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[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 4 months ago

When I was 9 or 10 I decided I wanted to dress up as a character from a show I was watching at the time for carnival.

Together with my mom I performed a web search in order to find images of that character.

We found a website specializing in that show and after a while I found out it had a forum attached to it. My mom allowed me to register there and I started to participate in it.

Most of my social contacts during my teen years were in online communities I found indirectly through that forum.

[-] ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Nice! I still communicate daily with a small community who found each other in a paid forum of a gaming magazine 20 years ago. We also have meetups sometimes. Initially, when the forum dissolved we created our own little forum but switched to Slack at some point.

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