How did you come to be at QBN? Tell us the story, no matter how dull.
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- BabySnakes1
Classmate in college showed me NT. Found the LoLCube and the peace it brings.
- Ahhh LOLCube, those were simpler, funnier times.BuddhaHat
- srhadden4
Kanye mentioned it to me once
- slappy2
I think I was looking for a solution to an actionscript issue I was having.
- BuddhaHat3
From memory I found the place searching for answers to Photoshop questions, and stayed for the PV and the incredible world of design that the broadcast channels opened me up to.
I still have some Design by Build prints in storage that I bought off here way back when, I found them the other day when I was spring cleaning.
- toemaas3
Was an Intern back in 2003 and a mograph guy that has just started from Digital Kitcken turned me on to it.
- inteliboy3
After H73 randomly changed its page. Was annoyed. NT looked stupid and boring. Though within a few weeks was hooked.
Then would hear "newstodayyy" jingle on the other end of the line when on the phone to a friend... he clearly tuning out and surfing the internet. We started using the jingle as our own in joke when the other was vagueing out.
- MrT4
Early 2000s, In the offices of Dare in London and I asked the two lads I sat near the name of the site they were spending a LOT of time on.
I've no idea whether those two are still here...
- bezoar3
I was in college and most likely got here via gmunk, famewhore, transfatty–just blew my young mind. The chime really had other design students curious every time I opened the page. HA! I lurked for quite a long time before my balls dropped and finally signed up.
My balls thank you.
- PonyBoy5
20+ years ago (like the rest of you) I'd hop on the web looking for inspirational sites and I'd often come across a MediaTemple logo slapped in the header or footer of sites I was really into... I came to think that was some mark of accomplishment / excellence etc... somewhere along the lines of following the links via sites w/that now defunct shit pile of overpriced internet hosting nonsense I came across NT ...Hi! <3
- garbage5
Googling an AE problem.
Forgot my password for my one-off account, lurked for a few years and then thought "Yeah, I wanna be more engaged. There's a lot of talented people here."
Then fucking ORAZAL certed me out of spite, and if I recall it was during a time when he was being incredibly shitty, out of public favor, and I called him out on it.
Now I have my Scarlet Letter. He even joked about it in my bio.
- 'Certed out of spite' genuinely made me laugh out loud.Continuity
- Made you a triptych then certified 'out of spite'.
QBN never dissapoints!palimpsest - Come for the design, stay for the drama.palimpsest
- Stay for the Drama for a Better Tomorrow.garbage
- Beeswax5
Very dull.
Random design related site search I guess.Why I stayed?
Because of everything that's not design related I think.
- pango5
it was during college. was doing graphic design related research and landed here I think. stayed for the shenanigan.
- Just the one?Nairn
- The legendary shenanigan of 2009.palimpsest
- It's a single, decades-long, on-going shenanigan. It's the perpetual shenanigan machine.Continuity
- ^pango
- also stayed for the swiss design.pango
- We don't talk about the shenanigan, lest it hears its name.garbage
- nb12
My favorite thing about reading all these posts is now remembering how back in the early ‘00s it was really common to learn about a website by just seeing the site on someone else’s screen and asking them what it was.
The good ol’ days
- BaskerviIle3
A friend at uni (on a graphic design degree) introduced me to Newstoday. I lurked for a bit, then finally signed up in 2004 during my first proper job. If I had a technical illustrator/PS or web question, I came here and got answers...learnt tons from people on here.
Had my folio featured on the front page early on and even got profiled in some design magazines back in the day (including an interview in a french design publication). Somewhere I still have an email conversation I had with Jason Kristofer.Along the way there have been some fun projects:
The Sketchbook exchange, where we all filled in a spread in a moleskine and then mailed it off to the next person.
Remember the QBN book that we planned to publish? A Better Tomorrow. I still have the artwork for my spread somewhere too.I went to a couple of London pub meetups over the years, which seems a distant memory now.
- thumb_screws2
Around 2002/03 either a co-worker got me on to it or it was linked to via Design is Kinky? Looong time ago. Lurked for years but think I signed up while I while I was living in London so I could contribute to what you listening to and FMT threads. I used to get amped for the FMT threads, exposed me to so much music I would never of come across through my usual circles.
- Chimp4
It was 2004 and I was designing the Big Issue (magazine sold by the homeless). My Co worker introduced me to this new drug called News Today. I’ve been consuming it on and off since. I can never seem to get clean.
- cannonball19783
Was pointed to it while in college in 2001. It was Newstoday, and there was a gray site and also a brown site if I remember correctly? K10k, Surfstation, etc were all regular visits along with this one.
Newstooodaaaay! My roommate always sung it after I went to the site, with different variations. Boozetoday, Boobstoday, etc.
- OBBTKN5
Woahhh... This was 20 years ago!!
Probably, after clicking on a directory in another "design related forum".
It has been useful for me to improve the little English I know... and to catch my ex-boss while he was spying on my browsing history.
The jingle gave him away, lol
- sea_sea4
My designer bf at the time was on it all the time. There was lots of cool inspo going around and some funny characters. I started lurking, about a year after I decided I wanted to be part of the conversation.