HotCopper was started in 1995 by Internet Entrepreneur Ron Gully. The name originated from Ron Gully's wish to have a forum that dealt with HOT Penny Stocks. Correction: Hotcopper was started in 1993 by 11 co-founders, and I was one of them. Ron Gully joined us 2 years later.
Back in the early nineties, like 1993 or so... True, at least 10 years before Facebook or Twitter.
HotCopper was one of the first bulletin boards for Australian based stocks. Correction: HC was the first chat site in Australia about shares and it was based on Internet Relay Chat (IRC) technology. and it started off with about discussion about all those sorts. Not Quite True, most of the discussions were about shares. I still kept many session logs
