BBoard vs real life

How many have I met in person? None. But many of us have been around various boards together for 15 or 20 years, so there is some history. Outside of the board, there is also email, Facebook and stuff like that. I know some better than others.

I've never met anyone from the bboard in person. I joined the SciFi Sliders board in March of 2000, and a few people on this board (Quinn, Info, Chaser, TemporalFlux, Transmodiar, Vortex62, Grizzlor to name a few) were active on that and other boards well before then.

I've been around since the old MCA Net Forum back in 1996 (that being one of the original official boards; as you notice in the end credits of the early Sliders seasons, Universal was known as MCA Universal back then).  The MCA forum was the best of the two choices at the time; the official Fox board for Sliders was a pretty dark place filled with immature and vicious people.

I've seen a lot of people come and go, and I've met a good many in person. Of those still around, I've met Vortex62 and tom2point0 (WrongArturo) through Atlanta's annual DragonCon convention; and JessieMallory lived near me for a time.  But most of my connection to this community comes through longevity; I've been at this for almost 20 years at this point.

I've met a handful of BBoard regulars in my time, but I don't think any of them are members of this current incarnation:

• darkslider

• RMScream

• mrbrown1602

The old BBoard is actually responsible for at least three children being born! Tony (mrbrown1602) met his wife through Ryan (RMScream). Ryan and I were in his wedding a few years back; they've got a little girl with twins on the way.

I'm afraid I can't accept this. Temporal Flux doesn't make mistakes when it comes to SLIDERS. Therefore, tom2point0's memory is faulty and TF did indeed meet him. This is merely one of those peculiar discrepancies. Like Rembrandt suddenly having served in the Navy! Which I'm sure can be resolved in some spin-off material. Like one of the online slides on the old Sci-Fi site later revealing that Rembrandt was a *cook* on a Navy ship. Get to it, everyone! Let's fine some way to reconcile the continuity here.

Haha no problem! No Holste here! I'm Stitzer!

Haven't met anyone.  I've exchanged emails/IMs with a few, but that was mostly during the Scifi Dominion days, and sadly mostly pertaining to fights on it.  Never seemed to have many ppl from the NY/NJ area.

Yes the boardwalks are rebuilt, although only a few were actually damaged.  Many homes are not, as the homeowners fight with insurance companies.

I'm from New York originally, and also a amusement/theme park enthusiast. The boardwalk in Seaside Heights, New Jersey (the one where the roller coaster "Star Jet" fell into the ocean during Sandy) has been recovering. Casino Pier, which is the park that owned that coaster, reopened the following summer with only a few rides (including some that survived the storm). I got to visit that year. They've been adding every year, and are getting to close to the size they were before the storm.

Funtown Pier, also located in Seaside Heights and further down the boardwalk, actually suffered more damage, never reopened, and that site is still vacant. A tragic fire occurred about a year after Sandy, destroying a carousel (and some other places). Independent merchants and restaurants along the boardwalk have mostly if not all reopened, or simply never reopened/were replaced. Most of the physical boardwalk was rebuilt after the storm. It's crazy how much damage occurred, but many businesses were rebuilt.

Seaside had a nice classic arcade called Flashbacks which was washed away.  Fortunately there are now better establishments like Yestercdes in Red Bank, and Silverball Museum (luckily survived) on Asbury Park boardwalk. 

Info, gentrification and McMansions are the order of the day around here.  There's really no reason to live out in the woods anymore, too many bears!

Wow, glad to see the board is back.

After a cursory glance at the user list, I probably have chatted with or emailed with a fourth. Although I recognize about half due to continued lurking, but as before this seems to be a male dominated board. I definitely miss the old crowd, but I am quite amused by the fact some of the conversations you guys are having are echoed in my writing group, gaming group, and friends.

At the moment Info is the only one I have continue to talked to on occasion, most recently when the anniversary and the board crash happened. Luckily we are both on Twitter and able to communicate. As for personally meeting anyone, Tf is the only one I have had the chance to know offline. As he said at one time we lived in the same city, and he actually helped save Christmas one year. BTW Tf she still treasures the gifts you gave her. She wouldn't go off to college without them and even uses the ornaments on her tree each year. Thank you for that my friend.

As I mentioned, I miss the old crowd, but as it always happens. We grow up. we move on as life changes. Hopefully the board remains for a very long time.

Jess

Wow, you guys have stuck together for a hell of a long time. I'm impressed. All the online communities I've seen have tended to fracture in a lot less than 20 years, mostly due to personal differences or just people changing their interests.

It's nice to see that trend bucked, honestly.

Last I heard, Ed was teaming up with Avril Lavigne to create a new rock group called "Da Mooks".

LOL!!!

Like TF said, we met at Dragoncon in Atlanta http://www.earth62.net/miscitems/dragon … goncon.htm along with Alternity Orange. Hard to believe how time has passed since then.