How did you come to be at QBN? Tell us the story, no matter how dull.
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- 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
- 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
- Beeswax5
Very dull.
Random design related site search I guess.Why I stayed?
Because of everything that's not design related I think.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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...
- 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.
- toemaas3
Was an Intern back in 2003 and a mograph guy that has just started from Digital Kitcken turned me on to it.
- 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.
- slappy2
I think I was looking for a solution to an actionscript issue I was having.
- srhadden4
Kanye mentioned it to me once
- BabySnakes1
Classmate in college showed me NT. Found the LoLCube and the peace it brings.
- Ahhh LOLCube, those were simpler, funnier times.BuddhaHat
- _me_3
h73 / k10k / surfstation /dik ?
one or the other...
- stewart4
It was at a time around 2001 with several mysterious design blogs, one with a squirrel as a logo? Flash, pixel fonts...
There was also a Dutch webcam platform called Collab, the weirdest group conversations every night. Some of them were also active on Newstoday, I think that's how I got into QBN together with a colleague of mine at the design agency where we worked at the time (hi Stewardez! he can't log in to QBN anymore, his password is lost and the old email address no longer exists).
We also went to Amsterdam once for a Newstoday meeting. With Janne, Folkert, Linda, Wouter – a few names I can remember. Not sure if they're still around here. I still have digital photos of it somewhere, made with my first Canon ixus.
- dee-dubs2
Not sure .. I thought I remembered coming to read the curated music reviews on NewsToday to discover new music, but now I'm not even sure that was NewsToday that had the reviews...
I struggle to remember what happened last week, let alone nearly 20 years ago :(
- hans_glib3
i needed to find out what the young kids were up to.
apprarently this was the place back then.
- Projectile2
2008. First even non-freelance job. Looked over the other designer's shoulder, and there were some cool images. I asked about the site and the rest is history.
I think a couple of days later they fired half the company, other designer included
- elahon2
Christ, I can't remember. 2004 was a long fucking time ago. I was working nights designing newspaper ads for a local paper at that time, hopped up on cigs and Red Bull, so I'm sure that has something to do with it.
- haga4
I've been here since the H73 switch. Not that active but still here.