August 10, 1999 --> August 10, 2012
I haven't done a thread like this since "10 years". I haven't been that active of a poster since 2007-ish and even left the board for a while but it's kind of strange to officially hit the "teens". There have been a lot of interesting exchanges and a lot of topics have been very insightful. Better than a lot of comments on, say, YouTube for instance. There are also things I would've done differently today but that's one of the advantages of hindsight.
A lot's changed. The Internet, outside of email, used to be a place where I interacted with strangers who I'll never meet. Now it's a place where I've interacted with people who live across the street.
It used to about what if the computers freaked out because they didn't know what to do if the chronometer rolled over from "99" to "00". Now it's about what it means that the Mayans got lazy and saw no reason to map out a calendar beyond what would be the end of 2012. It's not like they ever would've lived to have seen it anyway.
Most people I knew were fed up with Star Trek and thought we had too much of it. Now, more and more, people miss it and want it back. Absence making the heart grow fonder and all that. "Old Trek" used to be the series that ran from 1966-1969. Now it's 1966-2005.
I went through two colleges, five long-term jobs, and lived in three places, since 1999. Three presidents too. An entire incarnation of filmed Batman has even come and gone.
Any way you slice it, it's either a long time or a lot has happened in a short time. Yet there's still TrekBBS and I'm still here, even if it's a lot less.
Is anyone else surprised they're still here?
I haven't done a thread like this since "10 years". I haven't been that active of a poster since 2007-ish and even left the board for a while but it's kind of strange to officially hit the "teens". There have been a lot of interesting exchanges and a lot of topics have been very insightful. Better than a lot of comments on, say, YouTube for instance. There are also things I would've done differently today but that's one of the advantages of hindsight.
A lot's changed. The Internet, outside of email, used to be a place where I interacted with strangers who I'll never meet. Now it's a place where I've interacted with people who live across the street.
It used to about what if the computers freaked out because they didn't know what to do if the chronometer rolled over from "99" to "00". Now it's about what it means that the Mayans got lazy and saw no reason to map out a calendar beyond what would be the end of 2012. It's not like they ever would've lived to have seen it anyway.
Most people I knew were fed up with Star Trek and thought we had too much of it. Now, more and more, people miss it and want it back. Absence making the heart grow fonder and all that. "Old Trek" used to be the series that ran from 1966-1969. Now it's 1966-2005.
I went through two colleges, five long-term jobs, and lived in three places, since 1999. Three presidents too. An entire incarnation of filmed Batman has even come and gone.
Any way you slice it, it's either a long time or a lot has happened in a short time. Yet there's still TrekBBS and I'm still here, even if it's a lot less.
Is anyone else surprised they're still here?
Assuming the world doesn't end in December. 
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