An Internet forum is a facility on the World Wide Web for holding discussions, or the web application software used to provide the facility. Web-based forums, which date from around 1995, 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 themes, 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, discussion forums, discussion groups, bulletin boards (but see also dial-up bulletin boards), fora (the proper Latin plural) or simply forums.

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Internet forums are prevalent in several developed countries. In terms of countable posts, Japan is far in the lead with over two million posts per day on their largest forum, 2channel. The United States does not have any one large forum, but instead several hundred thousand smaller forums, the largest of which are GameFAQs, Gaia Online, and IGN. Other countries such as China, the Netherlands, and France are also home to hundreds of independent forums. Some countries such as Finland and Sweden do not have many prevalent forums despite having open and easily available Internet access. As of yet no study has been done on the prevalence of forums in countries around the world. It is also dubious as to whether any country has its own fora, as - especially in the English language - contributors to a forum often come from outside the country in which the forum is hosted. There is often not a 1-1 relationship between languages and countries: for example, English language fora are contributed to by people all over the world, whilst Japanese language fora are likely to be contributed to only by Japanese people, but Japanese people also contribute to English language fora, so there is no 1-1 relationship between Japanese language fora and Japanese people contributing to fora.

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I have seen that alot of chats and forums go almost un-noticed.. Don't people converse much anymore?
md16185 (Mike DeNeut) Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:03:18 -0000
I have seen that alot of chats and forums go almost un-noticed.. Don't people converse much anymore?
@tehranweekly hahaha yes! I have too! ANd there are forums / chats elsehwere make this look like kindergarten.
lissnup (Liss) Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:49:27 -0000
@tehranweekly hahaha yes! I have too! ANd there are forums / chats elsehwere make this look like kindergarten.
@feltonthefly yes of course! ive been spending time in other chats and forums tooooo
Violinkeri (Kerianne Marshall) Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:38:52 -0000
@feltonthefly yes of course! ive been spending time in other chats and forums tooooo
Haha readin my Twitter feed and got about 30 tweets from people talking to each other etc. That's what forums/chats are for? ;) #twitterspam
boyle111 (Mark Boyle) Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:34:47 -0000
Haha readin my Twitter feed and got about 30 tweets from people talking to each other etc. That's what forums/chats are for? ;) #twitterspam
@FreeHHTips add these helpful tips in our forums at our website! You can also enjoy chats, look at pics, and read articles!
onlyforpetlover (Only for Pet Lovers) Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:03:58 -0000
@FreeHHTips add these helpful tips in our forums at our website! You can also enjoy chats, look at pics, and read articles!
@Kingmob6 ha ha! Well, I figure the people from the forums, chats, and podcasts probably number about 50 in total...
heavenztrash (Wil) Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:55:49 -0000
@Kingmob6 ha ha! Well, I figure the people from the forums, chats, and podcasts probably number about 50 in total...

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