Happy 10th Birthday B3ta
Ten years ago today we launched B3ta (well the version of it you'd recognise). Happy birthday B3ta! As a special one off please add your memories of B3ta here. E.g. How you found the site, or an early thing you saw on the site, maybe the people you've met or how the community is/was part of your life.
( , Mon 12 Sep 2011, 10:24)
Ten years ago today we launched B3ta (well the version of it you'd recognise). Happy birthday B3ta! As a special one off please add your memories of B3ta here. E.g. How you found the site, or an early thing you saw on the site, maybe the people you've met or how the community is/was part of your life.
( , Mon 12 Sep 2011, 10:24)
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5 years, 2 months and 12 days
Christ. In that time I have got married, had two kids, changed career and relocated to another city.
In B3ta terms I have attended one B3ta bash in Birmingham, one very mini-bash in Portsmouth, made loads of internet friends, met some of them in real life, lost some of them before I ever really knew them, had a few QOTW popular pages (never a first post or a most popular post), one QOTW newslettered, had one image challenge popular page (not top,)designed a goatse mug several years before I saw the real pottery ones, thought of a metric fuckton of ideas for images that I've not made, made a load of images that I probably shouldn't have bothered with...
Still nothing quite gets me like a good run of funny images, especially in circumstances where I have to be quiet... the building tension of scrolling down the page and seeing something funny that sets you off, then something else and the silent shaking begins, then a third that will push you over the edge into a silent, puce, quivering mass as the rest of the office looks at you funny and asks if you're feeling alright and you try to explain, pathetically, half gasping, exactly why it is that a picture of a chair, with a fuckoff great big caption in Impact is so funny.
One day, my workload will win, but while there's still blood in my veins I'm damned if I'm going to stop B3ta-ing!
( , Mon 12 Sep 2011, 21:58, Reply)
Christ. In that time I have got married, had two kids, changed career and relocated to another city.
In B3ta terms I have attended one B3ta bash in Birmingham, one very mini-bash in Portsmouth, made loads of internet friends, met some of them in real life, lost some of them before I ever really knew them, had a few QOTW popular pages (never a first post or a most popular post), one QOTW newslettered, had one image challenge popular page (not top,)designed a goatse mug several years before I saw the real pottery ones, thought of a metric fuckton of ideas for images that I've not made, made a load of images that I probably shouldn't have bothered with...
Still nothing quite gets me like a good run of funny images, especially in circumstances where I have to be quiet... the building tension of scrolling down the page and seeing something funny that sets you off, then something else and the silent shaking begins, then a third that will push you over the edge into a silent, puce, quivering mass as the rest of the office looks at you funny and asks if you're feeling alright and you try to explain, pathetically, half gasping, exactly why it is that a picture of a chair, with a fuckoff great big caption in Impact is so funny.
One day, my workload will win, but while there's still blood in my veins I'm damned if I'm going to stop B3ta-ing!
( , Mon 12 Sep 2011, 21:58, Reply)
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