weather.com Message Boards

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weather.com Message Boards
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TypeForum
Founder
PlatformInfoPop OpenTopic
LanguageEnglish
Content areas
  • The Weather Channel
  • General discussion
  • Meteorology
  • Music
Users19,462[1]
StatusClosed
Launch date1999; 26 years ago (1999)
Closure dateJune 2007; 17 years ago (2007-06)[2][3]
Preceded by:TWCForum
Succeeded by:The Weather Channel AOL group

The weather.com Message Boards, also known as The Weather Channel Message Boards, were a forum officially run by The Weather Channel, existing from 1999 to 2007. For most of their history, the boards coexisted with TWC's original message board, TWCForum, which was hosted through Compuserve from 1995 to 2006. Unlike TWCForum, however, the message boards were directly hosted on TWC's website, weather.com. The purpose of TWC's forums were to promote interaction with regular viewers as well as fans of the network.

History

The message boards were founded sometime between early May and early October 1999.[4][5] The earliest years of the forum also utilized a live chat feature that allowed viewers to communicate in real time to on-camera meteorologists and other personalities, sometimes tied to specific topics, events, or programs on the network.[6] The forum was powered by OpenTopic by InfoPop at least from 2001 onwards.

The message boards were closed sometime between May 31 and June 18, 2007, almost certainly in June.[7][8] After the closure, the forum was replaced by a screen that read, "The service for this site has been suspended."[8]

See also

  • TWCForum, another official TWC forum with which it mostly coexisted

References

  1. ↑ "The Weather Channel Message Boards". The Weather Channel. Archived from the original on May 31, 2007. Retrieved January 10, 2025.
  2. ↑ "The Weather Channel Message Boards". The Weather Channel. Archived from the original on May 31, 2007. Retrieved January 10, 2025.
  3. ↑ "Error". The Weather Channel. Archived from the original on June 18, 2007. Retrieved January 10, 2025.
  4. ↑ "The Weather Channel - Home Page". The Weather Channel. Archived from the original on May 4, 1999. Retrieved January 10, 2025.
  5. ↑ "Weather Damaged Page". The Weather Channel. Archived from the original on October 12, 1999. Retrieved January 10, 2025.
  6. ↑ "weather.com - Calendar Page". The Weather Channel. Archived from the original on June 8, 2001. Retrieved January 10, 2025.
  7. ↑ "The Weather Channel Message Boards". The Weather Channel. Archived from the original on May 31, 2007. Retrieved January 10, 2025.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Error". The Weather Channel. Archived from the original on June 18, 2007. Retrieved January 10, 2025.
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