Not even. It was an HTML spaghetti code of a site. The original site fell apart because the owner went AWOL, and another user launched a copy site in 2014 where some of the active users found their way to. It was more lively than KIA2 is here at first, but the polarization got more and more extreme, especially the owner who literally was a vagabond living in a van.
Nah, that site predated Reddit. I joined it 23 years ago.
Damn, was it a BBS?
Not even. It was an HTML spaghetti code of a site. The original site fell apart because the owner went AWOL, and another user launched a copy site in 2014 where some of the active users found their way to. It was more lively than KIA2 is here at first, but the polarization got more and more extreme, especially the owner who literally was a vagabond living in a van.
There were all kinds of little forums in the early 2000s, back before most traffic online centralized in a handful of big sites.