How did you discover Boards?

Heisenberg.

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Silverfish

Snuck ( is that a word? Snuck. Snuck. ) in through the Phantom FM forum.

Lorax

Have never seen this thread done before..

Anyway this account was originally my older brothers but he left so just gave me his password and the rest as they say... is history

Rabies

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.

Stench Blossoms

Found it on google when i was looking for cheats for my mocks when i was doing my Junior Cert.

Ruu_Old

Through the IrelandOffline website then broke loose onto the other forums about a year after or so. Hard to believe its been this long.

Red Hand

I was looking for something to do with history, can't remember what it was now, but up popped a boards.ie thread. I had and have never been on any other forum before, and until boards.ie didn't even go on the internet that much.

DEmeant0r

Went to the first GalwayLan and there were mentions of it, well that's how I remember it anyways, been a member for nearly 6 years.

Creamy Goodness

orla wrote:

Found it on google when i was looking for cheats for my mocks when i was doing my Junior Cert.

ahaha and look where it got ya

myself found boards right in the height of popularity of counter-strike. hard to believe i'm 5 years here

mike65

Irelandoffline did it for me, from newspaper article to www.irelandoffline.com to boards.ie been stuck in here ever since.

Mike.

aidan_walsh

Ruu wrote:

Through the IrelandOffline website then broke loose onto the other forums about a year after or so. Hard to believe its been this long.

How long before you started collecting them?

Pretty much the same as the OP, had been Googling for something (can't for the life of me remember what, musn't have been too important) and stumbled upon this place.

Patricide

Steoob.

humbert

I actually happened upon a UCD boards beers in the porterhouse one night and they seemed like a nice bunch of people so I thought I'd go see what this forum they were all part of was like!

feylya

Googled for guitar pedals or something similar and found it.

Rabies

humbert, you're just a blow in.

Pighead

One of the owners of boards is a regular contributer to one of Pigheads favourite websites, (www.nakeddancingmidgetlesbians.com) and he recommended boards.ie to me.

crosstownk

I Googled for something or other (can't remember what), stumbled across boards.ie and somehow I ended up with yet another vice. But it does help pass time that would otherwise be boring - especially in work.

Damn you Pighead - I actually tried that link! I should have known better....................

monkeyfudge

One evening I was walking home drunk from the pub and somebody struck me from behind... when I regained consciousness I found myself here.

nesf

A friend recommened it in college. I lurked for about six months on and off before deciding to join up. Of course, it was much smaller back then and having over 1000 posts was scary..

Mossy Monk

i followed icdg

bug

a sibling was delighting in the fact that he could argue with people on the internet in a political forum around the time of the Iraq war and told me to have a look.

I did.

Indirectly if it hadn't been for boards I would probably have emigrated.

You b**tards

The_Minister

Panda_100 sired me.

patrickc

yep i went searching too, was for sky codes. it's one of the best sites out there

rogue-entity

Someone once told me about the site when I asked them where I could get a free domain name (not having a credit card to pay for one normally), that was back when this place was using UBB. I often found the site again and again when googling for something. I joined in 2005 when I got internet access in the house, and the rest is public knowledge now.

Fantastic site, when it works.

johnny_ultimate

One boring summer I was forced into joining by Daddio (mod of Jazz and/or Blues) and the infamous, often hated, rarely appreciated, now-banned member Ratboy (yes he is a real person, and isnt quite as trollish in real life). Turned out to be a good time killer.

randylonghorn

Also googling for something or other, can't remember what ... just goes to show how much random stuff must pop up somewhere on boards, and is then picked up. A kind of a surreal alternate universe, a la Terry Pratchett!

whiskeyman

interesting.... I can't remember!
Anyway of finding out what your first ever post was?
That'll probably remind me then...

Nevyn

I was using lycos to search for info on quake macros and found boards.ie

DEmeant0r

lol lycos! :P

Kulgan

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

dvega

I only found it through google! Although when i mentioned it to my friends they said stay away from boards.ie there are plenty of other boards that you get genuine answers without being grudged.
I did a bit of research and found out that a lot of college students in the south are posting on uk boards!
Only trying uk boards about two weeks now and i have to say irish people do hold their values high and when you try to debate it,you get grudged!

I like a good ole debate,but when people get 'sour' over the person who started the thread rather than the thread itself,it tends to be looked over.

Maybe i should start this as a thread....

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

Black Swan

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