What was your first web-based forum?

[IOWA]

I know many of us might go way back to dial-up BBS's and such, but I'm curious what everyone's first web based forum was?

Mine was this Synthetic Reality Forums

I can't believe it's actually still around. It was for a very basic game I used to play. Ironically, I remembered this place when I saw the name Synthetic-Reality in the Google Market lol...

 

[Steven58]

Really, it was this one. I used to irc chat a lot. Never during, though.

 

[SUroot]

Drum&Bass Arena Forums

 

[pantlesspenguin]

For forums it was iVillage. I remember using irc, aol chat, msn chat, some various parachat chat rooms, and one called chat planet before that. I miss those old rooms, and I miss the old iVillage.

 

[B2L]

I've been on several forums in the past, most of them were graphic design or counter strike 1.6 forums. It's too hard to remember exactly which was the first one.

 

[jova33]

houstonraves.com lol i don't believe it's running anymore. but yeah, the first BBS was the Pentacle out of Houston. It was mainly for playing Doom and Duke Nukem

 

[ninja_reject]

Skateboard.com back in 99, 00. I was a teenager and loved talking about my skateboards.

 

[benslgdroid]

Mine was in an old social network before MySpace facebook and Google called bolt.

 

[batgeek]

i think the first one that i really participated in was an Ultima Online forum. might have been uoforums or the UO Stratics forum.

 

[Covart]

It was 1984 and I was on a Commodore 64 with a baud 110 modem for dialing into each bbs. Can't remember the bbs, but it took about a minute to load a page that was nothing more than letters, special characters and numbers. Started out with a tape drive before getting 5.25 floppy drives.

C=64 and MS-DOS FTW!

 

[IOWA]

It was 1984 and I was on a Commodore 64 with a baud 110 modem for dialing into each bbs. Can't remember the bbs, but it took about a minute to load a page that was nothing more than letters, special characters and numbers. Started out with a tape drive before getting 5.25 floppy drives.

C=64 FTW!

Dial ups don't count =P. On a side note, I did host my own dial up BBS with Wildcat software lol

 

[Covart]

Dial ups don't count =P. On a side note, I did host my own dial up BBS with Wildcat software lol

Come on now... It was a bbs and it was on the then emerging www.

 

[batgeek]

yeah, he said no bbs. i could go back to the mid-80's also if he said we could use bbs-es. hehe

 

[breadnatty08]

Guess the first one was Beer Advocate. Used to love that place but it's just troll city at this point.

 

[Roze]

What's BBS? lol

AndroidForums was my first forum I prefer live chat (iirc/msn) before I joined here.

 

[Ed5275]

Prodigy Internet Beer Forums. I was the only kid in my dorm with internet (if you can call it that).

 

[mpw]

I used AOL chat rooms in about '94, but the first 'proper' form was MacRumors.

Before the iPod/iPhone made Apple so hugely popular it was small enough to have a real community feel, I believe it kinda went downhill when the user numbers swelled; but I'd already been asked to leave by then, so I prefer to think it went down hill without me

Still miss what it was, but not what it became

 

[Yeahha]

My first forum was probably in 2005 with an open tibia game...been active on probably 5 others between then and now...AF is the forum in have gotten most into

 

[karandpr]

Ars technica it was . I dont even remember my username now.

 

[saptech]

I would assume Prodigy was my very first web based, I guess it was web based, I can't remember. If not, a Windows and Linux forums would have been my first. I can't remember any names though.

 

[pantlesspenguin]

Mine was in an old social network before MySpace facebook and Google called bolt.

BOLT!!! I loved Bolt and hated when it shut down, even though I had grown out of it by that time. I actually met one of my very best friends on Bolt around 1999. Even though he's in SC and I'm in KS we still talk about once a week, even if it's just to say hi.

 

[benslgdroid]

BOLT!!! I loved Bolt and hated when it shut down, even though I had grown out of it by that time. I actually met one of my very best friends on Bolt around 1999. Even though he's in SC and I'm in KS we still talk about once a week, even if it's just to say hi.

I had a good friend there but we lost contact. Her name was hippychickdaisey. I was real active my name was bengy2141.

 

[pantlesspenguin]

I had a good friend there but we lost contact. Her name was hippychickdaisey. I was real active my name was bengy2141.

I was RoadNotTaken.

 

[lunatic59]

I can't even remember what I had for breakfast ... you want me to remember 20 years ago?

Do usenet groups count?

 

[SamuraiBigEd]

NADville - The Front Page or Turbo Diesel Register, not sure which came first now.