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Masturbasturd
Sep 1, 2014
We would use smoke signals to send messages to the nearby villages. It was fun for awhile but they kept on calling me a fag and to kill my famil.

Masturbasturd fucked around with this message at 18:22 on Sep 7, 2014

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Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:

Bolt.com mostly on the UK section of the forums. Terrible stuff. I can recall one poster called 'Tanya Buttimer' who was the first gimmick account I'd ever come across online and her deal was telling stories about her weird family life and her redneck parents who somehow always used to embarrass her all the time.

wit
Jul 26, 2011

exspurt analcyst posted:

We would use smoke signals to send messages to the nearby villages. It was fun for awhile but they kept on calling me a fag and to kill my famil.

This is a bad forum post.

lidnsya
Nov 14, 2007
<img src="https://fi.somethingawful.com/customtitles/title-lidnsya.jpg"><br>All aboard the sleepy train!
My first was the Official X-Files forums. That would have been around 1999/2000. I'm actually still friends with a couple of people from there. One of them got his handle in the new XF credits!

I read a lot of MSR and Mulder/Krycek fanfic. :negative:

Then it was a forum dedicated to Robin Black and the Intergalactic Rockstars, lolz.

Then LiveJournal.

Then Something Awful.

Sad Rhino
Aug 23, 2014
Wireplay, a closed UK gaming service, in 98/99. Anyone who couldn't afford 2.5p a minute was kept out.

wilfredmerriweathr
Jul 11, 2005
slashdot (compuserve before that but I didn't do much poo poo online back then)

super macho dude
Aug 9, 2014


Consumption Junction

I am Toni Lippi
Aug 16, 2004
I used to go on mplayer.com alot. That was pretty fun.

AdvilSmith
Aug 15, 2014

Broken! Busted! Everybody has something to repair. Before buying new, let Mighty Putty fix it for you.
Infoceptor all the way through until it died and ressurected as BlizzLink. also Lycos chat rooms where I was a terrible 14yo troll to everyone. especially when Aaliyah died in that plane crash.

BustEmUpBobby
Oct 11, 2012

Emo Assault Squadron!!!
I used to hang out in the kids section and the games section of the AOL site when I was a kid. My family didn't want me going on the full internet at a young age, I might have gone to inappropriate places. I should have rebelled, because now I rarely try out other sites that interest me. I did develop a love of video game related websites though.

My first real forums I treated like home...

1. Sydlexia.com, a website about 80's and 90's pop culture. Website is awesome, but the forum was full of angry antisocial spergs, and it's dead now.

2. RPGDreamersForum.com, was a fan forum for RPG video games. They tried to become a full news site, but suddenly shut down without warning a couple years ago. gently caress..

3. GaiaOnline.com, this gets a lot of hate from the internet. I loved this website because I saw my anime loving friend using it. She also introduced me to anime too, and I became a weeaboo for a couple months. OK website if you avoid the shitpost threads, and hope the overmoderating assholes don't take offense at your opinions and ban your account.

EDIT: I don't see why people are disapproving posts about BBSes. People that used BBSes back in the day are older and more hardcore with tech. I'd like to read about people's BBS experiences.

BustEmUpBobby fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Sep 8, 2014

Tokaii
Mar 8, 2004

Oldest Goon
July 29, 1942

Lars! posted:

Tokaii! Glad to see you. I was just wondering if you still posted around here. Your Chicago PD thread is what motivated me to register for an account. Hope all's well!

Still ticking, 72 now.

Samuel L. ACKSYN
Feb 29, 2008


idk if it was first but i used to be on a warez forum called kopykatz or copykatz or something

apparently theres still a kopykatz but i dont think its the same one

Cuniculous
Apr 23, 2007

kill people burn shit fuck school
Portal of Evil. I miss it. :(

Wootman
Sep 6, 2014

by XyloJW
I used to post a shitton on the old official Nintendo forums. I used to post so much threads about lovely cartoons and about this admin that I hated named Andy I think till I finally got banned.

Rip

Mariana Horchata
Jun 30, 2008

College Slice
Bolt.com



wit posted:

One of the many pre-9/11 anarchist-cookbook-seems-like-a-great-idea type sites.

ah that was like one of my first great internet memories...i dont even remember my first internet porn site but i remember the first time i discovered the cookbook

Mariana Horchata fucked around with this message at 05:40 on Sep 8, 2014

omg chael crash
Jul 8, 2012

Macys paid for this. Noodle Boy and Bonby are bad at video games and even worse friends.


Octy posted:

I think it was Planetside Universe about 2003.

Yo dude, samesies. Who the hell were you

Rad Tad
Jul 2, 2014

i had cybersex with a woman on neopets for a striped paintbrush and it's been downhill ever since

Hexel
Nov 18, 2011




evilgamer.net

Antifa Spacemarine
Jan 11, 2011

Tzeentch can suck it.
I got permabanned on the wow forums for rickrolling a mod.

vyst
Aug 25, 2009



Rad Tad posted:

i had cybersex with a woman on neopets for a striped paintbrush and it's been downhill ever since

Yea but how was the cyber sex?

