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UKB is 10 years old!
October 07, 2012, 06:38:38 pm
Well, sort of. The first topic in the current database was posted on 7th October 2002. But the domain was registered before that and Bubba had earlier incarnations of the site going from 2001.

Anyway, Happy 10th to everyone ...

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#1 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 07, 2012, 06:41:04 pm
Oh yeah ... here's that first topic.

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#2 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 07, 2012, 07:03:31 pm
Bubba, we owe it all to you/know who to blame.

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#3 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 07, 2012, 07:09:21 pm
Who's 'tinkerbell's anus'?

Happy birthday all :icon_beerchug:

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#4 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 07, 2012, 07:15:18 pm
Put it down

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#5 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 07, 2012, 07:37:07 pm
 :icon_beerchug:  :smart:

Just to provide a bit of background for those who haven't been around here that long...

ukbouldering.com was first registered back in June 2001 largely as a result of (at the time) there not really being many dedicated UK bouldering sites apart from the now long deceased topbouldering.co.uk.

It was started as I'd had a very keen return to climbing after a long layoff of about six years and was also working in web development. At the time I was bouldering mainly with Fatdoc, Fatboyslimfast, Underground but used to often hook up with Dense & pals and meet Dave/Cofe/Kim/Scouse D/Dobbin/TTT et al out on the edges.

It was all started for a bit of a laugh and had a mix of semi-serious articles on training together with some obscure topos (Bathford, etc) and tongue in cheek stuff such as Underground's fantastic "Alcoholic Bouldering Diaries".

This continued for about a year until the UKB forums were created. At this time there weren't many active UK forums and UKClimbing was the place to be. There were other active forums at Planetfear.com and Matt Heasons old website (which name escapes me right now) but UKC was a great little forum.  I was a very active poster there under the moniker "BrendonTendon".

However, about that time UKC either hit a user threshold or they consciously changed direction but what was once a quality community got derailed into a pretty frustrating place to be. This caused me much rage until I decided to set up my own forums under the UKB umbrella.

At first, as I was working in IT at the time I created some very basic, self-written forum software which formed the start of the UKB community.  After some security scares I quickly realised that there was little point trying to re-invent the wheel and brought in some proper 3rd party forum software.

At first we were a tiny, mates only kind of forum with about 30 members but the place steadily grew via word of mouth and (I like to think) our easy-going but zero tolerance of dickheads approach to moderation.  I also think the fact that we were totally independent and not affiliated with shops / sponsors / etc allowed us to be "refreshingly honest" ;)

Anyway , to cut a long story short, thanks to excellent moderators and a first rate, self-policing community the forum has steadily grown into what we have today.

In an ideal world I would still be in charge but a few winters ago I was short of cash, had just written off my car and needed some money urgently. Almost as a half-joke, I put UKB (and sister site ukcaving.com) up for sale, hardly expecting anyone to be interested.

To my surprise Toby & Simon (thesiger & shark) made me a great offer and though the whole place nearly went to the BMC(!) their offer won out and I sold the place to the guys who are now in charge.

Although I kinda regret the circumstances that caused me to sell, I'm happy that the ownership has been passed to a couple of guys who have stepped up to the mark and continued UKB in the spirt that it was originally created.

Long may this continue...

Many thanks to *everybody* who has contributed over the years...although I'm not really much of a boulderer these days, I still love the little patch of the internet that this forum occupies. I think the web is a better place for it  :punk:

 

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#6 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 07, 2012, 07:48:40 pm
I loved the unique look of the bubba-written old forum (in contrast to these days where every forum looks more or less the same). Anyone got any old screenshots from the green and orange days? Is it on any internet archive site?

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#7 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 07, 2012, 08:35:32 pm
Congratulations! What a trip. definitely time for a new T Shirt


UKB : spewin shite since 2002


I'm trying to remember when I joined now. Must have been late 2002 not long after I met you when I was at slipstones with Honkong stuey's brother? Either then or after we met up at Earl Crag when Hk stuey was over. Then I buggered off to the US and could'nt remember password when I got back.

