For those of us old enough to remember, it’s easy to be wistful about the days before social media when we weren’t facing a constant barrage of unfiltered thoughts from strangers. But the truth is those thoughts had an outlet long before the existence of Twitter or Facebook, thanks to the now-archaic realm of the message board.
Message boards have existed for nearly as long as the internet itself and have always been the domain of the hardcore, chronically obsessed fans of any given subject, which obviously includes college sports fans. Some of these online communities have existed for well more than two decades at this point but often remain pretty self-contained and unseen by the outside world.
