On: BBCode

[gkoberger]

Wow, I had completely forgotten about this.

I spent years of my life writing text like this, and the first large programming project I ever worked on was building my own PHP forum software for fun. It never went anywhere, of course, but I learned a ton.

[johng → gkoberger]

Forums are starting to make a bit of a comeback. Google did an algo update a while ago and a lot of forums picked up some traffic. Reddit got a big bump as well.

[red_hare → gkoberger]

Same here. Total blast from the past.

Markdown has obviously replaced it. And Reddit has, for better or worse, replaced the phpBB boards of old. But man, I miss this era.