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#8 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 07, 2012, 08:46:16 pm
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” - Aristotle  :clap2:

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#9 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 07, 2012, 09:36:03 pm
I'm trying to remember when I joined now. Must have been late 2002...

Date Registered: 15-08-2003, 16:54:03

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#10 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 07, 2012, 09:36:31 pm
I joined March '03 after meeting Bubba and Underground in the Sheaf and writing a Wharncliffe topo for the site.
 :beer2: to everyone, especially the old timers who've provided much mirth over the years.

For old time's sake how about folk dig out the oldest avatar pic they can remember/find and swap to it for the week? I try and find mine tomorrow.

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#12 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 07, 2012, 09:52:01 pm
Dave - http://web.archive.org/web/20021208102145/http://www.ukbouldering.com/board/

nah, I was thinking WAY holder than that. Can anyone remember what the URL of the original forum was?

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#13 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 07, 2012, 10:55:41 pm
November 2002 for me.  My username was Chris Doyle but i soon thought it was a bit naff using your full name so got it changed...

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#14 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 07, 2012, 11:05:42 pm
There should be a party...

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#15 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 07, 2012, 11:18:42 pm
I joined March '03 after meeting Bubba and Underground in the Sheaf and writing a Wharncliffe topo for the site.

I remember that topo and wandering/staggering around underneath Wharncliffe with a pad jammed full of trad gear! I used to like all of the vids of Dave Thomas too.

Relative N00b: February 26, 2004

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#16 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 08, 2012, 03:28:42 am
Nice, happy birthday. I've met some cool people via this board. I've never really posted that much, but now I live abroad it's nice to keep up with what's going on the UK and hear about the exploits of some familiar faces. I think it's a pretty special forum, kudos to Bubba and the now the new owners for keeping it that way. I just checked, and it seems like I joined in August 2004. Time flies...

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#17 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 08, 2012, 08:36:24 am
I'm trying to remember when I joined now. Must have been late 2002...

Date Registered: 15-08-2003, 16:54:03

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Then I buggered off to the US and couldn't remember password when I got back.
..........so I set up a new username as SA Chris. No idea what I was the first time I registered.

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#18 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 08, 2012, 09:48:12 am
Relative N00b: February 26, 2004

Even n00bier I joined 2006-08-16, 03:37:55 (was living in Australia missing being close to Peak District and climbing in general and fed up with the nonce sense on UKC).

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#19 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 08, 2012, 11:20:12 am
Date Registered: April 25, 2006, 09:14:13 am

I was a non registered lurker for a long time, I used to always get in trouble at Cotswold's in Keswick for looking at Lakesbloc and UKB! Time flies.

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#20 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 08, 2012, 11:46:22 am
When I joined up ukb filled the middle ground between the increasingly controlled ukc and the wild west lunacy of b.com and planetfear.

Bisous pour toute la monde!

Thanks Bubba.  :kiss2:
Thanks overlords  :kiss2: :kiss2:

(OMG just found out that b.com was reset to zero in 2009 and my login doesn't work anymore asdfasdf11111!!!)

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#21 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 08, 2012, 11:52:03 am
Date Registered: January 13, 2003, 08:48:33 pm
Crikey!

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#22 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 08, 2012, 01:46:54 pm
I don't live in the UK any more, don't boulder much except indoors & am a punter. Nevertheless I like it here.

Every now and again somebody drops an encouraging/helpful comment regarding my feeble efforts documented on Power Club, and genuine questions about genuine issues - e.g. my current sciatica scare - almost always produce a flood of well informed, constructive support. Haven't found anything remotely in the same league in the German speaking world.

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#23 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 08, 2012, 02:02:17 pm
Date registered July 08, 2004, 11:45:21 pm

After lurking for a while,  I decided to register because the world needed to know about a dyno on a dead tree on a beach in Suffolk. After all, it's probably one of the best dead-tree-on-beach-dynos in the world.



Hurray for obsession. Hurray for UKB!


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#24 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 08, 2012, 02:14:18 pm
I still think it's a brilliant image.

