|
Perhaps it is possible for old internet friends to meet once again here in GBS. The first forum I ever posted on was N64CC.COM, and my name was Hylian King. Does anybody... remember me? N64CC was so amazing back in the day, it's heyday was the initial launch period of Zelda OOT. I recall being in 6th grade and stumbling upon the forums and all of the Zelda mysteries contained within, including of course the mysterious Triforce. Internet friends are not like real friends, as they exist only on the internet. But sometimes in real life a person does not have any friends, so one has to make friends on the internet because then no one knows the truth about your pathetic existence, unless you post in E/N. Anyhow, this thread should contain old forums that you frequented, and perhaps friendships will blossom once again. Thanks for your time.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 05:46 |
|
|
|
| # ? Nov 21, 2009 21:52 |
|
|
Recently going back to an old forum I used to frequent but lost touch with over the years, all it was was everyone with anime signatures, stupid in jokes, and lovely 4chan memes. God drat I'm glad to be here.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 05:48 |
|
|
I used to be a moderator of a Toronto raver message board. I don't even want to check if it's still around, because I think it is...but I haven't posted there in YEARS and I'm afraid to look.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 05:53 |
|
|
I posted a lot of UO Stratics before Something Awful and thought it was an amazing forum. But after being on SA I've really come to realize that every forum on the internet is full of dumb people.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 05:55 |
|
|
It was called...Makeout Club or Makeout Central or something like that. Teenage angst and hipsters aplenty.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 05:57 |
|
|
I posted at bf42.com when that was THE place to be for Battlefield 1942 and it's many mods. Then after a hostile forum takeover the old staff and a bunch of members, including myself, moved to a new forum created by the old owner and we had fun there for a long time, but it slowly died.  I know several of it's members are here too.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 05:58 |
|
|
A loooong time ago I was an internet superstar on the ffextreme forums  The website's gone under a lot of revisions but now I doubt it's still around. It was my first forum ever and they were pretty decent, not filled with massive idiots like most forums today.I'm not sure how long but after that I joined the funnyjunk.com forums, which SA reminds me a lot of, since some members were really elitist and didn't take to kindly to morons. I remember one day I went to log on and they kind of, just... disappeared? I think the funnyjunk people just cut the forum completely from the website. A group of diehards tried reviving the forums on some other website, something that had "spork" in it. I don't know where it went from there, but... yeah. drat forums.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 05:59 |
|
|
Back when half life was released I used to post on the TFC and 'Team Fotress 2' forums at Sierra. (Half life's publisher.)
Senor P. fucked around with this message at Nov 04, 2009 around 06:02 |
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 06:00 |
|
|
Wait, are you THE Hylian King??
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 06:01 |
|
|
FFlegend. My account name was Cloud-Strife. That's right. As far as I'm concerned, no forum other than this place exists. The moderation system and forum rules keep all the garbage out, mostly. Sometimes it keeps me out. The times I know I deserve it. Even when I know I don't. It keeps you on your toes.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 06:04 |
|
|
I used to post on an Australian/New Zealand gaming forum called Rooshooters.com. It was quite possibly the biggest collection of elitist arseholes I've ever seen. Little surprise that almost everybody played Starsiege: Tribes.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 06:07 |
|
|
The Nintendo Power Forums. I forget what they were called, but I was there every night back in 5th grade. I know that I'm not the only goon was was a member of The Earthbound Gang on AOL.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 06:28 |
|
|
Way back I used to frequent Blizzforums (yes, I'm a nerd). It was a fun forum, especially the GBS analog "Chit Chat". It had a solid community and I think I may have been a moderator at some point in time. Then a whole bunch of drama BS hit it and it split into different forums. It's apparently Still around, but there isn't anyone there I remember. I used to post under the name SoulreaverELITE.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 06:30 |
|
|
Posted at a Diablo2 forum for many years, till the whole place went to poo poo. It still exists, but only the spam bots post there now.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 06:32 |
|
|
SpartanIV posted:I posted at bf42.com when that was THE place to be for Battlefield 1942 and it's many mods. Then after a hostile forum takeover the old staff and a bunch of members, including myself, moved to a new forum created by the old owner and we had fun there for a long time, but it slowly died. I was a Desert Combat tester and moderator at fpscentral. did you post there?
