Yeah, whatever...deny it all you want. You're here because you're addicted to internet forums. You may be a lurker, or you may be an active poster, but face it. You're addicted.*
Where did the bug first bite you? What was your first internet forum (no links please, just the name)? Is it still active or did it die a slow an painful death? Are you active on other forums or do you post here exclusively?
My first forum was The Celtic Connection back in 2006. I was on the staff for a bit, but I'm no longer a member, and after just looking, it's a ghost town with no posts this year.
I've joined a few other forums, but never became active on any until I joined this forum a little over three years ago.
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I started during Shrubya's disastrous Rein in the White House, on a little place called Why We Hate Bush dot com. This was in 2004? Or so. It went belly up when the guy running it did a vamoose, and you could not reset your password or whatever. Found Topix shortly thereafter (2005). I also was on Ex Christian net, and (very briefly) Brights. Spent several years on Atheists Today, and Atheists Nexus. When I was driving Dodge Sprinter vans, I was weekly on Sprinter Forums for mechanical advice and whatnot. Did many years first on Flying Spaghetti Monster forum (I forget it's name, now-- I think it's defunct) and an offshoot called Toadfish Monastery. Oh! For two years I was a mod on Asus Transformer forum-- as I had one (now given away, and I suspect defunct).
When Topix was melting down, I discovered FaceBroke, where I'm on daily now. My last visit to Topix, I was given a PM and an invite to here-- been here ever since, but not quite daily.
Let's see... I was on a well known programming/hacking/jailbreaking/boot-unlocking site for Android phones and tablets, XDA-developers. I haven't been there in years, though-- as I have all but abandoned Android, except for smart phones, and those? Pure stock, with little or nothing on it. I switched to PC tablets, as Android has seemingly abandoned the tablet world-- you cannot do **anything** on Android these days, and the platform is seriously broken. I do have an old Moto G I use strictly as an MP3 and Audible device in my car. It's without a SIM, so it's strictly WiFi and bluetooth.
Yeah... I guess I've been all over the interwebs, over the years-- you made me look back at my ever-growing collection of Bookmarks-- most of which are now defunct, but I keep'em for nostalgia and for posts like this one.
Looking at my old bookmarks, there were hundreds of forums I briefly went onto, and then abandoned, not finding what I needed. At least a dozen Linux ones, when I was beating my idiot head against that OS, back in the day. Gave up, finally, as I was too late to the Linux scene, and I lack the basic knowledge needed to beat it into submission.
I've installed various flavors, but quickly give it up, when it does something I hate-- but cannot make it stop (or make it do it how I want-- in contrast to Windows, which I've beaten so often and so consistently, that I know just what to do to make it sit up and beg for a treat...
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But I can quit anytime...