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COMMUNITY => OOC Cantina => Topic started by: SWSF Hoppus on September 12, 2019, 08:27:54 PM

Title: What were aol forums called
Post by: SWSF Hoppus on September 12, 2019, 08:27:54 PM

Does anyone know what they were called? Forums? Message boards? Newsgroup? I want to find screenshots of how they used to look.

Title: Re: What were aol forums called
Post by: SWSF Hale on September 12, 2019, 08:30:18 PM

Message boards.


Bonus points if you saved your posts to floppy drive.


We are Elder Millennials.
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/96a8edaf2dccaaee0a261c0b1ddbb4ce/tumblr_pdhkba82Ze1tpri36o1_500.png)

btw, check out her special on Netflix, it's hilarious

Title: Re: What were aol forums called
Post by: SWSF Hoppus on September 12, 2019, 09:06:52 PM

Online Gaming Forums

Cant find screenshots tho

Title: Re: What were aol forums called
Post by: Syren on September 12, 2019, 09:07:43 PM

I did save my storyline to a floppy disk. I colored the label in pink and black sharpie which I thought was super hip. It was the template of what Socially Acceptable Monsters eventually became. 

Title: Re: What were aol forums called
Post by: Syren on September 12, 2019, 09:11:29 PM

That disk was also labeled in my AOL handle, SyReNsCrEaM. Cuz we were emo cool with the stylizing pre-millennium. 

Title: Re: What were aol forums called
Post by: SWSF Hoppus on September 12, 2019, 09:24:15 PM

Do yall remember how they looked? I remember having each post being in its own window?

Title: Re: What were aol forums called
Post by: SWSF Eidolon on September 12, 2019, 09:48:27 PM

Quote from: SWSF Hale on September 12, 2019, 08:30:18 PM

We are Elder Millennials.

As soon as I figure out if the buddy list carried over, I'm dropping you from it.


Kurt Loder was my Anderson Cooper man!!! :'(

Title: Re: What were aol forums called
Post by: SWSF Hale on September 13, 2019, 08:34:05 AM

Gen-X scum!!

Title: Re: What were aol forums called
Post by: SWSF Hoppus on September 14, 2019, 01:34:15 PM

The default skin is growing on me. Started working on the custom forum software.

Title: Re: What were aol forums called
Post by: SWSF Eidolon on September 14, 2019, 02:55:06 PM

I liked the old one better ;p   but this is ok for now to keep us truckin while you work on our homebrew =)

i could care less about a similary to old aol looks myself, but I think something more generic like an entire starfield back-background for the main frame (whatever the terminology is) would be fitting if possible.