How is it born? [Archive]

lilia

11-17-2006, 05:33 PM

hey

I find this site so good, especially for a non official web site! i'd like to know when it started, how, and who is Emmett ???????

Thank u guys

administrator

11-17-2006, 07:32 PM

Merci lilia!

Thanks for the kind words. I started this site in the summer of 2002 (check out the old news reports (http://www.eskimofriends.com/updates.asp)) as a way of trying to promote Damien's music. He wasn't very well known outside of Ireland and his own website wasn't being updated very much, so I thought it would be nice to have a simple site with as much information as possible, and to keep track of all the news. And I wanted it to be a friendly place for people to meet and talk about music. It's grown really steadily, and quite organically, with a lot of nice people helping and sending in news items and links etc. Our web traffic has grown constantly as Damien has become more and more popular all over the world.

We should have a lot more additions to the site coming soon, with more videos and competitions and all the latest Damien Rice news.

Wheels

11-17-2006, 11:59 PM

Damien wasn't that well known in Ireland either back then! Amazing how many people have stayed here since the very early days...

SisterMidnight

11-18-2006, 06:02 AM

the true blue old school fans :)

i wonder how many people that are still here are in the 2002 club? you know, the reallly old oldies.. ;)

Patricia

11-18-2006, 07:59 PM

I joined in October 2003 I think, so before Damien got really famous. And although I left the forum at one point, I still hang around from time to time :wave:

Gatsby

11-18-2006, 10:17 PM

i miss some of the oldies, but still its amazing how much this place evolved from the "post a reply and wait 3 days..." type of forum

something always keeps me coming back in to pop my head around:sad10:

Miss Pink

11-18-2006, 10:44 PM

I WISH i was "around" to see the old igloo

SisterMidnight

11-18-2006, 11:07 PM

Wheels

11-19-2006, 01:21 AM

Loveless

11-19-2006, 01:40 PM

I think I was the third user that ever signed up on the 'old' eskimoforum. Someone called 'administrator' and 'emmett' got there before me.... whoever they are :smiley17:

Gatsby

11-19-2006, 02:39 PM

Doing a member search... criteria:
Join before 31 Dec 02
Last post after 1 Sep 06

gets the following results:
anilla
DaveG
Loveless
netheredgeman
Revelate
SimonWales
Wheels

I don't know if this is fully correct though, as it's forgetting Admin himself...

emmettu2 was the original admin wasnt he? then he changed to admin so it prob wouldnt show up on the search

and loveless u were one of the first to sign up on the official board too werent you? i was like 13th or something

Daniel

11-19-2006, 02:39 PM

Someone called 'administrator' and 'emmett' got there before me.... whoever they are :Pyou know, have you ever seen them posting together in the same thread. Bizzare....

Loveless

11-19-2006, 03:48 PM

and loveless u were one of the first to sign up on the official board too werent you? i was like 13th or something
yeah I was 9th person to sign up to the official DR messageboard, and then when they made everyone re-signup again, I was in the first 50 or something.

Bumpman

11-20-2006, 11:16 AM

Do you guys remember this (http://web.archive.org/web/20040611200605/www.eskimofriends.com/forum/default.asp). I'm sure it can go back even farther, but I can't remember what this site was called before it was eskimofriends.com ... it had another address.

cille

11-20-2006, 12:11 PM

it was myadamsfamily something or other i think.

administrator

11-20-2006, 12:13 PM

jeez, how did you do that? it's like a ghost...

cille

11-20-2006, 12:17 PM

it's the wayback machine at the internet archives
http://www.archive.org/index.php
enter any web adress and you can see older editions of it.

administrator

11-20-2006, 12:23 PM

no, that's too spooky... it's got to be sorcery of some kind...

cille

11-20-2006, 01:06 PM

that explaination is interesting too.

Dai Nunes

11-20-2006, 01:15 PM

Well, I'd like also to congradulate you for the website... I'm from Brazil and I really love Damien, and I visit eskimofriend since 2004 everyday... I just now registered in the forum and I hope to make good friends here!

administrator

11-20-2006, 01:50 PM

Thanks Dai Nunes! It's nice to have more Brazilians here. Hopefully, you'll ge to see Damien play in January!

Wheels

11-20-2006, 02:05 PM

I never knew Damien was so big in Brazil... wow.

administrator

11-20-2006, 02:21 PM

i was going to photoshop damien's face onto the cristo redentor statue, but then i got lazy...

Gatsby

11-20-2006, 03:09 PM

^ i like your style

and thats a blast from the past! good oul jeweller, miss that guy ;)

Loveless

11-20-2006, 10:09 PM

i'd like to know when it started
August 28th 2002.

Wheels

11-20-2006, 10:10 PM

What about the 16th??

News - Start - 16/08/2002

I have just started making an unofficial site for fans of Damien Rice. Hope you like it!

Wheels

11-20-2006, 10:12 PM

And wasn't Gillian Anderson very quick to get in on things:

News - X-Files Fan - 27/08/2002

Gillian Anderson (from the X-Files) is a big fan, according to her official web site (http://www.eskimofriends.com/gaws.ao.net/main.html).This is what she says: "Oh, and everyone has to pick up my new favorite c.d. by Damien Rice called 'O.' It's mandatory listening." Maybe she was attracted by Damien's lyrics in Amie: "I saw a spaceship fly by your window…"

Loveless

11-20-2006, 10:17 PM

it's the wayback machine at the internet archives
http://www.archive.org/index.php
enter any web adress and you can see older editions of it.
ooh IMC back five years ago... :icon_rr:
http://www.irishmusiccentral.com/images/imc2000.jpg

Wheels

11-20-2006, 10:21 PM

Wow, the hits counter was even at '0000'...

Loveless

11-20-2006, 10:22 PM

What about the 16th??
News - Start - 16/08/2002
I have just started making an unofficial site for fans of Damien Rice. Hope you like it!
ok, the forum (the only part that matters :)) started on August 28th.

Daniel

11-20-2006, 11:04 PM

why was there a Dublin webcam on IMC back then?

Loveless

11-20-2006, 11:46 PM

why was there a Dublin webcam on IMC back then?
erm, because it was a novelty back then in none-broadband days to be able to watch live traffic on O'Connell Street from anywhere in Ireland.

Yeah.. I've no idea really. :smiley36:

Daniel

11-20-2006, 11:59 PM

was that the time the Spire was going up? have to admit I checked a Dublin webcam once (maybe twice) back then :smiley9:

Loveless

11-21-2006, 12:39 AM

was that the time the Spire was going up? have to admit I checked a Dublin webcam once (maybe twice) back then :smiley9:
no Spire back then.... just erm, traffic.

MarvinD

11-21-2006, 02:14 AM

Today is my first day here. I like the surroundings : ) This is friendly forum.

SisterMidnight

11-21-2006, 03:04 AM

welcome marv :wave: kick your shoes off and sit a spell, and y'all come back now ya hear! *hillbilly outro music*Do you guys remember this (http://web.archive.org/web/20040611200605/www.eskimofriends.com/forum/default.asp). I'm sure it can go back even farther, but I can't remember what this site was called before it was eskimofriends.com ... it had another address.aww i'm homesick for the old igloo now :crybaby2:

cille

11-21-2006, 06:06 AM

Welcome Marvin, hope you'll like it here.

Aisling

11-24-2006, 06:02 PM

wow, aw guys. i miss the lod days... it was mad like. and aw jew jew... awww and emmetu2 remember. god im getting a bit teary now..