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PFromFac
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Swap Nostalgia
I was wondering,does anybody else have the same nostalgia attitude towards the things he did in the past an tries to preserve some things?? I still have saved a lot of "evidence" on my time as an active scener.. I saved a lot of letters I received, my secret addressbook and lots of gadgets from that period, I even saved a chocolate bar signed with some names from various sceners attending an Venlo meeting, do you have such things ?
Would be a nice feature for this site anyway, the "Hall of scene gadgets"... |
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Jon
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I pitched my notebooks two years ago. I kind of regret it.
But most of the stuff was way WAY outdated (phreak #s and codes, phone numbers of people who have since grown to adulthood and moved away, ETC) so I thought it was pointless to keep anymore.
Funny note- I once wrote a contact name and number on my bedroom wall due to a lack of a notebook. When my parents saw it, they got pretty fucking angry about it. I haven't lived there in 15 years, but it's still there to this day.
But as for nostalgia- YES! That's the primary reason I contribute here. I remember all night power downloading sessions that kept me up ALL night, leaving me to fall asleep in my classes, talking to some great folks in the small hours of the night and morning, getting and spreading a zero day far and wide over a 1200 baud modem... Not good for my grades, but great for nostalgia.
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PFromFac
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Woow, just remembered, this is a nice on. I had a dog in those days, called COCO. He deeply hated the mailman. Anyway, I expected a disk with a very new release from a contact. This disk got in the hands, or I better say mouth of COCO before it got to me. The poor dog had been waiting for the mailman that day, I think he got annoyed by that guy coming to our door twice a day, and at the moment supreme, as the disk entered the mailbox he attacked.
I caught him sitting there with a disk punctured by his vicious teeth...
I am sure I still have that disk somewhere.. |
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Joker
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Nostalgia, that's definately a problem for me!
I have hundreds and hundreds of C64 and Amiga disks, most of which I've converted to PC for safe-keeping, but there's a big problem... what the hell will I do with all those thousands of disks now? They're useless to anyone these days, but how can I just throw them all away when they were my whole life for so many years?
Same with the gadgets, magazines, and notebooks. They're all useless, but I never have the heart to trash so many memories... wife hates them taking up so much storage space too... curse you nostalgia! |
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stash
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i still have photos sent to me by sceners.. and also alot of other things sent to me in mail..
i even got my stamps i use to send out with and still have some glue i used 10 years ago somewhere
it sure was cool back in the days when i lived 5 minutes from school so i could go home every lunch breake to see what was in my mail box
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Sander
Registered: Jan 2002
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Until the late 90ties i had this obsession for the mailbox. Even after having stoppped swapping (just 10 contacts on average) in the early 90ties the symptoms survived for quite some years.
I still have a lot of letters, diskcovers, stickers etc somewhere in my parents' attic. Unfortunately i threw most of it away. |
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SIDWAVE
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I have some letters from 1988, they are all from the last week i swapped. All the rest are gone..
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PFromFac
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so we all have the same probs.. Thought I was the only one with his wife always complaining about that "pile of old stuff (computers,disks, magazines)" hanging around the house. How can I explain her that I'm suffering of a very bad case of nostalgia.. Anyway, never to forget memories indeed.. |
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A3
Registered: Dec 2005
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Nah you not alone lost most of my stuff too. Had a collection of 400 or 500 disc covers that got ruined when there was a water leackage in my parents basement. |
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Grim Reaper
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I lost everything due to the attacks of 7-11....
no really, i have my hardware and stuff...but dirt like #'s, recordings, papers etc were destroyed when we folded NEI. It was fun stuff "then" and has no relation to my life thereafter...plus it's good karma to clean out that stuff, put it in perspective and let it go... I have no enemies, only memories and I do have to laugh at the past... I'm sure if i ran into someones from somegroups we would share pitchers of beer and have a fuckin' good laugh at where we were "then".... Cheeers! OI |
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tomz
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Over the years I too have lost most of the paper notes but not the hand drawn disk covers,also the notes from friends of years gone by will continue to live on, on my disks |
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