Bring back crappy forums

18 hours ago

Usenet, the early forum-like system, had over 110,000 newsgroups but declined in the late 1990s.
Web forums emerged as an alternative to Usenet, with the first software, WWW Interactive Talk (WIT), developed in 1994.
Key historical forum software includes Ultimate Bulletin Board, Slash, vBulletin, phpBB, and Discourse, each influencing internet communities.
BBCode, created in 1998, allowed controlled text formatting in forums and influenced modern tools like the Godot game engine.
Forums lost popularity to social media due to novelty, scalability issues, and the appeal of newer platforms like Digg and Reddit.

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