They usually were two separate parts on the same page, the shout-box was a widget and its content did not get indexed. The forum was usually not a single-page a

They usually were two separate parts on the same page, the shout-box was a widget and its content did not get indexed. The forum was usually not a single-page application, and forum threads were paginated. Here's a modern-day example [1] [1] http://www.logic-sunrise.com/forums/ http://www.logic-sunrise.com/forums/