If this has already been asked, delete it, or merge it.

 

I never thought I'd post on a forum until back in 2004 when I joined the Okayplayer HipHop Community

 

That was followed shortly by Urbanplanet.org

 

Then SSP when I caught someone swiping my images.

 

Finally UrbanOhio came last year.

 

 

From then on, I'd face the difficult struggle of trying to get real work done instead of posting on the internet.  Fortunately sites like this look reputable when working for an architecture firm and the time comes for reviewing employees' internet usage.  And since I'm now in grad school, I can pay attention less during lectures and lose focus on my schoolwork.

 

 

I'm pretty sure ssp was first for me, back in 1999.

Hmmm maybe back in 89 when compuserve was around.

July 2005, when I started here.  I've never posted on any other board, but have posted comments on blogs.

I believe I started really posting on messages boards a lot when I was planning my wedding over five years ago, especially on theknot.com.  I started posting here about two years ago.

2000-2001 on onlineshowoff.com  it was an automotive board.. learned alot about cars for an 8th grader haha

Yeah Baby!!  Back when Commodore Computers Ruled!  :wink:  Q-Link... I still have that same Commodore 64 to this very day.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Link

 

Hmmm maybe back in 89 when compuserve was around.

 

Vintage Q-Link (AOL) Promotion Video (1986)

[youtube=425,350]fjgH27p-FAM

 

During the 1998 Winter Olympics on a figure skating message board.

1999 on Detroityes. I think I'm nearly singlehandedly responsible for implementing the "changes" to the forum back about three years ago.

February 23, 2005, 03:59:20 PM

I still have that same Commodore 64 to this very day.

 

Bahh!  Atari 8-bit was my baby.  I never had internet for it, though.  I couldn't help but notice the conversation in the chat room that they showed in the promo video you posted.  It went something like this:

 

Idiot1...What's up?

Idiot2...The Sun, the moon, the sky

Idiot1...ha ha ha!

Idiot3...HELP!  How do I download stuff?

etc.

 

I started posting on forums somewhere around 2000.

1995 on USENET: misc.transport.road, the Metallica one, the Black Sabbath one and alt.autos.camaro.firebird or something.

1995 on USENET: misc.transport.road, the Metallica one, the Black Sabbath one and alt.autos.camaro.firebird or something.

 

oh god, i totally forgot about some of the ol' BBS, if I had to ballpark....uh....1994 at the latest too, somewhere around the age when you just gotta have the anarchist's cookbook.

Downloading images (using uudecode) in 1991, and posting on a bulletin board maybe once or twice...a lot of time reading them, not much posting...

I remember posting in February 1996 to find out if a certain Dominican team had won the Caribbean Series. In 1999, I started checking the Ohio high school football message boards.

UrbanOhio was my first...from there they say the rest is history.  I've been blogging like crazy and posting on forums as if my life depended on it (sadly).

1995 on USENET: misc.transport.road, the Metallica one, the Black Sabbath one and alt.autos.camaro.firebird or something.

 

oh god, i totally forgot about some of the ol' BBS, if I had to ballpark....uh....1994 at the latest too, somewhere around the age when you just gotta have the anarchist's cookbook.

 

I still go to misc.transport.road. Also, a co-worker and I were just talking about the Anarchist's Cookbook yesterday; weird.

The Anarchist Cookbook is a classic and a must-read for any teenager. You really haven't had a childhood unless you've ripped off a vending machine.

The Anarchist Cookbook is a classic and a must-read for any teenager. You really haven't had a childhood unless you've ripped off a vending machine.

 

I was disappointed to learn that in college, you can just flip the thing upside down, then rightside back up, to get all the candy.

Skyscraperpage.com's forum - back when it was all text; I want to say that was about 1998.

The Anarchist Cookbook is a classic and a must-read for any teenager. You really haven't had a childhood unless you've ripped off a vending machine.

 

I was disappointed to learn that in college, you can just flip the thing upside down, then rightside back up, to get all the candy.

 

Well there's a trick with putting in a dollar with scotch tape on it or something..you stick it halfway in and pull it out and it thinks it took the dollar. Hit the change refund button and jackpot.

In February 2003, when I started posting on SkyscraperPage.  And to think that I was using dial-up to view 100-photo threads.

 

These days, I don't really post on any message boards other than here.  I have posted on others from time to time.  For example, I spent a lot of time on Yappi the year that Colerain won their last D-I Championship.

urban ohio broke my message board virginity, and I havent been the same since.  Lets just say hallway, meet hot dog. 

My first forum was actually URC (UltimateRollerCoaster.com) when I was "O-High-O."  That was in 1997.  Then SSP in 1998 (though I was another name, not ColDayMan).

My first USENET post was on August 6, 2000, although I had been surfing the Internet since 1995ish (10 years old).

