How did you come to be at QBN? Tell us the story, no matter how dull.
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- nb0
So there are at least 72 active uses
- BusterBoy2
k10k
- aliastime3
~2003 An old girlfriend told me about NT. Her ex was a member here. So basically I stole one of y'alls girls back in the day :P
- lolKrassy
- dealwithit.gifKrassy
- Had to be milfhunter.palimpsest
- Haha What’s she doing nownb
- DRIFTMONKEY2
Link from Design is Kinky.
- remember that site, but was never on board with it, just seemed a bit 'upitself'shapesalad
- 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
- 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
- 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
- hans_glib3
i needed to find out what the young kids were up to.
apprarently this was the place back then.
- 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.
- BabySnakes1
Classmate in college showed me NT. Found the LoLCube and the peace it brings.
- Ahhh LOLCube, those were simpler, funnier times.BuddhaHat
- 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.
- 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
- srhadden4
Kanye mentioned it to me once
- 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
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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