The Greenspun Memories thread

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This is a thread where we reminisce about memories from the old Greenspun site.

Mine are:

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The Marin Urology board.

― Dante-Cubed (Sean3), Saturday, 6 March 2004 06:58 (twenty-one years ago)

the pictures of their dogs Sky and Tyler or (something like that)

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 6 March 2004 07:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah.

http://photo.net/photo/pcd0942/george-alone-19-sm.jpg

― Dante-Cubed (Sean3), Saturday, 6 March 2004 07:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Or just his pictures in general, I had some of them as desktop wall paper for a while. He's a really good photographer.

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 6 March 2004 07:06 (twenty-one years ago)

The HTML playground was great as well.

― Dante-Cubed (Sean3), Saturday, 6 March 2004 07:06 (twenty-one years ago)

wait, are those boards on LUSENET still active?

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 6 March 2004 07:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Some are.

― Dante-Cubed (Sean3), Saturday, 6 March 2004 07:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The Countryside (?) message board had some great ways to kill chickens, including my favourite: cut the top off a traffic cone and hang it from the roof of your barn, place your chicken in the traffic cone so its head is hanging down out of the hole you've just cut, take an electric bread knife and bzzzzzzz...... Apparently this method is a good way to prevent it from running around like a, er, headless chicken, spraying blood all over your nice, clean smallholding.

― Madchen (Madchen), Saturday, 6 March 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, the Y2K board. They believed, yes they did.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 March 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Countryside boards have really good thread titles: How to catch a weasle [it only eats the head]

― Madchen (Madchen), Saturday, 6 March 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

The thing I remember most about greenspun is it being slow and the server crashing for days at a time. In a way, the breaks were kind of nice.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Saturday, 6 March 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Bless everyone's hearts, I would always get a slew of worried mails whenever there was a crash asking what was going on. I guess I really am the cheerleader of this place!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 March 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

[Sings] Pretty watercolor meeeeemories of the way we were.

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 6 March 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

The Heath Ledger board was fucking awesome.

― adam (adam), Saturday, 6 March 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

You mean the multiple Heath Ledger boards with billions of threads each? Memories . . . .

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Saturday, 6 March 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

And they way most of the posters seemed to think Heath was reading their posts and perhaps even seriously considering their offers of marriage and eternal devotiion and stuff.

― adam (adam), Saturday, 6 March 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

the 'goat-listener' that Momus pointed out still makes me chuckle whenever I think about it.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 6 March 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

How do you think I met Naomi?

― Heath (miloauckerman), Saturday, 6 March 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

href="http://www.greenspun.com/ bboard/q-and-a.tcl?topic=Identity%20Theft">Identity theft is the fastest
growing crime in America.

― sydenham lowriders, Saturday, 6 March 2004 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

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― sydenham lowriders, Saturday, 6 March 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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― hot tweezers, Sunday, 7 March 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Dante, how could you remember... weren't you 6 years old?

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 7 March 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

(oh, that's right.. never mind)

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 7 March 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=00A61r

― , Sunday, 7 March 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/seanmhall2003/seanmwho.html

― , Sunday, 7 March 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

If I were shown this thread in 1994 and told that in ten years time it would make sense to me, I would have been upset.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 7 March 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

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