Kevin's Watch

By Jove! I think I found one!

www.themagiccafe.com/forums/index.php

And from what I can tell it runs on software older than this one !!

Wow. I suppose it isn't archaeology if the board is still active, but that felt like clicking a link to the 90s.

I wonder if the users of FB and other newfangled whatnot feel the same way about us.

Not really that uncommon. At least one of the online B5 communities has been around since the show was on the air. Several car/truck/motorcycle forums have been around forever too, dating back to Usenet. Same with a lot of firearm forums. Hell, Stormfront's been around since the early '90s, proving that nothing lasts like hate.

I would be willing to bet that The One Ring.net is still active, I joined more than ten years ago but it was too much of a zoo for me.

https://www.grandprixgames.org/

A forum originally dedicated to the Grandprix Formula 1 racing simulations by Geoff Crammond. The current incarnation was installed in 2002 but the original forum dates back to probably 99 or 2k and it's genberally refered to as "Ye Olde Phorum". I have been a mod there most of the time but stepped back a few years ago because I don't have the time for it anymore.

Round about the same age as us then.

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Some of us are still around. The Official Lord of the Rings Fan Club (from the arrival of PJ's Movies) had a board on Decipher as early as 2001. They moved it and we lost a few. Then they closed it down, so we went on our own to Bookloaf. Now we are on DreamWidth. Not sure how I like it...KW is better, though certainly not the most modern. But I am at home here, as the set up is familiar.

Well, we're finally talking about upgrading the Watch, so things will probably change eventually...

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I guess the problem with upgrading security is that it might require some actual money. At least most of the certificates from trustworthy CA's usually cost money.

Actually, these days you can get an SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt for free, so that's handy.

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Vain wrote:So we could certainly be one of the oldest functioning forums on the net. That's pretty cool. Now just to figure out how to get people to still think it's a way to communicate

We are not. I'm a member of a still active forum (though I'm no longer active on it) that has been around longer.

Avatar wrote:Well, we're finally talking about upgrading the Watch, so things will probably change eventually...

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That would be a positive move.

Avatar wrote:Maybe we could win an award...

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My thought too! Someday a Guinness would be so cool!

balon! wrote:

Avatar wrote:Maybe we could win an award...

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My thought too! Someday a Guinness would be so cool!

Not a chance. This forum is not the oldest continually active forum on the internet, as I said above.

But maybe someday...like when I'm 90 and accessing this on some sort of augmented reality. And still under 10 grand in posts...

MsMary wrote: We are not. I'm a member of a still active forum (though I'm no longer active on it) that has been around longer.

What forum? How old?

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Avatar wrote:

MsMary wrote: We are not. I'm a member of a still active forum (though I'm no longer active on it) that has been around longer.

What forum? How old?

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Hatrack River Forum. It's been around continuously since the 1990's, but you can't tell from the posts, as it has had several crashes and purges, during which many older posts were lost. It uses outdated software. Worse than us.

So that's why you know so much about Alvin's story.

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Avatar wrote:So that's why you know so much about Alvin's story.

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Yes.

He must have been one of the first authors to start interacting online with his readers. Seen him mention the forum in interviews and afterwords and stuff.

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