sammynb 3355 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 (edited) After wasting an hour of my life reading NO last night for the first time in years, when the meter ran out on TT; I was later chatting to Cath and we were discussing the lineage of NUFC forums from back in the day to now. I have a distinct memory of a forum run by HowayTheToon, before he turned into a shark researcher, I think it was even called HTT but one day it disappeared because he was locked out/someone else owned the server, am I imagining things? Was it called HTT? Also what's the lineage of NUFC forums? Was it? Linuxdriven board Talk of the Tyne/Skunkers toon-chat.co.uk HTT NO TT Leazes/Wacky's HTT Edited January 20, 2013 by sammynb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt 0 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Phil Craig was the mod on the Newcastle subforum on soccer 24-7, which was canny for a while but swiftly went downhill. The original toontastic.linuxdriven.net came out of that. JawD, Cath and Alreetlike were all on there, must have been about 2001/02. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammynb 3355 Posted January 20, 2013 Author Share Posted January 20, 2013 Odd like, "i'm just the techy" i feck off for the day, 30mins later something happens and no one else sorts it. Maybe you need to paint the reset button red so the others can find it. And you owe me an hour after making me go to NO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 That catmag's lazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoggeordie 0 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Was Howaythetoon the one that followed on from toon-chat.co.uk? Think I first joined up in about 04/05. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammynb 3355 Posted January 20, 2013 Author Share Posted January 20, 2013 Was Howaythetoon the one that followed on from toon-chat.co.uk? Think I first joined up in about 04/05. And didn't it go back to toon-chat after the lockout/everything was deleted because toon-chat was the backup board? Was not Gemmill was a younger, more aggressive version of himself on there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonraider 0 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Somewhere on this forum there is a long thread all about the origins of all the Newcastle forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 21912 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Phil Craig was the mod on the Newcastle subforum on soccer 24-7, which was canny for a while but swiftly went downhill. The original toontastic.linuxdriven.net came out of that. JawD, Cath and Alreetlike were all on there, must have been about 2001/02. I was there in the early days of philip craig's toon chat board, posting as Dan. It was linked from the top of Nufc.com for a while and was the first toon forum I found, probably around 2000/2001. Regular posters from those days were Blaydon, a deranged Aussie teenager, Li3nz, a racist from Pont, and Bluestar, a namby pamby do gooder. Iirc, that board merged with HTT, which I never posted on, to form NO around 2003. Then this place spun out from that about 2005 when it became obvious NO was full of tits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammynb 3355 Posted January 20, 2013 Author Share Posted January 20, 2013 Somewhere on this forum there is a long thread all about the origins of all the Newcastle forums. Bev, I thought that was just on which forum people first posted on??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill 0 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 The linuxdriven board was great, I wasted hours of 6th form on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonraider 0 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Bev, I thought that was just on which forum people first posted on??? It may well have started with that Sammy, I can't quite remember...but I'm sure someone wrote a fairly long piece on the history of all the forums. It may have even been in an earlier thread, but it's here somewhere! Wish i could find it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammynb 3355 Posted January 20, 2013 Author Share Posted January 20, 2013 The linuxdriven board was great, I wasted hours of 6th form on that. Jill didn't you post on toon-chat/HTT as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill 0 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Jill didn't you post on toon-chat/HTT as well? I was on toon-chat briefly, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammynb 3355 Posted January 20, 2013 Author Share Posted January 20, 2013 It may well have started with that Sammy, I can't quite remember...but I'm sure someone wrote a fairly long piece on the history of all the forums. It may have even been in an earlier thread, but it's here somewhere! Wish i could find it If you find it, PM me the link please. I've been trying to remember which board was which. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monroe Transfer 0 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 So is this objectively the best Toon forum? Surely it's between NUFC-Forum, N-O, here and Skunkers. I think TT and Skunkers are smaller but older (on average) communities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammynb 3355 Posted January 20, 2013 Author Share Posted January 20, 2013 There was also that forum that hung off the side of Dr Gloom's website, bit like leazes/wacky's forum and had half a dozen posters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7025 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Phil Craig was the mod on the Newcastle subforum on soccer 24-7, which was canny for a while but swiftly went downhill. The original toontastic.linuxdriven.net came out of that. JawD, Cath and Alreetlike were all on there, must have been about 2001/02. I was on there too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gejon 2 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 So is this objectively the best Toon forum? Surely it's between NUFC-Forum, N-O, here and Skunkers. I think TT and Skunkers are smaller but older (on average) communities. Here and N-O (booo, hiss!). Skunkers is too 'ladbanter' for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14011 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Don't we get more views than NO? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monroe Transfer 0 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Skunkers/nufc-forum(esp the latter) aren't even remotely close to being as big as here/N-O btw NUFC-Forum seems to do alright for its self tbh. Fairly active forum. They utilise ads too, might be an idea for here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveTheBobby 1 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Well one was for Wiltshire Farm Foods tbf Tone ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trophyshy 7083 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Which forum is the most pro-Ashley? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14011 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 This one I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30560 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 This is certainly the wrong thread to raise this in but does anyone else think that the default theme puts off random browsers? TBH I find it difficult to look at and it would put me off continuing on here. The light theme is spot on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themags 0 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Linuxdriven board was great, think I got a warning at work after they checked how much time I was spending on there :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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