that guy [TCTI v 8]

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*went appears*

I-i-ii-i-ii---ii-....


Well being lazy is essential to being human because it just shows how people will always try to do the thing they're doing, but easier.

Also Shadow messed up. hahah X3
 
But we didn't go through the previous 7 versions (aka 210,000 previous posts) in two days before this version 8 was opened XD

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Went said:
But we didn't go through the previous 7 versions (aka 210,000 previous posts) in two days before this version 8 was opened XD

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Buuuuuuutttttttttt Teeeeeecccccchhhhhhhnically you haven't been in THIS thread for 6 years. But we're getting technical there.
 
Well I have been here since the day it was opened anyway.

I closed the first edition of TCTI when it hit 30k! It was the only one that got to the goal while I was the board mod though.

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Well I have been here since the day it was opened anyway.

I closed the first edition of TCTI when it hit 30k! It was the only one that got to the goal while I was the board mod though.

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Went said:
Well I have been here since the day it was opened anyway.

I closed the first edition of TCTI when it hit 30k! It was the only one that got to the goal while I was the board mod though.

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I MUST make sure we don't lose the number

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"Hey big brother, what does this mean?"

Went the Third turned around to see his sister Maly waving a piece of paper with a strange word on it.

"I don't know! Let's ask Grandpa! He knows everything!"

The two children ran off to find their grandfather, Went.

"Grandpa, Grandpa! What's this word mean?" the two children yelled in unison while Went the Third held onto a piece of paper.

"Well I can't tell what it is if you don't let me see it."

"Okay, Grandpa!" Went the Third said while handing Went the piece of paper. On the paper was an aging screenshot of a website that looked so familiar to Went.

"Oh, my, it's been quite a long time since I've seen this. Where did you find this?"

"It fell out of one of grandma's hats while we were playing with it. Maly's wearing the hat right now," the boy said. Went realized that his granddaughter was wearing one of the hats his wife used to wear so often when they were a young couple.

"What's it mean grandpa?! What's it mean?!" exclaimed Maly, clearly getting impatient at the lack of an answer.

"Come this way, children. We're going somewhere you've never been before."

Went led the children into the computer room. The children immediately gravitated toward the computer, fascinated by the aging box he had.

"WHAT IS THAT GRANDPA?!" they shouted with excitement. "It's all old and dusty!"

"That, children, is a computer."

"That's a computer?! No way!" the children saying this with more than just a hint of disbelief in their voices.

"Indeed it is. Now let's see if this old thing powers on," said Went as he pressed the power button on the old rig. The computer whirred to life, and soon the old Windows logo popped up on the screen.

"It's so ugly!" the elder grandchild proclaimed. "How could you even use this?!"

"Well, my child, it was the best we had back then. A lot has changed in 40 years."

"Like what?" both children asked, clearly letting their curiosity get the best of them.

"Well, I used to chat with people from all over the world on this thing called a fansite."

"Fansite? What's that? A site for fans?"

"No, no, child. This was something different. It was a wonderful thing where you went to escape the stresses of life."

"Grandpa, I don't understand! You're not making any sense!"

"Oh, child. The internet used to be so much more than it is today. They abolished fansites well before you were born. There was a time when you didn't have to visit Pokemon.com to discuss Pokemon. There used to be a lot of sites dedicated to Pokemon. Your grandma and I met on one!"

"What?! Really?! Tell us more! Tell us more!" the children were practically jumping up and down for joy.

"We got up to lots of wacky hijinks back in those days. Well, internet hijinks, that is. We also hung out on MSN a lot, too. Great times were had by all! We had our drama, and some of us were not quick to forgive, but we still all managed to coexist and have fun doing it."

"What's MSN? You're not making much sense grandpa! How can it be fun to share with someone who you haven't forgiven?!"

"Oh, right, instant messaging as a medium was outlawed 10 years before you were born for not being conducive to promoting advertising. And those negative feelings are a part of the human experience. You need to feel the bad to truly enjoy the good. We lived at our computers in those days."

A sudden wave of nostalgia and a slight bit of sadness washed over Went.

"Now go, children. Could you leave me alone for a minute?"

"But we wanna hear more!"

"Now, now, children, Grandpa has something he needs to do."

"Awww!" the children said as they sulked out of the room.

As soon as they had left, Went opened up his web browser on this old thing and immediately selected PokeCommunity.com from his favorites. The page did not load, kicking back a 404 Not Found message.

"Obviously the site's not up. If only this were just one of the DBE's the site used to have all the time. I wonder if the Wayback Machine has been taken down yet?" Went quickly pointed his browser toward the Wayback Machine. The page was slow, but it loaded.

"Yes! Now time to see if there are any captures left of TCTI." Went swiftly typed www.pokecommunity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=43 into the Wayback Machine's URL field. The page took ages to load, but there was one result still left in the Wayback Machine after all these years. It was for April 20th, 2009. Went clicked the page. Suddenly, he was hit with various familiar usernames right on that page. Aizuke. Franceschi. Todoroki Is. Simpsonqueen. Josephine. Then more started coming back to him. Signomi. BeachBoy. Sublime. Gummy. Fable. Abnegation. So many began to come back to him that they became a muddled blur of names. And then he noticed the silly thread name. " Thread Creators Take Insults~ [TCTI©]". "Globalization has caused an increase in TCTI's awesomeness [TCTI]". "Now with 20% more Wailord!" And yet more silly thread names.

Suddenly, Went was overcome with sadness. Whatever happened to the ones I never got to meet? Will I ever find out? Did they make it to old age like I did? Did they wind up doing what they wanted to for a living? Where are they? Do they still remember me?

A single tear slid down Went's face. He was feeling nostalgic for a website of all things! A silly little website that somehow thrived despite its rampant database problems and drama among its members. Went tried to shake this silly nostalgia yet he simply could not.

Went decided there was only one thing to do. He leaned back in his chair, pointed his fingers like a gun at the computer monitor, thought, See you, space cowboys, and pulled the trigger on his imaginary gun. Bang.
 
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I swear that while Went was reading that story he just started sobbing quietly. :P
Hahah well PC might be remember, but I don't think it would actually happen like that story o_O
 
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But then that would mean you need to somehow find a way to preserve the memories of PC throughout the ages at least a little bit, then you need to somehow leave a printed photo of that very aged screenshot in that hat, also you need to continuously stalk Went?!
 
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There goes a saying around which is called... Challenge Accepted 8)
 
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Ehhh Can't believe I actually read the entire thing. XD Nice job, Don!
 
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