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 06:33 |
|
|
Planetunreal.com way back in the day and then Beyondunreal.com before the Unreal Tournament series died and the forums got infested like the vast majority of forums out there do. Beyondunreal still exists, but it might as well not because of how horrible it is.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 06:33 |
|
|
Mattimer posted:As far as I'm concerned, no forum other than this place exists. The moderation system and forum rules keep all the garbage out, mostly. This about sums it up. You want a taste of what the rest of the Internet is like? Go read some YouTube comments, browse some of the geniuses in Yahoo Questions, or check out any one of the hundreds of forums ridiculed in our Weekend Web features.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 06:35 |
|
|
Hate.com where I developed all my trolling abilities.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 06:35 |
|
|
Back in the day when Halo was still fresh and I was a young teen, I came across redvsblue.com. I found it hilarious, so I joined up on the old phpbb forums. There's a thread in "The Basement" (basically gbs) called The BAR, which was a talk about whatever you want thread. For about three years I posted regularly in The BAR along with all the other 50-80+ regulars. It was like FYAD, we flamed anyone we didn't recognize, and we basically took over the whole forum and flamed all the Halo fanboys (it was too easy). It was basically like an internet family. We went through drama, we created drama, we had our traditions, and we made some chick put a banana in her pussy... Finally the staff got sick of us, one of the mods created a script to delete the profiles of all the other mods/staff/random users we didn't like, which in turn led to the banning of almost all the regulars. The BAR is still there today. There are like 10+ of the old regulars still posting. Most of the regulars moved on, a lot registered accounts here at SA, and one of them turned into a furry. Go figure.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 06:37 |
|
|
Activeworlds. Apparently some 3D graphic game thing back in 1998 I puttered around on but recently discovered in '98 I registered for a forum they had and never posted. Took me months to figure out the name of the game and even now I have no idea what it was about. I was.. 11 or 12 at the time? Maybe 13 at most?
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 06:37 |
|
|
Ahh, X-Entertainment. What a missed opportunity.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 06:37 |
|
|
Drunkgamers.com is where i posted. SA member Neato Burrito, convinced me to join here.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 06:38 |
|
|
I used to post on a Final Fantasy EzBoard called Final Fantasy Fanatics. I built up my 13 year old internet rep so high that I was made into a mod of a subforum or two, and then, about a week after I became a mod, Scorpz, the owner decided to delete the entire site without telling anyone. About a week later, I was bored and kinda depressed, and decided to do a google search for "monkey", and within the first few results, I found another ezboard site that a bunch of the former FFF posters made, and so I was happy again. It gained a lot of the population from FFF, but eventually everyone stopped posting. I'm still friends with a few of the old posters on Facebook though.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 06:40 |
|
|
The Redstorm.com forums back when Rogue Spear was hot. The funny thing is all of the regular members started a spinoff forum I still go to, years and years after the RSE forums closed.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 06:42 |
|
|
An Everquest board for the rogue class called the Safehouse which had an active off-topic board.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 06:43 |
|
|
I was a moderator on the original Albino Black Sheep forums, waaaaay back. I think the owner of the site ended up kicking us out and creating an entirely new forum because our admin talked poo poo on Tom Fulp or something. I don't exactly remember how it went down. We had a decent amount of members, and I remember posting on there quite a bit before we were kicked out. We continued the forum on another website (the admin's), but it didn't last very long because his website wasn't nearly as good as ABS's. Ah, the good old days... I like it better here, though.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 06:44 |
|
|
I once participated on the freeallegiance.org forums, for that old abandoned microsoft game. I think I went by rebootedrock then, and I'm sure the forums are still around. I know there's a few goons who played it, but the community moved on for my tastes.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 06:45 |
|
|
quake3world was great - people linking to JeffK playing q3 was what got me interested in the site.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 06:46 |
|
|
Uhhhh I posted on Clock Crew forums and "Skies of Arcadia World". Thats about it, I was young ok.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 06:46 |
|
|
