Are sites like lemmy , reddit and discord the true successors to the old internet forums of the 2000s . or were the forums superior to todays reddit , lemmy or discord

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Seeing the words “old internet forums” and “2000s” together makes me weep as someone who was on BBS, Compuserve, Usenet, and Prodigy.

    • Perfide@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      Eternal September was 30 years ago. Windows xp is 22 years old next month. It’s all old now.

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      1 year ago

      There is not much difference in time between those two, old forums are 20 years old and Usenet perhaps 30 or less.

      • davefischer@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        While most of us remember usenet from the 90s, it actually started in 1980, so that’s 43 years.