How did you come to be at QBN? Tell us the story, no matter how dull.
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- 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.
- 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.
- _me_3
h73 / k10k / surfstation /dik ?
one or the other...
- 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 :(
- 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.
- Continuity6
Ended up here because I worked on the same team as Mr_Alex, and he'd have this open all the time at work and I'd see it.
Serves me right, I suppose, for not minding my own business.
- rootlock1
I remember a cool red website. then it redirected to QBN.
- monNom1
There was a forum called dreamless.org that I think was associated somehow with Joshua Davis. I might have found it through k10k.net which was a daily visit back then. Dreamless shut down and a lot of users from there all migrated to newstoday at the same time.
- _niko2
Was following h73 (holodeck 73) and it morphed into or got acquired by news today
- nb4
- 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
- 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!
- shapesalad0
anyone else remember
?
Back in the day, that site was a bigger influence on me than newstoday. In terms of exposure to new styles and visual ideas.
Surprised to see the site is still going.
- spot132
I can't recall how I ended up at Newstoday exactly, but back in 2004 I had just started my first full time web design / development job out of school and I wanted to stay current on design trends and was mostly impressed with Flash and stumbled on NT.
I was happy to get the 50% off MT discount for life (too bad that didn't pan out) and was very intimidated by the harsh criticism unleashed on anyone brave enough to post a website for a site critique and thought that it might ruin my confidence if I posted anything I designed.
I did (and do) still get a lot of inspiration and ideas from coming here although I have no idea how it keeps running and who pays for hosting, etc without ads, merch or the old job board.
- autoflavour1
came from newstoday .. long time listener, first time caller on QBN
can't remember exactly how I came across it, was part of that whole designiskinky, k10k cabal happening at the time