<p>How do forums get so popular? How did CC start out? How long did it take for it to become the great thing it is today? How did people find CC in the early days?</p>
<p>I recently started a forum (anyone interested? PM me. Can't type it here: no spamming!) and am trying to get some ideas on how to advertise it and really get the word out about it. I think it's a pretty cool idea personally!</p>
<p>Any suggestions would be helpful.</p>
<p>THANKS</p>
<p>I know that it started quite a while ago. The CC we use now isn't the original CC. There was a much older version. I think that, when it was created, it could easily have been the first of it's kind. I don't know how they advertised, but newspapers eventually wrote articles about it, which led to making it what it is now.</p>
<p>Roger Dooley's tag says he joined July 2003, so that's probably when CC started. I heard about CC from a friend.</p>
<p>I found it on google when I googled "how to get into cornell"</p>
<p>^ LMFAO, I DID THE SAME THING lol</p>
<p>my mother found it and sent me a link when she was trying to find information on TASP.</p>
<p>I'm not sure about the date though, I know they've changed things around several times and dates are little off for older things. so the 2003 might not be accurate.</p>
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<p>I'm pretty sure that the CC forums started in 2001, but maybe they started moving to the new forum in 2003? That was the earliest I was able to find in the old forums, back when I could still access them. But I think the new forum opened up after 2003, so I dunno how that works out.</p>
<p>But when CC first started, it looked like all the threads were just people starting threads, and then Dave Berry replying to them - not really that active. It would be really cool to have the old forums still up though. I dunno if it's just Firefox, but I can't access them.</p>
<p>LOL..."how to get into cornell" that is so sad...that you typed such a blunt thing in google...</p>
<p>a simple biological reaction</p>
<p>The key is to have good content and to foster a good community (aka prevent/delete spam, stop trolls, etc.) - from what I can say as a user. If the community (even if it is small) is active, I'm more likely to stick around.</p>
<p>steroids..</p>
<p>lol....</p>
<p>I did the same thing only back then my obsession was Harvard:</p>
<p><<<how to="" get="" into="" harvard="">>></how></p>
<p>lol. </p>
<p>I've switched loyalties to UPenn since then though...</p>