Thread: Was the YNOT messageboard the first forum on the entire Internet?
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Old 12-28-2014, 02:30 AM  
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Originally Posted by Mutt View Post
No it's not highly unlikely the first forum was an adult webmaster forum. I believe YNOT's forum started in 1996, the Internet was a vast wasteland pretty much in '96, most of what you would find on the WWW with your Netscape browser were porn sites, link lists/indexes and free pics and ugly personal homepages. Yahoo I think existed, AOL of course - but I had never seen a forum before YNOT's. My interests at the time were news/politics, sports and porn - never saw a political or sports forum as I surfed around back then.

Not claiming YNOT was the first but it is possible.
I remember that time when web had nothing then just personal and pet web pages ;)
It was popular coin then to "make your own personal web page"
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