I think the Golden Age of the Internet is Over. There are still small nuggets like the Misc. But Social Media and Smart Phones have Ruined the Internet.

1. There are waaaaaay to many people using the internet. You can be on the freeway driving 90 talking **** to someone over the net. Back in the 90's up to mid 2K's you had to be in front of a computer to use the internet.

2. Back in the day People treated the internet as a privilege with 56k Modems and having to buy expensive computers just to access it. Now kids look at the internet as birth right.

3. Reddit killed message boards. up/downvoting turns it into an echo chamber of who can appeal their post to the most people instead of "who is providing the most useful information" reddit is just a hive mind mod mentality type community that is in no way conducive to actually having conversations. Anything that goes "against the grain' of that sub is down-voted into oblivion and hidden.

4. Social Media has ruined the internet and has contributed to the downfall of society.

5. Message boards have vanished, the last true great "forum" of communication has essentially been wiped out.

Below is a list of Message Boards that have been Erased from existence.

- IMDB Boards
- Rotten Tomaotes
- Joe Rogan Boards
- ESPN Message Boards
- MLB Message Boards
- Teamxbox.com boards
- adultswim boards
- Most News Sites have Removed there comments Sections
- view askew/Kevin smith boards
- Ytmnd.com
- Game Spy Message Boards
- G4 TV Boards


Plus Countless Other Message Boards.

For people old enough to remember the golden age of the internet is over and now it feels like a **** hole everyone has a birth right to.

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I think the Golden Age of the Internet is Over. There are still small nuggets like the Misc. But Social Media and Smart Phones and Ruined the Internet.

1. There are waaaaaay to many people using the internet. You can be on the freeway driving 90 talking **** to someone over the net. Back in the 90's up to mid 2K's you had to be in front of a computer to use the internet.

2. Back in the day People treated the internet as a privilege with 56k Modems and having to buy expensive computers just to access it. Now kids look at the internet as birth right.

3. Reddit killed message boards. up/downvoting turns it into an echo chamber of who can appeal their post to the most people instead of "who is providing the most useful information" reddit is just a hive mind mod mentality type community that is in no way conducive to actually having conversations. Anything that goes "against the grain' of that sub is down-voted into oblivion and hidden.

4. Social Media has ruined the internet and has contributed to the downfall of society.

5. Message boards have vanished, the last true great "forum" of communication has essentially been wiped out.

Below is a list of Message Boards that have been Erased from existence.

- IMDB Boards
- Rotten Tomaotes
- Joe Rogan Boards
- ESPN Message Boards
- MLB Message Boards
- Teamxbox.com boards
- adultswim boards
- Most News Sites have Removed there comments Sections
- view askew/Kevin smith boards
- Ytmnd.com
- Game Spy Message Boards
- G4 TV Boards


Plus Countless Other Message Boards.

For people old enough to remember the golden age of the internet is over and now it feels like a **** hole everyone has a birth right to.

those feels when you go to check on message boards you frequented from 2007-2012 and they are all shut down or dead

They'll come back, it's all a cycle.

message boards like this one has kept me sane all these years. I never had many real friends throughout my teens and 20s and coming home and readings/posting in threads gave me an outlet.

Repped

anyone remember the rival message board for college football

Message boards were legit back in the day. There's still some cool ones though, mainly hobbyist message boards where older fukkers still share the knowledge. Reddit fukkin sucks on every level. Can't get to know anyone, no avis (lol, yes I know I don't have one), and every damn topic is "I just got into this, help me with these 5 basic things I should've figured out by now." Man oh man, I've read and even contributed so much back in the day.

Why did they delete the imdb message board? I used to enjoy reading that

it's still there, but they make it pay to view and post now I think

miss the old days when every website, no matter how niche, had an active message board.

at least discord has been kind of replacing message boards. much prefer that to reddit, twitter, or the other social media websites.

This might be the worst ever, only thing I can think of is the whiny actors reading comments about themselves.

That's what I've seen. Discord is replacing message boards.

I deleted FB and Insta back in 2018 and this is the only forum that I frequent. Once this place bites the dust that'll probably be it for me as far as social media and forums go.

The good times are over, its survival mode now

Social media is for degenerates and *******s...

Only Celebs have any valid excuse to use social media.. because it makes them money... and if it aint making money then its pointless.

IMDB got bought. People would start questioning the ratings of any obviously inflated movie. Shortly after they closed the boards.

I can still inbox my nudes to you tho op. Golden age about to come back

Same. FB is for old people and Twitter/reddit is an echo chamber for liberals. No gracias, jefe.

Yeah this one pissed me off. Used to love being able to pull up a movie's IMDB page and jump right into a forum discussing it after I finished watching. The r/Movies subreddit is aids

seriously
things are shrinking
no more chat rooms...open rooms
too much spam bots/fake users

misc please stand this wave

It's true that message boards are dying. Even this place is a fraction of what it once was in terms of activity and membership. Right now, it's mostly the same batch of people posting in every thread whereas before it was a wide group of people.

What's funny is that, during the peak of message boards (~2005-2011), people used to decry the use of message boards. They would say that message boards robbed us of the prior generation's method of engaging with people in-person. Hence, I think there is some nostalgia imbued in OP's point.Me too. I used to love going on there after watching an obscure movie and discussing it's themes, plot, acting, etc. You can find other message boards & social media venues to discuss the popular flicks. But IMDB peak was theonly place to talk about lesser-known movies.

And to be fair, the IMDB message boards had been dead for a few years prior to it's shutdown; so I wasn't surprised. It was hot back in 2006-2011 or so.

www.moviechat.orgnot only archived all the old IMDB messages, but you can sign up and most new messages as well. It's great and is getting more popular now (though still just a quarter as popular as IMDB).

Lots of car forums are ghost towns now too. R/cars is too general and gay

You just described the misc and MOST message boards in general. You can have a perfectly good thread and if most *******s disagree because they are cucks you get negged. Good riddance I say *******.

********/twitter/instagram
fuked forums/old internet

later on it will be fuked...

Oh chit thanks brah. Will check it out.

A repeated topic, but I actually think you're right. I think Reddit will be around for a long time simply down to the sheer amount of topics that are discussed and have their own part of the board, and the number users it has amassed that will keep most of those sections active. I wouldn't go as far as to say BB is dead, or even that it's necessarily in the dying stages. But, it certainly isn't gaining in popularity and is probably in a gradual downwards spiral.

Forums are de-centralized. Discord and Reddit are not. That's at the heart of the issue.

I used to be a part of an online dragonball Z-esque RPG that was run exclusively by message board.

It was awesome.