Do you ever find yourself browsing through the All Threads list and enjoying very old posts? It's very nice to read through, very relaxing. It's like communicating backwards in time.
Yes all the time. I'm so sick of the rest of the internet. This place is my respite away from social media.
It's calm and relaxing, kind of like gardening maybe, or reading old letters.
Ye, i actually just started doing this (I never posted on this site then, though). It's super interesting seeing opinions change over years in a single thread.
what about when you stumble across all the fun you had on a site like this (or any site for that matter) and then you look at how many people are active and it's barley reaching double digits when it used to be thriving. I find that depressing as shit.
For me games hurt, like Return to Castle Wolfenstein when the multiplayer wasn't dead was amazing. I recently booted it up again to find no servers online and none of my friends want to play because graphics or someshit. Man that's depressing. You can get a sense of how bad its gotten seeing as this was posted like a year ago.
Some bastardized version of the Civilization III multiplayer has limped along for the last decade, but I never was much for multiplayer games.
I think the reason textboards attract so many of these (>>5) sort of posts is that textboards are the last stop on the line before people outgrow the internet. It hasn't been around for long enough in anything like its current state for a whole user lifecycle to be mapped out, but the two sorts of posts that keep coming up on textboards being 1) complaints about "normies," remembering how much better things used to be, and 2) angst about the habbits people have picked up, like the thread about how to stop being an otaku on the Personal Issues board and the complaints about internet use both here and on Net Culture. This theory also explains why textboards, at least English ones, are always skating on the edge of extinction; the users keep moving away.
I remember I used to read a lot in my youth, before I had a regular internet connection. 2-3 hours daily, and I would always try to read at least 50 pages. After prolonged exposure to networked information technology, I gradually stopped reading in any sustained way for pleasure. Over the last few months I've been trying to get back to that, with middling amounts of sucess. Its not like I have so much work anyway.
What people do after textboards, I don't know. Maybe they just get lives like everyone else and go on to become someone's eccentric uncle. I guess the world could use a few more eccentric uncles.
Sorry for the blog.
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I enjoyed reading your blog, Anonymous Addict. I hope you got back to reading more in the past few years! Good luck out there, or here, if you're still here.
Yes, it's how I found this thread in fact.