Before Reddit and Discord ate them, forums were where the internet talked in 2010: vBulletin and phpBB boards for every hobby, game and band, with avatars, signature images, post counts, moderators with ban hammers, and unwritten rules about bumping and necroing threads. Neowin, NeoGAF, GameFAQs, XDA, AVSForum and countless fan boards were at their peak.
- Type
- community
- Origin
- Web forums from the late 1990s
- Peak
- 2005-2011
- Example
- A thread titled "[Official] iPhone 4 owners thread" with 2,000 pages.
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