Do you read really old forum posts?

simon43 · June 25

Google Search is a wonderful thing because it indexes so many old posts from AN/ThaiVisa. My name cropped up on an unrelated Google search and I found myself reading a 2015 thread about 'prepping', with some posts from myself, including a couple of photos which I thought I had lost and which I downloaded for safe-keeping.

I have previously looked back 20 years for some of my early threads - interesting to see what were popular subjects on the forum all those years ago and a little sad to see many forum members who are no longer with us.

HighPriority · June 25

If you lost your pics you can’t be much of a prepper…

I think I remember that thread, interesting read.

Threads are like music, some age well and some are started by Bob…

Mike Lister · June 25

1 minute ago, AnotherOneHere said:

Every 6 months I log out out of my online profiles and create clean ones. So I have no idea what account I was using around 2013. 🫠 But it already happened to me a few times before. I was reading some post and the guy who wrote it seemed well informed, educated, clever and his opinions really clicked with me. Then I looked at his profile and I had that "oh" moment, because it was one of my old profiles. 😂

I've done that too, come across a post by somebody who I really thought wrote something interesting and then found out it was an old me....funny actually.

bubblegum · June 25

Some people love themselves above me. No I never read old stuff, got better things to do.

sipi · June 25

It was more entertaining in the day. Instead of saying "I'm getting sloshed", Costas would give a running commentary as he was lining his empty Chang bottles up, giving each one a name.