Discussion:
Anyone there?
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Wanderer
2011-04-04 08:09:54 UTC
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Figured I'd ask; there don't seem to be any new posts showing up.

Yours belatedly,

The lonely,

Wanderer

Where am I going? I don't quite know.
What does it matter *where* people go?
Down to the woods where the bluebells grow!
Anywhere! Anywhere! *I* don't know!
-- a. a. milne, *On A Spring Day*



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^..^ Lone Wolf
2011-04-04 11:56:32 UTC
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"Wanderer" <***@gaiges.net> wrote in message news:inbujf$2gdr$***@adenine.netfront.net...

Wotcha.
Post by Wanderer
Figured I'd ask; there don't seem to be any new posts showing up.
You'd be surprised who still lurks out here ;-)
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Wanderer
2011-04-08 08:05:12 UTC
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Post by ^..^ Lone Wolf
Wotcha.
Post by Wanderer
Figured I'd ask; there don't seem to be any new posts showing up.
You'd be surprised who still lurks out here ;-)
And so I am. :) How goes it on the other side of the Atlantic?

Your just before bed,

The tired,

Wanderer

Where am I going? I don't quite know.
What does it matter *where* people go?
Down to the woods where the bluebells grow!
Anywhere! Anywhere! *I* don't know!
-- a. a. milne, *On A Spring Day*



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^..^ Lone Wolf
2011-04-11 10:50:01 UTC
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"Wanderer" <***@gaiges.net> wrote in message news:inmfk4$1pua$***@adenine.netfront.net...

Wotcha.
Post by Wanderer
And so I am. :) How goes it on the other side of the Atlantic?
Not too good at the moment.
To cut a long story short, some careless driver almost took off my left leg.
This was on Halloween, 2009 - and I still ain't up and walking properly yet.

Ah well, shit happens, as they say ;-)
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Wanderer
2011-04-12 05:41:07 UTC
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Post by ^..^ Lone Wolf
Wotcha.
Post by Wanderer
And so I am. :) How goes it on the other side of the Atlantic?
Not too good at the moment.
To cut a long story short, some careless driver almost took off my left leg.
This was on Halloween, 2009 - and I still ain't up and walking properly yet.
Ah well, shit happens, as they say ;-)
Oof. X( I'm without transportation, myself - my car served as a lesson to
my sister that, "No, you can't just keep adding more oil". The replacement
she bought (without regard to my desire to actually inspect both options)
blew a bushing. So for the foreseeable future, I'm a pedestrian.

As you can imagine, this does nothing for my job prospects. :/



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g***@gmail.com
2012-11-25 23:43:37 UTC
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Hi
Post by Wanderer
Figured I'd ask; there don't seem to be any new posts showing up.
Yours belatedly,
The lonely,
Wanderer
Where am I going? I don't quite know.
What does it matter *where* people go?
Down to the woods where the bluebells grow!
Anywhere! Anywhere! *I* don't know!
-- a. a. milne, *On A Spring Day*
shadowscout
2015-02-10 17:09:22 UTC
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Post by Wanderer
Figured I'd ask; there don't seem to be any new posts showing up.
Yours belatedly,
The lonely,
Wanderer
Where am I going? I don't quite know.
What does it matter *where* people go?
Down to the woods where the bluebells grow!
Anywhere! Anywhere! *I* don't know!
-- a. a. milne, *On A Spring Day*
Some are here, some are not. It varies.
§ñûhwØ£f
2015-02-24 21:02:32 UTC
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Post by shadowscout
Post by Wanderer
Figured I'd ask; there don't seem to be any new posts showing up.
Yours belatedly,
The lonely,
Wanderer
Where am I going? I don't quite know.
What does it matter *where* people go?
Down to the woods where the bluebells grow!
Anywhere! Anywhere! *I* don't know!
-- a. a. milne, *On A Spring Day*
Some are here, some are not. It varies.
Immmmmmmmmm baaaaaaaaaaack :) You can all go cower in the corner and
whine now :)
Poor Wanderererer...he knows where to find me...
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shadowscout
2015-03-01 18:30:52 UTC
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Post by §ñûhwØ£f
Post by shadowscout
Post by Wanderer
Figured I'd ask; there don't seem to be any new posts showing up.
Yours belatedly,
The lonely,
Wanderer
Where am I going? I don't quite know.
What does it matter *where* people go?
Down to the woods where the bluebells grow!
Anywhere! Anywhere! *I* don't know!
-- a. a. milne, *On A Spring Day*
Some are here, some are not. It varies.
Immmmmmmmmm baaaaaaaaaaack :) You can all go cower in the corner and
whine now :)
Poor Wanderererer...he knows where to find me...
--
http://www.wolfandwildlifestudies.com/index.php
www.friendsofanimals.org |www.snuhwolf.9f.com|
_____ ____ ____ __ /\_/\ __ _ ______ _____
/ __/ |/ / / / / // // . . \\ \ |\ | / __ \ \ \ __\
Cower in the corner? Never.
Darkmoon says hello as well.

