A truly global community dedicated to skyscrapers, cities, urban development, and the metropolitan environment. Join us to share news, views and fun about architecture, construction, transport...
I discovered that site in 2009 or so, but don't remember opening an account or regularly following it, though I did occasionally find links to it elsewhere.
I've meanwhile checked and it seems they used to use vBulletin, not phpBB.
not really. It's a shadow of itself at this point. The most noteworthy thing about it is the trivia knowledge that it sparked many research papers as a model of hyperinflation. But the forums themselves are dead. The minigames were entertaining at their inception, in the days of Shockwave games.... but nowdays... you'd be more entertained just pulling down Terraria or something
I used post on a mobile phone forum called Lasyk, this was some time in 2004-2006...
The forum is long since dead and erased, but it was a huge forum with 100k members, subforums for just about any mobile phone made by mainstream manufacturers.
I remember managing to create a huge thread over on their misc forum, where I asked other users to post a screenshot of their desktop.
It just kept going, and I think it became a staple thread with 80-100 pages or so...
I typed in a random string of words in the early days and added “.com”, and I ended up on some forum some random guy in Texas hosted for him and his friends. I was obviously a decade younger than everyone else, but it was the best of the internet. We knew each other by name, the link sharing was top notch, civil conversations, no one was making money off of it.
Checked it recently and it’s been down for a long time. The internet archive caught one snapshot of it in time. I can see my username on the homepage like looking at my own gravestone.
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Now you could host a website on a pi zero if you wanted to. Well, you could if you make a proper website and don't just download every JS library you can find to add a button.
if I ever make a website again, it will still static with manually coded html. I don't know js, I can only remember some css. Maybe I'll put some spinning 3d buttons gifs for fun.
I have used PHP as well for some but mostly stuff like display all the PNGs in this folder on this page. So that changing images in future if they provide updated ones is really easy. They usually loved that idea but most would rarely provided any. But for me it was fun to learn some PHP.
The rest was HTML/CSS. Maybe a very tiny bit of JS.
Esta entrada fue editada (viernes, 18 de septiembre de 2026, 12:02)
And having some web space is not that expensive either. I am not even close to using the cheapest options, but it costs me about 80€/year to run the space I use for my small hobby forum (I will not doxx myself), and some other things. Depending on what your income, and other hobbies are, that is peanuts.
Domains are cheap but I swear they have the most fuck-ass interpretation of inflation out of any product. My $3CAD .live domain is now nearly $50CAD/yr. Still cheap but why
My niche forum split off from a comic about RPG games, eventually they moved to a FB group to keep contact but I stopped using FB. I dreamt about them a few nights ago, I miss the community we had.
It was unfortunate watching our forum die. It was a pretty busy space, lots of gaming info, participation and all that. The main damage was caused by our preferred game series studio killing private servers and mods with the next version of the game in favor of dev company paid servers with limitied and company approved mods. Pretty soon the seconday games we played followed suit. That caused a lot of the group to look for other games to play, modding was what we were all about. The forums were a lot of fun. A lot of people learning how to use the graphical tools for games and personlize their forum presence. I just looked at the wayback machine and it was a real blast from the past seeing all the names, all the servers, the activity…it was a good 5-8 years of my life.
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I've documented exploits like you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships that clip through space in Masters of Orion. I watched the six hidden cutscenes in Baldur's Gate. All those moments will be lost in time...
I've been keeping a list of interesting niche websites I've found since around 2018, and it's been sad seeing them gradually go offline and disappear into the void.
Every article that has resonated with me, had a clever turn of phrase, good artwork, whatever. I used to bookmark every single one (I have a process for my [recipes to try] bookmarks. Once I try them, if they're good I type them out in a text editor and save them on my computer. Then I move the bookmarks I've tried to either [yeh] or [bleh] subdirectories. Just as an example.) but like, seeing half of my old favorite recipes disappear because of website redesigns? That hurts me in my heart and, more importantly, stomach.
In an interesting perspective, We're experiencing the first wave of collective library being attacked and distorted by ai. A collective history of digital art and entertainment throughout 5 decades or more.
Will we collectively preserve it or just join the ai wave?
Ironically, even current nostalgic trend is triggered by ai too.
Also would be funny if after all this is gone, there is only this last obelisk standing somewhere in the desert with dickbutt on it.
Agree about significant and relevant, but it seems we always goes back to the cycle following the bias of the curator rather than preserved as is for the lesson.
Also can I have a look at that tubular titty since it gonna be lost heh
And in the far future, some sentient cockroach historian will come across a printout of an angry email about delivery of low-quality copper to the company.
