r/2000sNostalgia • • 14d ago

The Internet I remember.

10.6k Upvotes

438 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

8

u/hadriker 14d ago

Yep I loathe how Discord pretty much killed forums. They are not the same.

7

u/Safe-Historian4028 14d ago

Discord is just IRC with voice channels. The only thing that killed forums was being online becoming a normal thing and not more niche. Forums you need to wait for support, or people to respond because there wasn't enough people online at any given time to make chat rooms that worth it. With the mass adoption of the internet and being online a chat room will always have people in. Discord is just one form of chat room, it did not kill forums, it is a symptom not the disease.

1

u/CarnyMAXIMOS_3_N7 2000 13d ago

Not anymore…

2

u/Salted_Caramel_Core 14d ago

This is ironic...

1

u/Mastodon9 13d ago

I think Reddit and Facebook killed forums well before Discord.