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 [...]

A bit of an effortpost :)

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  • @inlandempire@jlai.lu
    1•12 hours ago

    Great read thanks for sharing

    I do think the need for ease of use led us to centralisation, this was bound to bite us back…

    Even then, from 2000s to 2010, french forums were mainly hosted on the same platform (forumactif)

    • db0OP
      5•12 hours ago

      That’s how they got us, ye. Old school sysadmins were an elitist bunch and the people who were hardcore enough to go through the effort to interact with those communities thought it was a rightful right of passage for everyone to be afforded the same privilege. Naturally they were all surprised pikachu when everyone else jumped at the chance to do it simpler.