Bored Skaters

From Bored Skaters

Born on 1 January 2001, BoredSkaters.com was Vish Vishvanath's project to provide an unofficial and complementary site for the LondonSkate which was to live at [LondonSkate.com].

Original Site

The original site was written as a categorized story site, like a modern blog, and one which allowed anyone to submit a story or article and pictures, which could then be read, edited and published on the site. Articles submitted included skate reviews, reports on the streetskates and humorous news items about the state of the skating scene in London.

Updates through the years

Bored with Mike van Erp's popular but tedious LondonSkaters email list, Vish decided to change BoredSkaters.com into a forum site, but one without moderation of any sort. Swearing, cursing, insulting were all allowed, if not slightly encouraged, and this led to, well, an interesting enviroment.

Mike eventually converted his email list into a far-more popular forum site, albeit one with rules and moderation, making it a generally far more pleasant place to be than BoredSkaters.com, if less open.

Vish responded by ignoring Mike, who, believe it or not, was even more enthusiastically annoying then than he is now, and instead using BoredSkaters.com as a playground for ideas, pictures, videos and the like.

Sometime around 2004, Vish become completely bored with BoredSkaters, and simply redirected it to his own personal site while he thought up plans on what he felt like doing next.

Projects mooted around with Slalom Steve, Korin and Jakub included a satirical skating magazine called The Skitcher, a UK-wide skating umbrella organization which eventually became Roller UK and what eventually became the current BoredSkaters.com - a project jointly conducted with SerpentineRoad.com's owner Slalom Steve. They decided they were bored with the whole crop of dull skating websites everywhere, and wanted to retrieve the old articles from BoredSkaters along with all the old satire from previous versions of Serpentine Road. Vish was particularly keen on resurrecting the A-Z of skaters, which they duly did... and that can now be found from the link at the bottom of the page.

The site will quietly be archived once we've dug out all the old and ancient content...