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Offline Implode

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When did you first use forums?
« on: September 25, 2012, 02:26:55 PM »
Or got involved with other online communities? I'm curious how these years/ages are distributed through the wide range of ages we have here.

I joined my first forum when I was 13 years old during the year of 2005. What about you guys?

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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2012, 02:30:03 PM »
DT.net back in 2000. Permanently joined this community in June 2006. Even at that point it was the first forum I posted at beyond a simple one-day "Hey, how bout this message board!" kinda thing where I thought a place was nifty but never thought to return.
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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2012, 02:30:38 PM »
I joined this obscure forum called Dream Theater Forums about 4 months ago. That's the only real forum I'm on.

EDIT: July 19, 2012, 05:42:16 PM to be exact.
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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2012, 02:33:26 PM »
GameFAQs SOCOM forum in 2002/3. I was 13. 

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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2012, 02:34:46 PM »
Nitelite BBS, 1987, 9,600 baud modem connection over phone lines.


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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2012, 02:35:59 PM »
My first forum was on www.traxxas.com when I was 12 ... so sometime in early 2001.

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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #6 on: September 25, 2012, 02:52:20 PM »
Personal forum for a Diablo II clan I used to be in.

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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #7 on: September 25, 2012, 02:53:32 PM »
MP Forums mid 2010, about 4 months before MP quit DT
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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2012, 02:58:08 PM »
Nitelite BBS, 1987, 9,600 baud modem connection over phone lines.


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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #9 on: September 25, 2012, 03:02:09 PM »
The old Jerry Cantrell Forum, back in late 2002.

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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #10 on: September 25, 2012, 03:02:49 PM »
About 6 years ago I joined a metal forum (I don't even remember the name) but I didn't last long there. Then 2 years ago I came upon DTF and here I am  :smiley:
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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #11 on: September 25, 2012, 03:06:39 PM »
About 6 years ago I joined a metal forum (I don't even remember the name) but I didn't last long there. Then 2 years ago I came upon DTF and here I am  :smiley:

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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #12 on: September 25, 2012, 03:11:35 PM »
:lol :lol

Anyway, I joined DTF early this year. That's it, I guess.
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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #13 on: September 25, 2012, 03:25:01 PM »
The first one I remember using regularly was a wrestling video game forum back in 1998 or 1999 when I would have been 13/14 ;D Used chat rooms a bit before that.

I'm still a regular (and a moderator :p ) on a football/soccer video game forum that I registered with in October 2002, so coming up for 10 years ago  :omg:
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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #14 on: September 25, 2012, 03:48:42 PM »
I joined a forum for a young adult book series when I was twelve. Trust me, it was just as lame as it sounds.
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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #15 on: September 25, 2012, 04:04:07 PM »
I was on the xbox forums and on the ultimate-guitar forums, but I was never active on any of those.
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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #16 on: September 25, 2012, 04:32:41 PM »
I first discovered GameFAQS was 12 or so.
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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #17 on: September 25, 2012, 04:33:46 PM »
I was a pretty active GFAQs user when I was 10. Moved on to the Megadeth forum in 2006, and then found my permanent home here in 2008.
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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #18 on: September 25, 2012, 04:43:56 PM »
First checked out a forum after hearing my boss's stories of the VHforums. went to Yesfans, but they were boring, so iI came her. That was two years ago.

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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #19 on: September 25, 2012, 05:04:10 PM »
About 6 years ago I joined a metal forum (I don't even remember the name) but I didn't last long there. Then 2 years ago I came upon DTF and here I am  :smiley:

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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #20 on: September 25, 2012, 05:25:08 PM »
1997. I was 11.

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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #21 on: September 25, 2012, 06:34:14 PM »
1998 or 1999 if I remember correctly, first form I join were the [H]ardForums.

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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #22 on: September 25, 2012, 07:08:19 PM »
About 6 years ago I joined a metal forum (I don't even remember the name) but I didn't last long there. Then 2 years ago I came upon DTF and here I am  :smiley:

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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #23 on: September 25, 2012, 07:55:59 PM »
The first one I can remember was a forum for the band Sevendust, it was called Field of Solitude (it was a lyric from one of their most popular songs). It was 2005, and I was 15 at the time. My name was Crawlspace and it was a very welcoming community. I left cause I lost interest in the band, and I wasn't as ingrained into that community as I feel here.
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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #24 on: September 25, 2012, 08:31:24 PM »
1988 - The Inn Of The Last Home BBS (running Color64 on a Commadore 128)
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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #25 on: September 25, 2012, 08:33:59 PM »
Nitelite BBS, 1987, 9,600 baud modem connection over phone lines.

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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #26 on: September 25, 2012, 08:43:44 PM »
The first one I can remember was a forum for the band Sevendust, it was called Field of Solitude (it was a lyric from one of their most popular songs). It was 2005, and I was 15 at the time. My name was Crawlspace and it was a very welcoming community. I left cause I lost interest in the band, and I wasn't as ingrained into that community as I feel here.

How the fuck were you lucky enough to get that name? Was their user base like only 10 people?
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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #27 on: September 25, 2012, 08:47:31 PM »
 :lol I have no idea. There was a pretty sizable community and people were using derivatives of it by the time I arrived. I guess people figured it would be the first to go, so they didn't pick it.
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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #28 on: September 25, 2012, 09:06:06 PM »
About ten years ago, to discuss Train of Thought.

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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #29 on: September 25, 2012, 10:15:26 PM »
Jan 2005, dt.net. It was also when I first got an email address, because I needed one to sign up. :lol

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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #30 on: September 25, 2012, 10:19:42 PM »
I'm such an internet noob.

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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #31 on: September 25, 2012, 10:45:04 PM »
I had posted on an obscure board where people were complaining about the metric system before I joined DT.
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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #32 on: September 26, 2012, 04:19:01 AM »
I'm such an internet noob.

Says the man who made "The Dark Nintendo Night" :lol

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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #33 on: September 26, 2012, 04:44:39 AM »
I used to be pretty popular on the Guitar Hero Forums about 5 years ago. Then when the game died I joined the Rock Band forums. I have never seen so many douchebags on an internet forums before...

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Re: When did you first use forums?
« Reply #34 on: September 26, 2012, 05:00:25 AM »
I'm such an internet noob.

Says the man who made "The Dark Nintendo Night" :lol

I have the feeling that I should see and/or hear this. Link please?

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