Bring Back Crappy Forums

# Summary The article argues for the revival of web forums, contrasting their strong sense of community with the hollow feeling modern social media platforms often produce. It traces the history of online discussion spaces from Usenet to early web forums like WIT (developed in 1994), explaining how the addition of graphics and multimedia to text-based Usenet led to the creation of web-based forums that fostered genuine community connections despite their technical limitations.