I'm back!

[Fred Hammer]

I had to re-register. This is my new name.


Fred

[Sam Gamgee]

You've been on this forum for ten years and now you lost your account? What happened?

[Fred Hammer]

Who knows...

[Japes]

I'm back too! Although I didn't lose my account and I don't think anyone noticed I was gone... lol!

[shanocles]

hi all. yeah i was just listening to 3 cheers and thought about you all, haven't visited the forum in a while ....
how's things??
we've had an absolute packed january .... all of our fam's b'days (there's 4 of us now) are in 3 weeks of each other.
crazeeeee. but cool.
sorry to hear about ohio prog, it would've rocked (not that i could ever get there!)
love cor cordium, hope its the start of great things for the future ........
you guys are really talented.
thanks so much and may the Lord bless you!
shane.

[alien2112]

I came back . . . but there's no one here?

[Sam Gamgee]

nope, not really... :/

[SpriteBat]

Just a few of us...feels kinda post-apocalyptic.

[Sam Gamgee]

I think of it like archeology. Glass Hammer has a lot of great archeology.

Go to ghfan.net and you can revisit the late 90's/early 2000's of the internet. Remember navbars? and guestbooks? What a world away we are from this!!

Then come to the forum and you can see the sedimentation of a bustling, thriving community of people who fulfilled their needs to procrastinate and socialize while lazily sitting at their computer on forums. Unlike guestbooks, living forums still exist in some places of the world, like the dark underbelly of the internet (4chan, anyone?). But I feel like forums in general are less popular these days, because now everyone is on facebook.

Thus Steve has cleverly tried to adapt the forum to facebook's culture by asking interesting questions and making interesting posts with the GH page, but the problem with this is that in addition to its weakness as a medium for sustained conversation, facebook is really meant to be used with friends. If you don't know at least some of the people in real life, you're less likely to chip in. After all, it's your real name, and all your real friends can see what you say, and you don't want to spam their feeds! Forums, on the other hand, were meant for strangers who shared a common interest. They're really a very special medium in many ways.

Archaeology. Fascinating, and perhaps a bit sad. But it's so interesting to see how fast culture changes, and how quickly we adapt ourselves and our socialization within these new cultures - how quickly our old cultures seem dead and foreign!

[alien2112]

Hmm. Facebook is now permanently part of my life, now, but it's not my ENTIRE life. Whenever I go to another site and it asks me if I want to link with my FB account from there, I always decline. I am like a person who likes to keep each food item on their plate separate. It's not like it's so hard to go to another site from FB or vice-versa.

Also, I keep my comments brief on FB. For some reason I feel like I can be more wordy on a forum . . . -_-

[MayorOfLongview]

I preferred the old days of the forum to the new FB format. I miss the conversations. I read them all once upon a time. But I check in now and then - glad to see someones still here!

[shanocles]

i'm still here! looking forward to perilous. can i just say how much i really appreciate the effort you guys put into this music. i really love it! its about the only thing i have time for as a hobby now with little tackers running around (listening to music) and i've so enjoyed the last few albums ... looking forward to many more and may the Lord continue to bless you.

[Bnielsen]

I just got my copy!

Hey Alien, i am like... LOWEST of LOW to have never sent those SIGNED posters from Roger Dean still.

Email me your current address again, please?!

[alien2112]

I just got my copy!

Hey Alien, i am like... LOWEST of LOW to have never sent those SIGNED posters from Roger Dean still.

Email me your current address again, please?!

My address is on my Facebook page. Still in Grand Prairie . . .
Hmm, I can't even remember how long ago you promised me those posters . . . all I remember was that I was still in college then.

[Bnielsen]

Well, I'm moving out of my apartment this month, and I have them sitting on a shelf, all by themselves. Maybe I'll do it this time!