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So how did you come accross boards.ie???

Q_Ball · 2001-10-09 15:30:08

Because of the amount of people that frequent the boards i thought it'd be interesting to find out how you all stumbled on the site. I first came accross the boards when they were on ign.ie :) twas just after my first game of TFC and i was torn between that and Jedi Knight. Must have been near two years ago at this stage.…

09-10-2001 3:30pm

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Q_Ball

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Because of the amount of people that frequent the boards i thought it'd be interesting to find out how you all stumbled on the site.

I first came accross the boards when they were on ign.ie twas just after my first game of TFC and i was torn between that and Jedi Knight. Must have been near two years ago at this stage.

What about ye??

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#2 09-10-2001 3:58pm

Lenny

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I found out about it from playing on the ign server when it had it adverted in the MOTD
look at my reg'd date and then take 3 months away from that..
That was when I first looked at boards, I just checked the HL board.. and didn't bother signing up as I didn't feel the need..

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#3 09-10-2001 4:10pm

Stephen

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First came here when it was the cloud/IGN boards, and got hooked

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#4 09-10-2001 6:36pm

richindub2

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Some mong by the name of Nakedbiblereadingman who i knew from Rogue Spear pointed me this way july 2000 when i got Half life and wanted to know about irish servers for tf/cs

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#5 09-10-2001 6:40pm

leeroybrown

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I was bored while left with absolutely no work on my college work placement.

Was searching the web and ended up on one of Clouds' web pages.

The trail ended here.

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#6 09-10-2001 6:42pm

strat

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i started on the boards many moons ago
it was back in the days of going to www.quake.ie then cclicking on the boards

i started posting and stuff tho about a year ago something to do with cs, ir and stuff

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#7 09-10-2001 6:59pm

Atomic Pineapple

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playing TFC on the ign server......say you couldnt point me in the right direction for some irish servers for tfc , i stopped playing for ages and now i cant find any Irish servers?

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#8 09-10-2001 7:10pm

lazer

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total accident actualy? i was in work...bored, as usual, i work nites in a café, i was actualy hopeing that www.boards.ie would be an irish board game site..but em..i guess not?

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#9 09-10-2001 8:22pm

Giblet

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ive known about it for about 4 years now but never bothered joining till recently
i dont know why
tis a bit of a larf
darn my l33t35t ways

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#10 09-10-2001 10:03pm

Supercell

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Originally posted by Giblet
ive known about it for about 4 years now but never bothered joining till recently
i dont know why
tis a bit of a larf
darn my l33t35t ways

wow Giblet! at 19.17 posts a day yer making up for lost time

Learned about it on ie.comp myself.

https://www.loughlinstown.ie/
Have a weather station?, why not join the Ireland Weather Network - http://irelandweather.eu/

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#11 09-10-2001 10:15pm

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I was "working" during the summer and my friend showed me the site.

I realised just how much fun it is to argue with people (especially in the sports board)

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#12 09-10-2001 10:18pm

seamus

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I am going to be the first(but certainly not the last) to say I was reffered here by a CSer, just a few short months ago......

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#13 09-10-2001 10:26pm

Giblet

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it probably will come down

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#14 09-10-2001 11:01pm

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Am I going totaly insane, or was there a very similar topic to this a couple of weeks ago?

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#15 09-10-2001 11:11pm

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You all owe the pleasure of my presence to the...

€$at- SNL Fiasco and due to the establishment of IrelandOffline and the hosting of our forum here

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#16 10-10-2001 7:36am

Dr. Loon

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Originally posted by DrunkLeprachaun
Am I going totaly insane, or was there a very similar topic to this a couple of weeks ago?

I believe you're right. I couldn't be arséd searching for the link...
Either that or I'm insane as well

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#17 10-10-2001 8:48am

Kix

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There was, I started it and it's here.

K

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#18 10-10-2001 1:50pm

Catch_22

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As i recdall it was lacerta.ucg.ie when i first came across it which was back in the days when cloud was running it from galway and quake 1 ruled ... still the best game ever

c22

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#19 10-10-2001 1:57pm

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It seems I first came across boards.ie when looking for a place to advertise a room to rent. I had just come back from my holidays in the good old US of A (April 2000) and couldn't afford to stay in the house I was living in ( shared with Lucutus, of all people! ) any longer... so I put up an ad on daft.ie and Luc copied it to a thread here. I think my first post was a reply to that thread saying that we'd found someone.

... /me does a wee search

... ah..! ... I was right thar it is...

/me grins

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#20 10-10-2001 6:57pm

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from playing 2 mutch quake on that belovid quake.iol.ie or ctf on indigo where i always had a 600 ping

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#21 10-10-2001 8:31pm

Kairo

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T'was back in the summer of 2k I do believe when I met an interesting ol' chap by the name of Irish-Taz on ICQ (was my sisters ICQ..and that bastard was trying to Cyber-pork her! :mad:). He informed me of some Irish Counter-Strike servers that I was previously unaware of. I followed a link from the servers MOTD and the rest, as they say, is history. :P

BTW, was aka Ph0eniX back then.

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#22 10-10-2001 10:02pm

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always knew there was something going on called 'Cloud Boards' (from my Quake 2 days - Sir_Xylem back then I think)...

apart from that I was chatin' with Freak_Bruther down the pub, and he told me it was doing well these days... so I had a look!

.Goodshape

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#23 11-10-2001 2:19am

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snl fiasco on ie.comp directed me here, never looked back

ooops i better go offline, watchin that bill ):mad:

/me quit (payin dial-up 64k isdn pay per min is a friggin rip-off !!...((:

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#24 11-10-2001 3:33pm

Stephen

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Originally posted by draffodx
playing TFC on the ign server......say you couldnt point me in the right direction for some irish servers for tfc , i stopped playing for ages and now i cant find any Irish servers?

halflife-2.ign.ie:27015

Check the Half-Life board here on boards.ie - its mostly TFC stuff that gets posted there. (Those smelly 13 year old CSers have their own board full of spam and flames )

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#25 11-10-2001 3:40pm

SantaHoe

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I found these boards through www.Quake.ie
I had only bought the game, and wanted to see if anyone in Ireland was playing it in a big way, mods and all that.
So just out of fluke - I tried www.quake.ie in the address bar... and lucky me!
Yeah, twas boards.ign.ie back then, but it's pretty much the same now except for all the weird non-gamer types floating around.

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#26 11-10-2001 3:57pm

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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8758

thats the earliest post from me that is listed. I was here before that although be how long ive no idea. i dont even remember when i came across the boards. first week i EVER saw the internet in my life i was on boards. (incidentally i never even saw the internet before i got it.) i think i fell into them cos i was lookin for cheat s for q1 or summat.

Part and parcel of what the internet is for me really

long may it keep up!

FB

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