Well now boys and girls, today I have been on E2 for 20 years. Which is kind of astonishing if you think about it. When I logged on as a smelly student bum on a slow Sunday lunchtime in the no longer extant Commonwealth Hall in London those four lustra ago, did I think I would still be posting here in two decades' time? I don't think I did. I thought that I'd bumble along for a couple of years then get bored with it. I actually thought this place would end up being defunct because that seemed to be the lot in life of most online spaces back then.
456 writeups later, here I am.
Of course, 2005 was now I look back at it the absolute high water mark of the web. Back then, effortposting was compulsory, pretty much, most online content was vaguely thoughty because the skill wall to post anything online filtered out the loudmouths and narcissists that would later become legion, and content farms were not really a thing to you weren't served with wall to wall clickbait, listicles,
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