There was this forum I used for a decade. It was a support group for a few specific related medical conditions (I will lie if you ask. It was the fatal butt disease. The condition isn't the important part), and after a couple years as a user they made me moderator over a small subforum (like fifteen of us were in the smaller group) for a medical research group. They were some of the closest friends I've ever made.
I'm the only person still alive in the research group (benefits of getting sick young I guess) and the last time I checked the forum, the latest post was ten months old. I owe them confidentiality, but with día de los muertos coming up I find my mind lingering on them more than usual.
When I think about those old forum friends, the ones I've lost touch with (or worse, just lost), I like to listen to this song. also singshouting I'm doing this for revenge with 3,000 other people is one hell of an experience
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I do miss forum culture; large chunks of digital history have been erased as forums vanished.
Culture on the web has changed as well; it has moved from communication with elements of performance, to performance with the illusion of communication.
that's a fantastic way to characterize the the 2020s internet.
it also increasing feelings like that's bleeding into real life, especially if you listen to how everyone wants to socialize but it feels like they can't ever be honest or themselves because everyone expects a performance, which is also something I have noticed myself. The way people interact face to face has changed since the 2010s.
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I'm sure this already exists but someone should make a forum aggregator. Read only with an open standard and make an account to join the discussion on the site. Basically just a fancy rss feed.
Creating a healthy new community takes a huge amount of activation energy or an incredibly long time. Why not just transplant the mature communities to more fertile ground? Bonus: it's much harder to astroturf an entire forum than a few high visibility accounts.
I'm sure some forums wouldn't want the extra traffic with no ad revenue. But discoverability would be a huge boost now that search engines are trying to be a black box Ai MitM. Anything other angle I'm missing?
Carlos Solís
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Romkslrqusz
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •I am grateful that phwonline.com got a solid eulogy
Shame that Facepunch forums are gone
Glad we’ve always got Archive.org
An oral history of PHWOnline | Metrocop
Metrocopradix
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •HumanOnEarth
in reply to radix • • •naughtlemming
in reply to HumanOnEarth • • •HumanOnEarth
in reply to naughtlemming • • •Seti@home is. SETI itself is still going but not nearly as popular as the screen saver was.
Those were the good days.
wookiepedia
in reply to HumanOnEarth • • •SubArcticTundra
in reply to radix • • •SkyscraperCity Forum
SkyscraperCity ForumSubArcticTundra
in reply to SubArcticTundra • • •schnurrito
in reply to SubArcticTundra • • •SubArcticTundra
in reply to schnurrito • • •schnurrito
in reply to SubArcticTundra • • •I discovered that site in 2009 or so, but don't remember opening an account or regularly following it, though I did occasionally find links to it elsewhere.
I've meanwhile checked and it seems they used to use vBulletin, not phpBB.
SubArcticTundra
in reply to schnurrito • • •SailorFuzz
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •SubArcticTundra
in reply to SailorFuzz • • •SailorFuzz
in reply to SubArcticTundra • • •EtnaAtsume
in reply to SailorFuzz • • •RobotsLeftHand
in reply to EtnaAtsume • • •SailorFuzz
in reply to EtnaAtsume • • •do it, coward
Feddinat0r
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •stoy
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •I used post on a mobile phone forum called Lasyk, this was some time in 2004-2006...
The forum is long since dead and erased, but it was a huge forum with 100k members, subforums for just about any mobile phone made by mainstream manufacturers.
I remember managing to create a huge thread over on their misc forum, where I asked other users to post a screenshot of their desktop.
It just kept going, and I think it became a staple thread with 80-100 pages or so...
binarytobis
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •I typed in a random string of words in the early days and added “.com”, and I ended up on some forum some random guy in Texas hosted for him and his friends. I was obviously a decade younger than everyone else, but it was the best of the internet. We knew each other by name, the link sharing was top notch, civil conversations, no one was making money off of it.
Checked it recently and it’s been down for a long time. The internet archive caught one snapshot of it in time. I can see my username on the homepage like looking at my own gravestone.
underscores
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •how did people in the 2000s afford web servers and domains ?
it seemed like everyone had their own site, my idiot child mind thought that it must be free
llii
in reply to underscores • • •Im_old
in reply to underscores • • •HerbGrower
in reply to Im_old • • •Im_old
in reply to HerbGrower • • •HerbGrower
in reply to Im_old • • •I have used PHP as well for some but mostly stuff like display all the PNGs in this folder on this page. So that changing images in future if they provide updated ones is really easy. They usually loved that idea but most would rarely provided any. But for me it was fun to learn some PHP.
The rest was HTML/CSS. Maybe a very tiny bit of JS.
kolmaskommentoija
in reply to Im_old • • •NotSteve_
in reply to Im_old • • •bigkahuna1986
in reply to NotSteve_ • • •schnurrito
in reply to underscores • • •TubularTittyFrog
in reply to underscores • • •𝙈𝙞𝙖
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •Tomtits
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •There's still some good forums about.
