Subject: what a blast from the past!
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Posted on: 2024-07-23 10:37:35 UTC
I think the last time I posted here was when I was like 12, a good 10 years ago. Just remembered now and figured I'd check up.
Amazing that this website is still around, even more cool that I still recognise some names posting haha (but I don't recall my own.)
I don't recognise your handle specifically but I'd have been around in 2012, too! Nice to see you again!
We might've crossed paths back then - I joined in 2010 - but sadly I have a terrible memory for names so I don't remember if we interacted much at the time. Still, welcome back!
Its honestly just so comforting to know that PPC stuff is literally the same as it was back when I was a kid. Helps give a little bit of perspective in these days of a 24/7 news cycle and the worries of real life, that ultimately people are still the same as they always were.
I think I can credit a lot of who I am today to the PPC, ultimately. I wasn't doing very well in school back then (today I am a scientist and a PhD-in-training :P,) and getting home and turning on my mom's old Pentium and just reading the funny stories people would post was a source of escapism for me.
And I think in general, internet fanfiction has influenced a lot of the values I hold today, strange as that is to say. I grew up in a third-world country, and if I had instead taken things osmotically from the people around me, I could have ended up a very different person with very different beliefs.
Congratulations on becoming a scientist and soon-to-be PhD! That's a wonderful achievement. May I ask what field you plan to go into?
I must say, I hope you'll find we're a little nicer than we were back in the early days, haha. That said, I have always believed we're a positive influence on our members, and it's always great to see that belief borne out. ^_^
Since you remember Tungsten Monk, I would guess you'd remember me, too! I don't know if that helps at all, though, since I've been around practically forever at this point. {; P Still, if you weren't too much of a lurker, I might be able to place you if you recall any more details from your time here?
~Neshomeh
It's always nice to see a returnbie. Here, have a box of antigravity chocolates.
So, you say you were posting sometime from 2012-2014? Do you remember participating in any specific threads? If so, we might be able to figure this out.
--Ls likes mysteries
If it helps "date" me, I seem to recall tungsten_monk being active around the same time I was? But otherwise, don't recall anything in particular lol.
I can find results for Tungsten Monk on the Board from 2008 to 2012. Looking over some posts from 2012 to 2014, I can see quite a lot of names, some of which I recognize (some of those being still around, even) and many of which I don't. Did you ever get Permission? Maybe one of the oldbies might know you.
--Ls has only been around for a little over two years
Two main periods of activity: 2004-2007 and 2009-2012, roughly. Mentioning it only as a reminder that Board archives before mid 2008 are sketchy at best, so shouldn't be relied upon as the sole source for what did or didn't happen then. {= )
~Neshomeh