Makes me think of this;



(which climbing gear company did a version of this?)

Wonder if the tree still stands?

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#25 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 08, 2012, 02:46:41 pm
Wonder if the tree still stands?

No, it's gone now, though it was still standing at the beginning of this year. Last photo I can find on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/selectah/6813242118/#

Time, tide and dynos wait for no man.

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#26 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 08, 2012, 02:48:30 pm
been lurking about before registered February 22, 2006, 12:13:22 pm

only here for the ladies lady

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#27 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 08, 2012, 03:49:40 pm
October 15, 2003, 03:51:50 for me though I seem to have mainly been lurking of late.

Anyway, while we're reminiscing, here's the video from the first (?) ukb meet waaaay back in 2004. Scene of dodgy shirts and topouts...



Of course pre-HD, pre-steadicams and pre-youtube(!), which having uploaded it is now advising me "We detected ways to improve your video’s lighting and stability. Would you like us to enhance it?" Huh! Of course back in those days having a monopod and a ripped off copy of Premiere was enough to elevate you to film-maker status...

Edit: Jim, I didn't choose the screengrab, that's all youtube  ;D

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#28 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 08, 2012, 03:54:34 pm
which climbing gear company did a version of this?


Was it Rock Designs?

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#29 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 08, 2012, 04:03:42 pm
who's that chick wearing nige's face?

Scene of dodgy shirts and topouts...

Unfortunately that day I was only ticking one of those boxes.

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#30 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 08, 2012, 04:52:33 pm
which climbing gear company did a version of this?


Was it Rock Designs?

Think so, I seem to remember a pic of a skinny guy wearing adidas sambas hanging off the top of deliverance with the caption "Rock Designs Hee Hee Hee".

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#31 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 08, 2012, 06:32:32 pm
Who's 'tinkerbell's anus'?
It was a user on b.com :)

Must have been late 2002 not long after I met you when I was at slipstones with Honkong stuey's brother? Either then or after we met up at Earl Crag when Hk stuey was over.
Yeah something like that - I was super-hungover after a stay at a nearby luxury hotel <hic!>

Anyone got any old screenshots from the green and orange days? Is it on any internet archive site?
Never managed to find it - probably not a bad thing really ;)

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#32 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 08, 2012, 09:41:51 pm
October 15, 2003, 03:51:50 for me though I seem to have mainly been lurking of late.

Anyway, while we're reminiscing, here's the video from the first (?) ukb meet waaaay back in 2004. Scene of dodgy shirts and topouts...



Of course pre-HD, pre-steadicams and pre-youtube(!), which having uploaded it is now advising me "We detected ways to improve your video’s lighting and stability. Would you like us to enhance it?" Huh! Of course back in those days having a monopod and a ripped off copy of Premiere was enough to elevate you to film-maker status...

Edit: Jim, I didn't choose the screengrab, that's all youtube  ;D

Don't knock that vid it was one of the first climbing vids i watched in the infancy of my climbing life. It got me down to St Bees and it eventually became my local crag. I never did get Undercooke done though before i moved to Spain. Will have to go back. I never knew it was a UKB meet. A moment in history captured forever.

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#33 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 08, 2012, 10:38:15 pm
Lurker then registered 2004.  Met some proper lifelong new friends, kept in contact with many old friends, climbed in some wonderful new places, read some brilliant books, heard new music and other sh*t all thanks to UKB.   :hug:

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#34 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 08, 2012, 10:40:05 pm
That video both got me really psyched for climbing when I was a kid and also introduced me to the wonderful world of Quantic's music.

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#35 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 09, 2012, 07:40:53 am
which climbing gear company did a version of this?


Was it Rock Designs?

Think so, I seem to remember a pic of a skinny guy wearing adidas sambas hanging off the top of deliverance with the caption "Rock Designs Hee Hee Hee".

That'll be it. Good detail recollection.

