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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 ]
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Artemis Project and Moon Society Meeting Server - Chat system used by the Moon Society and Artemis project for online discussions - busy most evenings.
Artemis Project General Mailing List - Discussion of return to the Moon. Moderated by leadership of Artemis Society International.
Dave Dietzler's BBS - Kardashev levels, colonizing the asteroids and comets, general essays and discussion on space development and colonization.
Frontier Files Online || Opening the Space Frontier - Relaunched community blog - space-related press releases, general developments on the space frontier.
HobbySpace - Space log tracks developments in space commercialization particularly; occasional interviews and other newsworthy items.
Lunar News Network - Blog on US space program focused on return to the Moon.
Meta Description: [ This is a blog devoted to the U.S. space program and the return to the Moon. ]
Moon Society Yahoo group - Open discussion group moderated by Moon Society leaders.
Meta Description: [ moonsociety: Moon Society ]
National Space Society Forums - Forums focused on the NSS roadmap to space settlement, and activities of NSS chapters.
New Mars Forums - Mars Society Newsletter Online Forums
Out of the Cradle - Blog chronicling the new space age: news, interviews, and reviews on all aspects of space development.
RocketForge :: A Blog for the Space Age - Amateur rocketry, the X prize, and our purpose in settling space.
Meta Description: [ A Blog for the Space Age ]
Selenian Boondocks - Blog on new space companies and lunar colonization; the inside scoop on commercial space from Jonathan Goff and Ken Murphy.
Space Sciences -- HabitableZone - Hot topics from the latest space missions, and where we should go next.
Space-architecture list - Discussions on building things in space.
Meta Description: [ space-architecture: Space Architecture ]
Space-elevator forum - Mailing list for discussion of space elevators, in theory and practice.
Meta Description: [ space-elevator: Space Elevator ]
SpaceADG mailing list - Space exploration science, history and current events. Focus is primarily on NASA space activities.
Meta Description: [ SpaceADG: Space Exploration Advocacy Group ]
Spacesettlers forum - Mailing list for discussion of settling space.
Meta Description: [ spacesettlers: A group for people who think that space settlements are a better option than planets for space colonization. ]
SSI_list - Mailing list for the space studies institute (SSI) - general discussion of space development, space solar power, and O'Neill-style habitats.
Meta Description: [ ssi_list: Maillist for the Space Studies Institute (SSI), a non-profit organization funding research into space development. ]
Yahoo! Groups : GreenCELSSTaskFORCE - Dedicated to creating self-sustaining closed-loop environments (only input: sunlight).
Meta Description: [ GreenCELSSTaskFORCE: CELSS Biological Life Support Bioregenerative Mars Moon Earth Waste Treatmentment Resource Recovery Closed Systems ]
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