it's roots lie in the warez days.
but seriously, if you're really interested, head over to www.archive.org and take a spin back to circa 1999. (TA server may block the robots tho but check anyway.) the existing messageboard that you see today was started up in 2000 and only consisted of 3 regional forums if my memory serves me right (UK, Holland, and Toronto). General and Music forums were of course available as well. Prior to this it was operated on an older messageboard platform called Bravenet which used the old fashion threadding method to display posts.
The site was also a lot more content driven back then too.. then Swamper discovered girls, got lazy, and pretty much let the board run itself..
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