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Topic: 15 Years of the 8mm Forum!
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Steve Klare
Film Guy
Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted June 13, 2018 11:45 AM
15 years ago this Forum recovered from a cataclysmic server crash and started all over again. This is the version of it you see today.
It's a historic tragedy, because the original 8mm Forum had posts from some of the people we still miss these days, including Derek Simmonds, and we will never see those posts again.
In the meantime, generally speaking a lot of good has been done here. Friendships have been made and a lot of help and advice has been offered. Even though CineSea is not an 8mm Forum exclusive-thing, the idea was first floated here and this is still the best place to find out about it.
When I came here, I was 41 years old and a newly re-born film collector (2002 was kind of a late date to be making the great leap to sound!). I lurked a while on the old forum, but joined the new version as soon as it was up. It's made a difference for me: gave me some place interesting to check out every day and made me a dear friend in the UK that I will always remember gratefully since his loss. It also gave me the chance to meet other film collectors out in the three dimensional world that will tell you we are extinct!
The baby that we had in the house that day I joined is looking at colleges and wants to learn how to drive! (There is nowhere to hide from the passage of time!)
This Forum is a welcoming place that only requires you come willing to be a decent citizen. It doesn't cost you anything, it doesn't ask you anything. It's just here for people of good will to enjoy.
-sounds like a good thing to me!
-------------------- All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
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