Was the YNOT messageboard the first forum on the entire Internet?

[Mutt]

I knew of no adult or mainstream forum before I found YNOT, the only place I saw people communicating online before YNOT was Usenet newsgroups, auto mail lists (i forget the geeky name of them), IRC channels.

Does anybody know the approximate date the YNOT forum went live?

[johnnyloadproductions]

I knew of no adult or mainstream forum before I found YNOT, the only place I saw people communicating online before YNOT was Usenet newsgroups, auto mail lists (i forget the geeky name of them), IRC channels.

Does anybody know the approximate date the YNOT forum went live?

'95 or '96 and perhaps LAJ will pop in and correct me? Back when I still picked my nose from time to time and porn was a magazine I kept under my bed.

Ownership has changed there and I guess part of the deal was to have all threads before 2004 archived and sealed. One of the only boards Mr. Markham posts on because he hasn't been banned there. There's a couple gems on there but moves at about 1/50th or even 1/100th the pace of this board.

[Lykos]

I know it was long time ago..was there when I show up ('99) if am correct

[Mr.Fiction]

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[SilentKnight]

I get totally blank stares these days any time I mention Usenet newsgroups. I still remember back in the day spendin' hours each day posting to a.b.p.e.b and a few others with our content.

[NETbilling]

Ask Jay on the Ynot board and I'm sure he will chime in faster.

[JFK]

It was eighter them or hahahahahahaha n e t p o n d

[Klen]

No clue my first boards was cozy and PJ

[mineistaken]

It was eighter them or hahahahahahaha n e t p o n d

OP is talking about first any type of forum on the internet. You are talking about first adult industry forums. So no, neither Or highly unlikely that first forum was adult forum.

[tammix]

TLA's forum?

[Mutt]

Or highly unlikely that first forum was adult forum.

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.

[ITraffic]

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[brassmonkey]

im drinking

[mineistaken]

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 found something:

The very first software dedicated to forum protocol was WIT, which was developed by the W3 Consortium in 1994.

So if YNOT was started in 1996 it is safe to assume that they were definitely not the first

[Mutt]

Delphi (online service) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In 1996, Delphi launched a free, ad-supported managed-content website with associated message boards and chat rooms

So their web forums started in 1996, which is the same year YNOT's forum started.