<![CDATA[The online communities that were pre social media.]]>Just creating a thread to take note of the online communities across Canada that came before. If i'm missing any please add. If you were active, what was your alias? I used to spend a lot of time bouncing around these forums. What did you like/dislike about them?

Fnk.ca - Vancouver and surround areas

Liquidbeat.com - Okanagan + Kootneys

Shambhala Message board - Kootneys and Shambhala specific.

Tribe.ca - Toronto

Torontojungle.com (still online) - The jungle community in Toronto

Tribal Harmonix - The more intentional/psychedelic community for Vancouver

Dogsonacid.com (still online) - Global DnB community

Rave.ca - I believe this was more of the Montreal / Ottawa scene.

]]>https://forum.vibrationstation.xyz/topic/30/the-online-communities-that-were-pre-social-media.RSS for NodeFri, 02 Oct 2026 14:24:38 GMTSun, 20 Sep 2026 04:47:59 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to The online communities that were pre social media. on Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:50:24 GMT]]>Had like 10,000+ posts on Torontojungle.com forum
It was the wild west.
Was using BBS systems (proto Internet "websites") since I was a kid - online forums were a natural progression.

]]>https://forum.vibrationstation.xyz/post/97https://forum.vibrationstation.xyz/post/97Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:50:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The online communities that were pre social media. on Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:29:29 GMT]]>Loungex.com - classic og raver message board for the Vancouver scene in the late 90s early 2000s. It too has recently be rebirthed

]]>https://forum.vibrationstation.xyz/post/89https://forum.vibrationstation.xyz/post/89Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:29:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The online communities that were pre social media. on Mon, 21 Sep 2026 07:15:59 GMT]]>Tranceaddict was probably the biggest in NA.
https://tranceaddict.com/forums/index.php?s=bed1145c6cb3235e0a5f86bb307363c4

went under the same handle

]]>https://forum.vibrationstation.xyz/post/86https://forum.vibrationstation.xyz/post/86Mon, 21 Sep 2026 07:15:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The online communities that were pre social media. on Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:03:13 GMT]]>17899315141534041506653341576330.jpg

Recommend this book to anyone like myself that wasn't in the forum world back in the day

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/43565344-lurking

]]>https://forum.vibrationstation.xyz/post/83https://forum.vibrationstation.xyz/post/83Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:03:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The online communities that were pre social media. on Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:11:58 GMT]]>@Michael-Red Woah more mred lore, I love it

]]>https://forum.vibrationstation.xyz/post/82https://forum.vibrationstation.xyz/post/82Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:11:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The online communities that were pre social media. on Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:43:27 GMT]]>i spent a lot of time on nwdnb.bc.ca - van & surrounding area dnb forum.
also, yup, tribal harmonix and i would check in every now and then on fnk (not reeeeally my community there tho).

dubstep forum was big, later on. there also was ragga-jungle.ca (or some name like that?) that was rallied around the 1st wave ragga jungle resurgnace (krinjah, tester, soundmurderer, etc)

there was a short lived forum that i initiated soundsimple.ca that also had a database of all the local vancouver producers and live performers in leftfield electronic realms. ... it actually started to take root, then i accidently erased the entire forum (whoops!!!) and the momentum never came back (understandably, everyone didn't want to sign up again and there was lost trust too). i think there was like 80 or 90 users tho? this was, like, more than 20 years ago when the scene was super small and trackable.

]]>https://forum.vibrationstation.xyz/post/80https://forum.vibrationstation.xyz/post/80Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:43:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The online communities that were pre social media. on Sun, 20 Sep 2026 16:35:49 GMT]]>I was never really on any forums back in the day, I think my social media life started with MySpace after things like ICQ and MSN Messenger.
I did however get more into old school forums when I got into obscure instruments and nerdy music stuff and frequent the lines forum from time to time

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