Memories

Mr. CooL ICE

I only heard about boards.ie last summer, and since then, ive seen the mods names, such as devore, could, and vexorg, and their names pissed me off cos i knew i recognised them from somewhere and couldnt place them.

Back around '98, when i was in 1st year in school, i started playing quake online after managing to find quake.ie and emailed someone about how to start, when i was introduced to IRC and and the quake channel. A short while after, i just gave up, after realising no difference was made to gameplay after i upgraded my 33.6k modem to a 56k. But now i realise where boards.ie came from. But does anyone remember anyone from back then called Abductee?

Goodshape

This guy?

I do indeed have too much free time. He hasn't posted in years though.

ButcherOfNog

ah ye see in those days, connecting thru a local exchange that wasn't in dublin meant lag hell. if u were outside dublin, you had to ring dublin and run up an almighty bill but it was playable that way ... unless you had one of those "winmodems"

OSiriS

I remember the days when Quake was playable on a 500 ping

Jaden

I remember when a sub 300 ping was a Godsend.

Goodshape

We still played though

Actually, I was one of the LPB's back then - around 100 ping 1337.

BugBlaster

Little did I know that, the cheap rate for phone calls didn't start till midnight friday, I'd be online dialed up every friday niote for hours to Dublin , just to drop my cork ping from 180-130ms all on my V34Zoom modem, connected at 28k

wasn't funny when the first bill arrived...... £485 punts !...the Quake tho was GGGGGGGGGOoooooooooooooDDD

Boro

Ah yes, Waterford used to be decent for pings from Clonmel back in the day.

Mr. CooL ICE

Goodshape wrote:

This guy?

Holy crap, thats me! Uh-oh, i have 2 accounts now. Now to remember the password for the Abductee one...

Mr. CooL ICE

Holy crip! Thats just plain weird now. I must change the details.

Join Date: 22-07-1999

That sounds about right. Thought it'd be 98 though. Oh well.

Goodshape

LordChessington wrote:

Holy crap, thats me!

LoL. I thought Abductee was an old friend you were trying to reach

Ah well, now you get to be 1337 and old skool with your 'Join Date 1999' and shiznit. Ro><0rz!

Mr. CooL ICE

Hmm. Which will i go for... My 300+ posts or 6 year old join date?

D

join date you'll get the old post count back but you can't improve your join date.

BugBlaster

ahh yess.. 1998, twas a good year that one!

Jaden

Remember, if your join date is not Feb 98, then yer a newbie.

Giblet

Jaden wrote:

Remember, if your join date is not Feb 98, then yer a newbie.

and if you played quake 2, you're a ****.

Goodshape

Giblet wrote:

and if you played quake 2, you're a ****.

Lies. Quake 2 is teh sex.

Shove your shades of brown. Railgun's where it's at.

Jaden

Shaddup you Quake 2 playing newbie.

Sheesh, they let anyone onto the internet these days.....

Mr. CooL ICE

Im the new old-skool alter-ego of LordChessington. Muhahahaha!

TinCool

Old Skool

Gavin

hard core.