Halloween Discussion Forums, Costumes, Horror!

I have been thinking about how, in the short timeline of the inter webs, halloween.com is a true survivor and went looking for skeletons in the closet.

Check out this, the oldest screen shot I could find.

I remember that damn skull.

God, I'm old.

Well, I'm 2 years younger than CB Christmas , and 1 less than ' great pumpkin', so do the math...if you can

If you or anyone can find post número uno (besides mr. Halloween.com himself) I'd kill to see it

Search indicates this is the very first post. Here's the Wayback view.

This is Wayback's earliest capture of the old forums.

I actually archived the usenet group alt.halloween.boo from the
beginning til some time in 2008 when I quit hanging there because
it got overtaken by spam. First post?

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From: "]-[ideaway" <hideaway@pcm.net>
Subject: scream!
Date: 22 Oct 1997 09:12:19
Message-ID: <344e4cde.0@news.nol.net>
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Newsgroups: alt.halloween.boo



happy halloween


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BTW: Jughead are Veronica were search engines for gopher, which
predated the world wide web. Text only. Archie searched FTP sites.
Usenet and ftp have been around since the beginning of the internet,
along with email. Those three are still around. Before the internet
were bulletin board systems (BBS), that was my first experience with
online services.

The stats from that way back shot are...cute.

2 posted articles and 5 registered users.

Sigh; they grow up so fast.