How did you end up on boards

Kylta

I'm not on any other social media platform (watsapp don't count) only boards.
I was studying Irish heritage & folklore and need a discussion group (which I haven't bothered my bollix looking for since we all found covid, jaysus that sounds like a religion). Anyway thats how I ended up on boards, with some of you losers, tossers, comedians, genuises, oh and deviants, oh and almost forgot dictators.
Afterthought I don't know if this was done before and truthfully I don't really care.

But what divine path of wisdom or penance drove you to boards

Kylta

Kylta wrote: »

I'm not on any other social media platform (watsapp don't count) only boards.
I was studying Irish heritage & folklore and need a discussion group (which I haven't bothered my bollix looking for since we all found covid, jaysus that sounds like a religion). Anyway thats how I ended up on boards, with some of you losers, tossers, comedians, genuises, oh and deviants, oh and almost forgot dictators.
Afterthought I don't know if this was done before and truthfully I don't really care.

But what divine path of wisdom or penance drove you to boards

The unceasing search for enlightenment and an understanding of the meaning of life itself, once I’d realised the answer wasn’t 42

completedit

Leaving cert forum a long time ago now

Wanted to know something.

corner of hells

Part of my probation terms .

Accidentally

Ireland offline

Dravokivich

Back in the day it wasn't about social media, but wantimg to find information about topics and discuss it with other people.

Kaybaykwah

After consulting with my neurosurgeon, we both thought it might be therapeutic to participate on Boards immediately following my lobotomy.

O.A.P

Stumbled across it while searching the web for some car problem I had. I spent hours on the motor's forum that evening and joined shortly afterwards.

peasant

Kylta wrote: »

But what divine path of wisdom or penance drove you to boards

Just look at the join date ..Bebo wasn't quite my scene

Gretas Gonna Get Ya!

It forms an important part of my research.

Dempo1

Interesting question, initially to get advice on a vintage car I had in storage. I wouldn't consider Boards social media though although some bizzare threads to be found, the Chicken one that appeared today (search yourselves) is, well? I'll leave it that.

Church on Tuesday

Trying to find like minded musicians to jam with.

punisher5112

I was board

Timberrrrrrrr

Years ago when listening to the news boards was often mentioned as a source for polls. Cant remember what they spoke about but one day I decided to check boards out. Lurked for a few years before creating my first account which was around 2010.

Montage of Feck

No body else would have me.

Your Face

I joined to give out about immigration and stayed for the traveller-bashing threads.

touts

Just came on here to find something out. No idea what it was or when.

Welcome to the Hotel California.

ednwireland

Accidentally wrote: »

Ireland offline

+1

mookishboy

joined back on 2002 ish was on for a few years and then left my job in Dell and was working from home with only dodgy dial up so didnt go online much. couldnt remember my username when I next went on Boards so started again

seamusk84

Was a reader of threads for years and years.

Then was unemployed at the end of 2014 and got board applying for jobs everyday so finally signed up!

Kylta

Dempo1 wrote: »

Interesting question, initially to get advice on a vintage car I had in storage. I wouldn't consider Boards social media though although some bizzare threads to be found, the Chicken one that appeared today (search yourselves) is, well? I'll leave it that.

I found the chicken thread to absolutely hilarious

knucklehead6

Used post on an old site called Dangerhere, that got hacked and went to the big server in the sky BEFORE the cloud came along.

This place was constantly getting slagged on there so I’d heard of the name, and when Dangerhere was shut down I came over

Ten of Swords

Joined for the LGBT forum

freshpopcorn

I wanted to know how people liked their steak cooked!

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=85729981

punisher5112

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I wanted to know how people liked their steak cooked!

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=85729981

Boardsie I mean bloody, I mean medium

Gruffalux

Originally, I posted in a DIY forum looking for some help with a plumbing alteration I was doing. No one answered.

JasonStatham

I was in an IT course with a load of Dublin yokes in 2009. They all used it. I'd never heard of it before.

Galwayguy35

Saw an advert for it on a dating site if I remember correctly, never heard of it before that.

Rubberlegs

11 years ago now, I seem to remember that I googled something, God knows what now, and it came up as a topic on a thread on here.

Deja Boo

mustard forum

The Crazy Cat Lady

a member of my family told me about boards (who is still on boards), I decided to take a look for myself in 2010 and signed up. My first post was looking for a number of a taxi

Came here to ask a question about a Leaving Cert history project, started trolling a Richard Dawkins fan thread, and never looked back.

Was looking something up, and found the site. Later I realised that a person could read threads and such without creating an account. I thought that's not bad, and a while later I joined up.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

P45 (alternative forum) was down.

Purple Mountain

touts wrote: »

Just came on here to find something out. No idea what it was or when.

