Sorry been neglecting blogger because of my new found love of forums.
For me forums were the web 2.0 before web 2.0, social media before facebook and a way of following other people before twitter.
It was Duke Nukem that got me addicted to forums. I spent a few years making levels for Duke Nukem 3D and was checking the company that made the game's website. 3D Realms. They had quite a good website for the time with stuff like webcams, staff info, fan art and the forum. After checking the site for updates and info on the new Quake powered Duke Nukem Forever I eventually joined the forum. This was before anyone knew the game was going to go into development hell. I was already pushing the DN3D editor to it's limits and wanted to get ready for the new game and more powerful tools.
As the news on the new game dropped off the forum turned into an active place discussing the advances on games technology and an active 'anything goes' section. It was a real shame when 3D Realms had to give up on the game and killed the forum, it killed a great community.
Anyway I took it as an excuse to have a break from forums and threw myself into this new facebook thing. Facebook is not the same as a good vibrant forum though. I poked my head into a few forums like the The British Mac Forum's lovely The PussyCat Club forum and even set up a forum for John Watts of Fischer-Z.
But I was really looking for somewhere were I could talk about my first love, technology.
Then someone at work pointed me to a new forum set up recently called geekschat.net
Looking through the list of topics I instantly knew that this was the place I had been looking for.
It was not long before amusicsite was the top poster and it seems the perfect place for the type of rubbish I write, that always amazes me how many people enjoy reading. It's still low on registered users but it seems to be attracting more and more guests.With the 3D Realms forum I spent years just reading it before joining. I believe it was something posted on one of the topics that I just had to reply to which got me to register. So I'm fairly confident that the site will grow and become a vibrant place one day.
For me forums were the web 2.0 before web 2.0, social media before facebook and a way of following other people before twitter.
It was Duke Nukem that got me addicted to forums. I spent a few years making levels for Duke Nukem 3D and was checking the company that made the game's website. 3D Realms. They had quite a good website for the time with stuff like webcams, staff info, fan art and the forum. After checking the site for updates and info on the new Quake powered Duke Nukem Forever I eventually joined the forum. This was before anyone knew the game was going to go into development hell. I was already pushing the DN3D editor to it's limits and wanted to get ready for the new game and more powerful tools.
As the news on the new game dropped off the forum turned into an active place discussing the advances on games technology and an active 'anything goes' section. It was a real shame when 3D Realms had to give up on the game and killed the forum, it killed a great community.
Anyway I took it as an excuse to have a break from forums and threw myself into this new facebook thing. Facebook is not the same as a good vibrant forum though. I poked my head into a few forums like the The British Mac Forum's lovely The PussyCat Club forum and even set up a forum for John Watts of Fischer-Z.
But I was really looking for somewhere were I could talk about my first love, technology.
Then someone at work pointed me to a new forum set up recently called geekschat.net
Looking through the list of topics I instantly knew that this was the place I had been looking for.
It was not long before amusicsite was the top poster and it seems the perfect place for the type of rubbish I write, that always amazes me how many people enjoy reading. It's still low on registered users but it seems to be attracting more and more guests.With the 3D Realms forum I spent years just reading it before joining. I believe it was something posted on one of the topics that I just had to reply to which got me to register. So I'm fairly confident that the site will grow and become a vibrant place one day.
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