Garden Lifespan

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:18 am

How long do you think Forum Garden will last?

2 years, 5 years, 10 years, 50 years???

As the internet is a fairly recent development, I guess no-one can have any idea. If it lasted 50 years, would people still read posts from today?.

How long would the Anything Random thread be?

Pheasy · Post by **Pheasy** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:30 am

Uncle Kram;637878 wrote: How long do you think Forum Garden will last?

2 years, 5 years, 10 years, 50 years???

As the internet is a fairly recent development, I guess no-one can have any idea. If it lasted 50 years, would people still read posts from today?.

How long would the Anything Random thread be?

Good question Unc. How long has FG been going already? When was it created? and who created it?

I think this forum will go on forever. What happens if admin. decide to stop operating it - can others take over, or is that the end?

Mmmm - got me thinking now (damn my head hurts now)!!

Lon · Post by **Lon** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:32 am

Uncle Kram;637878 wrote: How long do you think Forum Garden will last?

2 years, 5 years, 10 years, 50 years???

As the internet is a fairly recent development, I guess no-one can have any idea. If it lasted 50 years, would people still read posts from today?.

How long would the Anything Random thread be?

I think it's safe to say that FG will outlive me, and probably most of us.

SlipStream · Post by **SlipStream** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:34 am

see no reson Y FG shouldn't go on 4 sometime.

SuzyB · Post by **SuzyB** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:46 am

Just think our what our great grand children would be able to read about us

(quickly run off to edit any risky posts):rolleyes:

Pheasy · Post by **Pheasy** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:50 am

SuzyB;637911 wrote: Just think our what our great grand children would be able to read about us

(quickly run off to edit any risky posts):rolleyes:

Yiks...... hadn't thought of that one. Note to self: never tell anyone you are ThePheasant

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:52 am

Uncle Kram;637878 wrote: How long do you think Forum Garden will last?

?

53 years, 124 days, 7 hours 35 minutes and 48 seconds.

SuzyB · Post by **SuzyB** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:52 am

Marie5656;637916 wrote: 53 years, 124 days, 7 hours 35 minutes and 48 seconds.

:wah: :wah:

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:07 am

Marie5656;637916 wrote: 53 years, 124 days, 7 hours 35 minutes and 48 seconds.
Is that your final answer Marie?

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:12 am

I give it a week.

minks · Post by **minks** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:15 am

I plan to live to 105 so we got another 59 years to go here on FG :wah:

Now how cool of a thought that is that this place could be around for our grand kids, what a cool account of history hmmmm

el guapo · Post by **el guapo** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:17 am

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 gone its all over

hang on i was wrong

minks · Post by **minks** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:18 am

A time capsule

Today is June 15, 2007

Hybrid cars are all the rage.

Paris Hilton is in Jail

Gas is $1.04/litre

There are still wars going on.

minks · Post by **minks** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:19 am

Oh for Gawd Sake El Taco you are crazy.!!

el guapo · Post by **el guapo** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:27 am

minks;637942 wrote: Oh for Gawd Sake El Taco you are crazy.!!

el crazo to you or el loco

minks · Post by **minks** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:29 am

el guapo;637952 wrote: el crazo to you or el loco

El Loco Taco

CrazyCruizChick · Post by **CrazyCruizChick** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:31 am

I hope FG will be here for a long time it took me ages to find a nice place to belong too.

el guapo · Post by **el guapo** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:32 am

minks;637956 wrote: El Loco Taco

hay the cheese has slipped off my taco

minks · Post by **minks** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:34 am

CrazyCruizChick;637959 wrote: I hope FG will be here for a long time it took me ages to find a nice place to belong too.

me too

el guapo · Post by **el guapo** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:34 am

el guapo;637960 wrote: hay the cheese has slipped off my taco

a song i think is about me

minks · Post by **minks** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:37 am

el guapo;637963 wrote: a song i think is about me

ack I can't open those at work

koan · Post by **koan** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:05 am

Even if the forum was shut down at some point it is already being archived in the wayback machine.

Post by **spot** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:20 am

What tends to happen on the Internet is that a site will be available for a while, like five to fifteen years, and then it will stop being available for a while and then its message base will be readable for the rest of human history, while simulations and resurrections of the site will come back and keep the tradition going. Messages on the two sites I most often used twenty years ago are still readable and always will be, though one of them went out of business ten years ago and the other faded into obscurity because it stayed paid-members-only and the world moved past that concept.

