Forum Software Timeline 1994 - 2010
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Have you ever been curious about knowing...
What was the first forum software?
What are the ancestors of the popular forum softwares?
Or when phpBB development began?
Who developed Simple Machines Forum?
You'll find the answers on the forum softwares timeline above! From 1994 to 2010, it describes the last 16 years of history of Internet forum softwares.
Please note that this document is quite recent and may contain errors. If you find one, send it to us by mail to webmaster@forum-software.org.
Last Update: 24.12.2010
Comments (11)
That's an awesome work man!
That's an awesome work man! This diagram is really complete and was helpful to know more about my favorite SMF!
Looks great. Please add
Looks great. Please add XenForo, from the former developers of Jelsoft / vbulletin.
Hi! With a great pleasure,
Hi!
With a great pleasure, but have you already released a public version, and can you give us more details about XenForo? We would be really happy to review it here!
Nicolas
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We have not yet made XenForo
We have not yet made XenForo to download available outside of private testing, but our community forums have been running on XenForo since they were launched on July 29th. You can get a good idea of the way things fit together from a user perspective right now by visiting http://xenforo.com/community. We expect to make our initial public release in the coming weeks.
Kier Darby
Yes, indeed, this forum looks
Yes, indeed, this forum looks very nice. I'll however wait for an initial release before reviewing it, if you don't mind.
Anyway, I've added XenForo to the list of next reviews.
Good luck for the first release then!
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The very first hosted forum
The very first hosted forum service I know of was X-Point CGI back in 1996. This was followed by InsideTheWeb.com, Server.com, BeSeen.com, and Bravenet.com in 1997. Boardhost started up in 1998 and Network54 and EZBoard launched in 1999. I'm not certain about BulletinBoards.com. According to the whois database, the domain was registered in December of '97 and Archive.org doesn't have anything for them until 12/98.
As far as software goes, the very first web forum software was WIT back in 1994 (http://www.w3.org/WIT/).
The most popular software back in the early days was WWWBoard from Matt's Script Archive. It was released in 1995.
Very interesting, I'll update
Very interesting, I'll update the timeline according to your post.
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Timeline updated, it now goes
Timeline updated, it now goes back even earlier: in 1994, with the first forum software ever: WIT, developed by W3 consortium.
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XenForo sucks!
XenForo sucks!
This is an amazing and
This is an amazing and informative timeline, and looks great too,
Some of the interrelations between a few forum suites we have worked with over the years I didn't know.
Thanks for taking the time to put this together.
Thank you. I indeed haven't
Thank you. I indeed haven't count how many hours it took, but a total of about 15h would approach
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