If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
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@evacide Why the age restriction? Some of us started with Usenet and/or bulletin boards ... and some decades earlier with amateur radio.
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I just realized the internet is a sand castle.
50s and 60s, over and over.
@evacide shameless-self-advertisement: We exist as a forum for 26 years, and we're definitely aiming for a few more anniversaries :).
But yes, we've seen other forums come and go, and it's a shame to see a community vanish :(.
@evacide and me just ambling about the web... homelessly.
@evacide I built my own website in 1997 and still have it.
@evacide I miss the days before the internet
I'm in my late 60s and it's like that ;^)
@evacide everything breaks, except irc
@evacide stop it you're hurting me! Yeah I got sick of it, finally started self hosting my own website and I'm trialling my own instance of masto (actually, hometown) vs Forte to see which I like more. Now I just need my IRL friends to get in on it.. this is literally the first thing I started writing about on my website https://amfernee.com/2026/04/08/where-is-social-media-going/
@evacide : I don't remember agreeing to you posting about me 😅
@evacide A global DDoS attack – and let the internet go to hell xD– just kidding, but it’s tempting
@evacide There were a group of us who formed around the Looking Good forum on the Television Without Pity website in the 00s. When that site jettisoned those forums, we moved to a new forum site. Then that site was bought by someone else before shutting down. These days we still see each other on various social media platforms, but we don’t have the “home” we used to, just a Facebook group.
@evacide Back in the 90s I found a web host that offered PHP+MySQL without any forced ad banners (!) on their free tier. Good times. The web archive still has some remnants of my old site from those years. 🥲
@evacide started with Livejournal
