Is this board for old people?

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31-07-23, 21:57
Divine Wright

Is this board for old people?

I don’t know but imagine ccmb contributors are probably over 30 and that younger fans probably use twitter or other social media.

Will ccmb even exist in thirty years time?
31-07-23, 22:01
Harry Paget Flashman

Re: Is this board for old people?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Divine Wright

I don’t know but imagine ccmb contributors are probably over 30 and that younger fans probably use twitter or other social media.

Will ccmb even exist in thirty years time?

95% of the current posters won't exist in 30 years.
31-07-23, 22:05
SLUDGE FACTORY

Re: Is this board for old people?

Thirty weeks I reckon

Unless we get cash investments
31-07-23, 22:55
Tuerto

Re: Is this board for old people?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Divine Wright

I don’t know but imagine ccmb contributors are probably over 30 and that younger fans probably use twitter or other social media.

Will ccmb even exist in thirty years time?

Messageboards are the original, a bit like Vinyl, they'll make a come back. There will be bars in Town where young hipster types will go to log on and enjoy a game of darts ( in an ironic kind of way) while drinking dandelion Ale.
01-08-23, 04:51
Taunton Blue Genie

Re: Is this board for old people?

Has the question been prompted by the fact that the next proposed message board meet-up for a round of Sanatogen and a bout of bingo is at the Darby and Joan Club?
01-08-23, 04:57
The Bloop

Re: Is this board for old people?

Time to organise both a ccmb afternoon tea and, a ccmb piss up, and see which is the most popular.
01-08-23, 07:10
North Cardiff Blue

Re: Is this board for old people?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Divine Wright

I don’t know but imagine ccmb contributors are probably over 30 and that younger fans probably use twitter or other social media.

Will ccmb even exist in thirty years time?

Over 70% over 60 I reckon, another 15% over 50.

Someone do a poll with the decades so we can see?
01-08-23, 07:10
Hilts

Re: Is this board for old people?

Facebook is definitely for old people.
01-08-23, 19:49
Michael Morris

Re: Is this board for old people?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Divine Wright

I don’t know but imagine ccmb contributors are probably over 30 and that younger fans probably use twitter or other social media.

Will ccmb even exist in thirty years time?

CCMB started in 1996. Before Twitter, before Facebook.

Mark Zuckerburg was still in school when some of our original posters were communicating.

OK I might not have made billions, so he got me on that one, but I was sharing stuff with friends before he was.

Message boards maybe a bit old fashioned but it's home to many many people who find them comfortable and more communal than these more dynamic and confusing apps.
01-08-23, 19:56
tforturton

Re: Is this board for old people?

Only older people will put up the snail-speed of this website, because they remember what things were like before broadband. Seriously Mike, sort it out.
01-08-23, 20:37
Divine Wright

Re: Is this board for old people?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Michael Morris

CCMB started in 1996. Before Twitter, before Facebook.

Mark Zuckerburg was still in school when some of our original posters were communicating.

OK I might not have made billions, so he got me on that one, but I was sharing stuff with friends before he was.

Message boards maybe a bit old fashioned but it's home to many many people who find them comfortable and more communal than these more dynamic and confusing apps.

I’m not saying old is bad. I think the format is better than twitter etc for focussed debate around ccfc. It’s easier to drop in and out semi regularly and keep up to date on things compared to twitter, which is a bit more hit n miss.

All of the decent stuff on twitter tends to get linked here anyway, and all the crap called out for what it is.

I think I was just wondering whether there are people in their teens/twenties on here…..and maybe what they think of it compared to other sources.
01-08-23, 20:45
Eric the Half a Bee

Re: Is this board for old people?

It would be interesting to find out how many younger new posters we've had over the last few years.

I'm 45 and been here for around 20 years now. At the time there wasn't really anything else online that was instantaneous - there was a messageboard on the official site but that was shit. This is still the first place I come for City news as nearly every news story or rumour will be posted on here pretty quickly.
01-08-23, 20:52
SLUDGE FACTORY

Re: Is this board for old people?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Divine Wright

I’m not saying old is bad. I think the format is better than twitter etc for focussed debate around ccfc. It’s easier to drop in and out semi regularly and keep up to date on things compared to twitter, which is a bit more hit n miss.

All of the decent stuff on twitter tends to get linked here anyway, and all the crap called out for what it is.

I think I was just wondering whether there are people in their teens/twenties on here…..and maybe what they think of it compared to other sources.

I am 21
01-08-23, 20:58
Harry Paget Flashman

Re: Is this board for old people?

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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY

I am 21

Stone?
01-08-23, 21:02
life on mars

Re: Is this board for old people?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Michael Morris

CCMB started in 1996. Before Twitter, before Facebook.

Mark Zuckerburg was still in school when some of our original posters were communicating.

OK I might not have made billions, so he got me on that one, but I was sharing stuff with friends before he was.

Message boards maybe a bit old fashioned but it's home to many many people who find them comfortable and more communal than these more dynamic and confusing apps.

Well positioned and spot on .
01-08-23, 21:14
SLUDGE FACTORY

Re: Is this board for old people?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Harry Paget Flashman

Stone?

