What lured you to online message boarding?

[lightbulbsun]

AOL chat rooms, LJ message boards, then here. You guys are just the most recent in my long internet history.

[RoxMonster]

My very first message board experience was in the AOL days when I was 12 or 13. I joined an *N Sync message board, because I was a crazy fan, and we spent most of our time fighting with members of the BSB board.

Oh yeah. I was super cool.

[no0b]

I seriously started investing time in message boards back during my days on The Knot. It was fun, and several board/off board implosions later here I am.

[AHappierHour]

Wedding planning

[cc]

I joined TK when I was wedding planning, but didn't even realize there were message boards. TB was my first and I was there TTC, TTTC, and eventually my BMB.

Before that, though, I was part of an online diary community and blogged quite a bit there. The site has since gone away, which made me sad. I had over ten years worth of entries and memories on that thing.

[Gato]

I started way back in 1994 on a site called soc.feminism.  It was all DOS-based back then.  I was working 2 hours a day while looking for a real job, so I had lots of time for arguing.  Nothing's changed much about message boards except the format, and I guess the level of TMI.

[pbutter]

Wedding planning on TK.

[wannabe]

Jul 23, 2014 13:20:03 GMT -5 joenali said:

Since chat rooms with AOL.

This.

And then I found TK while helping my aunt plan her wedding in 2001. The rest is history.

[sandytoes]

Jul 23, 2014 14:01:23 GMT -5 RoxMonster said:

My very first message board experience was in the AOL days when I was 12 or 13. I joined an *N Sync message board, because I was a crazy fan, and we spent most of our time fighting with members of the BSB board.

Oh yeah. I was super cool.

lol

[wambam]

Jul 23, 2014 13:39:50 GMT -5 loonylunalovegood said:

Jul 23, 2014 13:15:43 GMT -5 wambam said:

I was planning my wedding. I was too chicken shit for the real Knot, so I used the Knot FB app's boards.

THE WEDDINGBOOK?! If so, ME TOO!

I've been in and around message boards since I was a teen. I had my first blog (LJ) in 2001. Planning a wedding sucked me into The Weddingbook and when it went kaput I gravitated towards the Pets Board on TN. 

Yep. Or Weddingbuzz lol.

[wysiwyg]

I discovered AOL chat rooms in middle school and played online video games with the same group of people for a couple years, then found 4chan.

Probably should have been better supervised online, lol.

[junebug]

I signed up for the knot when I got engaged, and found the forums. I had never been on a message board before. It took me a LONG time to actually want to post though.

[hereigo]

ditto the wedding planning.

[laddie]

I started in the old AOL ones. Went to the knot before I got engaged and stayed there after that ended till the exodus. I just moved over with everyone else.

[alzi]

Jul 23, 2014 13:15:47 GMT -5 @crackhabit said:

I started cybering with dirty old men in chatrooms around middle school time and message boards were kind of a natural progression.

LOL remember cybering?? Hahaha

[Deleted]

Jul 23, 2014 14:38:29 GMT -5 alzi said:

Jul 23, 2014 13:15:47 GMT -5 @crackhabit said:

I started cybering with dirty old men in chatrooms around middle school time and message boards were kind of a natural progression.

LOL remember cybering?? Hahaha

ASL??

[iamgrace]

Planning my wedding in 2004 and 2005. P and E on the knot.

[alicenelson]

Jul 23, 2014 14:28:16 GMT -5 junebug said:

I signed up for the knot when I got engaged, and found the forums. I had never been on a message board before. It took me a LONG time to actually want to post though.

Yeah, that was me.  I was perfectly content to be a dirty lurker for a while.  IRL I tend to try to not draw attention to myself, and posting in threads or starting new ones scared the ever-loving shit out of me.  I'm still not a frequent poster, but I'm trying to be more involved.

[alicenelson]

Jul 23, 2014 14:32:08 GMT -5 oceanspray said:

My mom posts here and let me know about it.

Seriously?  Ack!

[trixiedicksnatch]

Wedding planning on tk in 04

I didn't really post but I learned a lot from the boards about what other places consider tacky as fuck v. What my state/town consider the norm

I have yet to go to an open bar wedding in my state. We had free wine and beer, but drinks from the bar were half price.

There were so many good trolls/cstfishers on the knot. That place was full of crazy.

[Deleted]

Wedding planning.

[sandytoes]

Jul 23, 2014 14:38:28 GMT -5 laddie said:

I started in the old AOL ones. Went to the knot before I got engaged and stayed there after that ended till the exodus. I just moved over with everyone else.

I had left the knot/nest/bump before the exodus that I always see everyone reference. Did something happen to cause the exodus?

[kdmac]

Jul 23, 2014 13:21:15 GMT -5 @astrid said:

I started with Hanson chat rooms on AOL when I was 12 or 13. There was much roleplaying where I was a girl in a relationship with Zac. Ah, memories.

OMG I was in a Backstreet Boys chat room and me and this girl from North Carolina roleplayed that we were each in a relationship with a member.

[no0b]

Jul 23, 2014 14:57:39 GMT -5 sandytoes said:

Jul 23, 2014 14:38:28 GMT -5 laddie said:

I started in the old AOL ones. Went to the knot before I got engaged and stayed there after that ended till the exodus. I just moved over with everyone else.

I had left the knot/nest/bump before the exodus that I always see everyone reference. Did something happen to cause the exodus?

Dramz.  Censorship + KA (Knot Annie) left.  etc. etc.

ETA:  I'm probably referring to a more recent (last 2-3 years) exodus.

[Deleted]

Looking for advice on how to get a baby to sleep took me to the bump. 

[alicenelson]

Jul 23, 2014 14:52:23 GMT -5 oceanspray said:

Jul 23, 2014 14:47:21 GMT -5 alicenelson said:

Seriously?  Ack!

Lol no. Guess you missed the convo with stalkermom.

Clearly.  LOL

[BlackCanary]

Wedding planning on TK, moved to the Seattle board on TN.

[Deleted]

Another "wedding planning" signing in.

[sandytoes]

Jul 23, 2014 15:00:18 GMT -5 nicbreeful said:

Jul 23, 2014 14:57:39 GMT -5 sandytoes said:

I had left the knot/nest/bump before the exodus that I always see everyone reference. Did something happen to cause the exodus?

...The Pampers explosion.

We don't talk about it anymore. 

:cries softly in the corner:

LOL @ Pampers explosion

[alicenelson]

Jul 23, 2014 14:58:57 GMT -5 nicbreeful said:

My God.. AOL chatrooms were my jam.

Then that went out of style and HS came along and I got busy.

But, HS boyfriend and I talked about getting married (when we were 23, NOT in HS) and I found TK. Then I found the forums and got hooked. Made my way over to TN and lurked on the TIP board. Followed y'all here like a 2 bit stalker and started posting.

Now I couldn't quit you people if I tried.

Tell me what you think about meeeee!