2nd December 2019, 6:29 PM
(28th November 2019, 2:10 PM)Weltall Wrote: I about had a heart attack.You think the old RC backup is gone? That'd be sad, there's only a few scraps of any of the old forums versions on the Internet Archive. I was looking a bit ago and found some threads and thread listings there from the Nurb/Ice-9 era, but it's only a relative few scattered ones (though I did find a handful of posts of mine on viewable pages...), and I don't think there was anything from in between the end of the original Nurb version and the beginning of this forum archive like two years later. Oh well...
Also, I'm glad you got tendocity.net back. I kind of regretted not keeping it.
I don't think the old RC forums backup still lives. Lost in the aether.
It is very nice to get this web address back though, for sure.
Quote:But I do totally still have the ONSP guest book, which was one of the internet's most fun places to be 20 years ago, if your idea of fun is calling people faggots and retards because they liked something you didn't. But damn those were fun times. The whole tribal politics of the ONSP/GayStation conflict was a blast.
The fact that there was a GayStation, and how our side made endless fun of how they unironically called themselves GayStation Warriors, goes to show how long ago we're talking.
I always found it disturbing back then how many people thought "gay" was an acceptable insult to use... even my cousins used to say that stuff all the time, though I never have. I know some people claimed to not be homophobic despite using that word negatively, but I never thought that was possible, it's pretty obvious what anyone who says that means.
That people say that kind of thing a whole lot less is one of many signs of how LGBT acceptance is way up over where it was in the '90s, and that's a very good thing.