How did you come to be at QBN? Tell us the story, no matter how dull.
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- scarabin8
I had just come back from ‘Nam and was on my way to visit an old friend, when i was stopped and harassed by the local sherriff. He and his goons wrestled me back to the station, where one of them attempted to shave me with a safety razor ‘cause he didn’t like my hair. I lost it, unleashing my fury, fueled by the horrors i saw during my service, and the anger i felt for these simpleton fucks. Before I knew it it was a full-on manhunt. I ducked into a nearby forest where i used my hard-earned survival skills to pick them off one-by-one using various traps and strategies learned from the Vietnamese people. I narrowly escaped with my life, but at what cost?
- nb4
- _niko2
Was following h73 (holodeck 73) and it morphed into or got acquired by news today
- 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.
- fooler4
I think I searched for how to make a lens flare effect in photoshop or some kind of free PS filters and stumbled across NewsToday.
I was blown away by the community and the talent and have been here ever since.
- uan3
I was on a mission to discover this new thing called cyber space and probably typed 'design' in altavista.digital.com (search didn't even have an own domain then) and newstoday.com came up.
or maybe someone on irc (I used to hang out in the undernet) told me about this forum on the www.
I liked it because it was well designed with the functionality in the 4 columns and had all this amazing content from designers who liked computers from all around the world. also the public voice was something new to me, I could ask stuff and get answers here.
a big chunk of my knowledge about computers and design came out of this site. there were not a lot of coder / designers around me irl at that time. I think I learned Illustrator from lifeinvector, asked a lot of AS2 questions and later AE questions here and always got better answers than my teachers had in design school.
- Weren’t lifeinvector and transfatty an item at one stage?mort_
- might be the case, they prob. dated or posted something about it in public voice.uan
- I also recall one night somebody was desperate or hungry and transfatty ordered a pizza for that person. that virtual community story blew my mind.uan
- Ha, sweet. What a gent!mort_
- rootlock1
I remember a cool red website. then it redirected to QBN.
- utopian1
That is like remembering what outfit that you wore at your 21st birthday party.
- oey_oey1
I went to the Art School's Library I was attending and there was this guy checking Newstoday next to me and this happened several times.
And one day I did a collab for a magazine from Lisbon and the web designer of this magazine was also checking Newstoday. I was like hm...it looks good...a lot of stuff for my eyes but definitely good.
So I started to check regularly till I met kodap and he was the person who I got the click from that made me sign up.
This is my third or fourth account.
- Are you still in contact with Kodap?Nairn
- When I go to Portugal I see him when I visit the town he lives. Maybe I saw him 5 times in the last 5 years. That guy helped me a lot.oey_oey
- If he know my website is still not ready after 10 years he'll kill me.oey_oey
- He was/is a good bloke. Part of a group of users I still somewhat miss.Nairn
- As a person, he's really calm, reliable, helpful, simple and a really great guy that happens to be extremely talented.oey_oey
- spl33nidoru8
QBN, K10K, PixelSurgeon, Design is Kinky....
Despite a much contested (by me at least) redesign in the '10s, QBN prevailed
- I’ve never visited any of thosenb
- Gotta say, the Newstoday welcoming chime was a distinguishing feature that made it specialspl33nidoru
- @nb Those are classic. Same with threeohContinuity
- These websites had a block somewhere on front page linking to the others.
There was a sense of community, and finding one ultimately led you to the others.spl33nidoru - Surfstation, dreamless....drgs
- yayhooray, threeoh...koma_
- drgs15
There was a standard list of design related websites which everyone visited
- Also thisContinuity
- Yupbabydick_
- +1section_014
- stumbled across Newstoday and stayed for the rideGardener
- Samemort_
- the dullest!nb
- Newstoday, K10K and yayhooray was all I knew back in the dayCalderone2000
- YupYakuZoku
- Linkdupcannonball1978
- Worked with Jason and Folkert at Agency.com and they got me on newstoday and I have never left - still my home screenriteshpatel
- heavy rotation with computer lovedoesnotexist
- Nairn7
It was 20-odd years ago, like I can remember.
- Well, fuckt, what does it say about me that I can remember, then?
I need a life, is what.Continuity
- Well, fuckt, what does it say about me that I can remember, then?
- 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.
- nb
Me,I googled “fffffound invites” and the rest is history.