Cloud.er

Cloud.er is a large Internet forum in the Euro Republics. As of 2023, the forum has 700,000 registered users, over 9 million threads and 92 million posts.

Cloud.er is a general forum that discusses a wide variety of topics from a Euroish perspective, including politics, jobs, cars, health, film, TV, radio, music, cars, games, puzzles and weather.

History
Cloud.er was created by student Gerald Lovejoy in September 1995, as a television based forum. Lovejoy - who had an interest in television presentation - had frequented newsgroups in the past, and created a new forum to discuss television presentation and programmes.

However, figuring the website wouldn't be very successful if limited to one topic, Cloud.er launched with categories for other aspects of pop culture such as film, radio, music, books and theatre, and in January 1996 categories for education, politics, sports, hobbies and technology appeared.

The addition of more topics made Cloud.er more popular, and was helped by publicity in newspapers, magazines and a feature on Channel 4 programme Newsnight.