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Where did you hear about Boards

swingking · 2007-04-24 23:29:07

(Sorry if this has been done before. I did a google search, nothing came up) I was talking to my friend this evening and a question came up. "Where did you hear about Boards" I have never seen this linked in any website, mentioned in colleges or on the radio. I amazes me there is so many different users. So...where did you…

24-04-2007 11:29PM

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swingking

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(Sorry if this has been done before. I did a google search, nothing came up)

I was talking to my friend this evening and a question came up. "Where did you hear about Boards"

I have never seen this linked in any website, mentioned in colleges or on the radio.

I amazes me there is so many different users.

So...where did you hear about Boards

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#2 24-04-2007 11:31PM

KTRIC

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Another user , Gatster introduced me to it many moons ago. Its consumed most of my life and left me a twisted and bitter little man

Boards.ie is like Heroin, you get the first couple of posts for free and get a rush when someone replies to them , then its all down hill.

Leave while you still can, don't say you haven't been warned.

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#3 24-04-2007 11:32PM

Dancing_Priest

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It is odd allright!
I found boards when I was looking for bits for a new pc on komplett.ie. At the time they had a customer support forum hosted on boards, For a while I never thought there was anything else to it!

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#4 24-04-2007 11:33PM

Owen

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Google!

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#5 24-04-2007 11:34PM

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I was trying to escape from 56K hell, came across IrelandOffline. A few months there and forever buying phones in FS Mobiles then started going all over the place.

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#6 24-04-2007 11:36PM

Victor

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Blame Jaggeh.

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#7 24-04-2007 11:38PM

tribulus

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Google search for UCD related things.

I don't know why it came up as there wasn't even a UCD forum at the time.

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#8 24-04-2007 11:40PM

Sad Professor

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Google, as well.

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#9 24-04-2007 11:44PM

Healio

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Trying to cheat in my mocks, good old google pointed the way.

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#10 24-04-2007 11:45PM

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I googled the name of the place I live, found the Greystones & Charlesland forum and the rest is history.

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#11 25-04-2007 12:51AM

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swingking wrote:

(Sorry if this has been done before. I did a google search, nothing came up)

It sure has...

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=190662&referrerid
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=255023&referrerid
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054864217&referrerid
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054975169&referrerid

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#12 25-04-2007 01:00AM

The_B_Man

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people i knew in college. CarlowIT had its own section back then. I slowly emerged from that section and found AH and the rest was history.

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#13 25-04-2007 01:08AM

rainbow kirby

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Someone in CTYI, about 6-7 years ago. (This isn't my first username...)

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#14 25-04-2007 01:23AM

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I don't remember... which is sad cause as compared to most of you, I'm really new. I'm sure I was bored at work, surfing the interweb and clicked on something...

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#15 25-04-2007 07:14AM

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A moderator in college told me to join.

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#16 25-04-2007 07:40AM

kizzyr

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My boyfriend who was a devoted user, now sadly for him he has changed jobs and is really busy and so can hardly visit anymore.

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#17 25-04-2007 07:51AM

irlrobins

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rainbow kirby wrote:

(This isn't my first username...)

Multiple accounts!!! Ban!!!

I found boards via Google. Was looking for concert tickets at the time.

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#18 25-04-2007 07:54AM

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KTRIC introduced me to boards, unfortunately...

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#19 25-04-2007 08:15AM

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I found it while googling.

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#20 25-04-2007 08:41AM

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Faith brought me here.

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#21 25-04-2007 08:49AM

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OLD YELLAR me thinks, but I can't remember it's that long ago... I lurked for ages before joining. I know a bunch of people on here from college, but none post in th UL forum, strange eh...

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#22 25-04-2007 08:50AM

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Was brought to boards by a friend in first year of college. It was alot better than the projects in VB 6.0 we were in the labs for so I got hooked.:D

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#23 25-04-2007 08:51AM

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My boyfriend introduced me to it many moons ago when I was but a wee lass (and one of about five resident boards females).

