Were you a member of a car forum during the Internet infancy in the 90s?

[Urban Sports]

Reading the hot hatch thread I remembered being a regular poster on www.renault1916v.co.uk this would have been from about 1997, there were from memory quite a few people on there but it was realy basic and grammar was never an issue!



Anybody else? I reckon some are still going, that one isn't unfortunately, although I found some of my posts on an archive, cringeworthy

[Drive Blind]

not sure if it was actually the 90's, might have been 2000-2001, what was the the early evo forum called? I used to regularly read and post on that.

Maybe my memory is clouded but I remember the top poster on the forum didn't actually have a car. He was just somebody with a dull job and internet access.

[anonymous-user]

i was on the usernets in the mid 1990's to do with cars.. I think one was a nova forum..

[R12HCO]

Late 90's early 2000 - www.corsasport.co.uk

There are a few members who have been there for over 10 years. A large majority of the old guys/regulars dont even have a corsa any more. Lots of e46 M3, z4, few 911, evo, astra vxr, r26 megane, s2000 etc.

[redgriff500]

IIRC the early "forums" were Yahoo groups

Which meant getting all messages Emailed to you.

[Watchman]

I joined www.se7ens.net in ~1997/1998.

[mat777]

I used to be the LR-Mad forum back around 2003. I never did find out what happened to that forum, it seemed to disappear into thin air

[Altrezia]

I've been building websites since then. :/

[JoyCV8]

I was on Cavweb.co.uk in the late 90`s, i think it still survives under a different name these days, possibly VXON.

[TankRizzo]

Saxo sports club egroups list in the late 90s, seems aeons ago now.

Edit: I was also on the EVO forums a year or two later.

Edited by TankRizzo on Monday 6th August 19:35

[NiceCupOfTea]

I joined MG-Rover.org in 2002 and SaabScene/Saabcentral not long after, closely followed by Pistonheads. A long time before that though I was using a text based multi-user BBS called Monochrome that had a fairly busy car section. Unbelievably it seems that it is still going! I joined that in 1994.

[mike9009]

I was an early member of vx220.org.uk, but that was quite late for car forums. (site started in late 2002) Before that it was a yahoo group.

I started on the web in about 1998 - but didn't really get into forums until later.....

Mike

[Truckosaurus]

NiceCupOfTea said:

... a text based multi-user BBS called Monochrome that had a fairly busy car section...

I was on there as a student, around 1991, along with some Usenet groups and the Minilist email group.

[Harji]

You can all try and see if these websites are archived on this ink

http://archive.org/web/web.php

[ensignia]

I was on A4.org in '96 which then went on to become AudiWorld.com. It looks as though AudiWorld hasn't moved with the times despite being very popular and a real heavyweight.

[NiceCupOfTea]

Truckosaurus said:

NiceCupOfTea said:

... a text based multi-user BBS called Monochrome that had a fairly busy car section...

I was on there as a student, around 1991, along with some Usenet groups and the Minilist email group.

Hehe, what was your handle?

[DJRC]

Truckosaurus said:

NiceCupOfTea said:

... a text based multi-user BBS called Monochrome that had a fairly busy car section...

I was on there as a student, around 1991, along with some Usenet groups and the Minilist email group.

In 91???

Would be surprised if it was earlier than early 93/mid 92. Impressive early 'netter if true.

[m444ttb]

I was on the old-old-old-old PeugeotSport Club forum in 1998 when I was 16. May also have been on 'cruiseboard'. Oh the shame

[iva cosworth]

No,i didn't get my own PC until about 3 or 4 years ago.

Still don't know how to use it properly

[mudster]

Urban Sports said:

Reading the hot hatch thread I remembered being a regular poster on www.renault1916v.co.uk this would have been from about 1997, there were from memory quite a few people on there but it was realy basic and grammar was never an issue!

I was on there too. A nice orange and blue colour scheme from memory.