how we came to be...
There is an old proverb I remember having read or heard once. It was that history is
written by the victorious. Since the dubious duty of writing the history of
Agelesschat has fallen upon me, I sincerely doubt the validity of that proverb.
Why do I write the history of Agelesschat?
Is it because I am the smartest among us?
Nope.
Is it because I am the warmest, kindest, most sensitive man on the Net?
Nope.
Is it because I am the only one with arms the same length among us?
Again, nope!
I write the history of Agelesschat because mer told me to do it.....and we all know
I do as mer says.
I suppose when you get right down to it, Agelesschat was born in the conspiracy by
Bill Gates and Microsoft to conquer and take over the Net. It was born when the evil
Net conquerors decided to introduce the Explorer program by forcing every major
computer manufacturer to place on the desktops of any computer with windows 95 the
Explorer as well as other nifty things from MSN. I am amazed that some of us have
not been subpoenaed to give our video testimony in the anti-trust lawsuit against
Microsoft. Still I am happy that we haven't... for then we would learn the horrible
truth that Owl really is really Bill Gates in drag.
As you will all recall from those days when we wondered where the "any key" was, the
Microsoft Network who knew us better than we knew ourselves, offered MSN-sanctioned
chat rooms. Boy did they offer the rooms...
I probably will be the only one to admit that I started out in the "Sexuality
Forum"; a place where one could explore their sexual side. I will admit it (and I
know a lot of you won't) but I remember who it was I saw there!!
That got old fast, after all one can only be asked to "cyber" so many times before
one realizes that it is really silly. So in a sense, I suppose Ageless was found by
us all when we decided to stop being silly at the keyboard, and start to act our
age, which back then was "30 something".
I remember that Ageless was the room that MSN designed for "the cool 30+ crowd".
From the start it was a screaming success. All of us worn out from the floating
around trying to find a room that was fun, sexy and thought-provoking had found a
home.
What will always amaze me is the similarities and comparisons that can be drawn
between family/home and Agelesschat. I think that is what has kept Agelesschat going
even after MSN dropped it as a "sanctioned room".
It was a place where friends gathered as family to laugh, cry, reinforce, and yes,
fight with each other. Technology provided the tools for Agelesschat but it's people
made it. It is a room of talented and caring people, who think beyond just words on
a screen. Of course we have our Sun-Tzu's and Bonzy's just to keep us grounded in
the failures of humanity, but, we also have our Cassandra's and Bbear's to prove the
magical wealth of the promise of people.
Agelesschat is without a doubt the most talented chat room on the web. From poets,
to artists, to dreamers... we have an abundance of talent. Show me any other room
with a member like uma who is capable of nippling ears?
So why has Agelesschat has survived as it has? The Rev. Billy Graham I am sure would
tell us it has survived because we are all seeking some form of spiritual
fulfillment... Larry Flynt would say we are just intellectually horny... But, I am
sure that the truth is a blend of everything that could be said between those two
statements.
But, Ageless has survived. It has been walked away from by many of us muttering that
we will never come back... but like home, we always do. Hell the only real
competition that Agelesschat has ever had has come from two rooms: the 40+ room,
where I suspect Agelesschatters retire, and that room Becky created called "the
Venus Couch" where she could take her conquests and amazon them into submission.
Some Agelesschatters subscribe to a school of thought that claims that Agelesschat,
like a Baptist church split once, when a group who thought they were 5.5 times
better than the rest of us left. I personally do not believe that, and think that
the 5.5 room was designed to overcome the size limit of 15 people that MSN had
originally set as member limit in their sanctioned rooms.
Agelesschat is now a chat room that has taken on a life of it's own. It responds
like a living entity to threats towards it's existence. Recently, MSN decided that
membership did not have it's privledge and opened MSN up to any fool with a computer
and capable of saying "and would you like fries with that?" This resulted in lag
times beyond hours and Agelesschat found a new home on the "jong" server. (And for
those of you from AOL wanting to get to the jong server, all you do is push the big
button on the computer that says "power" and wait).
