Happy 7th Birthday boards.ie!

Cloud · 12-02-2005 12:47pm #1

Congratulations to boards.ie on reaching its 7th birthday! It all began at 3:36 PM on the 12th February 1998 when I set up a small bulletin board on the Irish Games Network to talk about a computer game called Quake:

Cloud-Warrior wrote:

quake.ie - WWWBoard

Posted by John Breslin on February 12, 1998 at 15:36:23:

The first of many messages I hope!

John.

(Little did I know that there would be over 2 million of them!) The number of boards grew quickly, from one to five to 20. Two years later, regulars DeVore, Reginald (Regi), Vexorg and tr1n1ty joined with Cloud-Warrior (Cloud) to form boards.ie, and the new site incorporated all of the previous boards. X_OR (ecksor) joined the admin team soon afterwards. And the rest, as they say, is recent history...

On behalf of the admin team, I'd like to say thanks to all members, moderators and subscribers for your continuing support of boards.ie, and I wish us many successful years to come.

gandalf · 12-02-2005 1:24pm

Congrats to the Admin team and I can see us going far now especially as we have our Boards.ie "pin-up" DeVore :eek:

mike65 · 12-02-2005 1:25pm

:thumps up:

Happy birthday boards and thanks to the ppl who make it happen every day.

Mike.

damnyanks · 12-02-2005 1:25pm

Happy Bday I guess:D

Saruman · 12-02-2005 1:27pm

Yay for boards!!! its older than some of its users now.

David19 · 12-02-2005 1:36pm

Happy birthday boards

Lets hope for another 7 years of joy!

Giblet · 12-02-2005 2:33pm

Make sure you all head down to the Sugar Club this weekend for some festivites. No doubt DeVore will rattle on about his little messageboard when the grownups are trying to drink

BuffyBot · 12-02-2005 2:40pm

\O/

Congrats boards.ie!

steveland? · 12-02-2005 3:08pm

Saruman wrote:

Yay for boards!!! its older than some of its users now.

Well their mental ages anyway...

/me glares around

Happy Birthday boards, it'll be getting the keys to the house soon

weemcd · 12-02-2005 3:16pm

fair play for keeping it going to all the admins and mods.

LONG LIVE BOARDS.IE

Shrimp · 12-02-2005 3:19pm

Yay.. Yay.. Lick ass.. Yay..

Shrimp · 12-02-2005 3:21pm

Shrimp wrote:

Yay.. Yay.. Lick ass.. Yay..

ah no in fairness.. good Job

DeVore · 12-02-2005 3:24pm

Who says I wont be drunk too, Giblet!

Yeah, Boardstock 2 will be a good birthday party!! Doesnt seem like seven years (or even five since we set up Boards.ie).

DeV.

Shrimp · 12-02-2005 3:25pm

hm.. Wouldn't it be a laugh if I was at boardsstock.. I'd prolly get like abuse shouted at me and what not.. hehe

DMC · 12-02-2005 3:30pm

DeVore wrote:

Doesnt seem like seven years (or even five since we set up Boards.ie).

Or the 6 that I've been hanging around. Oh, lord that makes me feel old!

Congrats lads!

The Muppet · 12-02-2005 3:31pm

A Ha A Ha A Happy Birthday to Boards .

Sherifu · 12-02-2005 3:36pm

Many happy returns

7 candles on the cake

- \0/\0/\0/\0/\0/\0/\0/-

.Boards.ie.

[Jackass] · 12-02-2005 3:48pm

*Hands out cake*

Good job lads

Cheers for boards.ie .....it rocks

CuLT · 12-02-2005 4:05pm

For boards' a jolly good fellow and so say all of us!

ALL OF US.
*glares*

w00t, I will attempt to show up at boardstock also.

Gordon · 12-02-2005 4:14pm

Wish I could be there to celebrate. Happy Birthday boards!

By the way - is tr1n1ty hot like what she is in the matrix?

CrowdedHouse · 12-02-2005 4:16pm

Happy Birthday to Boards.ie.Thanks to all Admins,Mods and 'ordinary' members who keep it going day to day,and for the information,education and entertainment I've had since I discovered it a few months ago.

JBoyle4eva · 12-02-2005 4:18pm

Well, seeming I'm stilll one of the younfg ones here, I still feel the need to say Happy Birthday to the admins, mods and users that've been hanging around all this time.

SEVEN MORE YEARS!
SEVEN MORE YEARS!
SEVEN MORE YEARS!

And quite possibly 7 times 7 years

Cloud · 12-02-2005 4:37pm

Happy Birthday!

http://www.boards.ie/archives/wwwboard/

Cloud · 12-02-2005 4:53pm

Hope I'm not misleading people as to our age, it's like getting a name changed by deed poll

Anyway, I'm digging out some more archives - the link above is from when we used WWWBoard software on the IGN... After that it was UBB (wrote a nasty convertor to that) and then later on vB.