Vizzed Board, those were the days 😭
I do miss forum culture; large chunks of digital history have been erased as forums vanished.
Culture on the web has changed as well; it has moved from communication with elements of performance, to performance with the illusion of communication.
There’s still some good forums about.
I used to use MDOCUK.co.uk when I had my L400.
Now I use sprinter-source.com for my van
Handy for mechanical tips etc
The forums for the first silk road was pretty fun too
I typed in a random string of words in the early days and added “.com”, and I ended up on some forum some random guy in Texas hosted for him and his friends. I was obviously a decade younger than everyone else, but it was the best of the internet. We knew each other by name, the link sharing was top notch, civil conversations, no one was making money off of it.
Checked it recently and it’s been down for a long time. The internet archive caught one snapshot of it in time. I can see my username on the homepage like looking at my own gravestone.
My niche forum split off from a comic about RPG games, eventually they moved to a FB group to keep contact but I stopped using FB. I dreamt about them a few nights ago, I miss the community we had.
how did people in the 2000s afford web servers and domains ?
it seemed like everyone had their own site, my idiot child mind thought that it must be free
it was free. Geocities was free. Domains were (still are mostly) cheap. For simple web hostings there were (and still are) lots of free options
Now you could host a website on a pi zero if you wanted to. Well, you could if you make a proper website and don’t just download every JS library you can find to add a button.
if I ever make a website again, it will still static with manually coded html. I don’t know js, I can only remember some css. Maybe I’ll put some spinning 3d buttons gifs for fun.
Not free, but not expensive either.
It wasn’t that expensive if you used shared hosting.
Every few years I check in on an old message board I was active on between like 1999-2010. It’s still there. Gets maybe 1-2 posts per year these days.
Same for me, mine is https://skyscrapercity.com/ Still going strong, surprisingly!
Although looks like they’ve migrated from PhpBB to ‘fora’?
I don’t remember them ever using phpBB? Need to check the Wayback Machine later
Those years line up well with SETI@home?
Isn’t SETI dead now? Atleast you can not fetch ans New workunits in boinc.
Seti@home is. SETI itself is still going but not nearly as popular as the screen saver was.
Those were the good days.
Inb4 Anon buys the domain and turns it in a Threadiverse instance for the lulz
I used post on a mobile phone forum called Lasyk, this was some time in 2004-2006…
The forum is long since dead and erased, but it was a huge forum with 100k members, subforums for just about any mobile phone made by mainstream manufacturers.
I remember managing to create a huge thread over on their misc forum, where I asked other users to post a screenshot of their desktop.
It just kept going, and I think it became a staple thread with 80-100 pages or so…
I am grateful that phwonline.com got a solid eulogy
Shame that Facepunch forums are gone
Glad we’ve always got Archive.org
everynow and then, I log back in to GaiaOnline ( go-gaia if you’re OG GD prommie)… see how it’s doing…
Would you recommend it?
not really. It’s a shadow of itself at this point. The most noteworthy thing about it is the trivia knowledge that it sparked many research papers as a model of hyperinflation. But the forums themselves are dead. The minigames were entertaining at their inception, in the days of Shockwave games… but nowdays… you’d be more entertained just pulling down Terraria or something
Lets see what happend to gamespy
