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Post by teenagefanclub on Oct 17, 2022 11:21:43 GMT
Any old timers on here remember back in the beginning?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2022 11:27:58 GMT
I can remember a really old board...think was possibly pink and looked like a typewriter
Possibly the club are Toxic or the concourses are too small at the Vic or we've signed Mark Stein, God help us
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2022 11:33:24 GMT
It was probably started by Bayern.
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Post by greyman on Oct 17, 2022 11:47:32 GMT
I was on it in the early days. The first thread was 'what do you like on your Oatcakes?' The consensus was cheese, bacon and brown sauce. Then bayern appeared and it became a thirteen page thread about Martin Carruthers in which he expressed 14 different contradictory opinions, only one of which he ever repeated again.
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Post by wakefieldstokie on Oct 17, 2022 11:48:07 GMT
Any old timers on here remember back in the beginning? I think it said 'How do I post on here' |
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Post by somersetstokie on Oct 17, 2022 11:49:14 GMT
I expect that there was quite a lot of derision aimed at the Fail and their followers.
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Post by wakefieldstokie on Oct 17, 2022 11:51:40 GMT
I remember it said "Ian Wright will have grandchildren some day, we should sign them'
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Post by theonlooker on Oct 17, 2022 11:54:03 GMT
I was a regular poster on the old board, going right back to the fenetre days. Can't remember the first ever thread but it was a very different experience back in those days.
OldStokie had a bit of a thing going on with a Vale fan who was obsessed with Steve Brooker.
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Post by thebet365 on Oct 17, 2022 11:59:35 GMT
Perhaps it was that all important question, "Ast thee got thee brown wings yet?"
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Post by somersetstokie on Oct 17, 2022 12:02:37 GMT
Had any tacticians back then come up with "5 across the back?"
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2022 12:37:34 GMT
I was a regular poster on the old board, going right back to the fenetre days. Can't remember the first ever thread but it was a very different experience back in those days. OldStokie had a bit of a thing going on with a Vale fan who was obsessed with Steve Brooker. Fenetre....that's what was trying to think of. Well done. I rember reading it but never posted and was like more rival fans arguing. Later was a couple of Crewe fans who were Stoke obsessed. |
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Post by svengaliinplatforms on Oct 17, 2022 12:41:00 GMT
I remember the Fenetre days, being on Wanadoo dial-up internet, OBPUs and OldStokie's mate, TEL2U.
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Post by spiderpuss on Oct 17, 2022 12:55:39 GMT
I was a regular poster on the old board, going right back to the fenetre days. Can't remember the first ever thread but it was a very different experience back in those days. OldStokie had a bit of a thing going on with a Vale fan who was obsessed with Steve Brooker. Yep remember "fenetre", based in Leek weren't they? A very basic board which showed threads in a tree like nature. Then rivals set up and it was going for a while, but then shot itself in the foot when their message board went, well, to shit. There was a bit of toing and froing between the two services and then we settled here. I see I joined this version in 2004, so fenetre has to be late 90s. |
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Post by Staffsoatcake on Oct 17, 2022 12:58:05 GMT
Was on the old board,but can't remember who was the 1st.poster.
Whoever it was,I wonder if he was worried he wouldn't get a reply.
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Post by theonlooker on Oct 17, 2022 13:04:26 GMT
I was a regular poster on the old board, going right back to the fenetre days. Can't remember the first ever thread but it was a very different experience back in those days. OldStokie had a bit of a thing going on with a Vale fan who was obsessed with Steve Brooker. Yep remember "fenetre", based in Leek weren't they? A very basic board which showed threads in a tree like nature. Then rivals set up and it was going for a while, but then shot itself in the foot when their message board went, well, to shit. There was a bit of toing and froing between the two services and then we settled here. I see I joined this version in 2004, so fenetre has to be late 90s. I joined around 99ish on the old dial up. Very strange, ground breaking times back then. |
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Post by Kenilworth_Stokies on Oct 17, 2022 13:13:24 GMT
IT simply read: "Double post. Fucking Rivals".
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Post by spiderpuss on Oct 17, 2022 13:19:55 GMT
Yep remember "fenetre", based in Leek weren't they? A very basic board which showed threads in a tree like nature. Then rivals set up and it was going for a while, but then shot itself in the foot when their message board went, well, to shit. There was a bit of toing and froing between the two services and then we settled here. I see I joined this version in 2004, so fenetre has to be late 90s. I joined around 99ish on the old dial up. Very strange, ground breaking times back then. It was in a way, dial ups had been going for a bit (commonly available around 94-5). You generally used something like "Freeserve" to access the provider, the phone call was slightly dearer and that is how they made their $. Slowly web-sites got going and you have to say this Oatcake was probably one of the "Grand-daddys". There weren't many users back then (check a matchday here now which has probably a 1000 or so). You knew absolutely everybody who posted back then. We've come a long way in just over 20 years. |
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Post by Mr_DaftBurger on Oct 17, 2022 13:28:54 GMT
Probably asl?
