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BBQ is what it’s all about. The BBQ Forum was started in 1995 as an experimental feature on the first web page about BBQ. That first web page was the “Kansas City Bar-B-Q Connection,” started by myself Ray Basso, of Kansas City, MO. The claim of being the first is based on the fact that a search was done on a new search engine called Yahoo for BBQ. The only result was for Bubba’s Barbeque Chips. At that time Yahoo was a web page a couple of college students had started to keep track of the new web pages they had found on the Internet.

The Kansas City Bar-B-Q web page was an early attempt at crass commercialization of the Internet. I had hoped to be able to become rich selling Barbecue sauce from Kansas City, over the Internet. That has not happened.

One of the features that were offered me by the web page hosting company was an interactive forum for $50 per month. I posted a notice on the web page asking if anyone would be interested in such a thing. I quickly received several email of people wanting this forum. I didn't tell my wife I was spending $50 a month so people could talk about BBQ.

So The BBQ Forum was born. I never did think it would be much because I figured in a year or so everything that could have been said about BBQ would have been discussed. So here were are now with over 125,000 messages posted to it. The concept has been so popular that it has been copied many times. The BBQ Forum still is the biggest and best BBQ Forum on the Internet.

We have over 3,500 people visit it each day. There are about 100 messages posted to the forum daily about 20,000 pages are viewed each day. Some of the top people in BBQ come by here and share secrets with everyone. The Forum is a very nice place with some of the best people in the world supporting it.

The BBQ Forum has some rules that everyone is asked to read and follow. It’s a moderated forum and since I am the forum founder I am the moderator. If you break the rules of the forum, I will delete the message you posted.

So have a good time and don’t be afraid of posting a message. These are good people and they will treat you kindly as long as you don’t break the rules.

Thanks

Ray Basso

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