I used to use MDOCUK.co.uk when I had my L400.
Now I use sprinter-source.com for my van
Handy for mechanical tips etc
The forums for the first silk road was pretty fun too
Sarothazrom
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •kionay
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •RememberTheApollo_
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •tmyakal
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •UnderpantsWeevil
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •I've documented exploits like you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships that clip through space in Masters of Orion. I watched the six hidden cutscenes in Baldur's Gate. All those moments will be lost in time...
Time to die.
saldek
in reply to UnderpantsWeevil • • •UnderpantsWeevil
in reply to saldek • • •grrgyle
in reply to UnderpantsWeevil • • •alt_xa_23 [she/her]
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •MinnesotaGoddam
in reply to alt_xa_23 [she/her] • • •TubularTittyFrog
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •old forums i use are still around and active.
the users are all like 50-60 though. nobody under 50 uses them and nobody under 30 even knows what a 'internet forum' is.
RagingRobot
in reply to TubularTittyFrog • • •TubularTittyFrog
in reply to RagingRobot • • •reddit style stuff was never a forum. it's a link aggregator that had a discussion on top.
forum structure is way more specialized and it's not threaded, because each post is it's own thread.
FE80
in reply to TubularTittyFrog • • •weps
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •Feraldud
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •In an interesting perspective, We're experiencing the first wave of collective library being attacked and distorted by ai. A collective history of digital art and entertainment throughout 5 decades or more.
Will we collectively preserve it or just join the ai wave?
Ironically, even current nostalgic trend is triggered by ai too.
Also would be funny if after all this is gone, there is only this last obelisk standing somewhere in the desert with dickbutt on it.
TubularTittyFrog
in reply to Feraldud • • •it was never preserved and never was going to be preserved.
all of history is curation, most everything that was 'created' is lost, because it's not significant or relevant.
Feraldud
in reply to TubularTittyFrog • • •Agree about significant and relevant, but it seems we always goes back to the cycle following the bias of the curator rather than preserved as is for the lesson.
Also can I have a look at that tubular titty since it gonna be lost heh
LH0ezVT
in reply to TubularTittyFrog • • •MinnesotaGoddam
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •There was this forum I used for a decade. It was a support group for a few specific related medical conditions (I will lie if you ask. It was the fatal butt disease. The condition isn't the important part), and after a couple years as a user they made me moderator over a small subforum (like fifteen of us were in the smaller group) for a medical research group. They were some of the closest friends I've ever made.
I'm the only person still alive in the research group (benefits of getting sick young I guess) and the last time I checked the forum, the latest post was ten months old. I owe them confidentiality, but with día de los muertos coming up I find my mind lingering on them more than usual.
MinnesotaGoddam
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •the Mountain Goats - Training Montage
the Mountain Goats (YouTube)Evotech
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •gamereplays.org/
Anyone
GameReplays.org - Replays, Strategies, News, Tips and Tricks for Multiplayer Games
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in reply to Evotech • • •DoucheBagMcSwag
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •HexesofVexes
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •I do miss forum culture; large chunks of digital history have been erased as forums vanished.
Culture on the web has changed as well; it has moved from communication with elements of performance, to performance with the illusion of communication.
TubularTittyFrog
in reply to HexesofVexes • • •that's a fantastic way to characterize the the 2020s internet.
it also increasing feelings like that's bleeding into real life, especially if you listen to how everyone wants to socialize but it feels like they can't ever be honest or themselves because everyone expects a performance, which is also something I have noticed myself. The way people interact face to face has changed since the 2010s.
Danquebec
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •This prompted me to look for mine and incredibly it's still online and essentially unchanged.
otaku-attitude.net/
But it has had barely any activity since 2022. But I'm surprised it survived this long.
The feels, man
Otaku-Attitude - Plus qu'une passion, un mode de vie !
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in reply to Danquebec • • •stickly
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •I'm sure this already exists but someone should make a forum aggregator. Read only with an open standard and make an account to join the discussion on the site. Basically just a fancy rss feed.
Creating a healthy new community takes a huge amount of activation energy or an incredibly long time. Why not just transplant the mature communities to more fertile ground? Bonus: it's much harder to astroturf an entire forum than a few high visibility accounts.
I'm sure some forums wouldn't want the extra traffic with no ad revenue. But discoverability would be a huge boost now that search engines are trying to be a black box Ai MitM. Anything other angle I'm missing?
KingOfTheCouch
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •I went back looking for mine to make sure the shit I said back then was good and deleted. "Site can't be reached" Thank god!
Now I just need to go burn down the internet archive!
zenitsu
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •lessthanluigi
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •