Zone1 When Did you enter a Forum for the First time?

[Zebra]

I Did in Summer 2002

 

[Harry Dresden]

the LA forum in 76.....

 

[luiza]

Rome AD 33 .

 

[JoeMoma]

I would sneak are read my Uncle's "Forums" in the late 70's and early 80's.

 

[lg325]

September 2020 USMB . Before that MSN Politics chat room ,from about 1996 to 2010 if my memory is correct.

 

[80zephyr]

In the early 1990's would be my guess.

 

[Zebra]

In the early 1990's would be my guess.

Really early!

 

[BothWings]

When left-leaning Yahoo mysteriously suspended their comments section after Trump was elected the first time. I wanted an outset where I could express myself and not be censored. Yahoo (or someone hacking into Yahoo....CIA maybe?) kept finding weird ways to subvert everything I wrote. Either my comments would simply disappear, even though they didn't breach any policies....or sometimes it was obvious that my comments weren't visible to anyone but me, unbeknownst to me at the time. I caught the same B.S. happening on You Tube. I would post opinions, yet would receive zero thumbs up OR down of any kind. Seemed strange so I started using the accounts of my friends and family to run an experiement. Sure enough...my comments were rendered invisible too all bu me! And I think the fact that I was posting things about my experiences with the government and UFO's at the time had everything to do with it.

They DO censor and subvert our freedom of speech, they just do it covertly.

 

[Gracie]

When I bought a webtv way back when. Then I graduated to a real pc.

 

[Zebra]

And who Else?

 

[Invisibleflash]

I Did in Summer 2002

Mid 1980s. Club 2000. It was a paid subscription forum. It was mailed out by the forum's leader by snail mail and printed on his dot matrix printer. We would snail mail him posts. He would compile and edit and redistribute every couple of weeks. I had a Pineapple computer. It was a knockoff of the Apple II computer. In the 1990's it was with BBS and Listserv for forums. I sold the Pineapple computer late 80's and moved on to a Radio Shack Tandy 1000 computer.

Bulletin board system - Wikipedia

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LISTSERV - Wikipedia

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[Zebra]

Mid 1980s. Club 2000. It was a paid subscription forum. It was mailed out by the forum's leader by snail mail and printed on his dot matrix printer. We would snail mail him posts. He would compile and edit and redistribute every couple of weeks. I had a Pineapple computer. It was a knockoff of the Apple II computer. In the 1990's it was with BBS and Listserv for forums. I sold the Pineapple computer late 80's and moved on to a Radio Shack Tandy 1000 computer.

Bulletin board system - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

History of LISTSERV

www.lsoft.com

Category:1990s Mailing Lists - Fanlore

fanlore.org

LISTSERV - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Interesting!

 

[BothWings]

When left-leaning Yahoo mysteriously suspended their comments section after Trump was elected the first time. I wanted an outset where I could express myself and not be censored. Yahoo (or someone hacking into Yahoo....CIA maybe?) kept finding weird ways to subvert everything I wrote. Either my comments would simply disappear, even though they didn't breach any policies....or sometimes it was obvious that my comments weren't visible to anyone but me, unbeknownst to me at the time. I caught the same B.S. happening on You Tube. I would post opinions, yet would receive zero thumbs up OR down of any kind. Seemed strange so I started using the accounts of my friends and family to run an experiement. Sure enough...my comments were rendered invisible too all bu me! And I think the fact that I was posting things about my experiences with the government and UFO's at the time had everything to do with it.

They DO censor and subvert our freedom of speech, they just do it covertly.

This is a late edit to my own post above. I misread the OP and thought that he was referring to USMB specifically. So the question is when did I enter ANY forum for the first time! Well, in the very early 2000's, probably around 2003, I joined Tribe.com. It was my first personal PC on my first internet browser account, which I think was AOL. I don't remember any special reason I joined Tribe.com, but it was actually very similar to USMB, just not so politically affiliated. There was every imaginable type of "tribe" represented on there, from car-enthusiasts to religious interests to sexuality, guns, cooking, hobbies, careers ...you name it. I dropped off of it for a year or two and when I tried to get back on I was unable to recover my account.

 

[Zebra]

yes, i asked for your first forum ever

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

September 2001

 

[d0gbreath]

The WFAA political forum in March 1996. It didn't last very long.

 

[MisterBeale]

Does a M.U.D. count as a forum? We discussed everything there, not just the game.

 

[Zebra]

When left-leaning Yahoo mysteriously suspended their comments section after Trump was elected the first time. I wanted an outset where I could express myself and not be censored. Yahoo (or someone hacking into Yahoo....CIA maybe?) kept finding weird ways to subvert everything I wrote. Either my comments would simply disappear, even though they didn't breach any policies....or sometimes it was obvious that my comments weren't visible to anyone but me, unbeknownst to me at the time. I caught the same B.S. happening on You Tube. I would post opinions, yet would receive zero thumbs up OR down of any kind. Seemed strange so I started using the accounts of my friends and family to run an experiement. Sure enough...my comments were rendered invisible too all bu me! And I think the fact that I was posting things about my experiences with the government and UFO's at the time had everything to do with it.

They DO censor and subvert our freedom of speech, they just do it covertly.

did you see a UFO?

 

[Zebra]

September 2001

the eleventh?

 

[Zebra]

Does a M.U.D. count as a forum? We discussed everything there, not just the game.

what is a MUD.?