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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. More on [ Internet forum ]
GB overcome Czechs for first win
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:49:55 -0000
Great Britain beat the Czech Republic 87-68 at the O2 Arena to achieve their first win in EuroBasket qualifying Group D.
GB slip to Euro qualifying defeat
Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:22:12 -0000
Luol Deng cannot inspire Great Britain to victory in their opening European qualifier against Israel.
Archibald joy at Spanish return
Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:13:32 -0000
Robert Archibald is relieved to have secured a return to the Spanish League with Malaga following an unhappy spell in Ukraine.
Fishing - Directory of forum groups involving field sports. Hosted by MSN.
BlueDome - Forum covers various outdoor activities, plus for sale and wanted threads.
Meta Description: [ Bluedome Forum is a discussion forum powered by vBulletin. To visit the forum, go to http://forum.bluedome.co.uk// . To find out about vBulletin, go to http://www.vbulletin.com/ . ]
openDemocracy - Hunting Culture - Debate on the place for hunting in the modern world includes a resource of commissioned articles by respected authors worldwide, a discussion area for readers to have their say and an action contacts resource of people and organisations who have influence over or responsibility for the issues raised in the articles.
The Field Sports Debate - Discussion forum with separate sections for each field sport and some related countryside issues. Requires registration to view messages.
Meta Description: [ The field sports debate, where you can have your say. ]
The Hunting Life - Articles on hunting includes lurchers, terriers, ferreting, shooting, fishing and other fieldsports. Overview of quarry species, with gallery and forums available upon registration.
Meta Description: [ Worldwide hunting with lurchers and working terriers, ferreting, shooting, falconry and other field sports. ]
UK Pursuits - A community site, for outdoor enthusiasts.
Meta Description: [ A community site for people who live in the UK and enjoy being outdoors. ]
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