From the first moment I first went online in 1996, forums were the main place to hang out. In fact the very first thing I did was join an online forum run by the Greek magazine "PC Master" so I could directly to my favourite game reviewers (for me it was Tsourinakis, for those old [...]
  • @marx2kEnglish
    8•2 months ago

    How did we move from usenet to forums?

    • db0OPEnglish
      7•2 months ago

      Browsers and the internet protocols were pretty sweet, man

      • Draconic NEOEnglish
        2•2 months ago

        Didn’t usenet also have a lot of spam problems associated with it?

        • db0OPEnglish
          4•2 months ago

          Everything had spam problems 😅

          • Draconic NEOEnglish
            2•2 months ago

            Good point, spam always has been and always will be an issue.

        • @marx2kEnglish
          2•26 days ago

          Yes. Still does. Though blocking Google groups cuts down on most of it

          • Draconic NEOEnglish
            1•25 days ago

            Yeah I’ve heard the spam problems have gotten worse these days but I always knew people complained about that because many of the services just didn’t moderate spam.