Post by alicenelson on Jul 23, 2014 13:13:58 GMT -5
FormerlyRR and I were having this discussion last week. She had been sucked into the message boarding rabbit hole for years and I had never given it even a moment's consideration because, well, who has time for that shit?
Then, one fateful day, I was stranded at the airport and lshoes sent me a link from GBCN about a regular whose MIL had gifted her a vibrator. I laughed until I cried, and decided I needed to FIND time for that shit!
Wedding planning. My friends didn't want to hear me talk about it all.of.the.time. but a message board that is dedicated to talking about weddings? Sign me up!
Post by schitzengiggles on Jul 23, 2014 13:19:19 GMT -5
When I was a teenager, there was a message board for people who played the game "dopewars". The original, awesome version of it. I liked the game, stumbled across the message board and ended up loving it there. I "met" lots of people, many in other countries and some that I still stay in contact with even though the game and message board died off long ago.
No other message boards for me until I got engaged in 2003 and found The knot. Then I got pregnant and went to the bump. I eventually settled on the nest. It really was a rabbi hole.
And of course now I'm here, because why not. But my username is different than it was on the knot/bump/nest.
ETA - Of course I meant rabbit hole, but I think I will just leave it that way. Dear lord.
Being obsessed with getting married, back in '06. I used to laugh my ass off at the NEY board.
ETA - I was totally on AOL and yahoo message boards back in the day - I guess they are more "chat rooms" to me and not the same as like TK or here. My sister and I used to stay up all night just messing with people on the internet. Scary we had zero supervision. Thinking back to like 1997/98
I've been doing it for ... years. I mean, I got an AOL name when I was 10. So, ya. Message boards have been part of my life since I was a teen.
But how did you even KNOW about message boards and such? I'm prehistoric--didn't even touch a computer until I was 19 or so.
I think I found GBCN through the bump I think? We were TTC and when you google questions, forum responses come up as search queries. After poking around a bit and 1. finding them crazy and 2. empty, I followed a link someone posted to GBCN. By then we were on a TTC break, so I posted on S&B for a day or two and then realized all rivers flow into ML and came here.
I started on AOL message boards back when I was like 9? But I really don't remember how I found internet forums, or what the first one I found was. I want to say Teen Open Diary, though that wasn't necessarily a forum the way this is. I didn't know about ProBoards until the Weddingbook/The Nest/Mommyhood Facebook forums shut down, and a bunch of us migrated over. That was in 2012.
ETA: When AOL first came out, the message boards were right there as soon as you signed on - you just clicked through from the home box that popped up right into them. That's how I found them.
I've been doing it for ... years. I mean, I got an AOL name when I was 10. So, ya. Message boards have been part of my life since I was a teen.
But how did you even KNOW about message boards and such? I'm prehistoric--didn't even touch a computer until I was 19 or so.
ETA: I should add that was in the late-'80's--before the interwebz.
I think because ours is the generation (mid 70s - 80s babies) that has had computers as part of our entire lives pretty much... we explored freely before it got dangerous to let your kids run ramapant online, so we found a lot of stuff on our own.
Post by lyssbobiss, Command, B613 on Jul 23, 2014 13:30:16 GMT -5
Television without pity got me hooked. My butthole ex husband refused to talk about reality shows with me, or about what was happening on Gilmore Girls and I decided it was better to talk it out with strangers.
"This prick is asking for someone here to bring him to task Somebody give me some dirt on this vacuous mass so we can at last unmask him I'll pull the trigger on it, someone load the gun and cock it While we were all watching, he got Washington in his pocket."
Like many others, I started chatting when I was in middle school. I really got into message boards when I moved abroad. This is where I use 90% of my English on a normal day. DH will never get why I spend so much time online.