The online communities that were pre social media.
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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.
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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 -
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.
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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.
@Michael-Red Woah more mred lore, I love it
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Recommend this book to anyone like myself that wasn't in the forum world back in the day
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Tranceaddict was probably the biggest in NA.
https://tranceaddict.com/forums/index.php?s=bed1145c6cb3235e0a5f86bb307363c4went under the same handle
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Loungex.com - classic og raver message board for the Vancouver scene in the late 90s early 2000s. It too has recently be rebirthed
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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.
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