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Post by tory on Jun 24, 2020 15:33:16 GMT
It strikes me that I've been using them for 2 decades - I remember logging onto Mojo around 2000 or 2001.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Jun 24, 2020 15:36:20 GMT
back when they still chalk and blackboard based
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Post by DarknessFish on Jun 24, 2020 15:50:16 GMT
Back in the summer of 2003. I was going through a nightmare time at work, there was a sudden technology shift, and I was kinda left a bit orphaned and useless for a few months. So I used that time productively, joined imdb and chatted about music. There was a serious bit of online flirting with a Canadian girl too. Still feels such a shame those boards were closed, I spoke to the likes of schizo and Edward JH pretty much daily for 15 years, and now have lost touch completely. Then again, I do the same with friends in real life. All the cool kids started out there.
I joined rateyourmusic later in the same year, which was also quite a close-knit community in its early years. I've drifted away from that quite a bit though I still check it regularly; I never really bother with the admin responsibility anymore (I thought that power would have been removed years ago), and rarely write reviews. It's too big to feel like a proper online community now but not big enough to invest the time in. If only sharifi had let me design that DB years ago :-(
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Jun 24, 2020 16:17:03 GMT
It strikes me that I've been using them for 2 decades - I remember logging onto Mojo around 2000 or 2001. Same here. MOJO, 2001. The Fall had a kind of message board - think I was contributing there from 1999. But it wasn't quite the same thing. Sure there's a name for it. Other things - used easyjet to book flights online from 1997 or 1998. Hotmail from 1998 or 1999, I think.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Jun 24, 2020 16:39:57 GMT
It strikes me that I've been using them for 2 decades - I remember logging onto Mojo around 2000 or 2001. Same here. MOJO, 2001. Likewise. I think I joined the MOJO board just prior to 9/11. I remember using a few chat rooms before that, but that was about the novelty of it for me, rather than any sort of community aspect.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jun 24, 2020 16:52:35 GMT
Mojo, about the same time as everyone else. Maybe a year later. When I went on the Mojo board, it seemed like people were pretty chummy already so I sat back and just read threads for six months or so before I posted anything.
I didn't really have time for forums. Jobs were too demanding and kids came on the scene in '96 and '02.
It's funny. Circa '83, we had one computer science major in our dorm. He had built his own PC and everyone went into his dorm room to take a look at it. I remember having to know DOS commands for the first computer at work to interact with other companies. Up until around '92. After that, I was working at companies that handled lots of graphic design so it was all MAC for the first 10 years of my career. I remember getting a Power Mac with a big screen for home in the mid '90s and I thought I was pretty cool. I remember getting a It's been PC ever since.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2020 16:58:12 GMT
4QMusic or whatever it was called was my first message board experience. I've known some cunts on here and BCB for over 20 years. No matter how much i drink it doesn't dull that pain.
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Post by Johnny Fartpants on Jun 24, 2020 17:28:35 GMT
4QMusic or whatever it was called was my first message board experience. I've known some cunts on here and BCB for over 20 years. No matter how much i drink it doesn't dull that pain. Hey sugar tits, how have you been?
I joined two message boards at around the same time in late 1999 ... one of them was the aforementioned Q4Music board and the other was a Belgian Beer message board called, rather pretentiously, the Burgundian Babble Belt ... or BBB as it became known. I had just moved to Belgium at the time.
Then as the Q board closed down, I jumped over to BlackCatBone in late 2002. And I've just realised that at that point, I was on two message boards called BBB and BCB. Hadn't occurred to me until just now!
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Post by Sneelock on Jun 24, 2020 17:48:59 GMT
I'm sure I was on Usenet in the 90's. it was before Y2K because that's certainly my first pending disaster on the internet that didn't happen.
my first was alt.fan.frank_zappa then alt.fan.david_bowie. there were some good general interest movie boards too but I can't remember what they were called. the Bowie board was really just a troll farm. two or three guys who hated each other's guts pretending to be five or six guys that hated each other's guts. it was pretty boring.
the zappa board on the other hand, much like zappa himself, had much to love AND loathe. the Super Fabulous Biffy the Elephant Shrew was one of the first full blown enthusiasts I noticed on the internet. he had a finger in a lot of pies - lots of interests. there were some people who claimed to be in Zappa's orbit who posted now and then. they posted infrequently enough that even if they were full of shit it was interesting to fans. they'd say things about recording methods or Nigey Lennon or something which could prick up a fan's ears. on the other end there was a sad case - a not untalented fellow named Zoogz Rift who had fallen on very hard times. He seemed to think that the people who posted on alt.fan.frank_zappa had an obligation to help him out. I'll bet Biffy the Elephant Shrew did but, even though I liked Zoogz music I was in no position to help anybody financially or otherwise. Zoogz became the most magnificent troll. I guess he'd go off his meds or something and then start going "bwa ha ha", "copycatting" other users and being an astonishing jackass.
I mention this because I really enjoyed my time on Usenet and really feel like it prepared me for the Internet the way it turned out to be. I learned a couple of important lessons. the lessons may be outdated but they are firmly entrenched as habits.
ONE: Always assume that somebody else is politically an extreme right-wing Randian nut-job unless they give you a STRONG reason to believe otherwise. TWO: NEVER say anything even in the most roundabout, diplomatic way about video games or video gamers. those people have spent a LOT of money & seem to have a lot of time on their hands.They will give up eating and sleeping in order to hound you until you make a declarative statement that they are BETTER & SMARTER than you in every way.
