What brought you to Boards?

Kix · 06-09-2001 03:34PM #1

I was just looking at one of Occy's posts and I got to wondering what brought him, a doctor living in the US, to Boards.ie.

I first heard about Boards from a classmate of Cloud's who was working with me, but at the time it didn't mean anyhting much to me. I only got into Boards after I'd subscribed to the IIU mailing list and boards.ie kept getting mentioned. I've been a devoted member since and I can see myself being round for a long time to come.

So, how about you? How did you end up on Boards?

K

Pepe LeFrits · 06-09-2001 03:42PM

It was either a classmate named "Pob" or a TFC newbar named "Munch"

Paleface · 06-09-2001 03:45PM

Phantom have a link from their site to their board. The rest is history. Im still relatively new and I didn't think it was that great at first but I have to say that now I think it rocks!

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strat · 06-09-2001 03:51PM

I was on irc alot at the time and the lads kept refering to 'the boards' so i had a look and didnt hink much of it

but then it discovered alot if interesting discussions there also its where u sign up for montylans

so i signed up and i am still here a year on.

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Keeks · 06-09-2001 03:52PM

Quake

azezil · 06-09-2001 03:54PM

I was lookin for info on ir printers n was havin no luck so i posted on a few boards includeing this one... then my networking lecturer seen me on boards one day n said it was a good place to go for info! so i stayed!

"just because you're not paraniod, doesn't mean they're not after you!"

Bard · 06-09-2001 03:54PM

I used to rent a house with that Lucutus fellah.

He introduced me to Boards.ie.

Bard

'First motorbike in the bible ???? ---- a Triumph --- 'Yea verily Moses struck down the ammmanites and all the land heard the roar of his triumph !!!'

WhiteWashMan · 06-09-2001 03:55PM

i just got quake 2 and wanted to find out how to set itup to play online.
they all laughed at me for not playing quake

of course, in those days it was cloud boards or something, hence the no registration date
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Lucutus · 06-09-2001 04:08PM

Originally posted by Bard:
I used to rent a house with that Lucutus fellah.

True.

Originally posted by Bard:

He introduced me to Boards.ie.

False.

What brought me to Boards? eh, I play Quake. (Pretty self explainatory, I think!)

DeVore · 06-09-2001 04:11PM

Umm...

Well...

Actually its a long story hehe...

Its all cloud's fault for taking me up on a stupid bet hahah.

DeV.

ps: I'm totally curious where everyone else came from though! I used to know everyone on the boards and we used to meet up for pints. I think if we all met up for pints now there would be riot police involved...

Bard · 06-09-2001 04:11PM

Originally posted by Lucutus:
False.

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Eh? I was sure t'was you who introduced me to the boards...

Oh well! In that case, I don't remember!

Kix · 06-09-2001 04:17PM

Originally posted by DeVore:
Actually its a long story hehe...Its all cloud's fault for taking me up on a stupid bet hahah.

Nooo!!! You can't just leave it like that!

Go on, it'll be good to get it out in the open. No more lies, no more secrets.

K

podgeen · 06-09-2001 04:41PM

some quakeheads told me about it...

LoLth · 06-09-2001 04:42PM

quake..

CA to be specific.

Trojan · 06-09-2001 04:52PM

quack

DeVore · 06-09-2001 04:57PM

Cloud bet me that I couldnt get www.boards.ie past the IEDR.

I renamed Spin Solutions to Boards Ltd for a day and applied for it as a company and got it.

His forfeit was to look after the techie side of Boards.ie

The rest, as they say, is a lot of history.

Thats the story of Boards.ie as you see it today but it existed as a community before that, along time ago on a server far far away...

DeV.

Gavin · 06-09-2001 05:08PM

humm.. cloud boards

( aka quake )

Gav

jaggeh · 06-09-2001 05:15PM

jag
jaguar
[SN]JAG
veonix
Jug-A-Lug

these are all me if you combine them id have roughly 1000 posts, i signed up waaay back when it was just cloud boards cos i played quake on hobbes pc and wanted a voice too

im not going away for a loooooonnnnggggg time as much as some of you want me to

Miguel_Sanchez · 06-09-2001 05:21PM

I started playing Counter Strike some time late last year and just wandered on over here looking for tips etc.

