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Do you save favourite threads? Do you save any threads? D'you save all of them? D'you see the Twin Beeotch (as we used to call it in the old days) as a grand cultural resource to mine in days to come, or as a brief off-season fling, unsustainable but never forgotten, with a boy/girl/bot from across the — and yes, tears well as I reach for the familiar formula — traXoR?

― mark s, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What, you leaving us or something? Nobody leaves ILx, you just realize that your life is empty without it. Punk.

Every so often I do a trawl through some of the old threads on both sites -- I like the ones that suddenly spark up again for no apparent reason.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Energy" on the Internet ("Energy": excitement, "vibe", coming- together of talents) pools and dissipates quite quickly. This is the secret reason doing stuff on the web is called 'surfing', really: you ride the wave, you regroup, you wait for the next. In this it's little different from anything else. The things to be saving are e- mail addresses, not so much what's being written (though I wish I'd saved all the crap I've talked over the years onlike, that said).

― Tom, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If ILE goes down the pan as Ethan suggests on ILM (pah, don't ask him for racing tips) then I'll dump the entire forum to a file (as there is an option to on the moderator screen) and distribute as necessary.

― DG, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ethan's racing tip: DON'T BET ON DG

― ethan, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's like pop culture, when it's gone, it's gone. Well for me anyway.

― jel, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have an ancient Ned Rodgett Qoaute on my blog today.

― anthony, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Recipe for increased longevity and usefulness: paste the following into Word or Simpletext or Notepad, save as "somethingorother.html" in a place you'll remember. Drag into yr browser window for years to come (or as long as freefind is liquid... hrm.) ThanXing to Graham.

<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>ILE Search</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
<FOR M ACTION="http://search.freefind.com/find.html" METHOD="GET"><INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="id" SIZE="-1" VALUE="9363262"><INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="pid" SIZE="-1" VALUE="r"><INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="mode" SIZE="-1" VALUE="ALL"><INPUT type="HIDDEN" name="n" value="0"><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="query" SIZE="40"><INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE=" Search ILE"></FORM>

<FORM ACTION="http://search.freefind.com/find.html" METHOD="GET"><INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="id" SIZE="-1" VALUE="4431395"><INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="pageid" SIZE="-1" VALUE="r"><INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="mode" SIZE="-1" VALUE="ALL"><INPUT type="HIDDEN" name="n" value="0"><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="query" SIZE="40"><INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE=" Search ILM"></FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Greenspun's ghost put a space into that there above us. But we must have Tools! Try this on fer size:

<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>Search This Beeotch</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
<FORM ACTION="http://search.freefind.com/find.html" METHOD="GET"><INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="id" SIZE="-1" VALUE="9363262"><INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="pid" SIZE="-1" VALUE="r"><INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="mode" SIZE="-1" VALUE="ALL"><INPUT type="HIDDEN" name="n" value="0"><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="query" SIZE="40"><INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Search ILE"></FORM>

<FORM ACTION="http://search.freefind.com/find.html" METHOD="GET"><INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="id" SIZE="-1" VALUE="4431395"><INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="pageid" SIZE="-1" VALUE="r"><INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="mode" SIZE="-1" VALUE="ALL"><INPUT type="HIDDEN" name="n" value="0"><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="query" SIZE="40"><INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Search ILM"></FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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