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Originally Posted by holden

Yeah, that's for sure. When i joined in 2002, i felt a bit of an outsider to the folks that had been here before, and it was clearly a tight-knit community, often giving me the sense that i had missed something big with the old boards, dogboyheadset, rtsr, whathaveyou.

I think it has to do with the time and context. A decade or more ago, internet forums were a bit more novel - a little clunky, less cluttered, perhaps less frequented by your average internet surfer. I hear and see this in other fan forums, too - the old days have a certain nostalgia for some people, more like being in a club. Now that the internet is so engrained in peoples' daily activities and you can get pretty much anything you want on it, there's probably more traffic here but less folks sticking around giving it a sense of community (present company excluded! You're all great!)

Also, t he comment above about UW being a shadow of former selves - that's an okay opinion to have, though i disagree wholeheartedly, for the same reasons that Janie mentioned above - everything changes. Hanging onto the nice nostalgia of Dubnobass and STITI is fine, but that's a decade+ ago. UW have in recent years been extremely prolific and varied in output.

I do have to give kudos to this place. If learned so much about life. PHANXXX!