Comment by wat10000 Comment by wat10000 18 hours ago 2 replies Copy Link View on Hacker News The phrase “old school forums” really does a number on me. Forums are a web thing, and the web is newfangled tech.
Copy Link bluGill 16 hours ago Collapse Comment - Usenet, bbs. There are a lot of forums that predate the web. Reply View | 1 reply Copy Link wat10000 15 hours ago Parent Collapse Comment - They weren’t called that, were they? Usenet was just Usenet, or “news.” BBSes were BBSes.And in context, “forums” was presented opposite plain text, and pre-web stuff tended to be plain text. Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link wat10000 15 hours ago Parent Collapse Comment - They weren’t called that, were they? Usenet was just Usenet, or “news.” BBSes were BBSes.And in context, “forums” was presented opposite plain text, and pre-web stuff tended to be plain text. Reply View | 0 replies
Usenet, bbs. There are a lot of forums that predate the web.