Why Did You Join TBBS?
- Thread starter Kestra
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"It was another lonely night"... and I found this forum where people seemed to have the same interests as me ~ I was intriqued and have been for over 2 years. I know that just makes me a youngster, but I like it here.
One of my first threads was 'you can invite 6 people for dinner at Quarks ~ who would you invite?' I was thrilled when someone posted 'great thread idea' ~ little things...
One of my first threads was 'you can invite 6 people for dinner at Quarks ~ who would you invite?' I was thrilled when someone posted 'great thread idea' ~ little things...
I had just gotten a new computer and did not know what to do with it. My evil ex, told me to google stuff I like. So I googled "Star Trek". Found a link down the page to "trekbbs" (what the hell is a bbs????! i thought at the time). Lurked for a couple of weeks and then joined.
Best decision I ever made. For it changed everything for me. Found strength to change my life, good friends and eventually a soulmate.
Best decision I ever made. For it changed everything for me. Found strength to change my life, good friends and eventually a soulmate.
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Lord Garth
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In the summer of 1999, someone mentioned the board on Psi Phi, a Star Trek board I was a regular member of at the time. Mostly I looked at the TrekToday portion to find out news about VOY and, the "Series V" which wasn't even an embryo -- it was still a zygote. There was a of talk about what direction the franchise should go in. It didn't take long to see the featured discussions on the board, so I joined in to respond. For the rest of 1999 and into 2000, I split my time between Psi Phi and TrekBBS before posting on TrekBBS exclusively. What kept me so involved was the growing community and wanting to see what posters would say next.
In 2001, when the membership exploded, and ENT was revealed, the whole tenor of the board changed. I wonder why the same thing didn't happen in 2009.
In 2001, when the membership exploded, and ENT was revealed, the whole tenor of the board changed. I wonder why the same thing didn't happen in 2009.
I think it comes down to the Internet growing significantly over the last decade. I wonder if social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook will make message boards like this somewhat obsolete. Just look at the growth in membership on those two sites the last 5 years. It's been quite something.
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Amaris
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^ You make a good point, although I like being able to type out paragraphs when necessary, and not 200 character snippets. I also don't like Facebook's setup on posting topics and responses, it's too chaotic, limited, and messy for me. Hopefully a lot more people share that view and message boards stay around a long while.
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Lord Garth
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Yes, I've begun to notice that. What started off as just my friends from college has now expanded to family, neighbors, a former teacher from high school, co-workers, and acquaintances I haven't seen since my teens. I have to be very careful about what I say.
Not that I mind being connected to people I know who I don't get to see regularly (just the opposite, I appreciate it very much) but Web 1.0 had its advantages.
Not that I mind being connected to people I know who I don't get to see regularly (just the opposite, I appreciate it very much) but Web 1.0 had its advantages.
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Amaris
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I know exactly how you feel on that one.
I'm a little fuzzy on the specifics, but I was on an AOL Star Trek forum in early 2001 when someone who was a poster here name dropped this place in one of his posts. Curiosity got the better of me, so I typed "trekbbs" into browser and have lurked/posted since.
I lurked until 2002, however.
I lurked until 2002, however.
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Amaris
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I kicked around TrekPlanet for a while, before finally noticing a link to TrekWeb, which led me to TrekToday, and then I found TBBS. This was a lifetime ago back in 2001. 
Well for it was because I needed input on the DS9/FC uniform I was doing as a HS project. And I pretty much stayed at first for the discussions about DS9 and other Trek...and later on because of the people. There are a lot of people who I love who are not around anymore, but there plenty that are still here that I love as well. Don't really know if I'll ever leave!
Hopefully that has been somewhat remedied.
I remember those discussions; I think the first thread I started was about possible plots for Trek X. I suggested Romulans be used.
Despite this, I am not responsible for Nemesis.
The shift when ENT was announced was remarkable.
While I think others are right that other internet media may have taken the place of forums in discussing breaking news, I think the other thing is that a movie is never going to be as big news for Star Trek as a new TV series.
A movie could be brilliant or awful, but either way, it's only about 100 minutes and can easily be subsequently set aside. A new TV series is massive. I think if a new Trek TV series was announced, there would be a lot of new discussions - and probably new members - around it, in a broader way than a single movie can generate.