Inches

Tall
01-08-23, 21:51
Wash DC Blue

Re: Is this board for old people?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Michael Morris

CCMB started in 1996. Before Twitter, before Facebook.

Mark Zuckerburg was still in school when some of our original posters were communicating.

OK I might not have made billions, so he got me on that one, but I was sharing stuff with friends before he was.

Message boards maybe a bit old fashioned but it's home to many many people who find them comfortable and more communal than these more dynamic and confusing apps.

I think that I joined around 1997 or 1998.
Original name was Newport Blue…then someone nicked my name.
01-08-23, 22:35
Harry Lime

Re: Is this board for old people?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wash DC Blue

I think that I joined around 1997 or 1998.
Original name was Newport Blue…then someone nicked my name.

I started in 97 under the name Raoul Duke, I was 30.
Windows 95, dial up connection, web address was m4morris blah blah Pipex. Think I used Altavista to find it in the first place
01-08-23, 22:43
Tuerto

Re: Is this board for old people?

2006 i joined up. It's been downhill ever since.
02-08-23, 00:09
Des Parrot

Re: Is this board for old people?

1998 season for me, when the boss was still giving out prizes for guess the crowd, 25th season on CCMB, I expect my telegram from the boss pretty soon.
02-08-23, 08:04
Maurice Swan

Re: Is this board for old people?

Strikes me also, that besides the absence of younger contributors there are no females on here......

As I typed that I thought perhaps it's better they stay away, else Sludge.....
02-08-23, 09:04
jon1959

Re: Is this board for old people?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maurice Swan

Strikes me also, that besides the absence of younger contributors there are no females on here......

As I typed that I thought perhaps it's better they stay away, else Sludge.....

There used to be a few, but they have moved on: Welshgirl, Aunty Andy, Nicola.... even 'little Natalie'. Mrs Steve R is still very active on the another board and pops over here now and again. But it was a handful at most.
02-08-23, 17:48
79blue

Re: Is this board for old people?

Joined the board in 1998 and I have used the same username since then. Over the years I have drifted away and came back a few times. In its first decade it had a great and diverse mix of users and a good community feel to it. Over the years I have gone on the other boards but this one has always been the first and main board for city fans

Today it is a shadow of its former self, but I think that is just a reflection of society today, where the things that divide us are more preferable than the things that bind us. I do find the trolling and the users using multiple usernames have dragged this board down and pushed away many of its former users.
02-08-23, 19:05
Swiss Peter

Re: Is this board for old people?

I think I joined in around 2001/2. I was reading it for a while before that, and remember posting a message in the late 90s from a bar in Dublin saying how I was hoping we'd beat Trowbridge in a PSF. I can't remember if we did or not :hehe:
02-08-23, 19:06
Swiss Peter

Re: Is this board for old people?

Quote:

Originally Posted by jon1959

There used to be a few, but they have moved on: Welshgirl, Aunty Andy, Nicola.... even 'little Natalie'. Mrs Steve R is still very active on the another board and pops over here now and again. But it was a handful at most.

Bernadette81? Probably got that wrong!
02-08-23, 20:02
Eric the Half a Bee

Re: Is this board for old people?

Quote:

Originally Posted by jon1959

There used to be a few, but they have moved on: Welshgirl, Aunty Andy, Nicola.... even 'little Natalie'. Mrs Steve R is still very active on the another board and pops over here now and again. But it was a handful at most.

Mrs HaB used to post on here years ago. One fateful evening we discovered we had a few common interests and started messaging each other, then decided to meet. Within 3 years we were married and had a son together 4 years later. Been married 14 years now.
02-08-23, 20:14
Michael Morris

Re: Is this board for old people?

GillSam was a CCMB legend.

Doing online commentaries of City games before that was even a thing.

Mrs HaB, Bluebirdette81, Mags, Mrs SteveR, at least a few others I can think of.
02-08-23, 20:37
Harry Lime

Re: Is this board for old people?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Michael Morris

GillSam was a CCMB legend.

Doing online commentaries of City games before that was even a thing.

Mrs HaB, Bluebirdette81, Mags, Mrs SteveR, at least a few others I can think of.

Bon Jovi took over from GilSam on commentary for a while I think. He used to be a mb regular
02-08-23, 20:44
ToTaL ITK

Re: Is this board for old people?

Ok lets start a whatsapp grp and get the Chinese involved.
02-08-23, 21:07
Armitage Shanks

Re: Is this board for old people?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Swiss Peter

Bernadette81? Probably got that wrong!

Yes I remember her.

Also did Nicola help create the Cardiff monopoly or something along those lines.
02-08-23, 21:40
Swiss Peter

Re: Is this board for old people?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Armitage Shanks

Yes I remember her.

Also did Nicola help create the Cardiff monopoly or something along those lines.

Bluebirdette81, that was it! Thanks to the mods for correcting.
02-08-23, 23:58
NYCBlue

Re: Is this board for old people?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Michael Morris

GillSam was a CCMB legend.

Doing online commentaries of City games before that was even a thing.

Mrs HaB, Bluebirdette81, Mags, Mrs SteveR, at least a few others I can think of.

She was my only connection to City games. That used to be my Saturday football experience. Chatroom commentary from Gill. I met her when she came to New York. Me, and my then girlfriend went to dinner wither her and her husband.

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