I don't know about all you new half-bakers. I surely appreciate you all keeping this amazing site alive, while all other sites I visited during the late 90s/early00s disappeared into the digital ether. Most internet users nowadays have NO sense of history or nostalgia.

I remember awesome users on here like Po, bristolz, hippo, RayfordSteele, and gizmo (and the always awesome admin, jutta). I remember the top rated ideas being talking road cones or some such incredible nonsense. I remember a site that came up with ideas months if not years before their eventual implementation. I think there should be a concerted effort to reunite this site's founding bakers. The originators of so many NOW brilliant ideas. I do not presume to be one of them, but I sat there, and I threw my two cents in, and I felt a part of this great community for awhile.

Jutta, PLEASE make an effort (if one has not already been made in my absence) to reunite/hono(u)r the original halfbakery. It was one of the greatest sites of the early 2000s, and it is a damn shame that I didn't stick with it, along with all the other great users. (I did check some users that I remembered before posting this. Awesome that many are still active. My sentiment remains though, as many are not).

***EDIT - I changed EPIC to AWESOME, because everyone knows nowadays retro is AWESOME. It is pretty EPIC to use AWESOME, 'SRSLY'.

Also, I truly respect the hono(u)r system of edits that halfbakery still uses. Most sites assume dishonesty, and mark edits. Halfbakery assumes honesty and allows -users- to mark edits. Bravo. EDIT***
-- NeverDie, Jan 04 2011

Send out word to all servers of the web! Unite the clans!

I was around in the early days, but as a multiple account ubertroll. I was in my mid-teens then.

There was a good group back then, but I wouldn't be so nostalgic though. The halfbakery ebbs and flows.

Also too many instances of 'epic'.
-- rcarty, Jan 04 2011


I learned to not troll on the Halfbakery. I learened that internet persons are REAL, THINKING persons on the halfbakery. I learned what is digital, can be real, if it is honestly and truly expressed, on the halfbakery.

I pray that this bakery is still a civilized corner of the internet, since this was how I was raised on these here "intertubes" as the younguns now say (and you were right rcarty. I changed two 'epic's to 'awesome's as it was the equivilent word of our ancient 90s times).
-- NeverDie, Jan 04 2011


What would be the cutoff date? I opened my first account six years ago after at least several months of lurking, so am i a newcomer?

// ideas months if not years before their eventual implementation //

This may still be happening for all we know because we can't see the future.
-- nineteenthly, Jan 04 2011


Basically, my intent was to call to anyone who pines for the days of a kinder, more rational internet.

So, you are more than welcome nineteenthly, since you are clearly ten times the halfbaker I ever was a few years before you.
-- NeverDie, Jan 04 2011


[Rods Tiger] I got some presents for Christmas, and I could see them.
-- hippo, Jan 04 2011


Hehe, I feel like Michael J. Fox here, with the different user names from waAaAy back, and such craAaAzy, time bending things. So do we call [Ian], [Rods Tiger], regularly, or is that kind of 'name calling' just for nostalgia's benefit?
-- NeverDie, Jan 04 2011


could you tell what they were by feeling them?
-- po, Jan 04 2011


I've called [beanangel] [treon]. I refer to my wife as [grayure] because that was the problem with that account - shared and therefore dodgy. Some of the contributions were hers, some mine.
-- nineteenthly, Jan 04 2011


The rest of us could tell by the red handprint on the side of his face.
-- FlyingToaster, Jan 04 2011


//Half-Bakers 2000 Unite!//

I have to say, I am *slightly* disappointed that this isn't an idea for a team of Halfbakers to combine into one giant robot to save humankind from a Godzilla-like alien fishbone monster...
-- Jinbish, Jan 04 2011


[Ian] - I am always touched by your presents, dear.
-- hippo, Jan 04 2011


I stumbled upon the hb in 2005. I read all the *greatest hits* and some of the *lore* and even encountered some of these great halfbaking personalites, but things are always changing. Whilst I might pine for this place to be more active, I am still grateful that it's still here!!
-- xandram, Jan 04 2011


I was here before the Great Crash. I have no idea how long it's actually been, in fact. Since sometime between 2000 and 2003.

It's been a consistently wonderful hangout.
-- gisho, Jan 04 2011



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