Your first internet forum
 

As the title suggests, what was your first internet forum and how long ago did you join? Just curious how long you guys have been forumers (I think I just invented a new word :))

The Internet Movie Database forums for me, sometime around 2000-2001.

The very first forum I joined was called MyREM, an REM fansite. I was one of the very first members there, joined in 1999. I was NINE years old, lied and said I was 14 or something. I didn't post very much because I only got Internet at the library, but when we got Internet at home a few years later I managed to submit almost 17,500 posts before it went offline a couple of years ago.

First forum for me was GamePro back around 2001. It was right around the time I got my PS2 and did a little mini review for Ico on their user review forum. I really can't remember how long I was active on that forum but in 2003 I joined Taborama's music forum while at school and managed to get around five thousand posts before the website was taken down in 2006.

Ah, 2003 and it was Gaiaonline, and I was 15.

The official forum of the superhero MMO, City Of Heroes. Joined October 28, 2005. Was all of thirteen years old. Takes me back.

The first one I remember regularly posting on was the official Magic the Gathering forum. I think I joined back in 2004. I was one of those obnoxious thirteen year olds who didn't really understand anything. In fact, I clearly remember being sigged by another member named Carados_Nuax for asking

"Wait, why is Black Lotus so good???"

I accidentally found my way onto a Napoleon Dynamite forum when I was 13. I remember making my username blue_night (rather than Green Day, har-de-har). I think I made like two posts and was subsequently afraid of the internet until 2008.

CEMB forum was my first forum.

Anarchy Online forums in 2001. I was a prolific poster for a long time and wrote a class guide and some other stickies there. Before forums, my social networking over the internet was mostly on IRC.

Atease I think it was around 2002/2003 when I joined. It was much better then than it is now i.e. no cliques or pretentious dicks competing against each other to see who can pretend to like the most obscure artist.

some Bladerunner forum? forgot its name, this was in 1996, i was 26

K.W. Jeter's sequels to the film were a hot topic back then

I was about 14/15 yrs old when I first joined a forum. It was a music forum dedicated to electronica. I loved the place. It went offline but I keep in touch with alot of the members and have even bumped into 3/4 of them in the street. (it was basically only scottish members)

My first one was for a site called X-entertainment, for the generation not the porn style back around 2001-2002. I stuck to their music subforum exclusively. And yes, I got called pretentious there too hahahaha

on the Bladerunner forum, a lot of people were irritated with me cos i was pissing on Jeter's books, insisting they're nowhere near as good as "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

(when I haven't even read his sequels)

The first forum I ever joined was ITV's Formula 1 forum sometime in 2000.

It was great, It got to the point that there was so much bitching about ITV's F1 coverage that they pulled the plug on it a few years later.

I remember this guy on there called Powerslider who claimed that he worked for the Jordan F1 team and he was always coming out with this 'insider knowledge' and everybody thought the guy was full of shit. Ironically after the forum closed down most of the stuff he was saying would happen did happen.

I joined a few Arsenal forums back in 2007 I think. Not sure if I had been an active member of a forum before that, apart from some weird one that was associated with my Secondary School in 2006.

Nintendo.com community forums.

I was like 11 years old comparing screen shots and making zelda history theories.

Decade later not a whole lot has changed though the community section was deleted when the wii came out

Also used to post on grasscity.com sometimes

[N]Gamer Online, a forum that's based off a video games magazine, I think it's been 2.5 years to be precise, therefor I was 12. I was a ****ing n00b. 'twas an awesome community, but by the time I learned how to behave properly on the internet the community was going downhill. It stille xists and it's still rpetty cool but then again, it;s Dutch, so you guys ain't gonna be able to do ****z with it. =P

:confused:There are OTHER forums?:confused:

anime-genesis.com in 2000....till they were hacked....then i hopped around from various anime forums till i came to that wonderful realization "i fucking hate anime"

My first internet forum in 2002 was a local forum that was set up for music fans around my town. It was surprisingly reasonably active for a few years but is long gone now. It was used mainly for organising local all-ages shows, buses to big concerts, musician networking and general random chat. Nobody really insulted each other or any of that stuff because most of us knew each other, and even if we didn't know each other we got to know each other which was kind of cool.

My first proper forum was Boards.ie which I first joined in 2003 and is Ireland's biggest forums site. I'm still an active member there although I'm on my second account.

I believe it was Dj Pi.net, and I think it was in 2006. It was pretty much dedicated to a guy who called himself DJ Pi and made Trance mixes for free download. I still listen to a lot of the songs I found because of his mixes. He kinda disappeared and no one knows where he went.

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Shortly thereafter was Global Hardstyle. I also joined AdTunes in 2005, but I don't count it since I only went there to ask a question about one song.

MB is my first forum, but unlike Burning Down ^ , I resisted the temptation to lie about my age in order to join in.

^ I wonder if you`ve read "A Scanner Darkly", which is a wonderful, sombre exploration of drug-induced psychosis ?

i have all of PKD's sci-fi books, bar The Ganymede Takeover

"A Scanner Darkly" is a tad too depressing for me, and i enjoyed the movie more, actually

i do enjoy tremendously "The Transmigration of Timothy Archer", which is a treatise on Gnostic Christianity

Hmm... when I read ASD it struck me as an exploration into the psychosis that induces drug abuse. Either way, brilliant author and a fantastic read.

I think the only other PKD I`ve read was a rather disappointing yarn called "The Intergallactic Pot Melder", which I bought when I was about 17 simply because the cover looked nice.

^ Well, mr dave, that`s quite a fine chicken-and-egg distinction that you`re making and I`ll take your word for it as it`s many years since I read ASD. I`m glad to hear that you enjoyed the book too.
I think for me, the book`s most memorable section came at the end, when PKD suddenly starts writing about his friends irl; one minute the author is entertaining you and the next he`s saying, "But don`t you dare laugh."

Galactic Pot Healer

and i thought it was about a marijuana guru

yeah, very disappointing and has no good ideas

Agreed, and please don't think I was being confrontational, it's more like I really like the fact that PKD's work tends to be so open to interpretation that it's very possible for two people to reach similar conclusions from opposing perspectives. Speaking of how he'd blur the line between fiction and his real life experiences have you read Valis?

A vegetarian forum.

Expresso Code Cafe back in 2001(?). It's been gone since 2003.

The first one I was ever active in was a psychology-based forum- INFJs Forums. (INFJ being a personality type based on Jungian psychology). Met some really great people there. Psychoanalysis was beginning to take over my life, though, so I left. I still have contact with a couple people I met there.

Xanga- What an absolute ****hole of a site.

Might as well mention my own, since I never did.

First forum I joined that I still post at is IGN in 2000. I'm fairly sure I joined ones before that but they're long gone from my memory.

i read a lot of IGN

haven't really participated at the forums

it's still my "to go" site for videogames

It's better than most video game centric forums. I think I posted at GameSpot for like a week and then got banned for calling someone stupid.

And I don't like joining forums that are only for one developer or game series.