Back in the day (starting in 2000!) I used to go to the library after school and visit this website, often printing out longer conversations to take home and go over. I kept them with my “Bewitched” stuff over several moves, and 21 years later (!!!) I still have them, and am re-reading them now. Thank you Melanie and Bob for creating such a wonderful website and nice memories. The largest collection of Bewitched fan fiction on the Net!
I miss the old days of the message board so much! Facebook is fine I guess, but the old board was a really special place.
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Posted by Arfies on September 14, 2021, 5:27 pm, in reply to "Re: Old message board posts" Montogomery Fontographer
Yeah, me too. Admittedly I’m one who let Facebook take up most of my time later too. But I also think social media sort of ruined the more unique parts of the Internet.The largest collection of Bewitched fan fiction on the Net!
Posted by Melanie on September 22, 2021, 4:21 pm, in reply to "Old message board posts" Queen of the Harpies
I remember when you were going to the library to read the site and post here. Didn't that start when your school put a block on the site? I remember filling out a form to get the site recognized by their censoring software as an educational site. The software company had us listed as entertainment because we had a few games. The start of my petitioning and protesting endeavors. Ha ha ha!But we did get the site unblocked by their firewall eventually.Sow's ears are not made into silk purses by the addition of a few dandelions, Samantha!
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Posted by Arfies on September 24, 2021, 10:32 am, in reply to "Re: Old message board posts" Montogomery Fontographer
Good question! I don’t remember. I do remember finding the site for the first time at the public library around October 2000 after school and being amazed. I don’t think we even had dial-up at home yet, though we might have (we’d use BlueLight internet from KMart).
I also remember several sites (possibly this one too) being blocked by BESS, the school censoring software, and a few of my friends and I figuring out ways around it. I guess that was the start of my “hacking” (if you can call it that!)The largest collection of Bewitched fan fiction on the Net!
I miss them, too. There was a while there when this board was literally a lifeline for me. I will be forever grateful, and I hope this site is up and running as long as I am--and then some."Witches are good! Witches are dear!"
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Posted by Arfies on September 30, 2021, 9:50 pm, in reply to "Re: Old message board posts" Montogomery Fontographer
Same. The largest collection of Bewitched fan fiction on the Net!