Not Quite Dead Yet: Internet Message Boards

[David Morris]

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/remembrance-of-message-boards-past/

Not to get too misty, but the board format itself might deserve a
nostalgic embrace. The Internet forum, that great old standby of Web
1.0., has become an endangered species.

Many boards are stagnant or in decline, if they even still exist.
Several once-thriving boards on the women’s site iVillage have closed
up shop. Big fiction-fan boards haven’t seen real action in years.
Last month, a once-popular eight-old-year British board about mental
health went dark with a note: “The Internet has changed
significantly.”