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Although this site may have run its course and the original people involved in creating its culture moved on in their lives, perhaps no longer interested in the things once discussed here, I do think this is one of those special Internet treasures and a bit of a nice secret for people who know about it.
I find it fascinating just to be able to look at non-mainstream UK culture that people explored here for over 10 years. As a person who is British born but grew up American, it's of special interest. I came here by accident because of Grant Morrison's work in 2006 and just randomly typing it into my url on a whim.
The site is much more than even the themes explored in that work, its a graveyard of interesting intellectual discussions and almost like an internet time capsule of sorts. So even though the founding members and participants may not consider it to have much value, I would say it still has quite a lot of value, even people like me that weren't an active part of it's community during its heyday. Although I forget about it for years at a time, and I even forgot my login for 2 years, I still come back to read it occasionally.
I feel like it's got more value than what that goes on via twitter on a daily basis, and it's one of the quaintest and most pleasant old school board software I've seen. The community represented here doesn't exist anywhere else in space time as far as I know, so for what it is worth I hope it's maintained as an archive or semi-inactive community and that spam accounts are periodically cleaned up. |
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