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Cloud

On the 12th February 1998, I made the first post on a bulletin board for the computer game Quake... Two years later, to the day, we launched boards.ie

Happy 26th (or 24th, depending on how you look at it) birthday boards.ie! https://www.boards.ie/discussion/1/quake-ie-wwwboard

You started a really great online Irish institution, let’s say your good work ceased with the transposition to Vanilla.

Wossack

Good ole quake - happy birthday boards

Pherekydes

12th February, my first love's birthday!

No, not Boards. 🤣

Cloud

FYI: In 2011, I sold Daft Media my remaining shares in boards.ie Ltd. I stayed on as a non-executive director until 2018, when boards.ie was brought under the umbrella of Journal Media. In 2020, boards.ie became a separate company again as Boards Software Ltd. It's great to see that the site is still quite active, with the current total post count standing at around 55 million messages

corner of hells

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121756543#Comment_121756543

If you got a cent for everyone of those 55million , you’d have a lot cents.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

Fair play to you, you done well. The site is in it’s twilight years now for sure, but you can be proud of what you’ve achieved.

o1s1n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121758410#Comment_121758410

Definitely noticed a bit of a bounce back now after the Vanilla update (It really did look like the site was done there for a bit) so I don't think it's done just quite yet.

Kintarō Hattori

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121756543#Comment_121756543

You don't need to explain yourself to anyone. You provided a great service for free to a generation of people like myself. Why shouldn't you have benefited financially from it.

o1s1n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121758461#Comment_121758461

Founding member of the site comes on to acknowledge an historic date, gets lambasted by people still wet behind the ears.

Oh boards.ie, never change. 😂

Hande hoche!

Was a good thread title, suitably cryptic.

Iseedeadpixels

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121758518#Comment_121758518

It really is a site for grumps 😂

artanevilla

The internet is a very different place now.

Cloud

(You develop a very thick skin after so many years, don't worry too much about me!)

But yes, it's great to see the continued activity - I am not active - but pop in every now and again to make sure the wheels haven't come off.

Daddy Cloud.

bodhrandude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121758569#Comment_121758569

Well someone needs to get onto the Ranting and Raving forum then, there hasn't been a post there since December they all seem to be appearing on the TA thread.

EmmetSpiceland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121761858#Comment_121761858

It’s no longer required, all the ranting and raving is front of house now.

Tombo2001

Well done Cloud and good to see you checking in.

Its a unique Irish institution in my view, for better or worse (its got a bit of both).

Interesting that you no longer really use it, thats fair enough.

I guess when it started out - it wasnt against a backdrop where people were en masse spending 5/6/7 hours a day on social media. They are now. So a different beast.

Anyway - nice one.

spark_tank

Nerd!

Ah no, it really has been (and is) a huge part of Ireland's online existence.

It has wained a bit but still it remains the place to come for so many different groups of people, from farmers, to public sector workers, to film fans, to bargain hunters and god knows what else.

The fact that people get so angry when it's changed in any way shows how important it is to them!

Bobson Dugnutt

Me and my friends have fond memories of posting on boards from the computer lab in NUIG back then. One of us even had Cloud as a lecturer!

We definitely weren’t the core demographic of the site back then which was definitely more gamer neckbeard heavy metal types. It was good fun back then though. Way more fun and far less hostile and outrage driven.

Believe it or not we all still keep in touch from time to time.

Arghus

Well done Cloud.

It's been a great institution down through the years.

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly

Thanks

banie01

Thanks Cloud, I've been knocking around here since 2007, so I was late to the party but?

Boards.ie and some of the posters here carried me through my roughest times, and it still gives me a leg up on occasion 👍

I'm very grateful for the community that arose from a bunch of gaming nerds 😁