> > Gah. You guys make me feel old. I've been hanging around RinkWorks since before there was a forum... March of '98 was, I believe, when I first popped in. My first forum post was number 173
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> That's not old. I remember back before there was even a webpage. We just hung around on USENET and posted about how cool RW was going to be when Sam made it.
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> And before that, we didn't even have internet connections. We had to sit around (often OUTSIDE, where bears are), with no way to communicate with each other, pretending we were talking to people we hadn't met. FQ wasn't quite as fun when it was all in my mind, but at least I didn't have to do anything three times...

Bah. I was on sabbatical then. I remember when we didn't have bears to be afraid of - we had to spend all day running in mortal terror from ducks. Have you ever tried to be afraid of a duck? That takes REAL effort.

And before that, we didn't have anything. We didn't even have ionic bonds. We just held it all together with duct tape, and we liked it fine that way! Do you have any idea how had it is to read "I Think" when you have to conjure up the whole thing in your mind, while wrapped in duct tape?

> Ste "Darien, you got 25323, so that's not exactly bad" phen

Dar "Well, no, but it's not quite 23517" ien