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Post by wuzza on Oct 17, 2022 13:32:57 GMT
I remember they even had pictures of the regular posters . Scary prospect now 😱
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Post by dirtclod on Oct 17, 2022 13:57:18 GMT
That predates the arrival of aliens like me.
The great Netscape Navigator vs Internet Exploder war was raging & we were starting to run low on fuel for our saucer.
Plus I wanted to explore Claudia Schiffer...but I digress.
It was ultimately Zork's fault we landed here - the fool insisted that he had spotted intelligent life and that the Iraqi's were developing WMDs.
Ended up it was just Jez Moxey building a football stadium, not a spaceship and Iraq was only trying to develop underarm deodorant.
Al Quaida was still just a pub football team and George Bush Sr. was still chasing women with an apple.
When they left the gate open, the lad got out and next thing you know he's running against Clinton for US President.
Ah the...beige old days.
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Post by femark on Oct 17, 2022 14:07:52 GMT
I'm not sure, but a quick search found this post from 2004:
"If you must know I'm having a very stressful morning. Run out of coffee and had to send a young lady to Safeway for supplies, and Jaffa cakes of course. In between important business like decisions I'm going to watch "Peter Pan" on my DVD player."
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Post by prestwichpotter on Oct 17, 2022 14:14:54 GMT
I was an original member but I have very vague memories.
My first real memory was Sarah4Stoke's morphing into Sarah4Cardiff, that was tedious.......
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2022 14:22:57 GMT
There was a chap who was music mad and constantly reviewed albums and concerts.
I had no idea who he was ever talking about
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Post by dirtclod on Oct 17, 2022 14:27:25 GMT
I was an original member but I have very vague recollections. My first real memory was Sarah4Stoke's morphing into Sarah4Cardiff, that was tedious....... Ew! Must have been sickening to watch. Cardif?! WTF? |
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Post by prestwichpotter on Oct 17, 2022 14:52:29 GMT
I was an original member but I have very vague recollections. My first real memory was Sarah4Stoke's morphing into Sarah4Cardiff, that was tedious....... Ew! Must have been sickening to watch. Cardif?! WTF? I seemed to recall she moved down there, before you know it she was doing the actions to the ayatollah and calling us all Clayhead scum  |
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Post by Mr_DaftBurger on Oct 17, 2022 14:57:08 GMT
Ew! Must have been sickening to watch. Cardif?! WTF? I seemed to recall she moved down there, before you know it she was doing the actions to the ayatollah and calling us all Clayhead scum She changed football teams as she changed boyfriends... 😂 |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2022 15:02:45 GMT
I was an original member but I have very vague recollections. My first real memory was Sarah4Stoke's morphing into Sarah4Cardiff, that was tedious....... Ew! Must have been sickening to watch. Cardif?! WTF? I remember her but never saw the fuss. Some were outraged 😁 I thought was more a wind up thing at the time Was a Cardiff fan who only ever appeared when they went above us in the league. Sid was it? Where are Stoke, below Cardiff of course? ....his thing. |
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Post by Robo10 on Oct 17, 2022 15:03:23 GMT
I read fenetre but only started posting on Rivals
It was decent until Sky bought it
..then the software went to shit!
We moved here temporarily, went back after promises of fixes, then gave up and came back here
Aside from brown wings (which was in the middle of its Rivals stint!), some legendary MCF74 pre match previews, IlfordDave/DaveAle, and some top people who I met many times at Delilahs, at Oatcake Occassionals inter message board matches, OBPUs, and some great rival team posters who were good folk
Obvs some utter knobbers too over the years :-D
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Post by Robo10 on Oct 17, 2022 15:05:11 GMT
Oh, and the day we broke the internet on the day Gudjon was sacked, fairly sure Smudge said the site had around 1 million hits during the day as people vented, went away, came back to vent some more, others argued it was correct....
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Post by Not_Nick_H on Oct 17, 2022 15:14:54 GMT
I remember the Fenetre days, being on Wanadoo dial-up internet, OBPUs and OldStokie's mate, TEL2U. Fenetre. Those were the days. '96 ish? |
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