How did HF Boards start on 2/27/2002 ?
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Nalyd Psycho
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It had been around for many years prior using a different style of message board. That is the date is went vBB.
Buck Aki Berg
Done with this place
HF has also been a good alternative over the years for posters who belonged to other communities who either saw a drop in traffic or a rise in a-hole moderators.
seventieslord
Student Of The Game
It's far from "alternative" now though... as far as I'm concerned, it's THE place to be if you want to talk hockey. Particularly this section.
mja
Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt
My knowledge of this site goes back into the mid/late 90's. I remember reading about the Flyers draft pick in 98 - one Simon Gagne - for example.
I posted on the old forums (which were completely archaic by today's standards) at least as early as that. I'm thinking maybe even as many as 2 years earlier than that, but don't recall for sure.
I posted on the old forums (which were completely archaic by today's standards) at least as early as that. I'm thinking maybe even as many as 2 years earlier than that, but don't recall for sure.
DisgruntledGoat*
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What I remember is this:
Around 1998 or 1999, hockeyboards.com was the biggest and best place to go to talk hockey on the net. Much like this site, it was organized with team boards, a league board, an off-topic board, etc, etc.
They then merged with a larger sports site called fanhome.com and upgraded the board and probably became even more popular for awhile. However, after only a year or so, they again merged with another sports site, scout.com (I think).
At that point, it was too many changes in too short a time and the site's popularity died almost overnight. It was a real lesson in how fickle internet users can be, really; it went from top dog to being a ghost town in no time.
At any rate, a lot of the users (including me) who were at that time dissatisfied with fanhome/scout migrated over to HFboards.com. That was around 2002 or 2003. It was that influx of users that really boosted HFboards to where it is now. Whereas, before that, it was a very minor player in the hockey messageboard community.
I still recognize a number of usernames here from the hockeyboards days.
Around 1998 or 1999, hockeyboards.com was the biggest and best place to go to talk hockey on the net. Much like this site, it was organized with team boards, a league board, an off-topic board, etc, etc.
They then merged with a larger sports site called fanhome.com and upgraded the board and probably became even more popular for awhile. However, after only a year or so, they again merged with another sports site, scout.com (I think).
At that point, it was too many changes in too short a time and the site's popularity died almost overnight. It was a real lesson in how fickle internet users can be, really; it went from top dog to being a ghost town in no time.
At any rate, a lot of the users (including me) who were at that time dissatisfied with fanhome/scout migrated over to HFboards.com. That was around 2002 or 2003. It was that influx of users that really boosted HFboards to where it is now. Whereas, before that, it was a very minor player in the hockey messageboard community.
I still recognize a number of usernames here from the hockeyboards days.