I used to post on a forum called Golden Sun Realm. It was the less popular of two Golden Sun forums at Planet Golden Sun or whatever. I don't really remember. All I know is that I racked up like 4000 points, realized that holy poo poo people take the internet waaaay too seriously (internet posting awards? with real time ceremonies?! what!), and with a bunch of other regulars ended up bailing on the forums and creating our own little spin off. No one really goes to said forum anymore, but every once in a while a post shows up or two or someone wishes someone else a happy birthday.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 06:51 |
|
|
I spearheaded a big pirates versus ninjas flame war on lipstick party. Y'know, some girl had started a "pirate crew," and ninjas are their natural enemies... It spawned all sorts of others like white trash and robots, and I'm glad I haven't been there in years. I hate browsing the WotC forums because they don't police the b-tards, but it's still nice to get an e-mail from them on my birthday.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 06:55 |
|
|
I used to post on WWIVnet via a local BBS. Specifically "History and Moral Philosophy" and "Phistory and Horal Milosophy." (Basically like DD and LF.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWIVnet Also Alt.tasteless. Alt.tasteless was awesome. I remember hearing some pundit after 9/11 saying that one reason 9/11 could have happened was that the US intelligence agencies and military didn't have anyone sick enough to think of things like that. This was like a day or two after someone came forward with posts from a year or so before 9/11 predicting just such an event. edit: A.T. still exists, it's just a shadow of its former greatness. This is from the heyday of A.T.: http://artofhacking.com/IET/MISCHUM...oh_fucktard.htm edit: cleaning up some breadcrumbs. VideoTapir fucked around with this message at Nov 04, 2009 around 07:11 |
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 06:59 |
|
|
Kinda surprised no totse posters have come out of the woodwork here. I suppose it might be a mistake to admit to posting on a Weekend Web feature but frankly there were some good discussions unfortunately obscured by thousands of posts of angsty bullshit and clumsy trolling.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 07:02 |
|
|
gundamw.net (i was 12 and toonami was in the height of its power, forgive me SA!). I even recall a heated forum war with the hated enemy: gundamw.COM!!! *Shakes fist*
MattD1zzl3 fucked around with this message at Nov 04, 2009 around 07:11 |
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 07:03 |
|
|
Rotten rear end Joe posted:Uhhhh I posted on Clock Crew forums and "Skies of Arcadia World". Thats about it, I was young ok. Haha, I remember that SOA website. Love that game. Though this isn't particularly forum related, though he had forums on the website, did anybody ever read Video Gamer X? I wonder what happened to him... His sites are still up, like Odyssey of Hyrule.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 07:05 |
|
|
used to post at a community called the Flamehaus, which grew up around the halflife 2 modding community. My two account names were gimmick and gimmick account
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 07:08 |
|
|
Still around in some capacity, but I used to post a lot on the EverCrest messageboards. It was an internet comic about Everquest, but the forums were actually pretty popular for awhile. It's died down over the years though. Most people who still post there also post here, including the admin. Also I used to post on this old messageboard called kraptacular (kraptastic?) I think. It always had this weird brown on white color scheme. Everybody there used to post on some random old FF7 forum, but they eventually got tired of the moderation so they made their own forum instead.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 07:08 |
|
|
also LUE on gamefaqs...gently caress
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 07:09 |
|
|
Hawk Harrelson posted:Internet friends are not like real friends, as they exist only on the internet. B "Internet friends are not real friends" made me remember a cool story, Years ago like many of you i was an avid Battlefield 1942 player, i frequented the Sir. Community on the namurez stunt server, we were the ones for the most part that did all those cool plane jumping, jeep launching videos that you may remember from 2003. I kept in contact with one of them, who we will call "BFA", over AIM for years to come, but as time went on we stopped chatting, despite being on each others buddy lists. Fast forward 4 years later, i'm on my own and had just completed a 1650 mile move to south florida, where i met new friends and exchanged information, a real life friend of mine didn't recognize my name and freaked, messaging all his AIM buddies to find out who i was, including long lost BFA, who contacted me immediately. Long story short i re-met my long lost internet buddy, having moved 1600 miles completely randomly to land a mere 2 blocks from his house. Small world, right?
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 07:13 |
|
|
Anyone remember Bid For Power? That DBZ mod for Quake 3 that got turned into Not-DBZ very late in the cycle? Had a SHITLOAD of hype built around it, and was at one point the most popular mod for Quake 3.... despite having never been officially released. Yeah, I used to mod their forums. Fun times.
|
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 07:13 |
|
Rate Thread:
