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Undertoad · 01-14-2002, 09:52 PM

Well, I can't remember if I ever even wrote the word fuck on here. So there it is. Fuck.

This fits within the spirit of the thread. While all the words on here since 1/13/01 are still on here, there are years and years and years of words that never got googled, that were expired, never to be retrieved. There would be a lot of wisdom to be found in it. Beyond just working out whether I've ever posted a post with the word fuck in it.

I remember, back in the day, atrw0176 (yeah, that was his handle) posting a long list of predictions for what would happen after Clinton got into office. Because I knew his list would be interesting, I kept a copy of it, and about a year and a half later, I posted it. Most of his predictions were wrong. But what was really cool was that it was a look back at how someone felt only 18 months previously, and the historical value of it was just wonderful.

For future historians, the archived messages of public forums will be a remarkable treasure trove. Can you imagine reading a similar message board of 50, or 100 years ago? 200 years ago? 500 years ago? It seems to me that history really fails to tell us about the ordinary people of a time. What did they spend time doing? What did they feel was important? Why did they have the values they did?

01-14-2002, 09:52 PM	#23
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Well, I can't remember if I ever even wrote the word fuck on here. So there it is. Fuck. This fits within the spirit of the thread. While all the words on here since 1/13/01 are still on here, there are years and years and years of words that never got googled, that were expired, never to be retrieved. There would be a lot of wisdom to be found in it. Beyond just working out whether I've ever posted a post with the word fuck in it. I remember, back in the day, atrw0176 (yeah, that was his handle) posting a long list of predictions for what would happen after Clinton got into office. Because I knew his list would be interesting, I kept a copy of it, and about a year and a half later, I posted it. Most of his predictions were wrong. But what was really cool was that it was a look back at how someone felt only 18 months previously, and the historical value of it was just wonderful. For future historians, the archived messages of public forums will be a remarkable treasure trove. Can you imagine reading a similar message board of 50, or 100 years ago? 200 years ago? 500 years ago? It seems to me that history really fails to tell us about the ordinary people of a time. What did they spend time doing? What did they feel was important? Why did they have the values they did?