Forums, how long?

Started by steve58, February 02, 2021, 04:59:03 PM

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steve58

Just wondering how long y'all (I was born in NC, so I'm officially allowed to use y'all :coolsmiley:) have been on/using forums.  Not just talking this great site (thanks JH and Gus! :notworthy:), but forums in general.  I know I was on some old BBS sites using my 300/1200 baud modem :o (does that does make me an old fart?), but have long forgotten their names.  In March, I will have been an active member of a game trading site for 21 years and next year will make 20 (semi-active) years for me at Matrixgames.   Here's hoping that I'll be celebrating 20 years on Grogheads in 2032. :o

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Smuckatelli

I'm a retread from Wargamer, joined there probably in 2004??? Not really sure.

ArizonaTank

I guess it depends on your definition of forum.  If you include old pre-windows bulletin board systems (BBS'), then I have been posting messages since 1986. I had a Commodore 128 and a 300 baud modem. I frequented a gaming BBS hosted by Scorpia who was a well-known game reviewer back in the 8 bit days. There was a branch of the BBS that discussed wargames. The big computer wargame company at the time was SSI...so a bunch of good discussion on SSI games. At one point, I even uploaded a Universal Military Simulator scenario (UMS: a game developed by Ezra Sidran, who is still around, but UMS was not an SSI title).
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I think I started using BBS sites in the early 90s if that counts, definitely pre-1992. As far as the Wargamer goes, I think I was a member in college which would have me there sometime between 95-99. Same with the Matrix forums.

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Philistine

I got started with game forums with the Starfleet Command and Combat Mission forums in 1999. 

I probably got on Matrix a few years later.

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Ubercat

I was on some BBS's starting around '91 or so. The first forum that I remember actively using was for Panzer General 2 around '95 or so.
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Staggerwing

Though there may've been earlier ones, the first forum I clearly recall joining was one devoted to Domark's Flight Sim Toolkit, around 93-94. I can't even remember what platform it was on, might have been AOL or Compuserve. We traded design ideas and various tips and tricks and some folks even wrote utilities to supplement the designing tools that shipped with the game.

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Started using forums in mid-90's.  Warbirds game I was heavily into had a forum.

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I landed on The Wargamer about 2002 where I lurked for a long time....in the shadows.
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Quote from: Smuckatelli on February 02, 2021, 05:10:22 PM
I'm a retread from Wargamer, joined there probably in 2004??? Not really sure.
Hey Smuck!

Good to see you around! Hope all's well with you and the family? :) :hug:
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Boggit

Quote from: Gusington on February 02, 2021, 07:55:23 PM
I started on the Wargamer around 1999, I think...then was hired to write there in 2002. Everything between then and now is a blur.
It's the beer... ;)
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Aldous Huxley

Foul Temptress! (Mirth replying to Gus) ;)

On a good day, our legislature has the prestige of a drunk urinating on a wall at 4am and getting most of it on his shoe. On a good day  ::) Steelgrave

It's kind of silly to investigate whether or not a Clinton is lying. That's sort of like investigating why the sky is blue. Banzai_Cat

Anguille

I can't remember for sure.

The first forums i really got into were Haemimont games (Celtic Kings) and Slitherine (Spartan/Got) in 2002-2003. I am pretty sure i was in other forums as but not before 1999-2000. Then came Matrix and later Wargamer. I used to be present on the Paradox forums until i had an argument with an A****** moderator who thinks he's the king of it all (the jerk is still there).


Now i mostly here, the Steam forums (eXplorminate and game specific forums) as well as the Armchair General forums.

Smuckatelli

Quote from: Boggit on February 05, 2021, 01:55:56 AM
Quote from: Smuckatelli on February 02, 2021, 05:10:22 PM
I'm a retread from Wargamer, joined there probably in 2004??? Not really sure.
Hey Smuck!

Good to see you around! Hope all's well with you and the family? :) :hug:

Hi Boggit,

All is well here; Lt Smuckette is still in Spain, Tomas is a first year student at Drexel going for a Physician Assistant degree, Anna is a senior in high school now and waiting on results from her college applications. Mrs Smuck and I are doing well.

How are things going on your side of the pond?

W8taminute

I didn't really get into online forums until about 1999ish?  I only joined three forums; Apolyton.com (which is gone now), Civfanatics, and Wargamer.  Later I joined Grogs which remains my go to forum to this day.  Although I'm still a member of Civfanatics I rarely engage in conversation there. 
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