| Farewell PSW! [message #182606] |
Wed, 06 December 2006 23:30 |
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Mixerman
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To all,
Many of you probably don't realize this, but last September, I celebrated my five-year anniversary of hosting a forum on PSW. Well, okay. Admittedly, I didn't exactly celebrate. I didn't even actually think about it until now. So, why am I mentioning such a non-event? Because I'm leaving my forum here and moving on.
It's kind of weird now that I sit down to write this closing remark. This is the internet. It's ether. Nothing is permanent. There is no Historical Preservation Society to save longstanding internet networks. There are no permanent structures here. Hell, 5 years on the internet is like 100 years in real life. Case and point: Slippy, Aardy, and I sat together recently, had a cigar, and discussed shit that happened AGES ago on the internet. Then we realized we were actually discussing something that happened less than a year ago. That's how it goes on the internet. BAM! Another year gone.
Frankly, for me this isn't a time of sadness. These are virtual walls. It's merely the storage and the documentation of history. Our history. However small that history may be in the relative scheme of a world with a population of 6 billion, to us it's huge. That's because we're us, and so of course we think that. What's bigger than us? Nothing.
I have enjoyed my time here at PSW. I have made many, lifelong friendships. How do I know that? Come on. You know when a friend is going to be a lifelong one. You just know it.
I'm thankful and appreciative of these friends. And my friends are the foundation of this remarkable and diverse community from around the world. And it's the community that makes up this place. The place itself? That's just a design and a storage system. Nothing more. Anyone can do that. Even me. And especially my friends.
And while at first blush, this letter is indicative of an ending, I promise you friends, it also marks a beginning, much like a child's first peaceful, protected months in the fluid warmth of his mother's Womb.
Farewell PSW!
Mixerman
[Updated on: Wed, 06 December 2006 23:30]
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