An Internet for perform a similar
function as the dial-up bulletin boards and Internet
newsgroups that were numerous in the 1980s and 1990s.
A sense of virtual community often develops around
forums that have regular users. Technology, computer
games, and politics are popular areas for forum theum
is a facility on the World Wide Web for holding discussions
and posting user generated content, or the web application
software used to provide the facility. Web-based forums,
which date from around 1995[citation needed],mes,
but there are forums for a huge number of different
topics.
Internet forums are also commonly referred to as web
forums, message boards, discussion boards, (electronic)
discussion groups, discussion forums, bulletin boards
(but see also dial-up bulletin boards), fora (the
Latin plural) or simply forums.
The term "forum" and "board"
may refer to the entire community, or a specific forum
(for example, "off-topic") within the community.