I didn't have much interest in forums in those days, although I had participated a bit in the AOL forums for Star Trek and Kung Fu: The Legend Continues in 1993 when I first got the Internet. But I had about a half dozen sites that I checked daily for news about books, movies, comics and TV; TrekToday was one of them. In the sidebar, they listed the most popular Threads or the latest Threads or whatever, and eventually I started lurking here, especially when I realized there was often more news in the forum than on the news page. One day, somebody Posted a question about the Shadow (the old Pulp character) in the SF&F forum and it languished for a couple of days with no responses. Since I knew the answer and felt bad for the guy, I registered and 24 hours later gave him the info he craved. After that, it just became easier and easier to Post responses and everything kind of snowballed. 
Back in 1999, I was online just a bit. I worked fulltime and shared the computer with the other four members of my household, so I wasn't on much and at that point, my interest in Star Trek was dormant.
In January of 2000, I was home for the first time in years. Due to health reasons, I had to stop working. So I started staying up real late again. At 1 AM one night, I stumbled upon DS9. I had seen a few eps in the first run, but at that point of time, I was Star Trekked out. But the show I watched (S7, lol!) caught my attention and I was hooked on DS9 from then on.
In March, I started looking for other Trekkies online. I was mostly on late at night (no competition from the family for the computer, although eventually we got more machines) and I found TrekWeb, what is now Section 31 (I can't remember the old name) and TrekBBS. The two latter I stuck with and was made mod at both. Section 31 is barely hanging on, I never did like TrekWeb's interface, but TrekBBS became Star Trek "home."
It was a good place to be when I was lonely (no more work contacts and socializing) and scared about my health issues. I could come online and forget all about that. I made some good friends back then and had great fun. Got hooked on Trek chatting too.
I'm much more of a lurker online anymore (although of course I post here) but I mean I don't have the big circle of online friends I used to have. Chat, while fun, just sucked up too much time and nothing else got done. With running the place and writing the news, that takes plenty of time.
I still like the place and have posters who make me smile or laugh outright. I hang at WF too, again more of a lurker.
Hard to believe it's been ten years here for me (9 of which I have modded, 6 of which (at the end of the month) I've run the place.) Where did the time go?
In January of 2000, I was home for the first time in years. Due to health reasons, I had to stop working. So I started staying up real late again. At 1 AM one night, I stumbled upon DS9. I had seen a few eps in the first run, but at that point of time, I was Star Trekked out. But the show I watched (S7, lol!) caught my attention and I was hooked on DS9 from then on.
In March, I started looking for other Trekkies online. I was mostly on late at night (no competition from the family for the computer, although eventually we got more machines) and I found TrekWeb, what is now Section 31 (I can't remember the old name) and TrekBBS. The two latter I stuck with and was made mod at both. Section 31 is barely hanging on, I never did like TrekWeb's interface, but TrekBBS became Star Trek "home."
It was a good place to be when I was lonely (no more work contacts and socializing) and scared about my health issues. I could come online and forget all about that. I made some good friends back then and had great fun. Got hooked on Trek chatting too.
I'm much more of a lurker online anymore (although of course I post here) but I mean I don't have the big circle of online friends I used to have. Chat, while fun, just sucked up too much time and nothing else got done. With running the place and writing the news, that takes plenty of time.
I still like the place and have posters who make me smile or laugh outright. I hang at WF too, again more of a lurker.
Hard to believe it's been ten years here for me (9 of which I have modded, 6 of which (at the end of the month) I've run the place.) Where did the time go?
Don't really remember how I found it, a link from somewhere or Google, but joined almost 10 years ago to talk Star Trek.
Like a lot of the other topics that can come up.
Stayed for then people.
Like a lot of the other topics that can come up.
Stayed for then people.
It was when the Terok Nor books came out in 2008...I'd had a renewed interest in Trek, and I think I was looking for more information about the books. I signed up intending just to drop a brief word to James Swallow, once I realized he posted here.
Then the fanfic ideas started coming.
And I got to know people.
And I am still here.
Then the fanfic ideas started coming.
And I got to know people.
And I am still here.
