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Originally Posted by Helenthereef
I still see some forums with a VERY similar looking format....  m How times have changed. |
Yeah, there was a free script available for forums originally that was based on the old Usenet format. I used it on the very first forum I ever set up on my SerpenCo.com website. If I remember correctly there was an inherent problem with that script in that once a certain number of "threads" was reached, it would just crash. So I was constantly monitoring the site and had to be on my toes to prune old threads before the crash happened.
HerpWantAds with the still inactive BOI was custom written by a guy in the Perl programming language, but if I remember correctly, the basic structure was pretty much the same as the Usenet structure. Fortunately by the time FaunaClassifieds was born, there were some much more robust and aesthetically pleasing forum structures becoming commercially (and even freebies) available.