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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 1856422, member: 27"]
i started seeing a few sites popping up that covered college athletics when the WWW really started exploding with the release of the MosaIc browser in 1993.  There wasn't one for SU so I created one.  I believe It was one of the first 5 sites devoted to college sports.  I think I created it in late 1993.  It was just posts I made regarding SU sports.  Indeed, it was a blog before the name blog existed.  Primary focus was on football and basketball recruiting.  It had no message board functionalIty.  Don't think you could even make comments.

Message boards started popping up pretty soon afterwards.

I largely missed out on the prodigy and AOL boards

As far as boards I was actively involved with, I was on Syracuse.com through 1998 to early 2000.  It was a cesspool then, as now.  No real administration; a few idiots were allowed to ruin the board for everyone.

Tom Emery and Fishy created a board for SU basketball shortly after SU played UConn in early 2000 in basketball, after a number of SU fans wouldn't leave the Boneyard after the game was played.  That was an independent board.  Rivals started courting established college sports message boards and eventually the syracusefan and Boneyard boards joined that network.  Mike Farrell and a host of other Issues eventually drove the boards back to independence.  Then we had a stint at Scout before returning to independence.  Scout was even worse than Rivals...

That is my memory of how things went down anyway...
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