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#36 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 09, 2012, 08:29:01 am
Edit: Jim, I didn't choose the screengrab, that's all youtube  ;D
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#37 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 09, 2012, 09:23:01 am
 :icon_beerchug: Happy birthday UKB!  :icon_beerchug:

I've had a lot of fun on here over the years and I hope it continues (especially the comedy genius of lagerstarfish!). I like the fact that is has broadened out to include all aspects of climbing; we were even reporting and discussing winter climbing on here a few winters back.


My profile details tell me that I started October 11, 2002. I'm more of a lurker these days but chip in occasionally.


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#38 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 09, 2012, 01:39:34 pm
which climbing gear company did a version of this?


Was it Rock Designs?

Think so, I seem to remember a pic of a skinny guy wearing adidas sambas hanging off the top of deliverance with the caption "Rock Designs Hee Hee Hee".

That'll be it. Good detail recollection.

It was Mr Nic Sellars hanging off deliverance.

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#39 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 09, 2012, 02:05:26 pm
Between FD and Palomides thus demonstrating why UKB is so brilliant. People who care about the trivial, yet important, stuff in this little world of ours. I would be mighty impressed if someone dug out the old OTE with it in.

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#40 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 09, 2012, 07:35:31 pm
just watched the vid again. a great weekend that was, would be great to do it again

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#41 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 09, 2012, 08:07:52 pm
except the stirrup stones bit.

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#42 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 09, 2012, 10:22:16 pm
I never knew it was a UKB meet. A moment in history captured forever.

Likewise. I was tagging along with Kim, Dave et al but never realised it was a UKB meet. Dave's shirt was the only thing I really remembered from that day prior to seeing the vid just now. A lifetime ago...

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#43 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 09, 2012, 10:52:16 pm
except the stirrup stones bit.

That was a big hill!

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#44 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 09, 2012, 10:55:08 pm
Can we get an annotated version of the vid? Be great to put some profiles to faces

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#45 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 09, 2012, 11:15:15 pm
I never knew it was a UKB meet. A moment in history captured forever.

Likewise. I was tagging along with Kim, Dave et al but never realised it was a UKB meet. Dave's shirt was the only thing I really remembered from that day prior to seeing the vid just now. A lifetime ago...

the shirt is sitll going strong you'll be glad to hear. Might get it out this winter for some extra power.

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#46 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 10, 2012, 12:17:46 am
Word, get it out.

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#47 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 10, 2012, 01:20:19 am
Happy 10th anniversary!

Registered May, 2004 under the username "jonas" to reply on thread about Hono in Gothenburg. Lost my passwd but registered again in 2006 under my current username to reply on a thread on Ogawayama in Japan.

Fitting in its way.  I enjoy the banter of course—and reading and writing on forums is one of the few ways for us who hate TV to learn foreign slang and vernacular—but the best thing for me with ukbouldering is the helpful well-travelled users of all abilities ready to give advice on destinations all over the world.

Cheers

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#48 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 27, 2012, 08:59:23 pm
March 2004 and I was told by Irish Si that I'd no doubt be banned within 2 weeks. Got banned from UKC 3 times since but not from UKB  :blink:

It's a good forum. I like the general amount of experience and good information on here, as well as most of the banter.

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#49 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 27, 2012, 09:07:41 pm
You've never even come close to being banned Fiend :)

In 10 years, apart from obvious spammers/scammers/etc we've only had to ban a handful of users - certainly less than 20.  This a testament to the strength of the community and it's ability to weed out fools before they get a chance to become a nuisance.

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#50 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 27, 2012, 09:59:27 pm
In 10 years, apart from obvious spammers/scammers/etc we've only had to ban a handful of users - certainly less than 20

And 10 of them were Mick!

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#51 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 28, 2012, 05:22:38 pm
...another five were Si O Conner's multiple personas

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#52 Re: UKB is 10 years old!
October 29, 2012, 12:23:33 pm
I registered January 15, 2004, 07:42:00 pm. I distinctly remember sitting in the uni library at John Moores, bored shitless and having not long got into bouldering proper, being overjoyed at finding UKB.

Has provided many hours of enjoyment, laughs had, books read, food eaten, drink drunk, wildlife spotted, fish caught and music listened to!

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Cheers Bubba and Overlords...


 

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