Rule #1 served me well in my AOL days when we got our email from a general interest page. in the early days of IRAQ Dinesh D'Souza was considered a mainstream thinker and his followers gave the impression that if anybody disagreed that they would find out where they live, give them a headstart & follow them to the ends of the earth to exact some sort of revenge.
I wonder if they were gamers?
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Post by fonz on Jun 24, 2020 18:34:48 GMT
I'm sure I was on Usenet in the 90's. it was before Y2K because that's certainly my first pending disaster on the internet that didn't happen. my first was alt.fan.frank_zappa then alt.fan.david_bowie. there were some good general interest movie boards too but I can't remember what they were called. the Bowie board was really just a troll farm. two or three guys who hated each other's guts pretending to be five or six guys that hated each other's guts. it was pretty boring. the zappa board on the other hand, much like zappa himself, had much to love AND loathe. the Super Fabulous Biffy the Elephant Shrew was one of the first full blown enthusiasts I noticed on the internet. he had a finger in a lot of pies - lots of interests. there were some people who claimed to be in Zappa's orbit who posted now and then. they posted infrequently enough that even if they were full of shit it was interesting to fans. they'd say things about recording methods or Nigey Lennon or something which could prick up a fan's ears. on the other end there was a sad case - a not untalented fellow named Zoogz Rift who had fallen on very hard times. He seemed to think that the people who posted on alt.fan.frank_zappa had an obligation to help him out. I'll bet Biffy the Elephant Shrew did but, even though I liked Zoogz music I was in no position to help anybody financially or otherwise. Zoogz became the most magnificent troll. I guess he'd go off his meds or something and then start going "bwa ha ha", "copycatting" other users and being an astonishing jackass. I mention this because I really enjoyed my time on Usenet and really feel like it prepared me for the Internet the way it turned out to be. I learned a couple of important lessons. the lessons may be outdated but they are firmly entrenched as habits. ONE: Always assume that somebody else is politically an extreme right-wing Randian nut-job unless they give you a STRONG reason to believe otherwise. TWO: NEVER say anything even in the most roundabout, diplomatic way about video games or video gamers. those people have spent a LOT of money and will give up eating and sleeping in order to hound you until you make a declarative statement that they are BETTER & SMARTER than you in every way. Rule #1 served me well in my AOL days when we got our email from a general interest page. in the early days of IRAQ Dinesh D'Souza was considered a mainstream thinker and his followers gave the impression that if anybody disagreed that they would find out where they live, give them a headstart & follow them to the ends of the earth to exact some sort of revenge. I wonder if they were gamers? The alt.net Zappa one was my first. I remember Biffy and Zoogz. I was naive in those days, and a lot younger, circa '96, '97. Those fuckers (not the aforementioned) could be brutal if you made any unsubstantiated remark about Frank etc, but it was a good source of info. I gravitated onto the zappa.com community, where I was poached by Carlsson for a PSL-cheers C! and got into bcb in 2014 (I was seduced by the strapline of the Jolly secxtion (events people say they're going to until a couple of days before' or something). Believe it or not, my first big forum obsession was a site (Jemsite) devoted to the JEM guitar, designed, and played, by Steve Vai. I went to events organised by Jemsite, and was a True Believer. It was a big deal. Still is. A great resource for guitar players. Then Preludin came along. The end.
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Post by Sneelock on Jun 24, 2020 18:36:36 GMT
I love a story with a happy ending!
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Post by fearlessfreap on Jun 24, 2020 18:48:10 GMT
Early 00's on the defunct Blue Note board
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Post by The Red Heifer on Jun 24, 2020 20:49:55 GMT
Q was my first message board, although I was years (and sometimes balls) deep in chatrooms by then. I joined Mojo as well but they didn't keep it as modern as a 19 year old would like. I enjoyed it until they shut the board down and us remaining members became essentially the ABA of the BCB posters (that one's for Sloop).
Apart from the progression of music boards that led me here, the forum for satirical comedy troupe The Chaser was pretty good for the brief time I was on it (I met the sometime BCB-posting girlfriend I dubbed The Heiferette there, which lasted 3 and a half years), and the one for Empire magazine, which was like talking movies with 50 Copeheads.
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Post by Charlie O. on Jun 25, 2020 16:54:02 GMT
I joined a list-serv for Holy Modal Rounders fans in, I think, early 1998 - not long after I got online. I was very active on that for a few years, but some unpleasant interpersonal politics (among people I had come to consider friends - I'd even met them in real life by that point) caused me to decide to take what I thought would be a short break, which has now lasted the better part of two decades. I still check in very occasionally, but don't post. By that time the MOJO board had come along, and I think similar distractions must have come along for a lot of the other list members.
I don't remember what year it was I first joined MOJO. I do remember that immediately after I did so - I think I had made one post - the board was shut down for a huge overhaul; the other old-timers might remember this. At the time I thought the board had been shut down for good, and as I hadn't had a chance to establish any relationships there, I was none the wiser until I just happened to check back one day months later and there it was, new and improved...
So, from there to BCB in 2003 to Preludin, and that's the long and short of it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2020 17:17:41 GMT
Puttered around some boards in the late 90s, not really engaging in them. The first real engagement came with imdb, specifically Music General. The boards started in 2001 and I got my feet wet for a year on the film boards..around 2002 I became aware of Music General and my more hardcore interaction began. Really the only boards I actually cared about. So it's mainly been imdb MG-Refuge-BCB-Preludin / imdb 2.1..Lots of fun wasted time..
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