Why did you join boards.ie?

Amprodude · 20-03-2013 03:47AM #1

It amazing to see a good few members on here who have been on boards.ie since 2001 and before and are still posting 12/13+ years later. That is a lifetime. I would love to know who is the longest serving and most frequent poster?

My question is how did you hear about boards.ie and why did you join? What influenced you to sign up first day? Im relatively new to boards but it was the GAA forum that got me to register and slowly i found my way onto other forums that shared my interests. Now, I can't live without having boards as part of my life.

KKkitty · 20-03-2013 03:51AM

I was a lurker and took a mad notion to register. AH was my favourite forum to lurk in before I registered.

menapyan · 20-03-2013 03:53AM

family member used it and we were the only other people we knew to have internet access, so we were always linking each other stuff, he used it for gaming and invited me over one day. I was used to American based bulletin boards and didn't really like it so much so didn't stay. I was born on the internet in America and I still only feel half Irish and not at all at home here.

aSligoDub · 20-03-2013 03:55AM

Mike65 was the highest a couple of years ago, not sure about now.

And Cloudwarrior has the first post..

1ZRed · 20-03-2013 03:55AM

12 years is some shíte lifetime!

Cut off right before the drink and boobs get a hold of ya

Chuck Stone · 20-03-2013 03:55AM

Someone was wrong about something and I joined to point it out.

The internet needs that kind of thing.

BillyMitchel · 20-03-2013 03:57AM

I was looking on the interweb looking for filth and I thought AH sounded like a meet places for odd balls. Obviously I was extremely disappointed but I kept lurking for years and got a great laugh from it.

Then I had to go work abroad for awhile so I had lots of spare time so I then decided to take the plunge and register.

Ruu · 20-03-2013 03:57AM

To complain about dialup internet and see how many others were in the same boat.

COYVB · 20-03-2013 03:58AM

KKkitty wrote: »

I was a lurker and took a mad notion to register. AH was my favourite forum to lurk in before I registered.

I never understood why people do that. Is not incredibly... dull?

kryogen · 20-03-2013 03:59AM

Joined to talk about poker, that was the only part of boards I used for a solid year or so, then branched out.

To the detriment of my actual life

Jhcx · 20-03-2013 04:00AM

I was here in '09 gave me a shock one day to realize i was signed up. But was a habit to sign up for every website i liked. im sure i had a massive footprint left on the webs. but i assumed a new identity and its nearly as big as the last.

hefferboi · 20-03-2013 04:00AM

Ruubot2 wrote: »

To complain about dialup internet and see how many others were in the same boat.

Dialup internet in 2013?

ColeTrain · 20-03-2013 04:05AM

For the sheer craic

Ruu · 20-03-2013 04:07AM

hefferboi wrote: »

Dialup internet in 2013?

New account, closed the other one a year or two ago, had a 2002 reg.

Call Me Jimmy · 20-03-2013 04:11AM

To read the same threads over and over until the universe tires of being experienced from my perspective, of course!

orestes · 20-03-2013 04:18AM

Ruubot2 wrote: »

New account, closed the other one a year or two ago, had a 2002 reg.

ZOMBIE RUU!

:eek::eek::eek:

Mince Pie · 20-03-2013 04:20AM

I moved back to Ireland after a decade away and everytime I looked something up there was a boards thread on it. Made sense to join up. Now I tend to just lurk and giggle in AH mostly.

sunbeam · 20-03-2013 04:46AM

I joined to thank someone for posting instructions on how to get my mobile connected to the internet. It was driving me nuts and I was thrilled that someone else had worked it out. Can't even remember what phone it was now.

I lurk far more than I post-might get to 1000 posts by 2015 if I pick up the pace a bit...

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 20-03-2013 04:52AM

I joined in '98 because people were talking about Quake.
This whole place used to be quake players as far as the eye could see, now it's all noobs who probably don't even know how to strafe-jump around the pillars of DM3. :rolleyes:

Ruudi_Mentari · 20-03-2013 04:53AM

cuz jesus don't want me for a sunbeam

20-03-2013 04:53AM

Was living and working in Israel at the time but needed to get in touch with the o2 network. Never heard of Boards before that but Googled the o2 support thread here, got the answers I needed, and decided to stick around. Still more of a lurker than a poster though, too busy having an actual life instead of a virtual one.

Rasheed · 20-03-2013 05:10AM

Boards threads came up in Google search for a couple of things I had googled. So I became a lurker for awhile, got addicted and then joined!

CollardGreens · 20-03-2013 05:25AM

The thought I wanted to visit after hearing how pretty it was, so I logged on to learn about Ireland and the people.

Rabies · 20-03-2013 05:33AM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Someone was wrong about something and I joined to point it out.

The internet needs that kind of thing.

I seen it on the computer screen next to me in college. Joined. Had fun. Trolled. Nearly got banned. Got given mod powers. Stayed. Gave up mod powers. Took them back. Gave them up again. Now I live in a happy place

nice_very · 20-03-2013 06:06AM

I registered to comment on the "I have a dilemma" thread (had a diff ID before but forgot password)

Xavi6 · 20-03-2013 06:27AM

N00b 2011, 2012 and 2013 regos everywhere in this thread.

Recommended by a friend so joined up as a 17 year old. Thought about jacking it in many a time but it keeps me connected with stuff at home and 2002 is a fairly big boards penis :cool:

BBDBB · 20-03-2013 08:56AM

I joined to ask for some genuine opinions.

I wanted to know if this underwear was too sexy for my sister

Andersonisgod · 20-03-2013 09:01AM

To protect the world from devastation,
To unite all people within our nations,
To denounce the evil of truth and love,
To extend our reach to the stars above,
Anderson!
Is God!
Team Sanity blast off at the speed of light,
Surrender now or prepare to fight,
Meow that's right!