Gw forum closing
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Originally posted by Avicenna
Chern Ann, if you need any more mods to cope with the possible influx of refugees, I\'m handy with a mod-stick
Christ on a bike. I\'d rather put up with the fan boys......
A sign of bad times ahead? Nooooo. Surely not.
Here\'s what I think happened...
First, they bought their computer back in the mid-late 80\'s. You know, back when the salesmen said \'Twenty megabytes is all the hard drive space you\'ll ever need...\' and we consumers, being fools, believed them.
Being rich, GW wasn\'t satisfied with a mere 20 MB hard drive, though. They half-emptied their vast coffers, and bought themselves a 60 MB hard drive (anybody remember how much those were back in \'88?) and an extra 4 MB of RAM.
This made GW the owners of the most powerful computer of the world, and so, they stopped paying attention to the advances in computer technology, satisfied with their mightiness.
The internet came along, and GW thought it was a pretty nifty idea, and so, built one of the biggest, nicest web pages out there (in 1988) and introduced the forum to the world. A mad innovation. Let your customers talk about you on your own space? It cast the world into turmoil.
But, now, nearly twenty years later, that hard-drive is just about full of forum materials, and rather than get another hard drive (remember, they\'re ignoring these advances in technology, now), they\'re just going to turn it off.
Here\'s what I think happened...
First, they bought their computer back in the mid-late 80\'s. You know, back when the salesmen said \'Twenty megabytes is all the hard drive space you\'ll ever need...\' and we consumers, being fools, believed them.
Being rich, GW wasn\'t satisfied with a mere 20 MB hard drive, though. They half-emptied their vast coffers, and bought themselves a 60 MB hard drive (anybody remember how much those were back in \'88?) and an extra 4 MB of RAM.
This made GW the owners of the most powerful computer of the world, and so, they stopped paying attention to the advances in computer technology, satisfied with their mightiness.
The internet came along, and GW thought it was a pretty nifty idea, and so, built one of the biggest, nicest web pages out there (in 1988) and introduced the forum to the world. A mad innovation. Let your customers talk about you on your own space? It cast the world into turmoil.
But, now, nearly twenty years later, that hard-drive is just about full of forum materials, and rather than get another hard drive (remember, they\'re ignoring these advances in technology, now), they\'re just going to turn it off.
