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Five years

Trojan · 2003-01-07 17:27:24

It's not 5 years since this place started with it's new name, but it'll soon be 5 years from Feb 98, which is when the first post to what, the wwwboard was? Anyways, just thought it worth mentioning. Anyone heard from any of the old-skool who have gone missing? Where did all of Maynooth disappear off to? Like Jim, Chaos…

07-01-2003 5:27pm

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Trojan

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It's not 5 years since this place started with it's new name, but it'll soon be 5 years from Feb 98, which is when the first post to what, the wwwboard was? Anyways, just thought it worth mentioning.

Anyone heard from any of the old-skool who have gone missing? Where did all of Maynooth disappear off to? Like Jim, Chaos etc.

Alo.

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#2 07-01-2003 5:48pm

Draco

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Jim got married recently. His net access in work was severly curtailed and then he got a girlfriend and that put and end to his quaking days. Chaos is working in a call centre somewhere...possibly for eircom. malek is in Australia. I'm still here.

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#3 07-01-2003 6:29pm

regi

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I think I saw ewj on irc the other day

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#4 07-01-2003 10:22pm

DeVore

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Wow... doesnt seem like 5 years...

seems like 10!

DeV.

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#5 07-01-2003 11:43pm

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Hmmm 5 Years thats a Anniversary .....AN EXCUSE FOR A PISSUP

Make it towards the end of Feb Dev as I'm away for a weekend in Toronto mid Feb

Gandalf.

(PS any news on the Boards.ie pension plan yet )

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#6 08-01-2003 9:28am

Runfree

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5 years. hmmm this board is getting old. must be like a fine wine though cause it seems to improve everyday.

Improves with its age

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#7 08-01-2003 2:17pm

Trojan

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Originally posted by gandalf
Hmmm 5 Years thats a Anniversary .....AN EXCUSE FOR A PISSUP

Make it towards the end of Feb Dev as I'm away for a weekend in Toronto mid Feb

Agreed, well done that man. How about a Thurs night session? Feb's kinda a busy month I think

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#8 08-01-2003 2:40pm

leeroybrown

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seems like 10!

You're getting early probation for good behaviour.

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#9 08-01-2003 2:44pm

Kali

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5 years? oh dear god...
and with about 5 hours a week browsing boards.ie..
that comes to a whopping 54 days you've taken from my life.
give up drinking/smoking? pah screw that gotta give up the boards...

Ken.. wondering if the meaning of life really is to post crap on an internet bulletin board

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#10 08-01-2003 3:32pm

DeVore

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5 hours a week? jesus there are people here who spend 5 hours a DAY on the bleedin site hahah...

Remember if you read 1 post per minute it would take you 17 hours every day to read all of that day's posts....

If you spend 2 hours every day (including weekends) you have spent 450 x 8 hour (working) days if you spent the entire 5 years doing that.

Thats almost 2 full working years "working" for Boards.ie

No, you dont get paid.

DeV.

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#11 08-01-2003 3:38pm

Runfree

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Can I get paid. I'm on this site 7-8 hours a day

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#12 08-01-2003 3:47pm

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Originally posted by DeVore

If you spend 2 hours every day (including weekends)...

what? on boards? what? for the past 5 years?

Well!... Then you'd have spent 2 hours * 365 days * 5 years = 3,650 hours - minus 24 hours because 2000 was a leap year, that makes 3,626 hours spent on boards in the past 5 years.

3,626 hours is 151 days & 2 hours, which is approximately 0.41 years.

Yes, I'm that bored.

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#13 08-01-2003 3:52pm

Gordon

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Bard please alter your equation to include at least one leap year and the possibility of having leap minutes and even seconds...

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#14 08-01-2003 3:54pm

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Originally posted by Gordon
Bard please alter your equation to include at least one leap year and the possibility of having leap minutes and even seconds...

I did.

A minute before you posted that.

Fnar!

(The word "approximately" accounts for the leap minutes and seconds)

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#15 08-01-2003 3:58pm

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bah humbug! If it wasn't for you pesky oldfogeys etc etc...

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#16 08-01-2003 4:39pm

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(Bloody newbies spamming our thread)

There's a post on Boards Events here about a session.

Check it out.
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#17 08-01-2003 5:54pm

leeroybrown

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(Bloody newbies spamming our thread)

With a newbie being anyone who joined after Jan 1995 I presume

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#18 08-01-2003 7:45pm

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there are 2 types of people on boards.ie, those that are "Registered: Feb 1998" ...... and the rest

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#19 08-01-2003 10:30pm

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I spent 2-3hrs a day lurking around boards...thats 17.5hrs a week.. thats 910hrs a year, so your using 37.916 days of my life a year...evil people....

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#20 09-01-2003 12:42am

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Agreed Nog.

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#21 09-01-2003 9:21am

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Originally posted by ButcherOfNog
there are 2 types of people on boards.ie, those that are "Registered: Feb 1998" ...... and the rest

haha

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#22 09-01-2003 2:46pm

Jade

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Do the people who Registered: Feb 1998 get a special prize.. I reckon they should be able to have custom titles !!

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#23 10-01-2003 12:08pm

sutty

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I want to be an "old skool" nerd... please can I be??

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#24 10-01-2003 12:16pm

Beruthiel

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Originally posted by sutty
I want to be an "old skool" nerd... please can I be??

well, you're defo a 'nerd'
does this help??

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#25 10-01-2003 12:45pm

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Originally posted by Beruthiel
well, you're defo a 'nerd'
does this help??

Its just not good enough, now is it???

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#26 10-01-2003 2:52pm

WhiteWashMan

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can you change my title to read 'Old Skool Moderator' ?

you know what, i must be mellowing. i even talk to some of these 'newbies' these days.

why just yesterday i told one of them to fúck off!

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