Then SSP in 1998 (though I was another name, not ColDayMan).

 

I remember what it was......but I'm not telling!!!!!!!!

From the August 1987 issue of Online Today

Great poster -- and it reminds me to tell you that I've got you all beat. It was 1984 and Compuserve had an online "CB radio" as they called it. I used a Commodore 64 on a Sony TV/monitor along with a 2400 baud modem to get online through the phone lines. The main Compuserve CB chat room quickly got so full that you'd post a message preceded by your numerical user ID, with your post directed at another person's numerical user ID (that you'd have to type in manually) and it would scroll off the page so fast and so far up that it was difficult to read and almost impossible to find again. So then they started opening up topical chat rooms such as Football, Baseball, Hockey, Basketball, Olympics, US Travel, International Travel, Food, etc. And thus the online forum was born.

 

I even remember my old Compuserve user ID -- 72764.2020. I have a very good memory of the 1980s. Ask me about a song and can tell you not only in what year it got heavy radio airplay but in what season of that year.

Greedwatch.com, sometime in 1996.   Followed soon after by a few AOL boards, Usenet, and such.  Greedwatch more or less evolved into the Orange and Brown Report, now the Browns page at 247sports.com.    I've been there so long the space in my user name grandfathered, they don't let you do that anymore.

 

Back in that era, Browns fans ranked with the Church of the Subgenius and (somewhat later) Freepers as groups you didn't want to cross online.   

12 hours ago, taestell said:

From the August 1987 issue of Online Today

 

It didn't *quite* happen *that*  early LOL

I have been trolling since 1994-95.  A friend of mine introduced me to a pair of local BBS bulletin boards which only one person could log into at a time.

 

When the internet began, there were "guestbooks" before there were forums.  Begun innocently enough to encourage positive feedback to the website, they instead became scenes of fetid trolling. 

12 minutes ago, jmecklenborg said:

I have been trolling since 1994-95.  A friend of mine introduced me to a pair of local BBS bulletin boards which only one person could log into at a time.

 

When the internet began, there were "guestbooks" before there were forums.  Begun innocently enough to encourage positive feedback to the website, they instead became scenes of fetid trolling. 

 

Yeah, ask the State of Maryland about *that*.   >:)

12 hours ago, KJP said:

Great poster -- and it reminds me to tell you that I've got you all beat. It was 1984 and Compuserve had an online "CB radio" as they called it. I used a Commodore 64 on a Sony TV/monitor along with a 2400 baud modem to get online through the phone lines. The main Compuserve CB chat room quickly got so full that you'd post a message preceded by your numerical user ID, with your post directed at another person's numerical user ID (that you'd have to type in manually) and it would scroll off the page so fast and so far up that it was difficult to read and almost impossible to find again. So then they started opening up topical chat rooms such as Football, Baseball, Hockey, Basketball, Olympics, US Travel, International Travel, Food, etc. And thus the online forum was born.

 

I even remember my old Compuserve user ID -- 72764.2020. I have a very good memory of the 1980s. Ask me about a song and can tell you not only in what year it got heavy radio airplay but in what season of that year.

 

Song: Prince Purple Rain Album - Was Purple Rain the first big hit off that album to get airplay? Always curious about that one!

 

I posted a bit on Iowa Hawkeye sports forums but mostly just trolled. I don't post on any forums except this one, started in 2013 when I moved to Cincy during the streetcar debacle

15 minutes ago, jmecklenborg said:

I have been trolling since 1994-95.  A friend of mine introduced me to a pair of local BBS bulletin boards which only one person could log into at a time.

Ha. There's a good chance I was frequenting those BBS's at that time.

Guestbooks!  Any reputable homestead on geocities had a guestbook ?

Edited July 9, 20195 yr by viscomi

This website started off as Geocities, FYI (under a different name, of course).

6 hours ago, ColDayMan said:

This website started off as Geocities, FYI (under a different name, of course).

 

AND had a guestbook! ?

What was it called? Chris n Rich's Urban Exploration and Roadgeeking Site (under construction) 

BANNED!!!

23 hours ago, jmecklenborg said:

When the internet began, there were "guestbooks" before there were forums.  Begun innocently enough to encourage positive feedback to the website, they instead became scenes of fetid trolling. 

 

I remember "hacking" the smashmouth.com guestbook around 1999 or 2000. The guestbook did not prevent you from entering HTML into your comment, so you could do thinks like embed auto-playing MIDI files or scrolling marquees, or adding other HTML that would break the layout of the page.

Since I didn't get into this topic back in 2007 (Louisiana stuff). My first message board experience would of been in Spring of 1997 as I started at OSU-Marion. First site, most likely was Phillynews.com (now just Philly.com), which was co-operated by both the Inquirer & Daily News. I visited Cleveland.com shortly there after.