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An Internet forum is a facility on the World Wide Web for holding discussions, or the web application software used to provide the facility. Web-based forums, which date from around 1995, perform a similar function as the dial-up bulletin boards and Internet newsgroups that were numerous in the 1980s and 1990s. A sense of virtual community often develops around forums that have regular users. Technology, computer games, and politics are popular areas for forum themes, but there are forums for a huge number of different topics .
Internet forums are also commonly referred to as web forums, message boards, discussion boards, discussion forums, discussion groups, bulletin boards (but see also dial-up bulletin boards), fora (the proper Latin plural) or simply forums.
Culture
Internet forums are prevalent in several developed countries. In terms of countable posts, Japan is far in the lead with over two million posts per day on their largest forum, 2channel. The United States does not have any one large forum, but instead several hundred thousand smaller forums, the largest of which are GameFAQs, Gaia Online, and IGN. Other countries such as China, the Netherlands, and France are also home to hundreds of independent forums. Some countries such as Finland and Sweden do not have many prevalent forums despite having open and easily available Internet access. As of yet no study has been done on the prevalence of forums in countries around the world. It is also dubious as to whether any country has its own fora, as - especially in the English language - contributors to a forum often come from outside the country in which the forum is hosted. There is often not a 1-1 relationship between languages and countries: for example, English language fora are contributed to by people all over the world, whilst Japanese language fora are likely to be contributed to only by Japanese people, but Japanese people also contribute to English language fora, so there is no 1-1 relationship between Japanese language fora and Japanese people contributing to fora. More on [ Internet forum ]
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@LatinaTooFine haha yeah i do the same..usually look around message boards to do that
ijflip (Ivan ) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:54:35 -0000
@LatinaTooFine haha yeah i do the same..usually look around message boards to do that
@BatsFoMJ haha really? it seems like everyones saying that on the Dexter message boards too lol! :)
Kiki_MJFan4life (Kiki Secrist) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:43:06 -0000
@BatsFoMJ haha really? it seems like everyones saying that on the Dexter message boards too lol! :)
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@BCSmith58 My advice is to not read the internet message boards until your eligibility is up, you'll get too angry. They're a bizarre world
NDsUltimateJugg (NDsUltimateJugg) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:33:49 -0000
@BCSmith58 My advice is to not read the internet message boards until your eligibility is up, you'll get too angry. They're a bizarre world
@umbeta1455 Yeah any message boards like make you register. Hilarious, huh? I trolled there and got banned. LOL!
TravisInIndy (Travis Hiland) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:19:54 -0000
@umbeta1455 Yeah any message boards like make you register. Hilarious, huh? I trolled there and got banned. LOL!
@BCSmith58 Get on that NCAA and I'll show you something online. Message boards are pretty funny as most of those guys have no clue.
BILLYPRATT12 (William Pratt) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:08:49 -0000
@BCSmith58 Get on that NCAA and I'll show you something online. Message boards are pretty funny as most of those guys have no clue.
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