EZBoard[0], a hosted forums website where you could register a forum for free and IIRC pay to remove ads. (from 98/99 to ~2004) For me it was social media befo

EZBoard[0], a hosted forums website where you could register a forum for free and IIRC pay to remove ads. (from 98/99 to ~2004) For me it was social media before social media. I'm just barely old enough to have used newsgroups in the late 90s, but I was never a friend of the interfaces to that medium (which is interesting, I usually prefer CLI over GUI, just not for communication). The web, on the other hand, was very very interesting. Long story short, made a ton of friends on various of the board communities (mostly digital artists, graphic/screen designers, and web developers (before that was a term)). [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezboard