It might not be as messed up as you think. Technically, BitcoinTalk =/= forum. Indeed, the forum was created in 2009 by Satoshi. BitcoinTalk didn't exist at that time yet. The forum initially used SourceForge and then moved to bitcoin.org/smf, then to forum.bitcoin.org, and finally to bitcointalk.org. BitcoinTalk only came up in 2011, coined by Jeff Garzik. It was also the same man who bought the domain bitcointalk.org.