Is Paintmagazine.net down??

[Cunha]

Lets remember some of our favorite paintball messageboards that are lost to us, to the detriment of all.

Only pick 1, and add something you liked about it or a funny memory.

Mine is paintmagazine.net home of the palmer owners group. Eddie "Kampfer" had some of the coolest configurations, like the first modern side tube sheridan I've ever seen "Scimitar" that was pretty late in the timeline and that gun ended up being sold here when he stopped paintballing, I believe.

[gabe]

PGPOG

As a 13yo kid getting into paintball I would pull up the gallery part of the forum, wait the requisite 30 minutes for all the pics to load on a dial up connection, and spend saturday mornings just looking at all the amazing nickel plated, clear pump handle, slotted feed tube custom PGP's and other Sheridans on there. Saw that quite a few people were using Cooper-T bolts so got their contact info from a member on the site and called Cooper-T and ordered one over the phone with a money order from Chauncey himself. Still have the PGPOG forum patch in my collection.

[Trbo323]

Paintbalforum.com

Technically it's still up and running but there is 0 traffic.

This is why paid memberships are important people! Keeps the site relevant in Google searches

It's the site that really got me going in paintball, answered a lot of questions and helped me through gear choices. Also the cause of my autococker

Sent from my Moto Z (2) using Tapatalk

[glaman5266]

BEOG

One of the first online forums I registered at was the BEOG. I was super hard into blowbacks at the time, and dove straight into Rainmakers after drooling over all the BEAUTIFUL Rainmakers on that site. The BEOG really got me into using the lower end stuff that people wouldn't normally use (and, of course, RMs) & made me really appreciate BE for what it was.

[DocsMachine]

WARPIG's Tech Talk.

Had it's issues, and regulars had a lot of fun messing with the Usenet-style post threading, but it was THE paintball discussion board for a year or three. And I mean THE, as in the only one.

And, I'll always have a soft spot in my head for it, as it helped directly lead me to where I am now. After only a couple of weeks on TT, people were asking for me by name, because I was one of the few people that had genuine answers to even tricky questions. That's not to say no one else did, but most others had experience with one or two markers, I had experience with dozens at the time.

It also showed me that there were indeed people willing to ship a marker cross-country in order to have it fixed right. And occasionally modded, and even heavily modded. Those early jobs gave me the confidence to launch this biz.

And come the First of July, I'll have been at it twenty-three years.

Doc.

[coyote]

Phog.org

[autococker04]

I’ll second WARPIG. I probably drove a lot of people crazy around there, I was 14 years old making a thousand posts a year.

[Brokeass_baller]

Hung out on WARPIG a lot for a while. I kinda miss PBReview. I used to love skimming through the reviews and user-uploaded photos. They had a very friendly forum community, too.

Whatever happened to PBR? It just sorta disappeared one day.

[Hp_lovecraft]

Alt.sport.paintball

in the early 90s, that was the place to be. Lots of industry types and pro players posted there, along with lots of college students . It was nice because back then, there was no spam, trolls, ads or flames. Plus, no kids or casual users. Just professionals and students. It evolved from the Listserv paintball group of the late 80s, but Listserv was only a tiny network

it was great. You had the first “online” store with Hamilton’s hobbies, and warpig started out here. Back then, it just hosted paintball pics. And we organized our own “team internet” in 93 or so, with patches and tshirts so we could spot each other at events.

later, you would get rec.sport.paintball. Similar. Easy to think of them as the same. By the mid 90s, casual users and spam started to become an issue, and by then, other moderates forums became a better option

but I miss those days. For many years, archives of asp and rsp were fantastic for historical references. But google pretty much ended deleted the dejanews archives

a huge loss

[un2xs]

I still don't understand this. When and why did Google gain the ability to erase, uhm, usenet? news? Who made them the keeper of so much historical data?

[maggot]

Spyder Forum in the mid/late 90's
Was basically a bunch of youngsters competing to see how low of pressure they could get their gun to still shoot reliably, because that was cool.

[Jordan]

The Tinkers Guild, 2001-2006ish... I know it's still around but I don't see very much paintball related discussion on there anymore and I find the Tapatalk forum layout hard to navigate.

I was on there when people like Simon Stevens and Aaron Alexander were posting cool stuff or ideas they had. The main reason I want a J4 Torque is because it started out as an idea on there.

[iamthelazerviking]

preview.com because.
Also paintballclassifieds. Favorite memories were a pink to brown fade A5. And that time a dude tried to scam me trading my Tribal for his cocker.