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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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Thinking Made Easy: Students and the Internet: How Cyber Culture ...: Communities include online forums, chats .. http://bit.ly/4YIXh8
pinstripetwit (Pin-Stripe Twit) Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:44:53 -0000
Thinking Made Easy: Students and the Internet: How Cyber Culture ...: Communities include online forums, chats .. http://bit.ly/4YIXh8
Trading community through forums and live chats http://bit.ly/d8MBA
forexgo (Karl-Heinz Landwehr) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:41:32 -0000
Trading community through forums and live chats http://bit.ly/d8MBA
Check out the classifieds at AvidHerpers.com, along with the friendly forums and Herp chats. http://www.avidherpers.com/fusionbb.php?
AvidHerpers (Shawn Samanta) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:57:01 -0000
Check out the classifieds at AvidHerpers.com, along with the friendly forums and Herp chats. http://www.avidherpers.com/fusionbb.php?
will chats and forums ever go back to not having everyone thinking everyone is a spammer or a stalker?
md16185 (Mike DeNeut) Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:48:56 -0000
will chats and forums ever go back to not having everyone thinking everyone is a spammer or a stalker?
@NaNoWordSprints Thanks for arranging earlier sprints! The 'instant-ness' of twitter and chats helps me more than the forums :) Good night!
AuroraLee (Aurora Lee) Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:35:54 -0000
@NaNoWordSprints Thanks for arranging earlier sprints! The 'instant-ness' of twitter and chats helps me more than the forums :) Good night!
#Trading community through forums and live chats http://bit.ly/d8MBA
forexgo (Karl-Heinz Landwehr) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:24:04 -0000
#Trading community through forums and live chats http://bit.ly/d8MBA

 
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