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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lela" data-source="post: 319872" data-attributes="member: 1216">It's surprising to find yourself described as an old timer.  I remember having never used the internet before, after all, what could it offer that regular computer games couldn't?It was then that I picked up 3e, also having never played 1st or 2nd (I just thought I had, turns out it was some type of GURPs thing) and thought it looked interesting.  I even remember borrowing 20 cents from a friend for tax.Of course, I was completely ubsessed and it wasn't long before I found a DM, who mentioned some news items.  When I asked where, he sent me here.  Suddenly I had to find internet time every day, as I agonized over slow connections, knowing that there wasn't money for anything else, but dreaming of DSL.Then I found the message boards.  I lurked for a few months.  Then, as so many others, I found something I just had to comment on.   I think I even got my first e-mail account in order to register.  I was hooked.Then, one day, the message boards weren't working (it wasn't uncommon then).  So I trudjed on out to the main site and read the announcment.  BANG!  BOOM!  CRASH!After I picked myself and my chair up, and responded to several yells asking if I was okay, I read the rest.I decided to keep checking back, and found that Morrus would be running things.  Here, I remember thinking, "Who the heck is that guy and what is he going to do to Eric's site?!"  (Sorry Morrus, I'd never even seen your name on the boards <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ).I returned, as I didn't know what else to do with my time and found that it was all still working right, nothing was broken.  Now, it wasn't the same, but nothing was actually broken.Well, we endured the "This would never happen if Eric was still running things" comments (those lasted longer than I thought they would, see how much people love you Eric) and survived.  And it all came together.  And it was all good.And Eric was still around.  So it was better.  Hay Eric, I don't know what I'd be doing without you.  Thanks.I do.  But who is Morrus?</blockquote>

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