s/o first message board

[agnes]

alicenelson's thread took me down memory lane. I had to go look if it was still up. Nope.  Looks like NotpopularDOTcom has been dead for a couple years now. I posted in the other thread that I thought I was 16 when I joined. I was wrong, I was 17, a few months before my 18th birthday.  It's been 12 years!     

It had boards titled like Hardcore and Metal, Punk, Other Music, Vegan, etc. Because of that board, I met Paul Frank and saw his band play.  There was a regular poster WHO WOUD TYPE LKE THIS ALLL THE TIME.  And then the asshole who would pick every.single.person apart and was always right NO MATTER WHAT and you wrong because he didn't say it first.  Fun times. 

What was your first Message Board? 
What kind of board was it?
How long ago did you join?

ETA: Chat Rooms are not Message Boards. Chats are a whole nother walk down memory lane. 

[Deleted]

Something on aol. So young.

[McGavin]

A backpacking/travel board. Maybe Travelpunk?

[EmilieMadison]

I was on chat boards like ICQ and AOL in the later 90s, but I guess my first real message board was the Knot. In 1999 LOL!

[flex]

The Knot July 2005

Migrated to The Nest November 2005

[gummybear]

I have to answer this poll bc it made me nostalgic. My first "real" message board was a spin off from the Knot in 2002. We had an angry mass exodus not unlike the GBCN one. We went to the MSN boards (RIP) and called ourselves Fugees (refuges of there Knot). It was awesome and I still miss it.

[starlily]

Figure Skating World, during the lead up to the 1998 winter Olympics.

That board died a while back. The guy who ran it got increasingly fanatical about his favorite skaters and started banning people right & left for annoying him in the slightest way. So a large group broke away, much like gbcn broke off from the nest, and formed another skating board that is still very popular.

[statlerwaldorf]

Gurl.com
It was a website for teenage girls.
I think I was 12 or 13, so around 2000 or so.

[cville]

This one. Well, the nest version. I posted on the knot exactly once.

[Deleted]

Star Wars boards on AOL when I was a teenager.

#geek

[agnes]

Jul 23, 2014 20:42:09 GMT -5 EmilieMadison said:

I was on chat boards like ICQ and AOL in the later 90s, but I guess my first real message board was the Knot. In 1999 LOL!

The only reason I found my first board was because of AOL chat.  A hot dude named Sketchy Jason would come in and post links to NotPop. 

[DotAndBuzz]

TN, 2004.

I'm way too lazy to seek out and invest time in other places.

ML4Lyfe

[melmo1122]

I heard DC101 talking about a stupid game called sissyfight and I checked it out. It was a game with chat bubbles and message boards. This was late 90s. I even went to the huge NYC meetup. People came from the UK.

[lilafowler]

Jul 23, 2014 20:41:18 GMT -5 Queen Dick, Hibernating Bear said:

The Knot, Ought Three
Eta also Indie Bride lolol

I remember Indie Bride! I never posted but I lurked.

I NEED TO BE YOUNEEK

[DotAndBuzz]

Jul 23, 2014 20:45:27 GMT -5 statlerwaldorf said:

Gurl.com
It was a website for teenage girls.
I think I was 12 or 13, so around 2000 or so.

ugh, this is going to turn into one of those "I feel so damn old" threads. 

Not your fault, but

[circa1978]

The Knot. I posted most on the October 2007 board after my local board imploded.

[jellymankelly]

At the time it sounded so much less lame...
When I was 17 (1997) I was active on an AOL message board of Fleetwood Mac fans. It was during their reunion tour.

[lilafowler]

I created an account on TK to help my BFF plan for her wedding-this was 2003 or 2004?

Then when I was planning my wedding I started lurking on the message boards. Then I got das boot to TN and history was made

[cuddlyevil]

Woxy.com

Though technically, you could say h2g2. But I found them around the same time.

[isabel]

The Knot. 2010.

[BaliHai]

Teen Open Diary, around 1999-2000.

It was literally a community of diaries. You could follow other people and comment on their entries. They also had Open Diary, the "grown up" version, lol.

I went looking for it a year or two ago and it's now-defunct. That made me sad, because I remembered my user name and my diary was public, so I wanted to read it for lols!

Eventually I moved to LiveJournal, then the Weddingbook/The Nest/Mommyhood forums on Facebook (the "lite" version of the website forums) in early 2008. I lurked a little on the TK/TN forums but was really intimidated, so I stuck to FB, hah. The Knot closed down the FB forums in 2011 (I think), so a bunch of people from there migrated to a new forum on here, then a friend told me about the Thunderdome forum, so I joined there for a minute, and then I came here.

You are welcome for my rambling, fascinating forum history.

[EmilieMadison]

Jul 23, 2014 21:05:55 GMT -5 DotAndBuzz said:

Jul 23, 2014 20:45:27 GMT -5 statlerwaldorf said:

Gurl.com
It was a website for teenage girls.
I think I was 12 or 13, so around 2000 or so.

ugh, this is going to turn into one of those "I feel so damn old" threads. 

Not your fault, but

Yes. LOL!

[alicenelson]

Right here. January 2013. I'm lame.

[Ace]

The WB message boards for Gilmore Girls. I joined around 2003, I think.

[underwaterrhymes]

I am too embarrassed to say what my first message board was.

This is only my second (if you don't count The Nest and GBCN as separate entities).

[DotAndBuzz]

Jul 23, 2014 21:34:04 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

I am too embarrassed to say what my first message board was.

This is only my second (if you don't count The Nest and GBCN as separate entities).

Was it through AOL?  And you had to pay for internet based on minutes you were online? 

It's ok.  I remember that time too.

[underwaterrhymes]

Jul 23, 2014 21:39:09 GMT -5 DotAndBuzz said:

Jul 23, 2014 21:34:04 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

I am too embarrassed to say what my first message board was.

This is only my second (if you don't count The Nest and GBCN as separate entities).

Was it through AOL?  And you had to pay for internet based on minutes you were online? 

It's ok.  I remember that time too.

LOL!

I wasn't counting the chat room I visited through Prodigy back in the day.

No, sadly, this was in 2000.

[wysiwyg]

Uh... I don't even remember. Does 4chan count? Does running my own board for an old video game count?

If not, then it might be this one!

Except GBCN, all those message boards were quite long ago. At least 10 years ago.

[blueballoon]

Goosemoose rat and small animal forum. I was on it from 2003-2011.

[rubytue]

Does usenet count? I posted in usenet forums back in like '93. Then BBSes. First board in this fashion was ivillage (shut up!) in the late 90s.

Yes, I just came in here to bond with the oldz.