[Hayarotle]

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/

[tester756]

I thought you wanted to say in previous comment that shoutbox will be indexed, nvm.