How did you come to be at QBN? Tell us the story, no matter how dull.
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- CyBrainX2
20 years ago I shared an office with someone who had newstoday.com as his startup page for browser windows. Every time he opened a new window I heard that awful chime until I finally asked him what was causing it.
- Same exact thing here.monospaced
- ^ I think I remember you telling me that once.CyBrainX
- prophetone13
- T.R.O.Y.
https://www.qbn.com/…prophetone - I like how the emphasis wasn't so focused on the chat / PV. Perhaps that's why there aren't so many design related chats anymore.Chimp
- My eyes!nb
- Mm, delicious pixel fonts.Continuity
- THAT'S what it was!! I could never remember what it was before NT. Damn.formed
- ha, I think this is how I ended up here too.
@Chimp - perversely, i love how much focus so many had into those two tiny boxes off to the far right :)Nairn
- T.R.O.Y.
- 5timuli5
I spent all my time back then on tDR, and I think someone over there mentioned Newstoday (2001-ish). Pretty sure a few folks came over from there.
- sab3
Work flew me up to Sydney from Melbourne to see the Semi-Permanent design conference. Newstoday were one of the guest speakers. Can't recall the year now but it was awesome! Anyone else go to that?
- Ianbolton6
Because what other website, for designers, would have a thread which feels threatening and inviting at the same time?
My name’s Ianbolton and that’s why I’m on QBN
- Krassy4
Kanye West told me about it
- jagara5
Worked at a studio collective in Copenhagen with https://www.qbn.com/homeostatic/… back in the Newstoday era (2005). Eventually signed up myself. And now look at me.
- Jrdntnnr4
I googled "good for nothing magazine london". One of the first results is a post from 17 years ago on QBN.
- microkorg2
What MonNom said.
Used to hang out in Dreamless.org (even had the t-shirt! - given by Joshua at FlashForward, London).
When dreamless ended we all kinda migrated to Newstoday.
- jonny_quest_lives5
- The Americans call it Swiss Design...jonny_quest_lives
- Lol. Awesomescarabin
- I still got mineYakuZoku
- I have a few of these. Got them at that event Krop put together at the Getty. Met a few cool peeps there. :)sea_sea
- It stays.Chimp
- Worked with Jason and Folkert at Agency.com and they got me on newstoday and I have never left - still my home screenriteshpatel
- YakuZoku2
I think I found this place from k10k or sum
- jonny_quest_lives2
Lured in by Newstoday, K10K, PixelSurgeon, Design is Kinky. Joshua Davis casually lurking in the olden times Brooke (life invector updates were pretty stellar. It was funner when the world was smaller.
- palimpsest11
Came for the design, stayed for the drama.
- 'stuck around for the PSBs and FMTs' in the middle there, and I'm done.Nairn
- Came for the design got addicted to the drama.Chimp
- Cue crushed blacks incidentjagara
- And shoeboxes.
And idea-nicking directors who did something for Forever21.
And my guy, Brett Fucking Bash.Continuity
- scarabin4
Did anyone else go to the newstoday mad mixer hosted by mediatemple in LA?
I think me joining had something to do with that night.
- Tell us about this wild night on the townnb
- I had just started college. Was there with a girl from one of my classes. Had my first ever gin and tonic (it was awful), snagged a bunch of (mt) stickersscarabin
- I met some folks i don’t remember, then we bounced to some thing at the standard. Nothing too excitingscarabin
- I was all set to go but I am basket case introvert... so all I have is a qbn newstoday t-shirt someone was selling b4 the event to remind me of me social anxiejonny_quest_lives
- remind me of my social anxiety.jonny_quest_lives
- wish i had snagged one! i think i got there latescarabin
- you didn't miss muchscarabin
- Awe man, I was there. One of my earliest memories of NT.ArmandoEstrada
- formed5
Dunno, the story is probably lost somewhere in the 'signs you're getting old' thread. It was before NT, when there were a billion forum/link sites and Flash was king. So much fun back then, all design and dreams....the beautiful naivete of youth!
- shapesalad4
Back in the early internet days of 2002 ish, it was the done thing to put on your portfolio website, not just an About Page, Work, Contact page - but also a 'Links' page. Here you'd 'shout out' to your mates or favourite illustrators/designers and other such sites.
I'd spend many an evening getting lost in a rabbit hole of going through link pages to other link pages, stumbling across awesome portfolios and cool sites (back when there was no standard boring UI/UX rules and everyone went crazy with Flash).
And at some point someone must have linked to NewsToday. It was bookmarked and found to be *the* hub for the creative community. I remember promoting my portfolio website on there in that channel where you could post links to your stuff.
Then it change to QBN, and that white background has caused far too many late nights by keeping me awake with it's too bright white. When dark mode?
And my usual work routine is - when at that point where you know the next steps are going to be hard and you need to steel yourself to put something together - ah, just take a break and type 'qbn' in the browser. I never bookmarked and always type 'q' 'b' 'n', like a relfex.
Most the time I think, what a load of gutter trash and odd taste you lot have.. but sometimes the site is useful, or even inspiring.
- Heavybackpack was a good site for a while, but lacked the community of qbn.shapesalad
- rzu-rzu4
some 11 or 12 years ago a dude at work that used to sit next to me used to have Pic of the Day always open and giggled like a stoned hamster from time to time
no idea though when or how I got my login