What was your first web-based forum?

benslgdroid · Apr 16, 2012

pantlesspenguin said:
I was RoadNotTaken.

Sounds familiar

damewolf13 · Apr 16, 2012

In 1998 there was a movie that some of us saw over and over again called Everafter, starring Drew Barrymore and Angelica Houston.
For various reasons it touched a group of people so deeply that there was an Everafter forum formed by a journalist named Joe Tracy. About 50 people found each other in that forum, and formed friendships, eventually meeting each other in various locations. It was truly magical!
Eventually Joe closed that forum, and the core group of friends formed a new forum which still exists. Most of us have stayed in touch to this day, and some of those friendships became life changing in some ways.

Satires · Apr 17, 2012

I won't say the first one I was on, but I will say it's troll heaven! lol

Roze · Apr 17, 2012

damewolf13 said:
In 1998 there was a movie that some of us saw over and over again called Everafter, starring Drew Barrymore and Angelica Houston.
For various reasons it touched a group of people so deeply that there was an Everafter forum formed by a journalist named Joe Tracy. About 50 people found each other in that forum, and formed friendships, eventually meeting each other in various locations. It was truly magical!
Eventually Joe closed that forum, and the core group of friends formed a new forum which still exists. Most of us have stayed in touch to this day, and some of those friendships became life changing in some ways.

I love Everafter

One of my favourite movies of all time. That's a great story to hear. I hope my friendship with some AF peeps here becomes something like yours Damewolf <3

I know a few of the people on here have met up because they are from the same town or met up last year for the Phandroid Event sponsored by Samsung in NYC last year.

Doit2it · Apr 17, 2012

lunatic59 said:
I can't even remember what I had for breakfast ... you want me to remember 20 years ago?

Do usenet groups count?

I was gonna say the same. I can't remember which specific groups in usenet I followed, it was a few. I HATED when Comcast dropped usenet from their service!

And yes, I served my time on dial up and BBS's too. But I started out at 2400 baud on my Gateway 386 w/16Mhz processor!

julianne791 · Apr 17, 2012

I think my first forum was an Irc one, not sure which it was thou

Mada · Apr 17, 2012

My first was a forum for fans of a TV program. It doesn't exist anymore but I was a moderator there. It was back in the early-mid '00s so I don't remember much about it.

I also had that bloated AOL software downloaded on my computer (not just the usual aol(dot)com but that thing you download lol) which I used for email and AIM. Also, I used the BROWSER on that thing... man I'm only 17 and already feeling old.

Edit: this is what I'm talking about... I don't know what you'd call this

It looked exactly like that.

(P.S. My mom still uses that shown above, except the latest version. Prayers for that she moves on in life will be appreciated.)

kct1975 · Apr 17, 2012

Been lurking on this thread, and trying to remember my first forum....

If memory serves is was a form about College Hockey...

The only thing I can remember about the forum was a guy ranting about getting screwed out of good seats to a game by Ticket Master, and he called it "Ticket Bastard"
LOL....I still use that term myself.

kct1975 · Apr 17, 2012

Mada said:
My first was a forum for fans of a TV program. It doesn't exist anymore but I was a moderator there. It was back in the early-mid '00s so I don't remember much about it.

I also had that bloated AOL software downloaded on my computer (not just the usual aol(dot)com but that thing you download lol) which I used for email and AIM. Also, I used the BROWSER on that thing... man I'm only 17 and already feeling old.

Edit: this is what I'm talking about... I don't know what you'd call this

It looked exactly like that.

(P.S. My mom still uses that shown above, except the latest version. Prayers for that she moves on in life will be appreciated.)

Ya I remember the days of AOL hell. I also remember being stuck with 26.6 kbs dial-up, even though my internal modem was 56k.

And yes, AOL was a bloated piece of junk. Of course at the time (1996-2000) I thought is was great :banghead:

Roze · Apr 18, 2012

kct1975 said:
And yes, AOL was a bloated piece of junk. Of course at the time (1996-2000) I thought is was great :banghead:

Do you know what's funny? 75% of AOL revenue is from people that don't eve use their account, lol.
80% Of AOL's Revenue Is Subscribers, 75% Of Whom Don't Need It - The Consumerist

Slug · Apr 18, 2012

Mine was probably the support forum for my ISP back in 1990, when 14.4kbps dial-up was still bleeding-edge and getting a PC to talk intelligably to a modem required blood, sweat, tears and the occasional animal sacrifice. Changed days indeed.

I preferred BBS to the new-fangled graphical nonsense - I may even have hooked up to IOWA's board at some time. Web forums were glitchy, unreliable and sparsely populated. My "home" was the ILink hub AlmacBBS in Grangemouth - I still fondly remember repeatedly dialling/hanging up until the 'handshake' told me I'd connected to one of the fast USR Courier nodes.

bruno19 · Apr 18, 2012

The one that I started to use regular after BBS was called All-Tech around 1997/8, then a name change to Cableshack using EZboard hosting software, and now it's called All-Forums (on which I'm a mod) been under that name since 2000.

I used to spend many an hour running 'war dialler' software and seeing what 'systems' I could talk to for kicks lol

NightAngel79 · Apr 18, 2012

Modaco for my Windows Mobile phone

melim · Apr 18, 2012

Some AOL crap first... web-based was probably the Jane Magazine forums.

IOWA · Apr 18, 2012

Slug said:
Mine was probably the support forum for my ISP back in 1990, when 14.4kbps dial-up was still bleeding-edge and getting a PC to talk intelligably to a modem required blood, sweat, tears and the occasional animal sacrifice. Changed days indeed.

I preferred BBS to the new-fangled graphical nonsense - I may even have hooked up to IOWA's board at some time. Web forums were glitchy, unreliable and sparsely populated. My "home" was the ILink hub AlmacBBS in Grangemouth - I still fondly remember repeatedly dialling/hanging up until the 'handshake' told me I'd connected to one of the fast USR Courier nodes.

My board could accommodate a whopping 2 users at a time (+ the host) but it did get frequent visitors, some I never even knew really. Guess my number got passed around other boards. Did you ever dial into a 708 area code?

Slug · Apr 20, 2012

IOWA said:
Did you ever dial into a 708 area code?

I have trouble remembering what I had for dinner last night! :eek:

IOWA · Apr 20, 2012

Slug said:
I have trouble remembering what I had for dinner last night!

Must not have been a memorable dinner then!

... I try to only remember the good ones haha....

sherri · Apr 20, 2012

Also a phone forum, Everything Q. (For the Motorola Q series of phones)..Made some very good friends there...It became Everything Windows Mobile. Also has Everything Berry /Everything iPhone Cafe/ and Everything Android.

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