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A type of [[Online Discussion Platform | online discussion platform]] where visibility and interaction is limited by means of keeping accounts. What internet vernacular understands as a ''forum''. | A type of [[Online Discussion Platform | online discussion platform]] where visibility and interaction is limited by means of keeping accounts. What internet vernacular understands as a ''forum''. | ||
It is truly ancient, originating in the late 80s as account systems were implement on Bulletin | It is truly ancient, originating in the late 80s as account systems were implement on Bulletin Board servers, systems that were re-implemented during the rise of USENET and WWW. | ||
=== Evolution === | === Evolution === | ||
Revision as of 04:41, 30 September 2025
A type of online discussion platform where visibility and interaction is limited by means of keeping accounts. What internet vernacular understands as a forum.
It is truly ancient, originating in the late 80s as account systems were implement on Bulletin Board servers, systems that were re-implemented during the rise of USENET and WWW.
Evolution
The gating of the forum was not intentional, but it was organic. The primary factors were:
- Protecting posters from identity theft
- Cultural influence of blog-like mail chains (images were expensive to host!), any making individual posts worth keeping track of.
- Technical limitations for large databases to keep track of posts, quite literally a problem of accounting.
- Demand for heavily personalized posts, signatures and "digital presence".
