How long have you been using forums for?

[Waffles]

Does anyone remember those weird "authentication" methods some forums used to have? I remember having to go to IRC once to tell the admins something like "Hi, fellow humans. I'm also real" XD

 

[ZEGA ZONIC]

I think the one time I used a forum was in MUGEN Archive.

 

[stealthRUSH]

early 2000s was active on SegaXtreme, EmuParadise, GameFAQs, Racketboy, VGCollect, Hardcore Gaming 101, Sega Saturn UK, Retromags, today I'm primarily on Giantbomb, HowLongToBeat and Retrogametalk/CDR.

 

[Yousef]

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I absolutely LOVED making my own Yu-Gi-Oh! cards!

that’s awesome me too

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Does anyone remember those weird "authentication" methods some forums used to have? I remember having to go to IRC once to tell the admins something like "Hi, fellow humans. I'm also real" XD

I legitimately got stuck behind those. The admins for a lot of forums never replied back to me.

 

[Bakuma1997]

One me and meme page comunnity i was part did as retalation for getting banned from the page, sadly history repeated and it died

 

[Yukyon]

My answer is sadly kinda lame because I was a forum lurker and not a user. This changed in 2024. I thought forums seemed harsh back in 2012 so I didn’t wanna contribute to any of the conversations but now I feel i should’ve taken the plunge anyways.

Same, I have been a lurker since I started web-browsing, and I only started using forums last year, specifically this one

 

[Ian Naxieas]

I've lurked on forums since the 90s. The first one I remember being active on was some anime forum in the early 2000s. Can't remember the name for the life of me, but it was never particularly big. Not too long after I got into the Redwall series of books and joined The Long Patrol Forums, which was a forum for discussing the series. I posted there for quite a few years, but my interest in the series waned and I moved on. I just tried to go on the forums to see what my join date was, but they seem to be gone now. Otherwise I've made a handful of posts on random forums over the years, but mostly just lurked. I joined here for the repository but took a look at the forums and it seemed like a cool place, so I started posting. Been really enjoying myself so far, you folks are cool people.

 

[Anonicus]

Do image boards count? They're kinda like forums in a way but I was a lurker on 4chan back in 2013. However I didn't get into Forums til like 2017 on Newgrounds. But even then, I was a lot more Social Media focused. These days is very different since Forums seems so much better for what I want when it comes to talking about things. Its very exciting to be around a very active community though!

 

[spectresfrommercury]

long enough

 

[Parasite_Steve]

Early 2002 is when I first got unsupervised internet access (totally had no adverse effects on my mental health lol) and joined a big Final Fantasy forum that I frequented for the next three years or so. There were another couple of gaming or Japanese pop-culture related forums I joined for the next couple of years and I had my own one to keep in touch with close online friends before social media became more of a thing, but until I joined this site last year I had completely abandoned forums since 2008.

 

[jankusanagi]

[...]but until I joined this site last year I had completely abandoned forums since 2008.

I just need to say, insane nickname and avatar

 

[Nidstang]

2007 (I was 13 at the time). It was the Mayhem Festival board. The people from there eventually migrated to an unofficial board once the official board shut down, and I've been on there since 2010.
All in total, I've been talking to some of the same people on that board for 18 years now. Met some of them IRL too.

 

[ZengarZombolt]

I think I started on AceCombat.net's forums on '02ish? If photobucket didn't lock down then eat my gallery, I would use some of my old Signatures form there.

then I bounced around some really tiny anime forums for a while still using AC.net until it got bought by some of the users and turned into AceCombatSkies forums, where it would sour community wise.