Happy 26th Anniversary to Pats Fans

[Triumph]

Just out of curiosity, how many others here were members of boston.com forums prior to this place’s creation (1990’s) and what handle did you use?

I was on AOL first and then moved to KFFL.

 

[TheRainMaker]

Anyone else remember ESPN had an ombudsman for each team’s message board?

 

[jmt57]

Anyone else remember ESPN had an ombudsman for each team’s message board?

If I recall correctly that person had their hands full in 2007-08, then ESPN got rid of the position.

 

[Bill Lee]

Jurassic veteran of USENET football forae in the early 90s.

Yep, me too. Didn't post because I was a contract employee at the late, great Digital Equipment Corporation and was reading stuff on company time. What else were you supposed to do when building the software took so long? Was making very good money and didn't want to put that at risk just to post stuff to USENET. I'm sure my boss would do his best to sweep it under the rug if someone made a stink about it since he was so short staffed, but you just don't want to risk it by leaving an electronic paper trail.

Was shocked to be walking around late at night (contractors were paid overtime, sweet!) and looking over a cubicle wall (I'm tall enough to do it) and seeing a guy looking at p0rn he downloaded from the infamous alt.binaries groups. I thought that person was insane to put a job at risk just to look at a tiny picture of someone naked. Just take the sweet cash you're earning and buy some mags, dude!

I just want to add a special thanks for the freedom of speech on here, letting us criticize, vent and swear but still under control so it doesn't get too raw or out of hand. I've been banned from like 3 sports fan forums without warning so we should feel very lucky and grateful that type of extreme speech control doesn't happen here.

I was pleasantly surprised when the swear filter went away. I thought people would abuse it, but nope, it's fine.