What Made You Get On Forums?

[McConnaughay]

I'd like to think to myself that everybody has somewhat of an intriguing story to explain what made them get interested in forums. I'm sure that a similar thread has been made regarding this ages ago but I think it's a topic that needs to be rejuvenated and refreshed. How did you suddenly come across forums, what was the attraction? Whenever I was in my late 0's, I had quit Runescape entirely because I wanted to be different and I came across Endless-Online, both these games are massive multi-player online role playing games which similar aspects around them. I joined a guild called, The Thug Life (Late 0's remember that.) and he said that whenever I get the chance I should check out the guild website, it was a Free Webs made website. I asked him ignorantly, Is it free to make those? (late 0's), and he laughed but that was whenever I really started to get the hang of things and whilst my first website was absolutely horrendous, and probably broke a couple thousand copyright laws, that was whenever I began to learn about things. I realized that I needed to advertise and I looked around for websites to help me out when I came across probably my first forum.



Time went by, I ended up sticking with a generic version of phpBB for a couple of months whilst I learned the ropes, then I went to IPBFree, where I stuck around for six months with arguably my most successful forum, then I started using vBulletin, phpBB, IPB, and a bunch of others, but you get the point. The attraction for me was always the idea to share my ideas and opinions with other people, I know that's such a washy answer to give but that's really the reason that I got into the forum biz.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Nothing better to do online to make it simple. Games get boring after a while.

 

[Evil Eye]

My friends convinced me to play a browser game (took quite a bit of convincing

), said game had a forum. That was the first forum I joined... it's not the start of how I got here though.

Later I joined the official Bethsoft forums (Elder Scrolls forums if you will). I created a mod for Morrowind and posted about it - a release thread. Another member, whom you may know, Mikey Valentine, invited me to join his forum which was mostly focussed on Morrowind and general discussion. (A somewhat dark forum, did I mention I made a fairly evil mod?) From there I fanned out to forums of some of the members there. At some point I was looking for Mikey (hadn't been online in a while) and I noticed the Off Topix link (you know, the sorta thing I also have in my sig).

I tend to just stick around... so... I'm still here.



That's about it, I think.

 

[Felly]

I was looking up codes for a game I was playing, and the site I had found them on had a forum, so I joined. I've been there for 7 years now. ;3

 

[Chatsie]

To be honest, I can't even remember the first forum

I joined, let alone why I joined it.



Now though, I have a more active social life 'online' than

I do 'offline'