isn't you absolute fa-.....

I mean yeah you're right. :PAC: But back in the day there were less idiots on the net, and even less on forums like this. Generally only people with some level of politeness and brains were on the internet. Now there are vastly more people on the internet. More people = more idiots with a voice. Especially with the advent of Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter and Instagram.

dxhound2005

My memory is not as good as some people on here. So I had to look back to 1999. Very high class discussions indeed, and so polite.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=111

wakka12

Deleted User wrote: »

Posting on the internet in those days felt a bit wild west like you were on some untamed frontier. Oddly it was also a lot more polite and chilled out as well. Nowadays the internet is just full of corporate advertising and w@nkers. I miss the 90s

Yeh so true. I remember lots of people used to think everyone else online were weird basement people or paedos

Mr. CooL ICE

Don Kiddick wrote: »

I've just seen a thread that was good fun now closed and will be reopened without chat or quoting pics.... that's the end of that thread right there

MyStubbleItches wrote: »

Is that the hotties thread? Please no...

whoopsadoodles wrote: »

Bloody hell. That's shocking.

I don't know what you're talking about.

KERSPLAT!

Nicolas Cage wrote: »

I don't know what you're talking about.

*cough*

Thread title and quoted post

*cough*

Mr. CooL ICE

Piss off, I'm drunk and on a phone.

DEFTLEFTHAND

When was the peak?
2005 - 2011 ??

donegaLroad

Im on here since 2008, Ive had some great laughs and I have rubbed some people the wrong way, you can't win em all.

iLikeWaffles

donegaLroad

iLikeWaffles wrote: »

I re-regged a few times

jimmycrackcorm

Brings me back to the days when Boards went offline every night because the database had to be backed up. How I looked down upon their dev team as I amused myself with SQL Server.

For Forks Sake

Ghost Train wrote: »

And the homepage
https://web.archive.org/web/20000511004119/http://www.boards.ie:80/

Snotty

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

Brings me back to the days when Boards went offline every night because the database had to be backed up. How I looked down upon their dev team as I amused myself with SQL Server.

Ah the nightly back up, was like the reverse alarm clock telling us it's time for bed.

entropi

Snotty wrote: »

Ah the nightly back up, was like the reverse alarm clock telling us it's time for bed.

3am was a pretty normal time to go to bed though (at least I think it used to be 3am, its been a while since the nightly backup timeout existed).

wakka12

I remember when I joined boards I was just 15. I made my very first thread (on a different account) about some fairly innocent topic, I think it was about if irish should be dropped from the LC. Anyway, I wasn't used to the tone of online discussions. I was absolutely shocked by how 'aggressive' replies were, and tbh hurt. They were not aggressive by todays online standards at all I simply not used to strangers speaking like that to me at all and so was very shocked! As people are just so much nicer offline. People will just never reply to a simple question or topic in real life in the curt or sarcastic ways that are just the norm online. I replied with such nastiness , personally attacking the posters as I believed they were personally insulting me in their replies (they weren't lol), and I got a warning from a mod.

Think that sums up just how different people are online to real life !

Vex Willems

I remember this place was just fields back then.

Ste-

Hey After Hours is 18.