Mister Fister
May 17, 2008

D&D: HASBARA SQUAD
KILL-GORE


I love the smell of dead Palestinians in the morning.
You know, one time we had Gaza bombed for 26 days
(and counting!)
Probably here or the anandtech forums back in '99

Rad Tad
Jul 2, 2014

vyst posted:

Yea but how was the cyber sex?

i felt like i was doing all the heavy lifting and she didn't even draw good anime

7/10

Robbie Fowler
May 31, 2011
msn chatrooms and gitr2k.com (text based wrestling game).

salty fries make me cry
Oct 3, 2007

~~i'm outside ur window~~
~throwin bricks at teh moon~
An Animal Crossing forum called Animal Crossing Ahead, which is apparently still around like 12 years later.

Also used to post on squidi.net forums like the op for a while.

KiteAuraan
Aug 5, 2014

JER GEDDA FERDA RADDA ARA!



same. i was gay.

vyst
Aug 25, 2009



Rad Tad posted:

i felt like i was doing all the heavy lifting and she didn't even draw good anime

7/10

That's the worst

Rad Tad
Jul 2, 2014

vyst posted:

That's the worst

it was the only thing better than f5ing on the donation tree wait am i a slut?

Runaktla
Feb 21, 2007

by Hand Knit
Either IRC or whatever mud I was playing back then

Blooshoo
May 15, 2004
I'm a newbie
I think my first major forum was avault (some game review site). from there I was a fairly prominent poster in the pre-beta-shadowbane-forums, from the time they announced it until beta. It's funny I spent more time anticipating that game than playing it. Around the time that was hitting retail I came here RE: some fark or lumthemad article.

90s Solo Cup
Feb 22, 2011

To understand the cup
He must become the cup



I can't remember the first place I started posting on (something Gran Turismo related), but I remember the e-mail I used:

GTSpeedKing6 @ AOL.com :krad:

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
EmuAsylum

Mariana Horchata
Jun 30, 2008

College Slice

Everyday Lurker posted:

I can't remember the first place I started posting on (something Gran Turismo related), but I remember the e-mail I used:

GTSpeedKing6 @ AOL.com :krad:

i was on gran-turismo.com (i think that was the url, maybe there was no hyphen?) forums before the owner started taking Accutane and then proceeded to go loving mental and shut down the forums in their prime instead of simply just killing himself.

Fur20
Nov 14, 2007

すご▞い!
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね!

EugeneJ posted:

EmuAsylum

i realize this a site about playing snes games on the computer but if only it were for people who were crazy enthusiastic about emus

My first legit haunt was ROCKET TOWN ONLINE, some fanfiction site the staff of which liked Cid Highwind a lot. God drat, it's been over a decade already?

kode54
Nov 26, 2007

aka kuroshi
Fun Shoe
The ZSNES board. Through multiple iterations. I even became staff after I proved I could clean up after trolls by first using a SQL injection hack to gain admin. I also used edited dead accounts to troll. Too bad one time I accidentally changed password without a while clause. That was fun for everyone. Now it's pretty much dead and I only have gmod rank, which means I get to see the hundreds of daily auto modded spam posts.

I also used to post on the personal forum of a friend from the ZSNES boards, which housed several other weirdos and even a real life pedophile, unapologetic about being 28 and in a relationship with a 14 year old girl whose parents were totally okay with it.

Nathilus
Apr 4, 2002

I alone can see through the media bias.

I'm also stupid on a scale that can only be measured in Reddits.

BustEmUpBobby posted:

EDIT: I don't see why people are disapproving posts about BBSes. People that used BBSes back in the day are older and more hardcore with tech. I'd like to read about people's BBS experiences.

BBSes aren't Real Internet. Internet is formed when all things good and horrible come together. BBSes can't offer more than a slice and are weak sauce cuz of that. No critical mass. HTH.

Egoist
Aug 19, 2010

Love myself today
Let you go today
Lipstick Apathy
loving adult swim forums also greatest journal which was a much better, free version of live journal that eventually died

1gnoirents
Jun 28, 2014

hello :)
Automags.org
I cannot loving believe that place still has people posting

CAMP FARTING ROCKS
Jan 14, 2005

The Starship Titanic forums that were honest to god segregated by where you had gotten to in the game or something. It's an adventure game that required you to progress through passenger classes to complete, and for some reason people actually took it pretty seriously when you got your 'captains hat' and poo poo.


Place ran until the day Douglas Adams died, at which point the forums were abruptly removed and the website was replaced with a lovely ad hoc tribute.

Also Gaia Online.

[edit]
Now I think about it I reckon it was probably Gaia Online that put me onto SA. I know at least a few of the regular postin' buddies had accounts here.

CAMP FARTING ROCKS fucked around with this message at 08:57 on Sep 8, 2014

White Noise Marine
Apr 14, 2010

/b/ :downsgun:

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HAM ON THE BONE
Aug 22, 2009


Pillbug
RPing in sailor moon and DBZ chat rooms on AOL. Had my first (and last) internet relationship there, which ended when my mom picked up the phone.

Once I realized there was an internet outside of AOL it was seanbaby.com. I also spent a lot of time owning adults playing strike-a-match on boxerjam's website.

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