How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? - eviltoast
From the first moment I first went online in 1996, forums were the main place to hang out. In fact the very first thing I did was join an online forum run by the Greek magazine "PC Master" so I could directly to my favourite game reviewers (for me it was Tsourinakis, for those old [...]
  • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
    16·
    3 months ago

    Great post!

    I would be curious to know how many people on here have found memories from BBcode-style forums.

    Personally I kinda skipped web 2.0 - I had some accounts, sure, but I hardly interacted with anything else than direct messaging. However I used to hang out on phpBB for probably hours every day before Facebook took over, having been lured in by needing help progressing in Pokémon on my GameBoy Advance.

    I guess I’m a minority around here in never having used Reddit much. But I’m wondering if we’re, in general, a bunch of ageing nerds who are nostalgic to web 1.0, or if we’re a more diverse bunch than that. ;)

    Edit:
    Oh, and speaking of nostalgia, I’m sad LemmyBB is not maintained any more! It makes perfect sense that it isn’t of course, but what a blast it would be.

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      41·
      3 months ago

      I used to use them a lot before Reddit, but I never really liked them. Too many to list or even remember at this point.

      • cabbage@piefed.social
        7·
        3 months ago

        I guess a large part why I liked them was that I was really only active on one or maximum two, and I was happy just embracing the community there. It was also in my native language rather than in English, which feels excotic in retrospect.