Post by Nostalgia on Sept 29, 2011 23:34:34 GMT -5
I love old ProBoards websites. They make me incredibly nostalgic. Just seeing this fully functioning website that was made by somebody at some point in time, for a purpose, but was ultimately left and forgotten by them. It makes me wonder who they are, where they went, why they made it, why they left, and where they are. It's just that brief, fleeting human contact with somebody else I've never met and never will meet that is so fascinating. And they don't even know it's happening. Maybe it's a bit voyeuristic? I'm not sure. But it's just so weird to me, having this small touch of contact with somebody I don't know and never will.
Seeing something fully functioning like this that - in some cases, as I've found about a hundred old boards by now (I am, of course, the one who was previously known as "rock and roll baby" back when I stalked old Proboards boards back in 2008 when I was thirteen) - may even have been functioning and had a few members for a short period of time a decade a go, and which was then completely abandoned.. It's so weird. It's similar to the feeling one may get from walking through a ghost town, I suppose, seeing all the remnants of a past culture, a past society, but without the heart and soul of it - the people. Seeing all these things that used to be used, for whatever purpose and however long an amount of time, by other people. It's just such an interesting connection to me. It fascinates me.
You probably think I'm a bit strange.
You're probably right.
But you're here, too. You typed in this proboards URL for no reason (or, perhaps, with very good reason to yourself if nobody else), so you share at least some of that fascination that I share.
I'm just posting this here so that if anybody else sees it, they know that they are not alone. They know that somebody else, at some point - myself - shared that same desire to see remnants of a forgotten past. We're not so different, you and I.
I could put my Skype or Tengaged or e-mail here so that we could potentially come in contact again, and I was going to, but I don't think that I will. That would be completely contradictory to what drove me here in the first place - the fascination gained from the aura of mystery surrounding a stranger. If I were to see a message such as this on a Proboard, I'd be utterly fascinated beyond belief by the knowledge that I'm not alone in my incredibly strange desires and fascinations. So I'll leave you to have that same feeling by leaving you entirely.
Have a phenomenal life. Help a stranger across the road. Hold the door open for somebody you don't know. Give someone a compliment. Remember that life can and usually does get better.
Seeing something fully functioning like this that - in some cases, as I've found about a hundred old boards by now (I am, of course, the one who was previously known as "rock and roll baby" back when I stalked old Proboards boards back in 2008 when I was thirteen) - may even have been functioning and had a few members for a short period of time a decade a go, and which was then completely abandoned.. It's so weird. It's similar to the feeling one may get from walking through a ghost town, I suppose, seeing all the remnants of a past culture, a past society, but without the heart and soul of it - the people. Seeing all these things that used to be used, for whatever purpose and however long an amount of time, by other people. It's just such an interesting connection to me. It fascinates me.
You probably think I'm a bit strange.
You're probably right.
But you're here, too. You typed in this proboards URL for no reason (or, perhaps, with very good reason to yourself if nobody else), so you share at least some of that fascination that I share.
I'm just posting this here so that if anybody else sees it, they know that they are not alone. They know that somebody else, at some point - myself - shared that same desire to see remnants of a forgotten past. We're not so different, you and I.
I could put my Skype or Tengaged or e-mail here so that we could potentially come in contact again, and I was going to, but I don't think that I will. That would be completely contradictory to what drove me here in the first place - the fascination gained from the aura of mystery surrounding a stranger. If I were to see a message such as this on a Proboard, I'd be utterly fascinated beyond belief by the knowledge that I'm not alone in my incredibly strange desires and fascinations. So I'll leave you to have that same feeling by leaving you entirely.
Have a phenomenal life. Help a stranger across the road. Hold the door open for somebody you don't know. Give someone a compliment. Remember that life can and usually does get better.