Kharn had mentioned boards numerous times on the bulletin board of www.castlebar.ie so I knew it was here for a while.

Nobody here knows me (cept Kharn) so I enjoy a bit more anonymity than most I think.

You can imagine where it goes from here. --- He fixes the cable?

kayos · 06-09-2001 05:28PM

When I started playing games online I was told all about Guns Islanders my a m8 of mine (Spud Vader from the orginal Jedi's) and I found the cloud boards. After that the rest as they say is history. Now time to go home and pack for me Holidays

kayos

Shiminay · 06-09-2001 05:30PM

Like some of the lads it was from playing that little known game that a bunch of lads in a company called id created back when it was the Quake boards (running from somewhere in NUIG).

Actually, I think anyone that came here from those days won't have a registered date, so we're the auld schtock

All the best!
Dav
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Enygma · 06-09-2001 05:39PM

I think it was Hobbes that introduced me to Cloud Boards (though he probably doesn't even know it!). I met him on some other now-dead message board and he showed me the light

Keeks · 06-09-2001 05:47PM

Originally posted by DeVore:
Cloud bet me that I couldnt get www.boards.ie past the IEDR.

I renamed Spin Solutions to Boards Ltd for a day and applied for it as a company and got it.

His forfeit was to look after the techie side of Boards.ie

The rest, as they say, is a lot of history.

Thats the story of Boards.ie as you see it today but it existed as a community before that, along time ago on a server far far away...

DeV.

Not such a long story after all, eh Dev!

tHE vAGGABOND · 06-09-2001 05:57PM

I worked for a crapy company, and our support commany 'fat bill's support monkeys' sent out this old looser to fix things one day - Im not sure we fixed anything, but smoked in the canteen and he talked about quake and the boards for ages

hehe - I'll leave you to guess the names

Cloud bet me that I couldnt get www.boards.ie past the IEDR.
I renamed Spin Solutions to Boards Ltd for a day and applied for it as a company and got it

I knew a chap once who told me a different story about that domian (long before boards.ie the site existed) - not a bad way, just a different story

But who cares

El Marco · 06-09-2001 06:23PM

Well I used to post on gameshop forum but I found it was a little to quiet for my liking.
So my freind Morpheus^ went on the boards and being the chatter I am I decided to make an account.
As they say the rest is history....well no I'm only a n00b poster

Wow big castle.......think he's making up for something?

Dustaz · 06-09-2001 06:26PM

desperate searching for likeminded indivduals - nerds - led me to some quake.ie site which in turn led me to here. and now there seems to be no way out. bah.

havok* · 06-09-2001 06:38PM

I blame that Sico fella

Was intially just for the use of the Quake Boards while we where trying to found Clan LUDO (which was later renamed to acid)

Victor · 06-09-2001 06:43PM

Originally posted by veonix:
jag jaguar [SN]JAG veonix Jug-A-Lug

Said person, in a CS context

Kill, kill, kill the laser mice.

BoobeR · 06-09-2001 06:49PM

All i can say is Spoonman and quakeworld

Damn spellings..should have listened in primary school

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PHB · 06-09-2001 07:01PM

Well i go to school with sev and me told be about aicsl1, the best irish server :P. I joined it and saw the welcome msg with www.boards.ie there. Then on the boards i found you all spent ages on irc every day and i went there. See CS ownz :P

Bob the Unlucky Octopus · 06-09-2001 07:09PM

From the US, and live in London atm Kix

I met RopeDrink on some random German server, we were both saying "any f*cking English here??!" at the same time. He asked me if I was interested in playing clanned CS- and I told him I was more of a TFC player. He converted me to CS, and told me about this great thing called boards.ie. It became our refuge when the official CS forums filled with muppets (we preferred the Irish-grown muppets on the CS forum you see :P).

And damn glad I am that he did.

Occy

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