Welcome to the Hotel California.

+1

Manach

There I was, posting on the Quake forums, when they went and renamed it.

completedit

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Came here to ask a question about a Leaving Cert history project, started trolling a Richard Dawkins fan thread, and never looked back.

Same story bro. 2008. I was a friendless loser after the LC. So, I used to spend my time trawling boards getting involved in basic Atheist vs Christianity arguments on the respective forums. I remember one Christmas making a thread to wish the Atheists a special happy christmas as if I was ****ing Benjamin Netanyahu extending an olive branch to hamas

r93kaey5p2izun

I found it accidentally while searching to find out who the fcuk Pat Patterson was when I was in UCD.

Arghus

I have no idea what brought me here and I really don't know why I'm still here.

No, no, no seriously...

I'm sure it was something to do with music back in about 2008. I don't remember where I heard about the site first, but I remember it was like a breath of fresh air compared to other message boards. Great variety, there was even a busy forum all about my local town and an Irish feel to the place that set it apart from other parts of the Internet.

Back when no-one had a job and the age profile was about ten years younger.

I used to post in the films forum, the soccer forum etc. I was here for ages before I made the fateful decision to look at AH.

completedit

completedit wrote: »

Same story bro. 2008. I was a friendless loser after the LC. So, I used to spend my time trawling boards getting involved in basic Atheist vs Christianity arguments on the respective forums. I remember one Christmas making a thread to wish the Atheists a special happy christmas as if I was ****ing Benjamin Netanyahu extending an olive branch to hamas

Genuinely Lol'd.

There was a really weird period there from 2004 to later in the decade when these "New Atheists" were at their height. These forums thrived on it. I think I became a born-again christian for about six months, just in spite of it.

NickNickleby

Most likely was looking for help.

I watch the gangster thread, its terrifying

Mainly, I post to get advice, and there's always good help to be had in Motors; Plumbing; and Electrical Forums (Fora??)

Eire Go Brach

Xbox

KilOit

Wanted to find some Irish gamers, my own circle of friends weren't into games at all so had no one to discuss gaming, i enjoyed reading irish people talk about online games.
Felt online gaming was taboo in Ireland, no one talked about it face to face. Amazing how much it's changed.
I lurked for a good year or 2 before registering so this was a good 20 years ago.

gogo

Fado fado fado... I vaguely remember boards was more about gaming/net Soc’s at one stage - could be mistaken though it’s ahem.... been a while since I initially joined, I studied IT in college and most of my course was on boards.. we’d spend the day chatting on it, more often that not sitting beside each other most times..
I seemed to have lost a few of my posts over the years? Not 100%, always fly in and out, but fell away when I had kids and fly back then when I’ve time on my hands.

Funny now when I see some of the long standing mods... and there’s me with my pipe and my slippers remembering them as newbies acting the maggot themselves in after hours... oh they grow up so fast :-)

Strumms

I ended up on nights with only one other colleague in the office who was significantly older than me. We had nothing in common. Zilch. He wasn’t into sport, music, cinema, traveling or really anything I was so, any communication was work related. It was not a busy shift... the work was piss easy but the shift dragged... when there wasn’t work he’d be playing chess competitions online, literally the phone would ring and he’d let it, wouldn’t answer it but everyone got used to his eccentricities so he was accepted “ahh sure you know what Nigel is like, just leave him at it” . So boards was a sort of savior on that shift, I got lost browsing mostly and the odd post..

I’d signed up to boards in the late 2001 I think and ended up forgetting my password or username I’d hardly used it so rejoined as Strumms in 2006...kept me busy, entertained during the long nights with Nigel, and sane during a rather prolonged hospital stay (months)... beeen a boredom killer in all sorts of situations like airports, work, travel in general and now.

JasonStatham

Davian Some Motorboat wrote: »

I found it accidentally while searching to find out who the fcuk Pat Patterson was when I was in UCD.

Was this guy real.i used to see the Abuse scrawled on the walls of the toilets and I always wondered if it was just a wind up.

@#£

How I ended back on the @#£;&* of boards...

YouTube was ok up to 2017. Used to vlog a good bit.
Now you need to sell t shirts and coffee mugs to be promoted by the YouTube algorithm.

I ran my own personal website and posted my opinions there .

But millennials and younger don't visit personal websites, they follow the herd.

So..adapt my attitude..if ye can beat em.....

The thing about Boards is that nobody cares about anyone else’s opinion anyway, only in hammering home their own. So it’s pointless for that.

Lewis_Benson

I'm pretty sure it had something to do with guitars, or vidja games.

Snails pace

By pure chance. I was looking up something online and saw a thread on boards. I decided to join it.