How the Golden Era you described so neatly coincides with when I started/stopped posting.
Coincidence?
The thing of it is is that each time people say "back then", they aren't referring to two years ago or so before each utterance of the phrase. They mean the same time period whether they said it last year or five years ago. I doubt there's a precise division of the years, but I'd say that most consider the golden "Back Then" to be from about a year before the Great Crash of 2001 to about two to three years after the Great Crash. So, let's say the days of messageboard.asp (the united board era) to the end of communitymessageboard2.asp (in the divided board era) or even into maybe communitymessageboard3.asp.
That's just me guessing at the likeliest favorite nostalgic points on our timeline. I'd really be confused if I one day (ten years from now) I hear someone say "Hey, remember that second year of RAFO? <singsong voice>Awesome</singsong voice>."
Coincidence?
...there were always some who posted about how slow the board was and how much better things where "back then".
And then now that we've moved to RAFO, people are talking about how much better things were before.
And 10 years from now, RAFO willing, people will post the same stuff, only "back then" will be now.
Guess that's just how boards work. There will always be some who talk about "good old days".
And then now that we've moved to RAFO, people are talking about how much better things were before.
And 10 years from now, RAFO willing, people will post the same stuff, only "back then" will be now.
Guess that's just how boards work. There will always be some who talk about "good old days".
The thing of it is is that each time people say "back then", they aren't referring to two years ago or so before each utterance of the phrase. They mean the same time period whether they said it last year or five years ago. I doubt there's a precise division of the years, but I'd say that most consider the golden "Back Then" to be from about a year before the Great Crash of 2001 to about two to three years after the Great Crash. So, let's say the days of messageboard.asp (the united board era) to the end of communitymessageboard2.asp (in the divided board era) or even into maybe communitymessageboard3.asp.
That's just me guessing at the likeliest favorite nostalgic points on our timeline. I'd really be confused if I one day (ten years from now) I hear someone say "Hey, remember that second year of RAFO? <singsong voice>Awesome</singsong voice>."
Just wondering.....assessment of recent RAFO activity
- 10/09/2011 03:49:03 PM
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Ever since I started coming to Wotmania...
- 10/09/2011 05:13:32 PM
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Eh...
- 10/09/2011 07:11:34 PM
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it's funny...
- 10/09/2011 07:15:42 PM
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This is true. Back then there were a couple years when chat always had 20+ people
- 11/09/2011 01:25:11 AM
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That was true even into CMB4. CMB5 is where things really began to drop off. *NM*
- 11/09/2011 01:31:25 AM
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I'm not from the first class
- 11/09/2011 04:04:03 PM
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We like to keep you in Coach. You get uppity when you're given amenities. *NM*
- 11/09/2011 07:47:45 PM
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there has been a marked drop and I suspect it will get worse
- 12/09/2011 09:07:41 PM
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Great point about chat.....it really is a necessary feature for a community-based site *NM*
- 13/09/2011 09:55:47 PM
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