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I used to be part of a small community at http://alistchatforum.info/, it was just another BBS forum full of weird and wonderful people and there were maybe at most 30 of us at one point (median maybe 5 or 6 "active").

In the 10(?) or so years I posted there, I really got to know a lot of the people all living on different parts of this earth, and planned to visit them. We were a family of sorts. The site went down a few times, but it was usually up in a few days.

One day the site went down for good. The group fell apart without a watering hole to stop by. Sure we had email, and LINE, but it really wasn't the same.

10 of my formative years exist on that site, with me developing from an awkward opinionated teen into a more rounded adult. A large chunk of my core internet memory belongs there, and it's simply missing now.

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~contrarian wrote (thread):

You know it would have petered out eventually had it stayed up.