This topic was created in 2005. A bit of a weird topic to make in 2005 since the board was completely alive.
Every time someone posts something, 2 or 3 respond. Then more respond eventually.
I'm pretty sure everyone who used a "real" or "original" type message board knows that message boards were the best way to type to people on the Internet. You can't make any real friends on Facebook, "unless he was pretending to be a prince in Nigeria". And your RL friends probably sucked there.
For several years if you tried to talk here there was only a "yelling"; "We are on Minecraft now. Message board posting isn't allowed!". I don't think anyone is left now who is young enough to make a new Minecraft account, if you hadn't had one already due to wanting to follow Interordi during the time of that yelling.
But any of us who were on this message board who did not join at the age of 11. And many who did who are also some of the people who've responded. Anyone who's seen any of these random interspersed posts are presumably still geeks. I wonder how many have also pretended in their head to look for more message boards, except for that fact that "real" message boards, all of them, have not existed since whatever year?
Why not make all the new forums, geek topics that can be discussed lifelong. There isn't too many groups of 10 college friends arguing about the physics of MegaMan for 3 hours while playing Magic and/or LARPing but rejoining the physics and mechanics argument table whenever you die and/or making sure anyone who just got to the restaurant loses The Game. But you can certainly talk about Star Trek at that table, and if you still have a "RL college group" in your late 50s with all of those exact same people, then you could still find more in Star Trek to argue or talk about there. You'd probably of course have 10 or 20 other medias on different days too. And if we take those 10 or 20 IPs and put them as forums, and maybe add something like "SNES" or "PSX"; the games released after 2010 or whenever can be found everywhere, and aren't as interesting, or thematic here with those who actually did talk about Megaman. A topic which UE banned from the IRC!
So if you put a bunch of topics of geek things that have the ability to continue discussions for decades. And the people who are still in their 20s, like some of us were in 2004 or 2005 and posting here and other boards. 20s have the ability to create new topics in a lifestyle or mindset of people in 20s. And if they do, then the rest of us maybe would have replies every 1-6 months instead of once every 3-5 years. Now that we are no longer yelled at since about 2018 apparently, for not playing Minecraft. But people are still looking here, and it's not always because they got an email. Those who still look here by typing a URL means they are checking through any replied topics. And if there was any real message board that existed, (and relevant), I would go and join it. But there aren't any, and if they are then they are the ghost because Google "deleted the Internet" anyway.
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