The Great Blackout
I was just remembering what we refer to here at AI as "The Great Blackout", when the lights at AI went down for awhile. I know we've had threads about this in the past, but I couldn't find the thread so I wanted to know where everyone went when the Great Blackout happened?
I think that I started posting on MacNN for awhile before I found the "BadFlamingo.com" forums. I just did a WhoIs search for the name of the person who started that forum...it's currently registered to a guy named Eric. it was a great refuge for the time while AI was gone. Tip of the hat to the person who started it...it allowed us to keep the club together.
I hope that there'll be a similar refuge to pop up if anything like the Great Blackout ever happens here again!
I think that I started posting on MacNN for awhile before I found the "BadFlamingo.com" forums. I just did a WhoIs search for the name of the person who started that forum...it's currently registered to a guy named Eric. it was a great refuge for the time while AI was gone. Tip of the hat to the person who started it...it allowed us to keep the club together.
I hope that there'll be a similar refuge to pop up if anything like the Great Blackout ever happens here again!
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I still have the button AI passed out when they had a booth at macworld years ago. 8)
Then, by chance I happened to think "whatever happened to AI?" and came here and everything was...um..back I guess, and yeah.
Originally posted by Wrong Robot
I just left, didn't really care, I was mostly a lurker then, posted a bit, but nothing memorable. So when it went down I just figured "oh well" and moved on.
Then, by chance I happened to think "whatever happened to AI?" and came here and everything was...um..back I guess, and yeah.
exactly the same for me...the blackout made me abit sad for AI, but i was mostly a lurker then too...
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(that one was almost more interesting than this)
heh
Originally posted by murbot
Eugene, you were cruising for a ban there anyway.
It seemed to be more exciting in those days. FH seems so dull now, I check it for 5 minutes then waste an evening in AO. I think I remember something called OrangeInsider too.
And Ive been wondering where NoahJ has gone. And there was this reaaally cool geek here who gave us the complete manual of how to fabricate a CPU. Abd who could forget MichaelM8000 or something, couldn't spel a wurd.
I'm sorry...but it's funny.
Originally posted by OSXaddict
Secret forums again? Brad banned?
I'm sorry...but it's funny.
Happy you find this funny.
I find this really sad