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Title: When did you first use forums?
Post by: Implode 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?
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: black_biff_stadler 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.
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: Cedar redaC 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.
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: antigoon on September 25, 2012, 02:33:26 PM: GameFAQs SOCOM forum in 2002/3. I was 13.
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: kirksnosehair on September 25, 2012, 02:34:46 PM: Nitelite BBS, 1987, 9,600 baud modem connection over phone lines.

Now get the fuck off my lawn

(https://www.kirksnosehair.com/Portals/0/emoticons/MrRogersFU.gif)
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: Chino 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.
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: LieLowTheWantedMan on September 25, 2012, 02:52:20 PM: Personal forum for a Diablo II clan I used to be in.
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: YtseCullen on September 25, 2012, 02:53:32 PM: MP Forums mid 2010, about 4 months before MP quit DT
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: yorost on September 25, 2012, 02:58:08 PM: Quote from: kirksnosehair on September 25, 2012, 02:34:46 PM
Nitelite BBS, 1987, 9,600 baud modem connection over phone lines.

Now get the fuck off my lawn
Orbert might challenge you. Usenet?

Ah, I don't even know for myself, mid/late 90's.
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: DebraKadabra on September 25, 2012, 03:02:09 PM: The old Jerry Cantrell Forum, back in late 2002.
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: Nekov 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:
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: black_biff_stadler on September 25, 2012, 03:06:39 PM: Quote from: Nekov 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:

(https://myers.salkeiz.k12.or.us/images/Pie_in_face_08.jpg)
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: Scorpion on September 25, 2012, 03:11:35 PM: :lol :lol

Anyway, I joined DTF early this year. That's it, I guess.
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: krands85 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:
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: Gadough 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.
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: Elite 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.
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: Ħ on September 25, 2012, 04:32:41 PM: I first discovered GameFAQS was 12 or so.
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: Ultimetalhead 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.
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: lonestar 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.
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: Nekov on September 25, 2012, 05:04:10 PM: Quote from: black_floyd on September 25, 2012, 03:06:39 PM
Quote from: Nekov 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:

*snip

Well, it looks like DTF enjoyed it :eyebrows:
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: MykeHavoc on September 25, 2012, 05:25:08 PM: 1997. I was 11.
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: ReaperKK on September 25, 2012, 06:34:14 PM: 1998 or 1999 if I remember correctly, first form I join were the [H]ardForums.
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: DebraKadabra on September 25, 2012, 07:08:19 PM: Quote from: Nekov on September 25, 2012, 05:04:10 PM
Quote from: black_floyd on September 25, 2012, 03:06:39 PM
Quote from: Nekov 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:

*snip

Well, it looks like DTF enjoyed it :eyebrows:

:rollin :clap:
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: Super Dude 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.
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: Weymolith on September 25, 2012, 08:31:24 PM: 1988 - The Inn Of The Last Home BBS (running Color64 on a Commadore 128)
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: Orbert on September 25, 2012, 08:33:59 PM: Quote from: yorost on September 25, 2012, 02:58:08 PM
Quote from: kirksnosehair on September 25, 2012, 02:34:46 PM
Nitelite BBS, 1987, 9,600 baud modem connection over phone lines.

Now get the fuck off my lawn
Orbert might challenge you. Usenet?

Yeah, I consider usenet newsgroups the forerunners of today's forums, and dialup bulletin boards before them.

I was on bulletin boards sometime between 1986 and 1989. That's when I was working in a computer lab at the community college. It was probably 1987 or 1988. Spring of 1989 is when I graduated, and I did my student teaching prior to that and had no free time, so 1988 at the latest.
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: black_biff_stadler on September 25, 2012, 08:43:44 PM: Quote from: Super Dude 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.

How the fuck were you lucky enough to get that name? Was their user base like only 10 people?
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: Super Dude 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.
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: zepp-head on September 25, 2012, 09:06:06 PM: About ten years ago, to discuss Train of Thought.

This is the only forum I frequent, I don't post nearly as much as I once did.
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: BlobVanDam 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

I'm such an internet noob.
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: Cedar redaC on September 25, 2012, 10:19:42 PM: Quote from: BlobVanDam on September 25, 2012, 10:15:26 PM
I'm such an internet noob.

Says the man who made "The Dark Nintendo Night" :lol
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: rumborak 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.
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: Nekov on September 26, 2012, 04:19:01 AM: Quote from: Cedar redaC on September 25, 2012, 10:19:42 PM
Quote from: BlobVanDam on September 25, 2012, 10:15:26 PM
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?
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: Metro 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...

Then I joined here back in February of 2011. I love this place :heart
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: black_biff_stadler on September 26, 2012, 05:00:25 AM: Quote from: Nekov on September 26, 2012, 04:19:01 AM
Quote from: Cedar redaC on September 25, 2012, 10:19:42 PM
Quote from: BlobVanDam on September 25, 2012, 10:15:26 PM
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?

