Re: Anybody know of any other good RPG discussion forums
Originally Posted by shawnhcorey
Nope. BBCode stands for bulletin board code. Bulletin boards were created back in the day of 300 baud modems. These used regular phones lines with audible tones. The squawky modems with loud noises.
BBCode is from 1998, chatrooms are from 1971. A bulletin board, per se, can be just a cork board, so that would go very far back, but the first informatics bulletin board system (CBBS) is from 1976, although I am sure there are predecessors.
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
I thought Tom Bombadil dreadful — but worse still was the announcer's preliminary remarks that Goldberry was his daughter (!), and that Willowman was an ally of Mordor (!!).