Bendt, by the way, is irregularly around to this day, under a different name. He's really quite nice.
Golden Age is Technoccult and the Night of a Thousand Elois.
Tell us more of the Old Times.
In those days, the board was called The Nexus, ran off an early version of phpBB (I think -- I remember the codes were all in square brackets), the background was black and had a sliver of a picture of Christina Ricci along one side.
And the Invisibles was still being published, and most conversation revolved around some aspect of that.
And, lo, there did come many voices, and many styles of speaking -- even some who wrote in L337 were held in high regard. But there were also those who believed *they* had the truth of the Divine Morrison Words, and would own the domain name of Barbelith for themselves.
They came from a cold and savage land, half-formed, and Technoccult.net was its name. And from Technoccult.net came Eloi Tsabaoth, who was strident in his criticism, and rarely constructive, and who became in the course of several conversations a troll.
But listen ye well -- in those days, a happier time, users could change their names at will and could sign on multiple accounts, and could be whosoever they chose at any moment of their choosing, for faith in fictionsuits was strong, and altering identity was a sport held in high esteem.
So it was that when a group of users noted that Eloi was becoming a troll, they prepared special fictionsuits, built cleverly as mirrors of Eloi's suit -- as Eloi Tsaboath and Eloi Tsabaoth. and Eloi_Tsabaoth and the like. And they all engaged in impressions of Eloi so clever that any reader would be fooled -- yet the original Eloi was targeted by the same manner of criticism, and made mockery of, and confusion reigned, for suddenly there were thousands of trolls bearing the same name. And in the confusion the original Eloi was gone and passed away.
Thus it is written. |
