when did you first discover forums?
#1
11-07-2012, 11:37 PM
when did you first discover forums?
What does your internet history look like?
For me i started using messaging boards in 98. They did not look like what the VB forums do today. They sucked! But it was all that was around. Then, around 2 years later, VB came out and i was like holy chit! This is awesome. All the people and information at the touch of a button was crazy! I've modded a lot of big boards and have had a lot of fun doing so. It's become a pretty big part of our lives. Here i am 14 years later and still love the forum community.
For me i started using messaging boards in 98. They did not look like what the VB forums do today. They sucked! But it was all that was around. Then, around 2 years later, VB came out and i was like holy chit! This is awesome. All the people and information at the touch of a button was crazy! I've modded a lot of big boards and have had a lot of fun doing so. It's become a pretty big part of our lives. Here i am 14 years later and still love the forum community.
#2
11-08-2012, 10:00 AM
I first discovered forums in college (late 2004) and joined my first forum in 2005. It was a local off roading/mud racing forum for the Mid Missouri Off Roaders (mmor.com). I joined to get the scoop on the local events, get to know some local fellow wheelers and troubleshoot some "off road" tech on my then wheeler; a '78 Ford Bronco. I learned a lot, did all sorts of off road performance based mods to the Bronco and got to know quite a few of the fellow wheelers.
About the same time, I discovered and joined TheDieselStop.com to learn more about the 7.3 IDI that was in my F-250 before it became a Fummins. That site, much like this one, was loaded with insights and knowledge about the diesel world and really hooked me on the "bombing" aspect of diesel performance. It also introduced me to the more global methods of conveying thoughts and curiousities as the knowledge pool was so much larger than the "local" forum I started on. However, it was kind of an ancient knowledge site with a lot of very experienced "old timers", or so it seemed to me at the time, and they didn't cater well to new ideas like when I tried to quiz people on supercharging diesels (which was a fairly fresh aftermarket idea on 4-stroke variaties at the time) and everyone tried to shoot it down. Granted, I was just getting into my Mechanical Engineering degree at the time so I was full of new concepts and theories and had the math to make it look good, but lacked the experience in both the wrenching aspect and also the magic of successful forum arguing.
TheDieselStop taught me a lot, but got a little stagnant after a while, and about the time I was bored with it, I decided to drop a 1st Gen Cummins in my F-250 to replace the tired IDI, and in turn discovered 1stGen.org. Much like TheDieselStop, 1stGen was loaded with tried and true experience with diesel power and I learned more than I could handle in a very quick time...the true magic of forums!
But when I melted down the 1st Gen motor (rookie mistakes of too much fuel without the proper tuning to keep it reliable) and moved on to P7100 power, I drifted over to this site following some of the allstar 1stGen members that brighten this forum as well. Now I pretty much bounce back and forth between DieselBombers and Pirate4x4 (yes, I have recently jumped into those waters as well) and I've been an unregistered lurker at CompD as well for some of the more tricky tech.
Forums are a wonderful tool for learning, but like any tool they work best when used properly! Search first, ask questions later, and try to keep the asshattery to a minimum. Gotta love the forum community!
About the same time, I discovered and joined TheDieselStop.com to learn more about the 7.3 IDI that was in my F-250 before it became a Fummins. That site, much like this one, was loaded with insights and knowledge about the diesel world and really hooked me on the "bombing" aspect of diesel performance. It also introduced me to the more global methods of conveying thoughts and curiousities as the knowledge pool was so much larger than the "local" forum I started on. However, it was kind of an ancient knowledge site with a lot of very experienced "old timers", or so it seemed to me at the time, and they didn't cater well to new ideas like when I tried to quiz people on supercharging diesels (which was a fairly fresh aftermarket idea on 4-stroke variaties at the time) and everyone tried to shoot it down. Granted, I was just getting into my Mechanical Engineering degree at the time so I was full of new concepts and theories and had the math to make it look good, but lacked the experience in both the wrenching aspect and also the magic of successful forum arguing.
TheDieselStop taught me a lot, but got a little stagnant after a while, and about the time I was bored with it, I decided to drop a 1st Gen Cummins in my F-250 to replace the tired IDI, and in turn discovered 1stGen.org. Much like TheDieselStop, 1stGen was loaded with tried and true experience with diesel power and I learned more than I could handle in a very quick time...the true magic of forums!
But when I melted down the 1st Gen motor (rookie mistakes of too much fuel without the proper tuning to keep it reliable) and moved on to P7100 power, I drifted over to this site following some of the allstar 1stGen members that brighten this forum as well. Now I pretty much bounce back and forth between DieselBombers and Pirate4x4 (yes, I have recently jumped into those waters as well) and I've been an unregistered lurker at CompD as well for some of the more tricky tech.
Forums are a wonderful tool for learning, but like any tool they work best when used properly! Search first, ask questions later, and try to keep the asshattery to a minimum. Gotta love the forum community!
Last edited by 93_Fummins; 11-08-2012 at 10:03 AM.
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