Oldest wet shaving forums

[Merkurologist]

Against the grain forum seems to be the newest.

Or maybe The Shaving Candre..... I think it's very new.

 

[pjgh]

TOST2 has been around since 2012. The original site obviously precedes that, but I can't quite put a date on it - pre 2011, certainly.

 

[riverrun]

TOST2 has been around since 2012. The original site obviously precedes that, but I can't quite put a date on it - pre 2011, certainly.

There are posts from 2009 on the original TOST site.
TOST2 will be mothballed soon.
TOST3 is up and running: 2020

 

[riverrun]

German forums (dates are educated guesses - there are post at least that old)

https://forum.nassrasur.com/ 2003
https://www.gut-rasiert.de/ 2007
https://forum-der-rasur.de/ 2018

 

[riverrun]

Badger and blade - August 2005 as far as I can tell (earliest member registration date)

https://shavinguniverse.com/ - August 2019

 

[Boycie83]

There are posts from 2009 on the original TOST site.
TOST2 will be mothballed soon.
TOST3 is up and running: 2020

Why does it keep changing?

 

[riverrun]

Why does it keep changing?

The original TOST closed down because the original admin went AWOL.
TOST2 will close because the costs are getting out of control and the hoster will not allow moving the content elsewhere.
A painful but inevitable decision.

 

[Boycie83]

The original TOST closed down because the original admin went AWOL.
TOST2 will close because the costs are getting out of control and the hoster will not allow moving the content elsewhere.
A painful but inevitable decision.

A shame. I'm a sure it's a lot of work for the mod teams and a lot of lost information for the community.

 

[Sabre]

There are two Spanish forums:

Afeitadoclasico
Foroafeitado

 

[Merkurologist]

There are two Spanish forums:

Afeitadoclasico
Foroafeitado

I think there's also a "Sin corte no hay gloria"

 

[Alex7]

Updated list:

1. Straight Razor Place Yahoo Groups

2. Charles Roberts MSN group

3. MSN Wetshavers

4. Sharprazorpalace forum(the old straightrazorplace forum)

5. Shavemyface forum

6. Badger and blade forum

7. The shave den forum(was created in 2007)

8. Theshavingroom.co.uk forum(was created in 2009)

9.Subreddit wicked_edge(was created in 2010)

10.Romanian forum forum.barbieritdelux.ro(was created in 2011) I am Romanian, that's why I've listed it

11.Shavenook forum(was created in 2012)

12.Romanian Wet Shaving Society(Facebook group created on 9 December 2014)

13.Damnfineshave forum the second incarnation(was created in 2015)

14.Atgshaving forum(was created in 2016)

15.The Facebook group Straight Razor Place Facebook(was created on 1 March 2018)

16.Theshavingcadre forum(was created on 14 March 2018)

17.The new straightrazorplace.com forum(created July 2019)

18.Romanian Facebook group Romanian Wet Shaving Club(created on 22 November 2019).

 

[pjgh]

... and TOST (2009), TOST2 (2012) & TOST3 (2020)

TOST = The Original Safety Too(l)

 

[Alex7]

The shavenook forum was closed down April 2023.

 

[ischiapp]

Shaving communities are online from mid '90.
At first with mIRC, then MSN Groups, then Yahoo Groups.
I was there.

About a decade after I started shaving, in mid '80.
Having a chronic dermatitis, for me was a game change.
New products, new techniques, new options.
It was exciting. A new world. For a young boy.