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Where did you hear about Boards

  • 24-04-2007 11:29PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,260 ✭✭✭


    (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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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,348 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 362 ✭✭Dancing_Priest


    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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,683 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    Google!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    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. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,655 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Blame Jaggeh.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,635 ✭✭✭tribulus


    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.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,699 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Google, as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭Healio


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,939 ✭✭✭mikedragon32


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,927 ✭✭✭The_B_Man


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,256 ✭✭✭metaoblivia


    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... :confused:


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,113 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    A moderator in college told me to join.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,410 ✭✭✭kizzyr


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    (This isn't my first username...)
    Multiple accounts!!! Ban!!!

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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    KTRIC introduced me to boards, unfortunately... :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24 Ghupta Yahd


    I found it while googling.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    Faith brought me here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,943 ✭✭✭Burning Eclipse


    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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 579 ✭✭✭spoofilyj


    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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭neuro-praxis


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,623 ✭✭✭dame


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 538 ✭✭✭~Leanne~


    While looking up something on google


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,831 ✭✭✭Slow Motion


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

    Really I did a google for Irish forums


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,367 ✭✭✭✭watna


    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!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,401 ✭✭✭✭Anti


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,393 ✭✭✭Jaden


    I invented boards.ie. You are all n00bs.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    my brother keano_afc and mate len_007 told me to join


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,228 ✭✭✭Scruff


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭sioda


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


  • Subscribers Posts: 32,864 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,895 ✭✭✭✭phantom_lord


    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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  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 15,001 ✭✭✭✭Pepe LeFrits


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

    And so it was.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Googled something..observed for a while then I joined


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    Google.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,703 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,400 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭Blowfish


    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.


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,369 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,140 ✭✭✭olaola


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    Wot no poll??? :eek:

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,473 ✭✭✭R0ot


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,531 ✭✭✭jrey1981


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭Heisenberg.


    This post has been deleted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭toiletduck


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


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,662 Mod ✭✭✭✭Faith


    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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