How Long Has This Forum Been Around?

[DLynskey]

My profile says I've been a member since 2004, but I believe it has been longer than that. When did the forum debut?

 

Don

[plymouthcranbrook]

I don’t know about an official answer but the first post with replies is dated in 2000 on page 1372.  Before that all posts are dated 1969, have no reply’s, and no post comes up when clicked on

[ply33]

My profile says I joined on January 3, 2000. It seems unlikely that I managed to find the forum and join it on the first day of existence. So I am guessing it started sometime back in the late 1990s when most people were still using dial up access to the Internet.

[Peter Gariepy]

The AACA forums have been around since 1998.

[ply33]

19 minutes ago, Peter Gariepy said:

The AACA forums have been around since 1988.

 

Really? That would be the era of dial up bulletin boards, not even sure when AOL got started but it might have been after that. I was a pretty early adopter and I think my first dial up internet connection was in the early to mid 1990s.

 

I could believe this forum was around since 1998 though. That was still pretty much the dial up era but general purpose ISPs were around then and home DSL was just getting started.

[Peter Gariepy]

51 minutes ago, ply33 said:

 

Really? That would be the era of dial up bulletin boards, not even sure when AOL got started but it might have been after that. I was a pretty early adopter and I think my first dial up internet connection was in the early to mid 1990s.

 

I could believe this forum was around since 1998 though. That was still pretty much the dial up era but general purpose ISPs were around then and home DSL was just getting started.

 OOPs... you are right!  1998!