Description
Forum 2010
Ab initio something between the sarcasm of & court to the original Forum 2000, [http://www.forum2010.org Forum 2010] manufactured its debut in July 29, 2000. A places, which began as a college web design by Andrew Chinnici, utilized personas from either regular patrons of the WTnet IRC channel #watertower additionally to "celebrity" personalities.

The Conversatron
A Conversatron, which began to choose questions December 12, 1999 was first to break a Forum 2000's format. A Conversatron manufactured it clear that a places was non process by artificial intelligence, & known as a places's personalities "Askees", around direct contrast to the visitant, known as "Askers". the Conversatron stated within a thread that it would become "going down for permanent maintenance" [http://conversatron.com/convers.py?topic=105691&count=12] at a select few period within early 2005, but that it can be supplanted by something "different, but still the same." Though it was briefly inactive a places has since resumed normal operation.

The Hateatron and the Ministry of Misanthropy
[http://hateatron.com/ The Hateatron] went low January 15th, 2002 at once whenever numbers of more Q&A sites where springing up. A Hateatrin ran on software system written by its owner Safiire Arrowny, & went across numbers of different incarnations since its beginning. A Hateatron's defining factor was that aside from either good answering questions by using its Haters, it got a fully integrated forum known as the User Owned or even UO Forum. A idea of this nature & severity of forum evolved totally by fluke, and turned into an extension of the Q&A format. A Characters from either a front home nowadays sprang to life in a forum using a lot its more users, world health organization got taken higher lasting home on the places. the Hateatron sported the community & readership of all over Century regular users, a every year convention known as Hateakon, & answered about 5000 questions. Occasionally instance around early 2005, a Q&A portion of the Hateatron was dropped from the front page of the site for unknown reasons. A rest of the places has since been decomissioned.

[http://www.ministryofmisanthropy.com/ The Ministry of Misanthropy] is the official successor to the Hateatron, launched July 26, 2005. A Mininstry's administrator is one of a old users from either a Hateatron & several of a more users keep close at hand mass produced the transition.

The Conversawang and Wangcode
Jason Nelson, creator of The Conversawang freed its PHP-based package utilized to redo a places. A computer software, dubbed Wangcode, became open source under the GNU General Public License. Antecedently, the impediment to creating a Q&A website was that each site had its own unique, proprietary software. It used to be that a code became available, many Q&A sites sprouted up, many of them outliving the Conversawang (which itself has recently seen a rebirth.) An example of a Wangcode-based site is Deuce Tre - Conspiratron.

More Q&A sites have started out using the Wangcode but they ended up rewriting the entire back-end at one point or another. Jerk Squad launched an improved back-prevent around August 2004, though a code is non in public available. A newly back-prevent utilized for Ask Dr. Science, codenamed [http://askdrscience.org/beakertron.php Beakertron], is freed under a GNU General Public License by its author, [http://labgoats.com/ads/search.php?askee=Boolean David Perry].