Why The Cellar?

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I miss some of those old-school users too. Blu is alive and well and living in Jersey; he showed up here early on but didn't stick around, and that really bugs me, I think he is one cool dude. Back in the day he was the very worst speller ever, much worse than Jag's hurried typos. Somehow he spelled "exhaust" with a Z.

I miss Jerry "Chronos" Winner who swore he'd always be a Cellar user. I tried to find him online anywhere, but old email addresses I found didn't seem to get anywhere... or he decided to move on, you never know.

I miss editor. I thnk he's still posting to phl.* groups and so I'm not sure what his beef is with us.

I miss kml. That dude could really write, had enormous style, smart, witty...

I miss darling. We had a falling out a year ago that I still can't figure out completely. I would be happy to take the blame for what was probably stupidity on my part, but he seems to have written me off for the duration.

I miss richh. He was a Cellarite before he was the talk of talk.bizarre, and his body of work was incredible. He too had immense style. He sweated cool.

I miss turtle. He actually works at a skate shop near me, and I bought skates from him about a year ago. The perfect father who could be counted on to stick in an interesting two cents. He was a fine mix of enthusiasm, grit, subtle wit.

I miss mason and omi/cerebus and there must be about 20 others who were just as awesome whom I'm forgetting. (If you happen to be reading this and you're one of them, please excuse my omission...)

I think esr had a cellar account, but he wasn't a contributor so to hell with him. No, I don't mean that. He helped to set up a Cellar-esque public internet access system in the county next to me. He also indulged in some of the same sort of political activity that I did, back in the day. I feel an enormous affinity to esr for these reasons, but it is ... unrequited.

The nice thing is that we can think back on all these cool people, but we have an equally cool group now.

As far as donations go, I think posting and sticking around and stuff is how everyone "gives back". Right now it doesn't lack for equipment or connectivity or anything, which is the only reason why donations of any kind would be needed.