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}} The Spork Boards were a community-driven response to the closure of the Electric Knife web forum hosted at knifeboard.macpublishing.net by MacWeek.com, and frequented by Mac the Knife. The Electric Knife forums had been a hub of Macintosh-related news and rumors in the early 1990s, and a core group of insiders had broken more than one rumor there before any other media outlet. The Spork Boards became a substitute and a refuge for many Mac rumor diehards including a former Mac the Knife columnist, and for a time during the planning and running of the MacEdition site the boards were a thriving part of the Macintosh media.

  • Tat's the Way Mac Heads Like It, Leander Kahney, WIRED: "In the late 1990s, MacWeek's now-moribund Mac the Knife Forums were a hotbed for Mac fans with Apple tats [tatoos]; a number of pictures were posted to the gossip column's online chat group."