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Funny how back in the 90s and 00s I could browse BBs without seeing a sea of ads, or any.
Almost like user run communities don’t actually need to return a profit or recoup costs to be active.
might be because traffic wasn't as much. Also, i understand accepting and missing communities ran by not meeting ends. But implicitly demanding that may be a little too much. also, i imagine there wasn't nearly as much media traffic in those ages because images took that long to load let alone videos but i wasnt online yet.
Maybe but most of our content today is hosted off site, on YT or Imgur, etc. So that's not a concern for current sites much either.
good point
Doesn’t the fact that those sites no longer exist kinda prove they needed to recoup costs to stay active?
They didn't die off due to server costs. They died off because companies built for profit centralized sites and advertised them to get people to go there instead.
Easier for large number of people to congregate at a bar than at Phil's house.
No.
They stopped running because it's been 20-30 years and people moved on after a decade or two.