Boards in the Independant

WhiteWashMan

DeVore wrote:

I was trying to get at that when I said the Internet will become like electricity, you'll just *presume* its there.
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i think a better way to describe the internet, would be to call it an 'appliance'

its something specific, but covers a whole range of things.

id call it a 'network appliance', but i think my friends at netapps would probably sue me

Keeks

David Stewart wrote:

Tom did say that that Boards was very much a joint project with a lot of input for the commmunity at large. However, the conversation with Tom when written up in full came to amost 2000 words. I had 600 or so for the Q&A piece in the paper and about 800 for the online piece.

How's about posting up the original 2000 word article for the benefit of the boards.ie user. It might give some board users a better idea of how much journalists know and editors don't know about us.


Also wouldn't it be a good idea to have a "boards.ie in the Media" section where all articles like this get collected and stored so users can ssee them. It could also act like a chronologly of boards.ie

WhiteWashMan

on day one, daddy cloud created boards.ie
30 seconds later, some eejit posted 'woohoo! first post!'
3 minutes later, first spam appeared
5 minutes later, bubbles registered his 2nd account
15 minutes and 20 seconds later, someone posted a 'quake 2 sucks, all q2eers are feags' thread
23 minutes later whitewashman trolled for the first time, and it was good.
24 minutes later zero insulted someone. this continued every 5 minutes for about 3 years.
on day two, the general topic of discussion was who much we all hated LPB's.

BuffyBot

WhiteWashMan wrote:

on day one, daddy cloud created boards.ie
30 seconds later, some eejit posted 'woohoo! first post!'
3 minutes later, first spam appeared
5 minutes later, bubbles registered his 2nd account
15 minutes and 20 seconds later, someone posted a 'quake 2 sucks, all q2eers are feags' thread
23 minutes later whitewashman trolled for the first time, and it was good.
24 minutes later zero insulted someone. this continued every 5 minutes for about 3 years.
on day two, the general topic of discussion was who much we all hated LPB's.

A Brief History of boards.ie, brought to you courtesy of WhiteWashMan..

Crash

...where was my shoutout?

The Muppet

WhiteWashMan wrote:

on day one, daddy cloud created boards.ie
30 seconds later, some eejit posted 'woohoo! first post!'
3 minutes later, first spam appeared
5 minutes later, bubbles registered his 2nd account
15 minutes and 20 seconds later, someone posted a 'quake 2 sucks, all q2eers are feags' thread
23 minutes later whitewashman trolled for the first time, and it was good.
24 minutes later zero insulted someone. this continued every 5 minutes for about 3 years.
on day two, the general topic of discussion was who much we all hated LPB's.

You forgot about the row in the soccer thread about Argentina knocking Engurland out of the world cup again. Ouch

gandalf

WhiteWashMan wrote:

15 minutes and 20 seconds later, someone posted a 'quake 2 sucks, all q2eers are feags' thread

Yep that was me

Ah the good old days !

Winters

I had the old interview with the Irish Times still lying about my room until about a month ago.

The picture still scared me.

Jim

Not as scary as the red beard.

Whatever happened to that beard....

Winters

arrggghh!!!

Jim

Blargh#!!!