How did you discover Boards?

Stargal · 02-02-2007 03:15PM

Feral Mutant wrote:

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.

I started through CTYI too. I was working there a couple of summers ago and heard that the kids had started threads discussing all the members of staff, so naturally myself and all the rest of the staff started checking it out!

Didn't really post much until the TCD forum started up, when the addiction started; and since we got broadband in the house a few months ago I don't think I've left here at all...

Red Alert · 02-02-2007 03:22PM

I used to be on a site known as the-junction.co.uk, and i can't actually remember what my username there was. that ended up closing, and i found boards.ie when i typed in ucd forum into google and got 'College Play'.

Miss Fluff · 02-02-2007 03:23PM

Headhunted by Kolodny, cheers love;)

02-02-2007 03:27PM

I found it when i was looking for viagra

JustCoz · 02-02-2007 03:38PM

Boards was all the rage when I was in 2nd year in college. I just lurked around reading posts for a while and then joined up. My life has never been the same..

tHE vAGGABOND · 02-02-2007 04:06PM

first ever job, not a clue what I was up to and our IT fix people were full of quake heads and one of them Mind Phuck got me to signup to Clouds mad quake only board on some obsecure server in UCG

BTW I found a CD at home the other day, hand made by cloud, and awarded to me for the 5000's post on the quake board! ebay millions here I come

admiralofthefleet · 02-02-2007 04:59PM

my brother put me on to it, said it was a good site even though he has been a member for about 5 years and has only about 25 posts

gandalf · 02-02-2007 05:37PM

A Quake blow in !!!!

Nice to see all the newbies posting here btw

Mushy · 02-02-2007 06:05PM

Heard about it through some other site. Came in, browsed, signed up. Funnily enough, I think that happened, then never used for bout a month(maybe less), cousin mentioned it and couldnt get back to it. Had to re-register I think

psicic · 02-02-2007 06:20PM

Atari Jaguar.

Came first on an Alta Vista or Yahoo search on Atari Jaguars back when I had a tinet.ie email address. (1999).

Rediscovered it in college 2000. Could have sworn I registered, but am now unsure.

Read some Slashdot story that mentioned it in connection with Atari Jaguars. (2001 or 2003??)

Then in 2005 had a problem with my motorbike, searched google, found this site (along with a few biker sites) realised it was 'that place with the Atari Jaguar fixation', registered (again?) and have posted off-and-on since then.

Ironically, I've never played an Atari Jaguar.:rolleyes:

Rb · 02-02-2007 07:38PM

I can't really remember, think I found it through Google but I knew a person using it who'd mentioned it to me before. Sometimes I'm glad I found the place, other days I curse the day I ever started posting here.

Exit · 02-02-2007 08:54PM

Genuinely don't remember. I know I was in Canada for three months and finding boards helped me keep up with Ireland, but I have no clue how i came across the site.

02-02-2007 09:45PM

found it while googling passing time on the interweb in college then browsed every so often till I started working full time for a good while and it passed the time again

ChRoMe · 02-02-2007 09:49PM

gandalf are there any other of the original quake players still on the boards?

RasTa · 02-02-2007 09:58PM

The back end of Quake but fully in Q2. I remeber going to Galecon(sp) in 98 was it?

fade2black · 02-02-2007 10:01PM

Only on the internet could a Quake player develop a superiority complex.

:| · 02-02-2007 10:35PM

Passive kept talking about it so i wanted to see what the all the fuss was about. It came in handy during the leaving cert

02-02-2007 11:21PM

Not sure myself ... IrelandOffline certainly rings a bell .. could well be from that!

Rabies · 03-02-2007 01:06AM

Hagar wrote:

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

Wow... you must be old

duckmusic · 03-02-2007 01:15AM

Read about the whole *** legal case and thought I would check it out

Terry · 03-02-2007 01:55AM

Rabies wrote:

FatB sent an email around the college to say there was a fourm for students. I arrived 5 years ago this month. Still here waiting for my coke and hookers experience.

you've never partaken in the coke and hookers experience?
I have a coke dealing hooker call around to my house every thursday night, courtesy of cloud. PM him your address and he should sort you out.

oh yeah, google, while looking for an Irish pro wrestling forum

Thrill · 03-02-2007 01:58AM

Found it when i did a Google search to find out what was wrong with my broadband connection. It was at dial-up speed.
I saw a link to someone with a similar problem, and here i am.

Turns out it was Eircoms fault.

bugs90 · 03-02-2007 03:24AM

Oddly, I joined the boards football team first through friends and then had to log on for team stuff... tis strangely addictive tho!

How did you discover Boards?

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