So that's what 6502, 68000 and all those numbers mean.
Well I am just gonna post and wait for advancement
Well I am just gonna post and wait for advancement
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Actually, I find it fascinating to see resurrections of ancient and antique threads - this one is over a decade old! Sometimes, the information they have to offer is still extant, while other times, well, you realise on reading that things have changed, as is the way of life, especially the online version of life
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Like a walk down memory lane for this old time member. I wonder what happened to many of those people.
Many, I suspect, have moved onto other things, other interests, other commitments. Life may have claimed some - say, relationships, or a new job, or a posting to a new city, which may make different commands and demands on someone's time.
Things happen in life and people may no longer need, or have the time to have an interest in, some of the stuff (and places) that enthralled them years earlier.
Besides, MR strikes me as the sort of place that people dip into and out of, as needed. On one occasion, while working abroad, I went more or less without posting for the best part of six months and almost vanished entirely from the forum.
And social media has itself developed in different and utterly unpredictable ways - who would have thought that FB and such things would hold such sway when writing the early pages of this thread back in 2003?
But it is strange to see posts under names that I have never even heard of; and yes, that does beg questions of where they may be…..and why they are elsewhere……
However, despite the immediacy - and possible ferocity - of the online world (new threads can command replies within minutes! - whereas even a little over decade or so ago, the very best one could have hoped for was a matter of days to obtain such a swift response) - once one disappears, and no longer posts, or chooses to have an online presence, there is a kind of silent finality about the black hole into which one has vanished which is no less three dimensional for being utterly virtual…..
I always wonder about that too. They're like an old generation of MR members and we're the new ones. A lot of them were registered in 2000. A lot of things can happen in 14 years.