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How did you discover Boards?

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Crucifix

I can't remember. I do know I lurked a bit though.

User45701

Saw someone who worked in nethouse on it and i checked it out a few days later

Rhyme

Someone mentioned it was an interesting place, i clicked, ran away scared, came back a year later and that's that.

paramettscane

I was sitting around the house tired and bored and decided to find something totally different....after about 20mins here I am.:cool:

embee

I was in an internet cafe with my mate Dave... he logged onto boards. I had a nosey, et voila \o/

Karl Hungus

Ropedrink made me join up.

Rockee

I was looking for an 80s Retro website and somehow Google threw up the boards.ie All Things Retro section. Clicked the link and yay..:p

[Deleted User]

A site administrator at UCD suggested boards.

thelordofcheese

My rice krispies told me to do it.

Hagar

My son [Preacher] was a Boardsie before me and got me hooked.

Sparky

Boards found me!

Googling IBB faults landed me on the broadband forum. The rest is history.

Hail 2 Da Chimp

I seen a guy in the place i worked using boards... Ever since that my whole life has fallen appart, I have been unable to leave my job. My family all hate me and I haven't had a drink in hours

mukki

i used to read the Usenet news groups (through Google), there was a board for computer problems there, and i used to try and help the guys out

then i found the Irish newsgroups and realized i could help Irish people with their computer problems instead, i just preferred to try to help out Irish people

one day a guy posted about his problem and said "the lads on boards.ie weren't able to help him either", so i was delighted to find yet another place where the helpful computer geeks needed a hand,

wasn't long before i realized that i could find out stuff from experts in other areas (like the mustard forum), so I gave up on Usenet pretty soon after

petes

I was looking up porn on the internet and oddly enough found myself on boards.

TerrorFirmer

I was looking up phones and found a thread from boards with my details on it, saying 'this guy emailed me to recommend this guy to me, and he turned out to be a scammer'. Me being the recommender in innocence, not the scammer!

Was a bit surprised, but then joined up after flicking through the website.

skywalker

petes wrote:

I was looking up porn on the internet and oddly enough found myself on boards.

You found "yourself" on boards? :eek:

I think an ex-girlfriend introduced it to me, cant remember for which forum specifically though.

FlutterinBantam

Vexorg headhunted me:D

petes

skywalker wrote:

I think an ex-girlfriend introduced it to me, cant remember for which forum specifically though.

PI?

r3nu4l

I moved to England at the end of 2004, by early 2006, I had started a new job and had time to reflect on how much I really missed the Irish perspective on life in general.

So I searched Google for Irish forums. I found one or two Irish emigrant forums but that wasn't what I wanted...then I discovered boards.ie. Now I'm talkin'

Kolodny

I discovered Boards by being very nosey and reading over the shoulder of some ex work colleagues a few years ago (who I have since seen at Boards Beers). I browsed for a couple of weeks to see what all the fuss was about then eventually signed up. I think at one stage pretty much everyone in my work place was posting here

Mrs_Doyle

I started working with a Hosting company, and on my first day my boss showed me boards, and all the threads discussing him, and his company, and asked me to monitor and respond where necessary.

I ended up dossing on boards for hours on end and he could never really say anything as he had told me to 'frequent' the site in the first place.

Dutchology

Sitting on the bed beside my Mirror, watching the Mirror, asked, was informed, joined...

Spank you Mirror

connundrum

I followed a lady friend here, and then I just never left

Agamemnon

Was Googling for something about the tv show Lost and found the boards.ie Lost forum.

Faith

Somebody on another small forum years ago said, "I just found this place boards.ie! You should join up now to make sure you get your username there because it's going to be huge!". So I joined and got my username. I more or less lurked, only posting the occassional thread, until I started uni in Sept 05 and found myself with broadband in my room and far too much time on my hands!

Nalz

ha ha! I found out bout someone bitchin bout me on it 2 or 3 years ago... thought it was the nerdiest thing ever. I was never into goin onto sites like this (and Im a computer programmer!), but when there is nothing to in work whats the harm! Was a crappy and not so plesant way to discover boards, but it makes the clock go that extra bit faster so Im not complainin, especiall the Soccer section.

Doodee

Kulgan wrote:

From the MOTD on halflife-1.ign.ie server! I think it was cloud.ign.ie/boards back then

*Sniff* Memories

Kojak

I found boards when I read about on the NUIG message board.

Feral Mutant

I was in my third year at CTYI when Raphael gave me the address for the boards CTYI forum. It wasn't till a year later that I went to it and joined. It was another few months before I ventured out into the other forums.

Tar.Aldarion

A moderator told me to do it, as I not shy about telling idiots they are idiots. Supposedly.