"readable for the rest of human history" sounds unlikely at first glance but it's true simply because storage and bandwidth costs are invariably going to keep dropping. Ten years worth of messages from a hundred active users that used to cost several thousand dollars a year to host with dedicated dialup lines now fit easily into free hosting limits.

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:33 am

spot;638023 wrote: What tends to happen on the Internet is that a site will be available for a while, like five to fifteen years, and then it will stop being available for a while and then its message base will be readable for the rest of human history, while simulations and resurrections of the site will come back and keep the tradition going. Messages on the two sites I most often used twenty years ago are still readable and always will be, though one of them went out of business ten years ago and the other faded into obscurity because it stayed paid-members-only and the world moved past that concept.

"readable for the rest of human history" sounds unlikely at first glance but it's true simply because storage and bandwidth costs are invariably going to keep dropping. Ten years worth of messages from a hundred active users that used to cost several thousand dollars a year to host with dedicated dialup lines now fit easily into free hosting limits.
Is your current style evident in 20 year old posts?

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:36 am

I hope the Garden lasts a very long time.............

el guapo · Post by **el guapo** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:39 am

with sunshine rain good spirted chat light hearted banter

and fresh newbies planted and cared 4 it could last a long time

by the way i will surply the fertiliser (bull sh&t that is)

it will grow

Post by **spot** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:44 am

Uncle Kram;638045 wrote: Is your current style evident in 20 year old posts?
Dense and unreadable? You betcha.

SuzyB · Post by **SuzyB** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:46 am

spot;638060 wrote: Dense and unreadable? You betcha.

:wah: :wah:

Post by **spot** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 9:08 am

Pinky;638091 wrote: I hadn't thought about this before, but say it did go on until long after we're all gone? What a wonderful way for our decendents to see what we were really like, experience the events in our lives and generally get to know us as people, not just mums, dads, grandmas or aunties, etc.

I shall be known among generations to come as "the sainted spot". Nomad, on the other hand, will be spoken of in a thousand years as "that Internet dude from way back who made Pol Pot seem cozy in comparison", while Pinky will appear in history books as "the Suffolk Witch who deliberately triggered World War Three while posting insults on a bulletin board".

crazygal · Post by **crazygal** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 9:32 am

Until someone that gets banned DOS attacks it and wipes the lot. :wah:

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 10:10 am

Uncle Kram;637925 wrote: Is that your final answer Marie?

Yes...but lets remove a few hours now.

cars · Post by **cars** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 11:13 am

Uncle Kram;637878 wrote: How long do you think Forum Garden will last?

2 years, 5 years, 10 years, 50 years???

As the internet is a fairly recent development, I guess no-one can have any idea. If it lasted 50 years, would people still read posts from today?.

How long would the Anything Random thread be?
As long as it is required to!

Random thread will be pretty long!!! :-2

Tombstone started the forum, circa August 04.

Long may it reign! :-6

Chookie · Post by **Chookie** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:39 pm

Pinky;638147 wrote: Hey, I'm quite tame here if I do say so myself!:wah:

I think I'd rather be the Suffolk Witch who turned into a mad old biddy with twenty five cats and a swearing impediment.

What in the name of all the various circles of all the Hells is a swearing impediment?

minks · Post by **minks** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:50 pm

Well I think we have a healthy crop rotation going and if you allow one quadrant to fallow for a year and keep that rotation up this garden ought to go on for some time.

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:52 pm

Uncle Kram;637878 wrote: How long do you think Forum Garden will last?

If it continues to be successful, then it's likely that someone will buy it. If it's not, then it'll die. It could be re-named, absorbed or intergated with something, or all sorts of things. As long as it continues to make money, it will continue in some sort of guise. If it fails, then its content is already stored elsewhere.

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 2:12 pm

The Forum Garden will remain as long as the internet exists and there are folks like us.........and folks still eat tacos from Taco Bell.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 3:24 pm

How long do you think Forum Garden will last?

As long as people have a yearning to discuss butter I imagine.

G-man · Post by **G-man** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:11 pm

... or de-rail threads. :wah:

Only time will tell... it's hard to stop a forum this size once it's snowballing... unless we decide to stop it.

neffy · Post by **neffy** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 1:01 am

hoping for ever