What if we had forums in the 1990s?

[kevin1gamer]

Okay, now just imagine if they had modern 21st century forums in the 1990s, like IPB, phpBB, vBulletin, myBB, and others. I do realize that they had message boards back in the 1990s, and that they are the successors to bulletin boards, but in the 1990s they primarily consisted of one long list of topics with replies shown below those topics, and no accounts, just unregistered nicknames.

Now then, this is where it gets interesting, imagine if they had gaming forums back then that are like gaming forums now. Most gaming forums now have forums for all five major gaming companies/platforms: computer gaming, Nintendo/GameCube/Wii/DS, Sony/PlayStation, the late Sega/Dreamcast, and Microsoft/Xbox. However, back in the 5th generation, there were several mainstream consoles, and companies that made them.

So just picture forums that are technologically advanced like the ones we use now, back then, with forums for each. That would be awesome. Sure, we would obviously still have forums for computer gaming, Sega/Saturn, Nintendo/N64, and Sony/PlayStation. But most, if not all, gaming message board would also have forums for the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Atari Jaguar, Amiga CD32, and Neo Geo. Who knows, we may have even seen forums on message boards for the failed consoles: Apple Bandai Pippin, Casio Loopy, PC-FX, and Bandai Playdia.

That would just be awesome. Instead of having the four console companies and PC to discuss, we would have all kinds of consoles to discuss. Oh the nostalgia, what do you girls/guys think?

 

[Osbes]

At the time only a few people had access to the Internet und it was slower than 100 Bits/s (nearly 12,5 Byts/s).
This single Page needs > 150.000 Bytes, so it will took me > 3 hours to read your answer.
Nobody would use this in the 1990s.

If i change these facts, it will be the same at it is now, just with othes plattforms and games.

 

[kevin1gamer]

At the time only a few people had access to the Internet und it was slower than 100 Bits/s (nearly 12,5 Byts/s).
This single Page needs > 150.000 Bytes, so it will took me > 3 hours to read your answer.
Nobody would use this in the 1990s.

If i change these facts, it will be the same at it is now, just with othes plattforms and games.

Yeah but you live in Germany, here in America we have better technology. Back in the 1990s us Americans had 56k, and later on DSL, cable, and fiber-optics.

 

[scud512]

kevin you know 56k is~7Bytes/s and 128k is~15Bytes/s download?

 

[Little.]

Yeah but you live in Germany, here in America we have better technology. Back in the 1990s us Americans had 56k, and later on DSL, cable, and fiber-optics.

Yeah, and we in poor underdeveloped Germany used carrier pigeons in the 1990s. Do you actually believe the nonsense you are writing?

PS: Könnten wir Laura nicht so einstellen das sie jeden seiner Threads automatisch nach fünf Minuten schließt?

 

[Shadowin]

Yeah but you live in Germany, here in America we have better technology. Back in the 1990s us Americans had 56k, and later on DSL, cable, and fiber-optics.

spackn

zu geil ey. wann erklären wir ihm die welt?

in den 90ern gabs nichtmal wirklich handys und weeeeßßßtee... es ging trotzdem. eigentlich klappte das sogar sehr gut.

und kein bock für den wicht irgendwelche rudimentäre englischkenntnisse auszugraben.
da:
http://translate.google.de/#

 

[Apocalypso]

1990 hattet ihr glasfaser und 1991 habt ihr den mars bewohnbar gemacht !

 

[Osbes]

Unterlasst es bitte Themen unnötig zu vermüllen. Ich habe jetzt alle Spam-Beiträge in folgendes THema verschoben:
http://www.united-forum.de/kuschelecke-f230/aussortierte-beitraege-97441/

Its correct, that in the early state of the Internet, you would have a better bandwidth, if you lived not in Germany, but in America.
But the difference was not so big, that you could actual use such boards like the modern vBulletin, ...

Another point is, that only a few people had access to the internet in its beginning.

 

[kevin1gamer]

Unterlasst es bitte Themen unnötig zu vermüllen. Ich habe jetzt alle Spam-Beiträge in folgendes THema verschoben:
http://www.united-forum.de/kuschelecke-f230/aussortierte-beitraege-97441/

Its correct, that in the early state of the Internet, you would have a better bandwidth, if you lived not in Germany, but in America.
But the difference was not so big, that you could actual use such boards like the modern vBulletin, ...

Another point is, that only a few people had access to the internet in its beginning.

Nonsense, I used 56k on modern boards, and it worked fine.

 

[Osbes]

V.90 (56K Modem ITU Standard) was developed in the end of the year 1998. If i recall correctly, the first 56K Modem was created 1996.
But it wasn't widly spread bevor the 21st century.

Also, just because there is technology, doesnt imply that everyone could use it.
Presently there are still people in america and germany using 56K Modems.

 

[StoffeLL]

America is so awesome man, I`d love to live there.

 

[Osbes]

an Blade, für weiteren Spam. Ich habe genug Karten, keine Sorge
Der obere Spam inkl. meines Beitrages wurde nach: http://www.united-forum.de/kuschelecke-f230/aussortierte-beitraege-97441/ verschoben.

 

[Herzchen]

Aber über was hätte man sich denn groß unterhalten können damals?
Nur ein paar Leute hatten Internet, d.h. Supportfragen hätte man sich sparen können.
Off Topics wären für'n Popo gewesen. Keine Demotivationals, Witze oder Inet-Insider.
Und ein CnC-Forum gäbs schon gar nicht!

Aber eins bin ich mir sicher: stefros war da bestimmt schon unterwegs und hat sein Unheil getrieben!

 

[katsch]

gibt es nicht schon seit 1996 ISDN? Ich meine mich erinnern zu können seit 1998 mit meinem eigenen Rechner per ISDN online gewesen zu sein. Ich habe den angestöpselt und den 20MB großen Online-Patch für Q2 gesaqugt und angefangen zu zocken. Um mehr zu lernen habe ich Websites besicht und Foren gelesen. Boards gab es doch schon zu Zeiten als Internet noch ohne bunte Bilder funktionierte.

 

[Hanniball478]

Früher war das I Net bedeutend langsamer auch die seiten wurden bedeutendlangsamer gehostet.

Another Problem in the early 90s was that you have to pay the bill for a server. In the early 90 a modern hard drive disc has only 1 Gb i don't know exaktly how mutch gb of Content this site has but you know how expensive it would be in that time 2 host a great forum.

and this isn't a very big one compared with a few other forums.

 

[scud512]

thats the way of amreica


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olf-ObGcNt8&feature=related

 

[Diphosphan]

Nonsense, I used 56k on modern boards, and it worked fine.

Off topic:

Your age read 17 and you used 1990 a 56 k modem? So your age was - 3 years? Something is wrong here...

On Topic:

The internet is quite old. And you are right the american department of defense used first the so called ARPANET. However this was a very basic type of the internet.

1982 we had the first real emanziption of the internet with TCP/IP however the public never had access to this kind of network, call internet.

The world wide web for the public was launched in 1993! and it was developt in the CERN center in Europe 1989.

So at the end of the day, the internet was a kind of an american thing the world wide web an european one.