Did this board have Good Old Days?

[Kyle]

So, my question is, to those long-standing members of the board: Was there a golden age? Has it ended?

*chops' third fain's legs off at the knees with an industrial cutting laser*

oh wait..........wrong TGOD

Copyright violation! and it's a particle beam to all off the limbs

"Official ASVS Civil War Era Doctor"

[Peregrin Toker]

Though I of course have memories I might regard as nostalgic, I am still convinced that I have learned a lot since I started on this board.

[Uraniun235]

Good Old Days: The time before I joined the forum.

[Stuart Mackey]

ASVS was the Wild West. SDN is the nice civillised result of years of fighting. Where once there was unmoderated mud slinging and the rampant use of torture, spreading to thousands of posts, now we have moderated discourse. ASVS, as it was, now largley lives in legend.

To further this theme..and in the very bad taste of quoting myself.

And lo..one day when SDN and spacebattles are but a dream within a dream and the minds of humankind
rest on other frontiers and matters of other import, a whisper of the past shall come forth, from
the darkest memories, the echos of a simpler time, the words of another time shall utter in the
recess of our minds "you crack smoking donkey fucker! the navigational sheild does not stop turbolasers!"

[PrinceofLowLight]

I never paid attention to ASVS for very long, or the board when it first started. From the way people talk about it, I like to think of it kind of like an Age of Heroes for the board, where there were real genuine battles and arguments to be had.

[Stuart Mackey]

I never paid attention to ASVS for very long, or the board when it first started. From the way people talk about it, I like to think of it kind of like an Age of Heroes for the board, where there were real genuine battles and arguments to be had.

That reminds me of one of Chucks posts..

Yeah, you whippersnappers talk a good game, but in the old days we had
*real* debates. None of this fancy schmancy clone nonsense. We talked
about lasers and warp drives and whether or not Shammie was a bitch. And we didn't have any of these wussy Trekkies like Scoot; we had Jones and Elim and Paul.
Why when I was your age I had to hold an entire debate against
Jones using nothing but adverbs... couldn't use any of the other words
because of the shortages caused by the war. But we had our adverbs and we liked it! No, none of this newfangled BBS cockamamie in the old days either! We talked on ASVS and we liked it that way! I remembered the time Paul invented his own FAQ! Wasn't called an FAQ mind; called it the NRMD, on the count of there were no q's on the keyboards in those days. And we didn't have any of that fancy web designing programs either! We all had our own websites and we used HTML! And we liked it! In fact, sometimes we encoded our websites using just ones and zeroes! I, personally, created an entire page just by thinking strongly about Maxwell's equations and drawing a few graphs of electric currents! AND WE LIKED IT!
What was I saying? Oh yes, and that's why the Polish can't build a decent
rocketship. Now when I met your grandmother....

I spent some time hunting through the FUQ for this wee gem, so you had better appreciate what your elders have done for you, you young whippersnapper..we never had it so good in our day..we didnt have moderators to keep the bad guys at bay, no sir, we had to stand on our own two feet and look after oursleves we had to type over 33.6 modems, no cable internet for us, we were tough in our day and Im tiered, time to watch Matlock..zzzzzzZZZZZzzz