Brenda Ann wrote:
"David Kaye" wrote in message

10 to 15 years ago there weren't Web-based forums.....

Sure there were. I was using web based forums at least as far back as 1983,
with my Commodore 64 and a 300 baud acoustic modem



Sorry hun, but that's NOT the world wide web (which is based-upon
multiple servers & using Hypertext Markup Language & active point-n-
click links). What we used on the old commodore 64 was a SINGLE
server called a BBS, and it didn't use hypertext, or a mouse.. It was
just plain-jane text. (Yes even on the C64, it was text.... but it
was drawn to look like pictures.)

That's what Usenet is - all text
It's like visiting an old BBS.

The world wide web was not invented until circa 1993, and did not
"boom" until around 1995 (with Windows and Mac-based Mosaic &
Netscape). And thus was born web-based forums which slowly but surely
drew people away from the "boring" Usenet.


(even the crude graphics of the era took forever to load)

Yeah. There's a huge difference between 56k and 0.3k. It used to
take me an hour to download a 170 kilobyte floppy. Now I do it in
about 5 seconds.