Now, again, "jong" is no more, but Agelesschat has found yet another "home" on
"ChatNet" server, once again proving that the friendships made here, will live
on.
I am sure I have not done justice to the history of Agelesschat, but can you really
expect that I could?
After all I can only say what elrond once said; "finding Agelesschat was the
kindfest thing I have ever done to myself".
Why do I write the history of Agelesschat?
I write the history of Agelesschat because mer told me to do it.....and we all know I do as mer says.
I suppose when you get right down to it, Agelesschat was born in the conspiracy by Bill Gates and Microsoft to conquer and take over the Net. It was born when the evil Net conquerors decided to introduce the Explorer program by forcing every major computer manufacturer to place on the desktops of any computer with windows 95 the Explorer as well as other nifty things from MSN. I am amazed that some of us have not been subpoenaed to give our video testimony in the anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft. Still I am happy that we haven't... for then we would learn the horrible truth that Owl really is really Bill Gates in drag.
As you will all recall from those days when we wondered where the "any key" was, the Microsoft Network who knew us better than we knew ourselves, offered MSN-sanctioned chat rooms. Boy did they offer the rooms...
I probably will be the only one to admit that I started out in the "Sexuality Forum"; a place where one could explore their sexual side. I will admit it (and I know a lot of you won't) but I remember who it was I saw there!!
That got old fast, after all one can only be asked to "cyber" so many times before one realizes that it is really silly. So in a sense, I suppose Ageless was found by us all when we decided to stop being silly at the keyboard, and start to act our age, which back then was "30 something".
I remember that Ageless was the room that MSN designed for "the cool 30+ crowd". From the start it was a screaming success. All of us worn out from the floating around trying to find a room that was fun, sexy and thought-provoking had found a home.
What will always amaze me is the similarities and comparisons that can be drawn between family/home and Agelesschat. I think that is what has kept Agelesschat going even after MSN dropped it as a "sanctioned room".
It was a place where friends gathered as family to laugh, cry, reinforce, and yes, fight with each other. Technology provided the tools for Agelesschat but it's people made it. It is a room of talented and caring people, who think beyond just words on a screen. Of course we have our Sun-Tzu's and Bonzy's just to keep us grounded in the failures of humanity, but, we also have our Cassandra's and Bbear's to prove the magical wealth of the promise of people.
Agelesschat is without a doubt the most talented chat room on the web. From poets, to artists, to dreamers... we have an abundance of talent. Show me any other room with a member like uma who is capable of nippling ears?
So why has Agelesschat has survived as it has? The Rev. Billy Graham I am sure would tell us it has survived because we are all seeking some form of spiritual fulfillment... Larry Flynt would say we are just intellectually horny... But, I am sure that the truth is a blend of everything that could be said between those two statements.
But, Ageless has survived. It has been walked away from by many of us muttering that we will never come back... but like home, we always do. Hell the only real competition that Agelesschat has ever had has come from two rooms: the 40+ room, where I suspect Agelesschatters retire, and that room Becky created called "the Venus Couch" where she could take her conquests and amazon them into submission.
Some Agelesschatters subscribe to a school of thought that claims that Agelesschat, like a Baptist church split once, when a group who thought they were 5.5 times better than the rest of us left. I personally do not believe that, and think that the 5.5 room was designed to overcome the size limit of 15 people that MSN had originally set as member limit in their sanctioned rooms.
Agelesschat is now a chat room that has taken on a life of it's own. It responds like a living entity to threats towards it's existence. Recently, MSN decided that membership did not have it's privledge and opened MSN up to any fool with a computer and capable of saying "and would you like fries with that?" This resulted in lag times beyond hours and Agelesschat found a new home on the "jong" server. (And for those of you from AOL wanting to get to the jong server, all you do is push the big button on the computer that says "power" and wait).
Now, again, "jong" is no more, but Agelesschat has found yet another "home" on "ChatNet" server, once again proving that the friendships made here, will live on.
I am sure I have not done justice to the history of Agelesschat, but can you really expect that I could?
After all I can only say what elrond once said; "finding Agelesschat was the kindfest thing I have ever done to myself".