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Just being nosy really :o)

I’ve been in this IT malarky for a few years now, but this Spiceworks forum is the only one that is STILL functioning the way it was intended, as in, people need help, here they get it.

SO

BEFORE Spiceworks, what forum was your home ?

where did you go to fight ignorance, flame the odd war or three :oP

is it still up, do you still frequent ?

for ME !

AntiOnline - Antionline Forums - Maximum Security for a Connected World

started there before I was even in IT, or maybe it was just as I started ? haven’t been there in too long, but it was already starting to fail, lack of new blood, no real questions / threads going on - there I was FoxyLoxley, even got to be a senior member, and it USED to be fun there too, just tried to log in, password forgotten, will try again tomorrow

but there was a splinter group left to form TAZ :o) http://tazforum.thetazzone.com/ it was MY baby, me and Egaladeist, There was DaFoxx, we had a blast for a year or so, then FB took off, and forums began their sad decline :o(

so, that’s me

where were YOU lot, and were any of you on these sites as well ?

if so, what tag did you use ?

TIA

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I’m a millennial, I started in the whole myspace/facebook age. Unlike the majority of millennials I hate facebook. Kind of ironic that my fiance makes a living managing social media for companies.

Anyway, for me, before spiceworks it was /.

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Spiceworks took my forum virginity.

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I was in an aspiring band from '03 to '12, so Myspace was all the rage for me (even dated a girl I met off there, haha) till it essentially “died” around…what, '08 or so, I think. The site is still up, but has changed hands a few times and of course no one uses it now.

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Prior to Spiceworks being my first, I was using the old-fashioned talking to colleagues and Googling (both of which I also still do).

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That was how I rolled too.

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I frequented an NBA discussion forum and a place called Jemsite as well as the Ibanez discussion forums. The NBA forum and Ibanez forum are pretty much dead now, and Jemsite isn’t too far behind.

Now I split time between here and sevenstring.org as far as forums I frequently visit.

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In all honesty, SW is my true first. I was hanging around Darkside, but the activity seemed kinda low, but definitely helpful people there. I will always love SW. You guys got me hooked.

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No clue, i started on here about 5 years ago. Since then i’ve gotten married and had a kiddo, so i can barely remember what happened that long ago. Spiceworks has been around the whole time, though.

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AOL chat rooms.

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Ha ! I am so old… I come from the BBS days … You know back when we walked uphill both ways, with newspaper on our feet …

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Oh and after that IRC which I still pop by every once in a while

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usenet

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Same here

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IRC was easily the first place to get information on really anything you wanted, both good and bad.

Then came Reddit. /r/sysadmin has it’s good and bad days, but usually good info and reading.

Toms Hardware. Was Spiceworks before Spiceworks existed.

Technet.

Hack-a-day.

I’ve got a few gaming buddies in IT/Eng/Mechanics, so we keep a channel on discord for technical questions and bragging.

None compare to the gentlemen that is ‘Teh Google’

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I used ICQ, MSN Messenger and AOL chat rooms as well.

IRC for…umm…“downloading purposes”

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BBS… does LORD count? ICQ, AOL and MSN IM. On the tech side I lurked technet, Stack Overflow, and Tom’s hardware before I found out about Spiceworks.

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Compuserve, some BBS’s I don’t recall, usenet , some other fora, some of which are still around.

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Dial-up BBSes? Man, fancy you.

We had to write letters to magazine editors, buy the next month’s and hope there were interesting answers to somebody’s questions.

I actually had one of my letters answered once… I have no idea what it was about anymore.

Every time I subscribed to a magazine it would go out of business. How’s that for backing the right horse?