Talk:Imageboard

Nice. G1ade (talk) 18:56, 21 May 2022 (EDT)

some comments:

• Ambitious number of red links there. Is it worth reaching out to other internet history wiki groups like bibanon or Archiveteam to collaborate on articles?
• Would be good to nail down definitions of terms and clarify which of these include others as special cases: Imageboard, textboard, bulletin board/BBS, Web Chat, internet forum, SNS, Usenet newsgroups.
• In later articles that go into culture, these images may come in handy:

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G1ade (talk) 19:41, 21 May 2022 (EDT)

Is it worth reaching out to other internet history wiki groups like bibanon or Archiveteam to collaborate on articles?

I dunno - I kinda like this wiki being our own thing for us to play around with, and us being able to take a fresh look at things instead of just spreading the same crappy misinformation and hearsay that most of the others do. In fact, the main reason why I began digging into Japanese BBSes and their history in the first place was because of how disatisfying (and often downright wrong -_-) the existing "literature" on this stuff was, LOL

>Would be good to nail down definitions of terms and clarify which of these include others as special cases: Imageboard, textboard, bulletin board/BBS, Web Chat, internet forum, SNS, Usenet newsgroups.

Definitely. "Textboard" in particular... I want to demolish that stupid n00b term!!

>In later articles that go into culture, these images may come in handy

Agreed, but we have to be careful not to take everything they say at face value - we have no idea how much (or how little) the person(s) who made them knew, so its always best to go digging and verify for ourselves

Also check out this sweet formatting - if you put a colon at the start of a line, it becomes indented! And they stack too! Talk pages will no longer be an indecipherable mess, hooray!

--Anonwaha (talk) 21:01, 21 May 2022 (EDT)

What did the existing literature get wrong? G1ade (talk) 21:26, 21 May 2022 (EDT)