What do you miss about After Hours?

Persephone kindness · 30-05-2017 01:49AM

I miss when people were just here for the laugh...

wonderfullife · 30-05-2017 02:07AM

Stoner wrote: »

I use to meet people from boards, I have friends from boards but I use to notice that a lot of men were on boards to get women, or at least to interact with them. I don't know if any of the relationships lasted.

Yet some of it was great, funny and genuine, it out weighed the other stuff. There are specialised sites just for dating now, so boards has lost out on the men showing off element.

The world has moved on I think.....

But it's still a great place to go as far as I'm concerned. I made good friends here and received great advice here too.

I think by and large After Hours (& Boards) was a community for geeks like myself and pre-Tinder, pre-Facebook etc it was actually a way of making friends.

Ok there are exceptions to every rule - Metabolivia looked more like a model than a geek - but on the whole I do think there was a period of time where After Hours served as an amalgam of all the social media sites we see today.

You could make friends and keep in touch - like Facebook.
You could get dates and romance - like Tinder
You could offer "witty" banter (i.e. sh1te nobody else finds funny) and responses to current events - like Twitter
Hell, there was a time pre-smartphone that you'd be keeping in touch more over this forum than by text message.

I guess what I'm trying to say is there was actually a point in time where the mighty After Hours forum felt a bit more like a community center.

Samaris · 30-05-2017 08:28AM

Atari Jaguar appears to have stayed with us.

SB_Part2 · 30-05-2017 08:32AM

Stoner wrote: »

Bubbles!!!

Remember that one old timers and reregs

Don't even mention the name !!!

Remember when Bubbles convinced someone he was a girl and got them to get a taxi from Maynooth to meet him

Samaris · 30-05-2017 08:41AM

SB_Part2 wrote: »

Remember when Bubbles convinced someone he was a girl and got them to get a taxi from Maynooth to meet him

Jaysus, you wouldn't get away with that today! Tbh, rightfully not, as god knows, no-one would want to be the one that ignored it as a silly joke until someone turned up dead or battered.

Theys were more innocent days of the internet. Even if that sort of thing happened (the bad side, that is, not saying that Bubbles had any evil intent!), you wouldn't really hear so much about it as a warning story as it's been ingrained now.

Mind you, I was also involved in a ...very similar story, only it wasn't nearly so innocent and I was in a sorta(ish) position of responsibility for the victim at the time. It was bloody scary and I never want to be in that position again. It still disturbs me, several years later.

Sugar Free · 30-05-2017 09:00AM

SB_Part2 wrote: »

Remember when Bubbles convinced someone he was a girl and got them to get a taxi from Maynooth to meet him

I still remember the poor guy's voice practically breaking as the realisation dawned on him.

30-05-2017 12:13PM

AllForIt wrote: »

One think I don't care for is meme's. They don't tend to make me laugh out loud anymore and I think there is something a lot better in a witty remark than a copy and pasted meme. Not that I'm knocking you personally riffmonagous.

You don't like memes?

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Well memes or witty remarks, it doesn't really matter once it makes for a bit of craic, but what I was thinking was that often those who complain the loudest about it not being fun don't really do much to make it fun

entropi · 30-05-2017 12:57PM

Stoner wrote: »

Bubbles!!!

Remember that one old timers and reregs

Don't even mention the name !!!

Some say they still roam the threads here, on one of a suspected 500+ accounts. Some say that if you mention that name three times, you will be sitebanned from the internet itself. Some say that if you want to buy a CD burner online, and get a lighter in the post...you might be barking up the wrong tree.

All we know is, don't mention the B word :pac:

Winterlong · 30-05-2017 01:05PM

I miss all the introspection that used to go on in AH. The harking back to the days of yahoo forums.

Sleepy · 30-05-2017 01:22PM

I do miss some of the posters from the old days but tbh, I was never a fan of the "yore ma" / "blast it with piss" attention whoring.

Stoner · 30-05-2017 11:59PM

wonderfullife wrote:

Ok there are exceptions to every rule - Metabolivia looked more like a model than a geek - but on the whole I do think there was a period of time where After Hours served as an amalgam of all the social media sites we see today.

True. I was more of a lurker here. Great fun, people with a handle rather than a profile full of boring content.

It did cater for a lot of different things.

It reminds me a bit of the old Christmas, when all the stoners in Cabra lived in one house. We didn't have a video and everyone stayed in to watch films on the one TV. Good food, good company but kind of all there due to lack of options but great at the same time.

Then we got VCRs we could watch what we wanted when we wanted, we grew up and no longer shared rooms with family members, we bought houses and have spare rooms, computers, consolesâ€‹, Netflix and huge TV's

More options, more choice and a better standard of living overall, but Christmas isn't the same.

Ubbquittious · 31-05-2017 12:15AM

I miss dialing into AH on a 300bps Acoustic coupler

Insect Overlord · 31-05-2017 12:18AM

I miss when there were enough people posting bizarre stuff in the Cuckoo's Nest for it to be a viable alternative.

Those folks were right all along. They knew exactly what kind of a hell-hole After Hours tends to be.

If only we had heeded their warnings...

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