Here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfAz35yhn7U)
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: snapple on September 26, 2012, 06:16:36 AM: I don't even remember.
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: Scorpion on September 26, 2012, 06:22:45 AM: Quote from: black_floyd on September 26, 2012, 05:00:25 AM
Quote from: Nekov on September 26, 2012, 04:19:01 AM
Quote from: Cedar redaC on September 25, 2012, 10:19:42 PM
Quote from: BlobVanDam on September 25, 2012, 10:15:26 PM
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?

Here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfAz35yhn7U)

Blob, I love you.

/fullhomo
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: Nekov on September 26, 2012, 07:20:24 AM: Quote from: Scorpion on September 26, 2012, 06:22:45 AM
Quote from: black_floyd on September 26, 2012, 05:00:25 AM
Quote from: Nekov on September 26, 2012, 04:19:01 AM
Quote from: Cedar redaC on September 25, 2012, 10:19:42 PM
Quote from: BlobVanDam on September 25, 2012, 10:15:26 PM
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?

Here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfAz35yhn7U)

Blob, I love you.

/fullhomo

Totally this. That video made my day
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: Rattlehead on September 26, 2012, 07:24:49 AM: Blob, you are an amazing human being :lol
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: BlobVanDam on September 26, 2012, 07:49:42 AM: Guys, guys, please......

PayPal me $10 if you want to join my fanclub.
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: jcmistat on September 26, 2012, 03:13:06 PM: I would say when I was 12 or 13 so 99' or 2000, bet it's earlier. I joined the Nexus forums for an early MMORPG called Nexus.
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: ColdFireYYZ on September 26, 2012, 03:43:05 PM: The Rush Forum in July of 2010 when I was 14. I still post regularly there.
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: ytserush on September 26, 2012, 04:26:50 PM: Quote from: Orbert on September 25, 2012, 08:33:59 PM
Quote from: yorost on September 25, 2012, 02:58:08 PM
Quote from: kirksnosehair on September 25, 2012, 02:34:46 PM
Nitelite BBS, 1987, 9,600 baud modem connection over phone lines.

Now get the fuck off my lawn
Orbert might challenge you. Usenet?

Yeah, I consider usenet newsgroups the forerunners of today's forums, and dialup bulletin boards before them.

I was on bulletin boards sometime between 1986 and 1989. That's when I was working in a computer lab at the community college. It was probably 1987 or 1988. Spring of 1989 is when I graduated, and I did my student teaching prior to that and had no free time, so 1988 at the latest.

The Underground BBS in the fall of 1985......
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: Orbert on September 26, 2012, 08:10:53 PM: Winner.

I had a friend who had a modem and posted on bulletin boards, but I don't think I ever posted. I just hung out in his room sometimes when he was on. It was pretty cool stuff.
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: jsem on September 27, 2012, 01:57:11 PM: Probably when I was 8-ish... so in like 2002..
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: Ben_Jamin on September 27, 2012, 02:28:14 PM: Mine was Toolnavy, in,05 then shortly after 8vm was released joined DT.net and been coming here more since, because its one of the best communities I've encountered on forums.
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: Lynxo on September 28, 2012, 06:23:03 AM: Back in 2005, I joined my first forum which is Studio Forum - a swedish musician forum. I think I lurked some forums before then...
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: Elite on September 28, 2012, 10:20:41 AM: Quote from: Nekov on September 26, 2012, 07:20:24 AM
Quote from: Scorpion on September 26, 2012, 06:22:45 AM
Quote from: black_floyd on September 26, 2012, 05:00:25 AM
Quote from: Nekov on September 26, 2012, 04:19:01 AM
Quote from: Cedar redaC on September 25, 2012, 10:19:42 PM
Quote from: BlobVanDam on September 25, 2012, 10:15:26 PM
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?

Here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfAz35yhn7U)

Blob, I love you.

/fullhomo

Totally this. That video made my day

HOLY SHIT. You made that?
I discovered that video when I still lived with my parents, probably 2.5 years ago, way before I joined this forum. I never knew that was you who made it. Awesome!
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: ZirconBlue on September 28, 2012, 11:19:18 AM: First real forum? Probably the mikeportnoy.com forum in late 1999. Before that I was on the ytsejam mailing list for a couple of years.
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: Zook on September 28, 2012, 11:31:35 AM: 1998 I think. Could have been earlier.

My main forums were the unofficial Offspring forum, the Disturbed forum, and then DT.net-DTF.org
Title: Re: When did you first use forums?
Post by: Jaq on September 28, 2012, 06:45:11 PM: Around 2000 or so, got an EZ Board account and went to town, never looked back.