Originally Posted by mineistaken

OP is talking about first any type of forum on the internet. You are talking about first adult industry forums. So no, neither Or highly unlikely that first forum was adult forum.

Originally Posted by Mutt

I knew of no adult or mainstream forum before I found YNOT, the only place I saw people communicating online before YNOT was Usenet newsgroups, auto mail lists (i forget the geeky name of them), IRC channels.

Does anybody know the approximate date the YNOT forum went live?