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#24 25-04-2007 09:44AM

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I'd never heard of boards until I did a search for info on something, came up with a boards thread, read it, read some more, kept coming back for a few weeks then finally registered when I felt compelled to add my bit, which I've been doing ever since.

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#25 25-04-2007 09:47AM

~Leanne~

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While looking up something on google

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#26 25-04-2007 09:50AM

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Ducked in out of the rain one day and haven't left since !

Really I did a google for Irish forums

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#27 25-04-2007 09:54AM

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I signed up to troll a guy I was in college with.

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#28 25-04-2007 10:08AM

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I was working in a really boring job and I asked a friend of mine for websites I could procrastinate on. He said I should try boards.ie and I would never work again..... and I haven't! Many Enjoyable work hours have been spent lurking on boards!

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#29 25-04-2007 10:18AM

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I found it from a Whois on quakenet. I think it was PPC that i whois'd.

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#30 25-04-2007 10:20AM

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I invented boards.ie. You are all n00bs.

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#31 25-04-2007 10:45AM

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my brother keano_afc and mate len_007 told me to join

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#32 25-04-2007 10:51AM

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Ruu wrote:

I was trying to escape from 56K hell, came across IrelandOffline. A few months there <snip> then started going all over the place.

ditto.

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#33 25-04-2007 10:54AM

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I googled the Hellfire Club + Ireland and found a bunch of A-holes slagging off knacker drinkers from Tallaght .... it was After Hours!

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#34 25-04-2007 10:58AM

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Hate when the brain shuts off and allows you to remember nothing. Must have been a google search for some Limerick Issue

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#35 25-04-2007 11:02AM

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I heard about it while playing poker with some lads that posted here. I lurked for a few months, then I posted on a topic where I had to add my tuppence'orth and haven't stopped since.

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#36 25-04-2007 11:04AM

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when i joined the ntsa website there was a link to the shooting forum on boards.

how different things would be if I hadn't found this site...

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#37 25-04-2007 11:08AM

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God spoke to me and told me to spread my genius to the populace, using boards as a medium.

And so it was.

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#38 25-04-2007 11:28AM

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Googled something..observed for a while then I joined

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#39 25-04-2007 12:10PM

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Google.

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#40 25-04-2007 12:13PM

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google returned the site for some search, had some info for a thread so joined

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#41 25-04-2007 12:19PM

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I'd been living in England for over a year and wanted more contact with Irish people than just listening to RTÉ1, Newstalk and Today FM on internet radio.

I wanted to find an Irish message board so I could be actively in touch with public opinion at home. I googled "Irish message board" and I found boards.ie.

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#42 25-04-2007 12:42PM

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I first heard of boards about 5 years ago through PhantomFM. I think I signed up then, but can't remember any of the details, and my email address has changed, so I ended up signing up again.

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#43 25-04-2007 02:14PM

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A guy I used to work with told me about it.

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#44 25-04-2007 03:54PM

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My mister and all the lads in work look at it.
I joined years ago, only really started to post a couple of weeks ago.
Now I'm addicted.
I will get bored, and calm down. I'm estimating that will happen in about 2 weeks.

It's all cyclical. I'll be bidding like a mad thing on eBay after my obsession here has died down.

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#45 25-04-2007 04:13PM

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Wot no poll??? :eek:

I can't remember how I found it, probably cause mikado was down for a while and everyone migrated here...

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#46 25-04-2007 04:20PM

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My Brother and one of the first 50 registered users, Chief

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#47 25-04-2007 05:18PM

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One of the other members was in my college, she dropped out and a couple of weeks later so did I... and then I remembered her saying she went to boards.ie. So I took a gander

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#48 25-04-2007 09:55PM

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Was in an internet café in Blackrock and out of curiosity I looked at the internet history to see what sites the last customer had looked at.

Lo and behold, one of the urls was boards.ie

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#49 25-04-2007 10:21PM

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#50 25-04-2007 10:22PM

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Cloud lectured me in college and I found the link on his page

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#51 25-04-2007 10:25PM

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Mossy Monk wrote:

Faith brought me here.

Me?! :eek:

Someone on another message board said this place was up and coming, and to register straight away to get your username. So I did.

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