The Oldest Quality Assurance Focused Forum

[Marc]

Althought this site first went online on 5 January 1996, I started the first forum on the site (WWWBoard) in September 1997. Do any of you 'old timers' know what other quality focused forums existed back then?

[Atul Khandekar]

Not very sure...may be misc.industry.quality ?

[Marc]

Originally Posted by Atul Khandekar

Not very sure...may be misc.industry.quality ?

That was an open public news group. I was thinking more of a forum or bulletin board type of place.

I think there was 1 for sure - the one that spiraled out of control and finally went offline a few years back.

[SteelMaiden]

Marc, the one that you talked about...can't even remember its name anymore and the Cove were the only forums/discussion boards that I was able to find back in my early days of ISO implementation.

[Marc]

Anyone know when the ASQ first put their forums online? Or the isixsigma and iso 1 stop?

[Atul Khandekar]

On iSixSigma, the earliest message is dated 25 May, 2000.
http://www.isixsigma.com/forum/showm...p?messageID=18

[gpainter]

I remember the one that got out of control. A constant feud between Allen Cottrell and the "C". Can not remember its name, but after it went to craziness, I came across the Cove. Does anyone remember its name? It is on the tip of my tongue, but will bug me until I think of it.

[Sirlard]

Looking on my old computer I see a "favorite" listed for an address of tqm.com. Was that forum the Total Quality Management forum? I stopped going there in 2000 because of the trash going on in the threads. There was no social redeeming valve on that site.