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Great Moments in TrekBBS History!

Modern bulletin boards, like their local dial-up predecessors before them, are dying. Granted, the format will still be around for some time, but with mobile computing becoming the norm, the demand for a discussion based, large format software system is fading. Facebook has dominated that corner of the internet (which sucks, because Facebook is horrible for any kind of involved discussion).

The golden age of BBSes have passed. Gods knows what's next up.

Yep, sadly :(. And I'm not a fan of a lot of it... (Twitter, Facebook, etc... :p -- it's too of the moment, too fast). Bulletin boards and forums let people discuss issues. The others, not so much :(.
 
Wow, y'all are making me feel like a newbie! This is the only "great moment" mentioned that I recognize:

And who could forget the exploits of MadBaggins?

:lol:

My personal -- and serious -- great moment here is how amazing folks were when I was diagnosed with cancer in 2011, even though I was relatively new and had never posted much. Several threads with hundreds of posts -- some serious, some silly, all supportive!

As for Facebook, it's what you make of it. I'm in two groups that have as detailed, extended conversations as any here.
 
Wow, y'all are making me feel like a newbie! This is the only "great moment" mentioned that I recognize:

Your profile says you joined in 2010. You ARE a newbie! :p

Most of us have been here for at least a decade. I just hit year #14 myself.
 
I joined this message board shortly after my family got its first computer with a dial-up modem. We were using AOL, for Pete's sake!
 
I joined this message board shortly after my family got its first computer with a dial-up modem. We were using AOL, for Pete's sake!

Yep, I was using AOL when I first joined here too.

Kept getting kicked off when the phone rang...

:lol:
 
I've been here 13 years as a member, plus 1 as a lurker...so I remember most of this stuff.

Trek Tonight! Bar threads, chair throwing threads, food fights and pillow fights in the Commie's Lounge. The Reed/Tucker fan wars in the Enterprise forum (how I got started here, actually!).

Chasegate. Emh will never live that one down.

Mods accidentally warning themselves on the old board (I did it more than once when I was a mod!).

The magic thread 5:31 p.m.! Does anyone still have that archived?

I miss Red Ranger, Nibbles, and Mallory. :(

T'Bonz's Fireside Chats. :evil: Good times.
 
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