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erikboy (imported) wrote: Wed May 13, 2020 1:33 am I remember that around 1996 or 1997 there was an irc chatroom. It was EAchat or something like that. Not long after that website EA emerged. I don't know if these are related to eachother.

rogerwpbfl (imported) wrote: Wed May 13, 2020 1:39 am My balls — and the rest of me — weren't even formed yet.

Losethem (imported) wrote: Wed May 13, 2020 1:52 am I've been here nearly since the start. If I remember correctly, The Eunuch Archive was started by Bboy, who passed away many years ago, who I think had a primary interest of penectomy. A staff was gradually brought on, most of the folks you see today. Over the years moderators have come and gone, users have come and gone. There are even a few like me who have been here since the beginning.

The "new blood" conversation has happened here periodically. At some point the people who run this place will not want to, and will need help in making a transition to other leadership. I envision this happening gradually, but whatever happens, it will be however they decide to do it. It will happen if for no other reason we get far enough along that what none of us can outrun, happens.

I agree 1000% with the people bitching, but never wanting to do anything. I was always hearing bitching when I was running a site, but not a single one of those bitches wanted to lift a finger to help. I'd encourage anyone who wants to complain about something on any site, especially those run by a few people trying to benefit many others, is that they do it to provide a service to our small community. They do not have the resources of a Google or Facebook to make programming changes, and keep things as up to date as you'd like. I would get that often. I'd get comments from people that thought it was a simple as clicking a checkbox to make something new and wonderful happen on a website - spoiler! It isn't.

My biggest concern with the EA is the lack of folks stepping up, and by that I don't mean the current administrators. It's the biggest resource for research information that is truthful, but it's on a platform that is different than how younger people consume the Internet today.

The biggest surprise to me these days in the community, no matter where I see it online, is it seems there is a shift from the majority wanting castration and instead they want nullification. That's a sharp change I've seen in just the last five years. I'd say it's at least a 50/50 split now, of course that's just pulled out of the air. But it is definitely going more that direction.

Coming full circle, I think "The Five" work well together, not because of similar regular life backgrounds; they work well because of their common desires surrounding eunuchs and nullification.

rogerwpbfl (imported) wrote: Wed May 13, 2020 1:58 am Haha! Make me "old man" LOLOL

What's punishment for nude sunbathing on your lawn?

Charrett wrote: Thu May 14, 2020 4:09 am I've also been here since the very start. Bboy (Brian) used to run the site on his home PC hooked up to a modem on Netcom. I guess that makes me the "Old Lady" of the site. At first it was just a directory of stories, and we used to chat on the efnet IRC server or on AOL chat.

JesusA wrote: Thu May 14, 2020 10:27 am Sometime toward the end of 2000, with the number of members approaching 400, Bboy decided to keep track of everyone by assigning them a serial number. Of those first 400, or so, only five are still active members: Charrett, Kristoff, Paolo, Quillman, and Talula. By the end of 2001, there were over 1500 members of the Eunuch Archive. Only 15 of them are still active -- those original five, plus A-1, Bella, Colin, Dave, EunuchSF, Gerslave, me, kkks, Littledick, and Losethem. The most recent new member, as I write this, is Onlooker, number 120,801.

Paolo wrote: Thu May 14, 2020 2:40 pm You know, I just realized that I have no idea how to look that up. Sorry!

But, I do have an anecdotal story about the origins of the very first version of VBulletin. Used to be, we had one horrible forum that was just a constant string of posts. I forget the name of the software. But Talula once called it something like "a rotting pile of dog shit". I'd been chatting with Bboy over the ancient ICQ messaging system, and we decided to try out the first incarnation of VB.

Downloading the trial was easy. It wasn't expensive for the full version, either. Back then. But it was a nightmare to install and configure. So we cracked open the PDF file of directions.

They were only in German. Bad German. As my German was still fresh, I translated them into English. They made no sense. This was before the days of good online translators, too. So I had to confer with Cassell's dictionary. A lot.

"Make sure not to toss your cherries out the window." Literally. This was key to rebooting it after installation. That much I remember. "Without the proper set of cherries in your church..." For the record, the words for "church" and "cherry" in German differ only by one letter! What it meant was to make sure that you had the proper cookies for the VB system to use, and not to delete them from 'some' Windows Server directory.

So the two of us pulled an all-nighter in installing it and getting it running.

I was member #2.

Then it promptly crashed.

So we started all over.

Ah, the good old days.

rogerwpbfl (imported) wrote: Thu May 14, 2020 12:04 pm That's so cool! What's my number??

JesusA wrote: Thu May 14, 2020 10:27 am Sometime toward the end of 2000, with the number of members approaching 400, Bboy decided to keep track of everyone by assigning them a serial number. Of those first 400, or so, only five are still active members: Charrett, Kristoff, Paolo, Quillman, and Talula. By the end of 2001, there were over 1500 members of the Eunuch Archive. Only 15 of them are still active -- those original five, plus A-1, Bella, Colin, Dave, EunuchSF, Gerslave, me, kkks, Littledick, and Losethem. The most recent new member, as I write this, is Onlooker, number 120,801.