Post by sodapop on Aug 9, 2013 1:44:47 GMT -4
I come back to this site every now and then, staring at the small number of guests that frequent its old bones, wondering if it's ever anybody I used to know. I know they're probably just strangers, or more than likely just bots. But I always wonder.
Or at least, I used to. It's been years since I even stopped by. I remember stopping by when Brian Jacques passed, looking at a a couple of posts, just not posting. I don't know why I didn't. But I remember the news, and I remember feeling like someone kicked me in the gut. It's unbelievable what Brian Jacques did for a lot of kids, you know? For a kid like me. He wrote amazing stories, fantastic tales, and he didn't dumb it down. I picked up Taggerung the other day from an old dusty shelf in my childhood room, one I had never read, and I was just amazed at the language. I can still sit down and read his books.
And reading those books brought me back to sites like this, like DAB. I went from being the only kid I knew who loved Redwall to being an administrator - AN ADMINISTRATOR - on a website with other readers on it who loved the books as much or more so than I did, kids who loved to roleplay. And just goof around. Look at "oh." Man, I was proud my topic had so many pages.
Oh, and by the way, I was an ADMINISTRATOR? What were you guys thinking? I was so annoying! I would've warned me every time I put more than 3 smilies in one post if I were you guys. But you gave me the highest honor I could get on the site. It may seem silly, but to me it was like a Boy Scout badge or something. It meant a lot.
And now these sites that meant so much to us kids are withered and faded, but the remnants are fascinating to me. It's good to see DAB still gets posts in 2013. As I post this, the DAB proboards got a post a mere three hours ago. DAB had a hundred guests and 9 members active in the last 24 hours! I wonder how many of those are kids, reading their first Redwall book. Regardless, for that site, it is definitely not too shabby...
You know, compared to us. But hey, we were great while we lasted. I was probably more active here than I ever was on DAB. My Mafia patrol? I had so much fun with that. I remember a few people saying it was their favorite patrol on the site! Man was that ever an ego boost. I remember being super proud of my Wolfpack idea too, though it was basically just the Warriors series Dog-ified. Still, it was pretty cool, and I respect my young self for putting it together. That's not a bad looking patrol. It never had time to take off, but we had fun, huh?
But now I read our old posts and I wonder what we're all like now, you know? Would we get along? I found this, browsing through the old No More DAB forums:
nomoredab.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=156
(Forgive me, can't quite figure out the hyperlink feature.)
2010... 3 years later, huh? "Who know's if we'll be on DAB that long." Indeed. What would that have been like? What are we like now? I was one of the youngest, and I feel old now! What are we all now? College students? Twenty - somethings? Wheelchair bound old geezers slapping their cane on the table at the little kid reading Twilight on an iPad? Anyway, I feel old.
But I remember being young, too. That's why I came back. Man, I was just feeling sad the other day, so I picked up a Brian Jacques book. Man, the FEELS. That led me to a google search for Dibbuns Against Bedtime, a scroll through old bookmarks to find No More DAB, this place...
And here I am, surfing the tidal wave of nostalgia, writing a high-falootin' fancy essay on a forum no one has posted on in 2 years. And really, no one has seriously posted on in like, what, 6 or 7 years?
But hey, if anyone is out there, feel free to drop in, warm yourself by the fire. It sure did me good to come here and dump all this nostalgia here. And if you managed to make it all the way down here to the bottom of this big ol' post, hopefully it wasn't too rambly or boring. Thanks for stopping by.
Or at least, I used to. It's been years since I even stopped by. I remember stopping by when Brian Jacques passed, looking at a a couple of posts, just not posting. I don't know why I didn't. But I remember the news, and I remember feeling like someone kicked me in the gut. It's unbelievable what Brian Jacques did for a lot of kids, you know? For a kid like me. He wrote amazing stories, fantastic tales, and he didn't dumb it down. I picked up Taggerung the other day from an old dusty shelf in my childhood room, one I had never read, and I was just amazed at the language. I can still sit down and read his books.
And reading those books brought me back to sites like this, like DAB. I went from being the only kid I knew who loved Redwall to being an administrator - AN ADMINISTRATOR - on a website with other readers on it who loved the books as much or more so than I did, kids who loved to roleplay. And just goof around. Look at "oh." Man, I was proud my topic had so many pages.
Oh, and by the way, I was an ADMINISTRATOR? What were you guys thinking? I was so annoying! I would've warned me every time I put more than 3 smilies in one post if I were you guys. But you gave me the highest honor I could get on the site. It may seem silly, but to me it was like a Boy Scout badge or something. It meant a lot.
And now these sites that meant so much to us kids are withered and faded, but the remnants are fascinating to me. It's good to see DAB still gets posts in 2013. As I post this, the DAB proboards got a post a mere three hours ago. DAB had a hundred guests and 9 members active in the last 24 hours! I wonder how many of those are kids, reading their first Redwall book. Regardless, for that site, it is definitely not too shabby...
You know, compared to us. But hey, we were great while we lasted. I was probably more active here than I ever was on DAB. My Mafia patrol? I had so much fun with that. I remember a few people saying it was their favorite patrol on the site! Man was that ever an ego boost. I remember being super proud of my Wolfpack idea too, though it was basically just the Warriors series Dog-ified. Still, it was pretty cool, and I respect my young self for putting it together. That's not a bad looking patrol. It never had time to take off, but we had fun, huh?
But now I read our old posts and I wonder what we're all like now, you know? Would we get along? I found this, browsing through the old No More DAB forums:
nomoredab.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=156
(Forgive me, can't quite figure out the hyperlink feature.)
2010... 3 years later, huh? "Who know's if we'll be on DAB that long." Indeed. What would that have been like? What are we like now? I was one of the youngest, and I feel old now! What are we all now? College students? Twenty - somethings? Wheelchair bound old geezers slapping their cane on the table at the little kid reading Twilight on an iPad? Anyway, I feel old.
But I remember being young, too. That's why I came back. Man, I was just feeling sad the other day, so I picked up a Brian Jacques book. Man, the FEELS. That led me to a google search for Dibbuns Against Bedtime, a scroll through old bookmarks to find No More DAB, this place...
And here I am, surfing the tidal wave of nostalgia, writing a high-falootin' fancy essay on a forum no one has posted on in 2 years. And really, no one has seriously posted on in like, what, 6 or 7 years?
But hey, if anyone is out there, feel free to drop in, warm yourself by the fire. It sure did me good to come here and dump all this nostalgia here. And if you managed to make it all the way down here to the bottom of this big ol' post, hopefully it wasn't too rambly or boring. Thanks for stopping by.