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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,547 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    Joined about 20 years ago one of these days to ask how I could somehow get ITV on a Sky box.

    Also spent a good bit of time on the Ireland offline forum.

    I'm now on my third username, have fiber broadband at home in rural Ireland and couldn't give a toss about ITV.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,881 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    It was a quake board. I played quake and starcraft and met other Irish players here. I happened to work in an internet cafe at the time (remember them 😁)


    I was probably more active on P45 back then. It was another board that died a few year ago.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,862 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    I saw a mention of it on a local blog I was following all the way back in 2007 and thought it would be cool to join. I've had the same username since and never rereg'd under a different name.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Signed up to quake.ie to find others to play Quake.

    Signed up to boards.ie in 2004 and was a few years before I realised they were connected. Managed to get my accounts merged.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,154 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


    to kick people in the face.

    regards

    pighead



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  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,509 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    Was there not some drama on the poker forum way back when and they all left?

    I think it was for some info on starting up in Airsoft. I was as green as grass back then. Never did get into it neither.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,110 ✭✭✭✭banie01




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,154 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


    Well blast me with piss and feed me to the coke and hookers.

    (PS I'm not really facekicker or pighead, for clarity)



  • Posts: 2,752 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    To wind people up for my own amusement.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,795 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    I'd read boards on and off since around '99 but actually signed up as I was spending so much time reading the 9/11 threads as it happened.

    Hard to believe that's all over 20 years ago now.



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  • Posts: 12,694 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Boredom, 17 years ago at this stage😊



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,741 ✭✭✭knucklehead6


    Dangerhere.com died.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭hoodie6029


    For advice when I got a dog. How long is this site going?

    Spent time off long periods over the years for various reasons. The last site upgrade seems to have cleared out the last of the annoying posters, in Motors anyway.

    This is water. Inspiring speech by David Foster Wallace https://youtu.be/DCbGM4mqEVw?si=GS5uDvegp6Er1EOG



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 721 ✭✭✭Tomaldo


    Drama, airsoft? first I heard, any more detail?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,165 ✭✭✭hayrabit


    to display my annoyance at OPs not answering their own random questions 🤣


    alternative answer

    .....or mebbe cos I had no minions for to do the signeding up for me ;)




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,887 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    Boards.ie should be renamed boreds.ie



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    It was a bail condition that I join , bout 10 years ago.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭jd




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,478 ✭✭✭magick


    In a boring office job, something to keep me entertained



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,384 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    I can't remember exactly when, I'm sure I read the site for ages prior to that - this would probably be about 08-09? Message boards were were it was at back then if you wanted to find out about anything or chat to people who shared common interests to yourself. And boards just seemed to be the best of the lot: incredibly varied, Irish-centric and with a huge active userbase filled with all kinds of people, even down to the tiniest regional sub-forum. It felt like if you had a question to ask about anything, there was probably already going to be a thread on it, or if you got one going you could expect traction and good responses pretty quick. I view that couple of years, around the turn of the decade, as boards halcyon period: the place was hopping and there was a genuinely social feel to it - there would be meet-ups/beers etc on a pretty regular basis, at least in the regional sub-forum that I would frequent.

    I've had two or three other accounts down through the years. The first was connected to a college email address and when I lost access to that address I couldn't log myself back in after forgetting my password, and I think I lost another in similar fashion. And there was a hack back in 2010/11(?) which I think nuked another one - but I could have my order and my dates slightly mixed up. Been on this one now for a long while.

    Originally I only came here to post about films, music, football or local stuff. I didn't even know what After Hours was for years. I'd see people mentioning it elsewhere on the site and I hadn't a clue what they were on about: I didn't even realise that there was a separate forum called AH. But, honestly, the other forums were busy enough that you didn't even have to come here for debate. Over time though the traffic has dwindled.

    As another poster said earlier in the thread, we all give out about it, but, at the end of the day, it is a great site. I know traffic is way down and once lively forums are kinda hanging on life support, but there is still a bit of life to be found and it can, even now, be a great resource, - I'd be very sad to see boards disappear. And I'll always prefer the structure of a linear thread on something like boards to the busy incoherence of something like reddit. It's just a pity that the userbase has dwindled. People blame moderation etc, I'm not sure about that. I think it's just a fact of life that people move on and the userbase ages outs and that basically old school message boards are just not that interesting to younger users.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,933 ✭✭✭tesla_newbie


    Has a remarkably broad spectrum of discussion, you can ask the opinion of others on anything from electric vehicles to washing machines



  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,509 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,429 ✭✭✭randd1


    The sexual tension



  • Posts: 3,733 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I can't remember the why exactly. It was probably loneliness and wanting to be part of something. That makes sense. I'm still here, just about. As the years have gone by I have changed somewhat and with that my perception of Boards what it means to me and what I want from it. My starry eyes have been cleared. I feel I am a different sort of poster nowadays but one that feels authentic.

    I never pretended but I did try hard to belong among the social elements of this place. I remember being nervous to post anything at all controversial in case I got a card. Now I could not care any less.



  • Posts: 24,207 ✭✭✭✭ Noah Nutty Sailboat


    A person at work used to be looking at it during breaks, I was semi curious as to why she was so into it, but not really drawn to it at all as I had a real life! Then one day, taking another look, I saw the Liveline thread pop up and started reading it, and found myself laughing out loud. I thought these folk share same cynical black sense of humour so I came on board. My first post was a cheeky “Big Mickey Mattress” in connection with a caller having bought a filthy second hand mattress, and felt scammed, then Mattress Mick called in to offer her a new one. At that time I had been forced into early retirement for health reasons, so it was a bit of fun making my contribution and I slotted right into that thread.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 9,469 CMod ✭✭✭✭Fathom


    My housemate suggested that I might like discussions on boards.ie. After all these years, using 20-20 hindsight, she was right. 😎



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,097 ✭✭✭taxAHcruel


    I was asked to by a few people who were Boards users at the time. They thought the stuff going on in my life might be interesting on here - and give me a different perspective on things that were happening in Ireland/Boards at the time.

    Not sure if I lived up to their hope for me. But I think I have done somewhat ok over the years and have not been too interminably boring.



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 12,909 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    I used to be a very busy member of another much smaller Irish forum but on days when that was quiet or they were all fighting, lol, I'd wander over to the bigger, much busier Boards.ie. I read it for a long time before I posted anything and took many visits to get my head around all of the forums from the drop down category menus at the top. I joined in 2006 so whatever was the layout then, picture all of the Topics in separate tabs across the top of the page with a big list of forums if you rolled over the Category name.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,110 ✭✭✭✭banie01




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,195 ✭✭✭Ger Roe


    I have been knocking around these parts for nigh on 22 years! .... I was involved in pirate radio and the new facility of boards.ie , allowed us an opportunity to open a forum for direct contact with our listeners. It was groundbreaking at the time and tied in nicely with our early experiments at web streaming too.

    This was back in the days when we had to divert our single request phone line to the dial up modem, to 'go international'. We also had to read out complicated URL designations to tell listeners where to find the stream.

    Yes.. I am that old.



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