man, i miss the 00's internet sometimes

[sans the skeleton]

i'm mostly just talking into the void here, really, not expecting a response (but hello if you decide to respond anyway!)

it's been a long time, PUK. we've gone through our highs and lows. we've gone through our pillars and our trolls. we've had our fair share of pokemon moles and i vividly remember utack and swampy's comics like it was yesterday. i remember all of the cringe-y posts i used to make, that i had like, lost my password like twice just to swing right on back because i made up the emails, too. i was stupid and thought that the email inbox would create itself if i just made anything up. yeah i don't know how that would've worked at all now, but hey.

i still wonder what our resident forum genie joeno's up to, or typhlosion, or honestly most of the regulars and mods and everyone who made this site tick. i thought y'all were so cool, even when i became the 'elder' of the next forum generation i GUESS. i was in that funny little age, i think. it feels so weird to join the internet when MSN was a thing, swing into skype, go directly to discord, and then have fourms die at a random point between all of that.

i used to remember vividly wanting a high post count because i had so many things to say, but y'know. time moves on regardless. some things you don't get to say in the moment, you'll come back later, and suddenly everyone's moved on and the forums have died. gosh darn my procrastination!!! but honestly, most of all, i miss the vibe. everyone's gone and moved on, got married, had kids (WHAT) and got jobs, whatever, some of us have potentially also passed away but time marches on at such a pace that i couldn't ever know, any more.

ironically, for some reason, i keep finding my own posts when trying to look up archives of this site.
in a roundabout way, i think past me would still be like waow at my current post count. i didn't think i posted that much, but apparently the yappening keeps happening. ah well. i suppose i'm just feeling a bit nostalgic about a site that no longer exists the same way it used to... and admittedly, missing the archives of the 06-2012ish era of PUK.

honestly there were RPs i still vividly remember. the very first RP i remember on here, albeit i don't think i got to officially join, were some really cool x-men influenced sort of academy thing. i think there was a neko / nekomata character with black hair and wore red (?) or something. i think she had pyrokinesis or something. she was very cool. i was so sad when that section of the forums got deleted forever. or well, to be more accurate, the very old posts were eventually deleted and not backed up or something? its been so long i don't remember the specifics, i just remember the vibe.

but yeah feel free to walk down memory lane here if you want

[DrampardonMe]

Mostly replying because you mentioned the Utack & Swampy comics, and I kind of regret not internalizing them a bit more. I remember liking them, but that's about it. Something about him mixing berries or something in one of them for a Berry Goop Trap or something? I miss Utack himself, too. He was a swell guy from what I remember.

The other reason I'm commenting on this is, on the topic of 2000s Internet nostalgia: I remember even outside of PUK, sprite comics were Really Big (believe it or not), and I used to dream of making one but with like, sprites made from the ground up. Unfortunately, sprite comics are even more frowned upon than they were back then (I... think? I don't see many new ones anymore, but then I hardly look, lol) so I just kind of got in the habit of trying to DRAW-draw. I need to find a newer tool for making sprites, though... and if I'm gonna do that, I might as well make this game I have in mind... but neither here nor there, I suppose!

Wait, is this topic more for PUK nostalgia? Either way, I try not to look back at my old posts (whichever ones still exist from before my rejoining) because it does make me cringe a bit to look at them. But then, I had my ups and downs with this site, too. I think we all did.

Gosh, I gushed more than I thought I would. Well, hope I've not been a nuisance myself, haha.

EDIT: I could type an entire RANT on Homestar Runner dot com, but five months ago, they were basically making a video about Internet nostalgia themselves, which reminded me of this thread. Just thought I'd mention that. We're not alone, haha.