How old is the oldest forum
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How old is the oldest forum
So it got me thinking when Av said it was unusual for a forum to live as long as KW has - so the question is, how old is the oldest forum?
See if you can find any that are still active and still going after 15 years.
Considering that Al Gore only created the internet in 1994, the oldest forum can only be 23 years old....
See if you can find any that are still active and still going after 15 years.
Considering that Al Gore only created the internet in 1994, the oldest forum can only be 23 years old....
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Trek BBS has been around since at least the late 90s. (Though I can't remember my login info!) Most of the boards I belonged to before that were either on AOL or Compuserve, and are long gone.
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I was just reading that bulletin boards can be traced back to the late 70s. Maybe the early 80s. They mentioned the CBBS which is among the earliest. KW is still pretty old though and is still thriving after a decade and a half.
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Rumor has it that I'm a cat. Not saying I am. Not denying it either. There's no shame in being a cat.Vain wrote:haha - well 'people' then? if that makes you back away then i'd be curious
At least half the people on the internet are cats.
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This was the first of the modern-like forums I had joined.
www.douglasadams.com/forum/
But yeah, AOL and some local free ones if you had dialup in the early 90s.
www.douglasadams.com/forum/
But yeah, AOL and some local free ones if you had dialup in the early 90s.
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My cat died He managed 15 years though and probably cost enough over that time to buy a car but worth every pennySorus wrote:Rumor has it that I'm a cat. Not saying I am. Not denying it either. There's no shame in being a cat.Vain wrote:haha - well 'people' then? if that makes you back away then i'd be curious
At least half the people on the internet are cats.
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Oddly enough, the board I linked up there somewhere just made the change to SSL. I don't have any idea what the process involved or how similar our software is, but it does seem to be the thing to do.
I'm so sorry. Losing a pet is the worst, even when they've had a good run of it. Never enough time.Vain wrote:My cat died He managed 15 years though and probably cost enough over that time to buy a car but worth every pennySorus wrote:Rumor has it that I'm a cat. Not saying I am. Not denying it either. There's no shame in being a cat.Vain wrote:haha - well 'people' then? if that makes you back away then i'd be curious
At least half the people on the internet are cats.
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The people have spoken Vain. (I've been saying this for years already, but clearly my voice is not important... )I'm Murrin wrote:Upgrading to modern, secure, functional software might help. The upcoming launch of a new Donaldson series could be a perfect time to give this place a facelift...Vain wrote:Now just to figure out how to get people to still think it's a way to communicate
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What is considered modern, secure and functional nowadays?Avatar wrote:The people have spoken Vain. (I've been saying this for years already, but clearly my voice is not important... )I'm Murrin wrote:Upgrading to modern, secure, functional software might help. The upcoming launch of a new Donaldson series could be a perfect time to give this place a facelift...Vain wrote:Now just to figure out how to get people to still think it's a way to communicate
--A
Why can't we get SRD to put a link to KW in his books??