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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.
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.
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.
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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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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