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Calling All Internet Forum Addicts

SalixIncendium

अग्निविलोवनन्दः
Staff member
Premium Member
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.



*Check local listings
 

SomeRandom

Still learning to be wise
Staff member
Premium Member
Oh man my first Internet forums maybe Sodahead and Fundies Say The Darnedest Things, way back in high school. I was flirting with the skeptic movements that were online at the time. And forums like Sodahead gave me practice on how to articulate my opinions and were among my first internet scraps I had. Ahh memories.
 

Flame

Beware
I was spent quite a bit of time on SomethingAwful back in the day before it went down the drain. I also spent quite a bit of time on 4Chan, mostly the X board (paranormal) during my college years.
 
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Unveiled Artist

Veteran Member
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.



*Check local listings

I think it was yahoo forums, ICQ, and hotmail. We didn't have the internet until I was about twenty which was about the same time I was learning about my sexuality and christianity; so, I went nuts. Nowadays, I'm just bored and on the computer for study and work.
 

Fool

ALL in all
Premium Member
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.



*Check local listings

i got infected with this madness on topix.com.

when i had built up a tolerance to that, i escalated to beliefnet.

finally i went hardcore here.


intervention anyone?
 

danieldemol

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
I started out at beleifnet then went ballistic joining every kind of online forum I could find till I found this one, which has kind of become my online home
 

Saint Frankenstein

Wanderer From Afar
Premium Member
The Despair Faction forums in the early 2000s (it's the band, AFI's, official forums) was the first forum I spent a lot of time on. Then it was LiveJournal and I became a regular for years on the IMDb Soapbox.
 

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
I used to watch Mythbusters. They had a forum. Many discussions there besides just what they did right and what they did wrong on the show. Then it ended suddenly and I was cast adrift. Went to Christian Forums to debate evolution a bit. James Randi's site, and various other science sites. Topix for a while because there was always a conversation going on there, but the lack of moderation made it a pain at times.
 

Dawnofhope

Non-Proselytizing Baha'i
Staff member
Premium Member
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.



*Check local listings

This is the first Internet forum I’ve been active on for any significant length of time and like you I started posting about 3 years ago though had joined in 2014.

I had previously been on two forums that had mostly Baha’is in 1996 and then again in 2005. I didn’t last longer than a few months.

My involvement with this forum came after I started a Bible study group with a conservative evangelical Christian, a Catholic and an agnostic. It raised a lot of weighty questions for everyone. This forum was helpful in considering such questions in more depth without requiring scholarship credentials as a prerequisite for participation.

I am somewhat addicted to being here but like most addicts will say, I can quit anytime I want to.:D
 

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
I started in the goode olde days with Usenet as well as having a Compuserve account. On usenet I was in various newsgroups such as alt.sysadmin-recovery and comp.dcom.telecom, comp.security.misc and many many others.

Here's part of one example that I saved a long, long, long time ago:

Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
From: [email protected]
Subject: A Parable of our times, The three little Pigs
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:33:47 GMT

A Parable.

Once upon there were there were three little pigs who following the
dictates of the narrative built three houses of straw, wood and brick. All
were fully aware of the dangers of canine predation and took security
measures accordingly.

The brick house Pig was a government contractor who decided that the only
safe way to live was to build a thick brick wall with no doors or windows
and a steel roof. Testing this against a three megatonne huffer and puffer
he was confident against attack by all pig eating wolves in the
neighborhood.

Having less money the straw and wood house Pigs had to work for a living.
They thus had to have doors and windows but used a clever method of
tightly interwoven strands which prevented attack if done properly. The
straw house pig was so proud of his that he had the outside painted in a
clear varnish so that everyone could see how beautiful it was. He also had
an old wood burning stove from an old farm cottage installed together with
an old oak dresser in which he stored his boxes of high fibre Muselli.
(and so forth).
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
This was the first one I signed up on, and still the only one I'm on. I joined some months after I left high school and didn't have nearly as much going on.
 

amorphous_constellation

Well-Known Member
Probably a long time ago, at first concerning music, then philosophy, and then religion. Really I'm not sure if I see this as too much different from other social media, or at least its is some kind of close evolutionary cousin to other forms. I guess I might see foruming as more of a discipline, because in theory you're trying to learn something as well as give something. I guess that sort of makes us all just a little bit agnostic in a sense. I also think that subconsciously, maybe we think we 'win the internet' in a way, because maybe no one really shares their mind with the internet like a successful forumer might. By giving and producing ideas for the sake of this medium, you're no longer a mere observer really.
 

BSM1

What? Me worry?
I have stated previously that I am not addicted because I can quit at any time. As a matter of fact I quit three times in 2019....
 

Bob the Unbeliever

Well-Known Member
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.



*Check local listings

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... ;) )

But I can quit anytime...
 

Trailblazer

Veteran Member
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.*
Okay, I admit it.... Now what? o_O Is there a treatment program?
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?
The first forum I ever posted on was Planet Baha'i and I came there on January 13, 2013. After that I posted on The Forum for Progressive Christianity, the Adult Christian Forum, The Holy Trinity, the Opinion Forum, Skeptics & Heretics, and Believer, Unbeliever, Ex-believer forum.
During that time I started my own forum called The Spiritual Horizon.

Of all those forums, the only one that is still very active is Believer, Unbeliever, Ex-believer forum (BUE), but it is not as active as it used to be. All those other forums are dead or very inactive. My forum was very active before I ran off to the BUE forum, where I spent most of my time before I came here. My forum has not been very active for years, but I keep my forum going because there are some regular posters who have been there for a long time. We are all friends, and they like the small group and my liberal policies. :D
 

Father Heathen

Veteran Member
Mine was a now since long gone site and forum from the late nineties that belonged to a man who believed himself to be the second coming of Christ AND the antichrist, and that John Lennon's ghost gave him prophecies and the ability to detect secret code from song lyrics, the bible, etc. It was mostly free love
hippy stuff, and he actually had a decent amount of followers. His forum also attracted a lot of angry christians. My teenage self of course showed up to debate/troll both sides. He said that the stroke of midnight at new year 2000 an earth quake would destroy the Luxor in Vegas where he lived. Didn't happen of course, so he vanished from the net. Last I looked him up he was a homeless sex offender.

Then from there it was misc small user made religious and political forums on now defunct services until I found RF.
 
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