How did you find boards?

Steveire

I'm sure this has been done before, but i'm bored and wasting some time before an exam.

I followed a link on the PhantomFM webpage to the forum in November 2001. I didn't venture far outside that forum, and it was a few years before i realised there was worthwhile time to be spend on other forums.

DrIndy

Irelandoffline as I had no broadband and no option for it for many years. Discovered the forum here and then went elsewhere. Didn't sign up until my BB arrived....

Talliesin

Worked with most of the admins and owners.

I am MAN

I was in the toilet and looked under my foreskin

juno75

looking for a drummer - did an Ireland goggle searched found the bands fourm.

And thank Gord i found this refuge.

I aint complaining but I've been doing pretty much buggery all at work for months now and no one seems to care so Boards really helps me through these hard days

Essently Im getting paid to read boards.ie

Seriously, its an invaluble resource for all sorts of stuff, ranks next to google for me at this stage.

Thanks to the founders

joe.

One of my first days of college and another student recommended it. Didn't sign up for months

Tobias Greeshman

Knew about it for a while at college, but only signed up a few months back!

Dublin8

i see thats where you look for things

I was in the toilet and looked under my foreskin

i dont remember how i got to this page

well i browse internet about 12 hours a day 5 days a week :eek:

so i browse loads and loads of sites

i am an internetaholic :eek: new term invented

kittenkiller

Boyfriend was always mentioning stuff he'd read on it so i looked it up & cyber-stalked him for a while he 'doesn't have time to look at it anymore'.
Wonder where he's buggered off to for privacy now....

cmcquaid

my brother was always on about it so i checked it out and joined

SouperComputer

I cant rememeber (id like to see my 1st post) but I think it was looking for work.

Boards is bad for me. Now that im working from home, some days I get feck all work done and end up posting. Not healthy.

fantastic resource all the same!

Branoic

I bought the components of a new computer off Komplett. I needed to complain, and I heard they had a forum here

joejoem

Someone told me that the site had tickets for oxygen.

grimsbymatt

I stumbled across the Hasselhoff forum one day while 'working'.

BaZmO*

Boards.ie to me is a bit like going through puberty, I know it happened but I'm not quite sure when.

B.

Dub13

kittenkiller wrote:

Boyfriend was always mentioning stuff he'd read on it so i looked it up & cyber-stalked him for a while he 'doesn't have time to look at it anymore'.
Wonder where he's buggered off to for privacy now....

Id say he changed his username....it could be me are you hot...?

juno75

Boards.ie to me is a bit like going through puberty, I know it happened but I'm not quite sure when.

lol, how true

eyebrows

found it from a DCU form.

and thank fúck I did. first few days in my work experience I was so bored until I found it(woo hoo). The humour thread has me laughing away to myself all day in work. Starting to get very strange looks from co-workers but I cant help myself

Ruadan

Free interweb in college, was on a ton of forums already (15 regular ones ATM) and the kids in sin kepot talking abbout the place so here am I.

*Angel*

From a google search

D

I read an article on it and then browsed around it for about a year and a half then I signed up. So my real join date is Sep 2001.

irlirishkev

Someone in work referred to it one day, and I looked it up. I had actually misheard them, and they didn't mention boards at all.. wierd..

K.

BlitzKrieg

old netcafe called netshop had a cs server which had stats on their websites from there JAG (old cs,er gone now methinks) pointed me to boardsie...been here eversince.

Stephen

I was on an ign.ie team fortress classic server in 1999 some time (when boards resided at cloud.ign.ie and some uc galway adress too I think) and someone on the server pointed me here (might even have been the message of the day on the server now that I think about it).

Scarinae

I was in a summer course called CTYI and someone else told me about the board - it was ages before I realised there were other pages too though! Well, I knew they were there, I just didn't think they were worth looking at haha

Giblet

Knew about it from playing Quake when it started in 1998, but never registered until 3 1/2 years later. Didn't want to be one of those guys with thousands of posts and nothing to say...


..oh wai

kaimera

'came' across it one day.

seriously > mentioned to me by a guy before I joined. In school I think.

LoneGunM@n

Told about it by a friend & been cursing him since ... can't get an ounce of work done!! At this moment I should be searching for a new job, but Boards rules

Burago

I can't remember. Possibly through someone on the Eurogamer.net forums.

AdMMM

I was told about it sometime in 2002 as it was the place where LAN parties were organised. Eventually signed up in Jan 2003 and made a tit of my self with my first post in the CS forum

Oh well...

I've been going through phases... sometimes I wouldnt look at boards for months, while others it seems I cant get away from it...

kittenkiller

Dub13 wrote:

Id say he changed his username....it could be me are you hot...?

I haven't been given out to yet, so i'm presuming he hasn't been reading my posts.
But i did still flick through new members from around the time he stopped posting one day when i was feeling bored & paranoid!

Bottle_of_Smoke

Someone asked me too "sign" an anti-eircom petition, then soccerboards took over my life in 2002 for a bit. Weird, I don't even like football much now!

Sarky

It's a rather complicated story involving a scheming evil SyxPak, several crates of cheap beer, an ill-considered wager, and for some reason I cannot ascertain to this day, fifteen yards of network cable attached to a modified dildo.

_blank_

I posted under a different username back in college, can't remember who told me about it (around the '99 - '01 time), left college and had no access to proper internet, only at home on a 56k.

Then I stopped working in a particular job where I had no internet access, and while I was job searching I came back to boards, on my join date.
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I got a job where I have internet access, then got dsl at home, so am a regular. Then I subscribed, and here I am.

Ta-da!

MiCr0

been around since it was the original forums that became boards

StupidLikeAFox

Fishie wrote:

I was in a summer course called CTYI and someone else told me about the board - it was ages before I realised there were other pages too though! Well, I knew they were there, I just didn't think they were worth looking at haha

Bingo!

petes

was looking on the internet for porn and came across boards..not at the same time I might add

WhiteWashMan

MiCr0 wrote:

been around since it was the original forums that became boards

ditto

ando

I was looking for somewhere to have a go at IOL after they cut me off their NoLimits, thats when I found IrelandOffline

Steveire

SouperComputer wrote:

I cant rememeber (id like to see my 1st post) but I think it was looking for work.

You know you can see your first post if you click advanced search, type in your username and sort posts in ascending order.

woosaysdan

was in college and someone told me about this place!

Rhyme

Was reccomended years ago, forgot, got mentioned again, forgot, got influenced into signing up, forgot about my account and (honest to god) saw it scrawled on a toilet seat in a cinema in Cork and it encouraged my irrepressible urge to tell you all what i think of the forums.

OfflerCrocGod

College friend.

the_syco

Moonbean showed it to me once, whilst I was in IT Carlow.

paulcr

Google Search for Ireland and the Irish. Scary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

netwhizkid

I discovered boards, during the winter of 2001 while activly trying to find out was RTE coming to the Sky Digital Platfrom, I discovered it through the ICDG website, I registered shortly after wards, and was banned after 6 months i then held off for another 6 months before re-registering as netwhizkid and i v'e never looked back.

Regards netwhizkid

Pink Bunny

Was referred to BI by someone that posts here

OLDYELLAR

Fatb introduced me to it , siad it was deadly etc etc , so here I am

ferdi

under a rock

Tar.Aldarion

friend said i should go on boards asi use so many forums anyway and this is irish

angry_fox

Cabaal introduced me to boards.