Unhelpful

I used to be a contributor to a site called “The Rantings of Lum the Mad”, and its successor, “Slownewsday.net”.

As the original site went away, followed by its archives, I was reminded of all the interesting discussions I read and participated in from the old 8-bit BBS days. Then, we didn’t value our archives; having an online storage of archival material was expensive (it meant having a separate expensive external floppy drive for each disk you wanted to host simultaneously - 10 meg hard drives were out of the question, as they cost several thousand dollars), and having thorough records of past threads really wasn’t a priority.

Today, there’s no such excuse. We don’t have to carve the present at the expense of our archives. We can have it both ways. In that interest, I’ve archived my own contributions to that site. Sadly, I only have the right to archive my own work online, so most of the truly great moments are gone. At least we still have Kiki.

Update: It is fittingly ironic that while I was in the very process of creating the LTM-era archive, slownewsday.net collapsed in a spectacular conflagration of egoes, unprofessionalism, and bile due to what appeared to the readers to be a very overplayed disagreement between Mythic, developer of Dark Ages of Camelot, and current and past members of the SND staff. Of course, it’s never that simple, is it? My take on the whole thing is that there were far too many people acting far too unprofessionally who presumably should have known better, on “both” sides of the issue. Somewhere along the way, the developers’ and the site’s obligations to the community seem to have wandered off. Hopefully the Diaspora of Lum the Mad won’t forget this.

I’ve added an archive of the SND logos I created for the launch of SND and those created afterwards (some of the holiday logos and unofficial logos haven’t been seen).

[The logos are also in the continuation for your convenience. All ltm/snd articles I archived are also reflected in the current content management system.] Read more »