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My misc digital personas have gone to the great /dev/null in the sky many times.

BIX, CompuServe, FidoNet, usenet, dozens of email accounts, voicemails, interviews, chat logs, facebook...

Heck, I have zero trace of the specialty BBS (and network) I hosted. Which was my everything at the time.

Young me thought it'd be great to record and archive my lifestream.

Current me is glad it didn't work out.

Sure, I may have written some clever bits of code & prose.

Now I see great value in forgetting. It's hard to adapt, grow, accept, forgive, and be forward looking while lugging around a lifetime of baggage.

If I ever did say something useful, I'm confident someone will pick up the thread. Whether independently or by quoting me, it's all good.



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