-Shadowscout
§ñühwö£f
2015-03-01 20:16:26 UTC
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Post by shadowscout
Post by §ñûhwØ£f
Post by shadowscout
Post by Wanderer
Figured I'd ask; there don't seem to be any new posts showing up.
Yours belatedly,
The lonely,
Wanderer
Where am I going? I don't quite know.
What does it matter *where* people go?
Down to the woods where the bluebells grow!
Anywhere! Anywhere! *I* don't know!
-- a. a. milne, *On A Spring Day*
Some are here, some are not. It varies.
Immmmmmmmmm baaaaaaaaaaack :) You can all go cower in the corner and
whine now :)
Poor Wanderererer...he knows where to find me...
Cower in the corner? Never.
Darkmoon says hello as well.
-Shadowscout
D00d! We're getting the band back together!
We can fight Facebook and Twitter! Revive Usenet!

(like that'll ever happen)
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Coyo Stormcaller
2016-07-15 19:20:50 UTC
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On Sun, 01 Mar 2015 14:16:26 -0600
Post by §ñühwö£f
D00d! We're getting the band back together!
We can fight Facebook and Twitter! Revive Usenet!
(like that'll ever happen)
Who knows? It might.
Wolfreak
2015-05-23 03:06:38 UTC
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Post by Wanderer
Figured I'd ask; there don't seem to be any new posts showing up.
Yours belatedly,
The lonely,
Wanderer
Where am I going? I don't quite know.
What does it matter *where* people go?
Down to the woods where the bluebells grow!
Anywhere! Anywhere! *I* don't know!
-- a. a. milne, *On A Spring Day*
I recognize some of your names from the early years of this newsgroup. I didn't post here, but once I found out about the newsgroup in '98 lurked a little. I still check in from time to time. Wish I'd been here in the beginning. Would have liked to have attended the first howl in '94 too.
§ñühwö£f
2015-05-23 13:09:16 UTC
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Post by Wolfreak
Post by Wanderer
Figured I'd ask; there don't seem to be any new posts showing up.
Yours belatedly,
The lonely,
Wanderer
Where am I going? I don't quite know. What does it matter *where*
people go? Down to the woods where the bluebells grow! Anywhere!
Anywhere! *I* don't know! -- a. a. milne, *On A Spring Day*
I recognize some of your names from the early years of this
newsgroup. I didn't post here, but once I found out about the
newsgroup in '98 lurked a little. I still check in from time to
time. Wish I'd been here in the beginning. Would have liked to have
attended the first howl in '94 too.
Everyone moved to web forums, fyi.
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www.snuhwolf.9f.com|www.savewolves.org
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shadowscout
2015-05-27 01:34:44 UTC
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The webforums I knew are all long-gone, but Darkmoon and I have been out of the loop for a decade or so.

Shadowscout
Post by §ñühwö£f
Everyone moved to web forums, fyi.
§ñühwö£f
2015-05-27 13:11:30 UTC
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Post by shadowscout
The webforums I knew are all long-gone, but Darkmoon and I have been out of the loop for a decade or so.
Shadowscout
I played around on this one for a while before the emo kids who don't
know wtf real hard times are about got to me. Too much pissing & moaning
about suburban teen angst.
http://forum.werewolfcafe.com/
Post by shadowscout
Post by §ñühwö£f
Everyone moved to web forums, fyi.
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Wolfreak
2015-05-30 00:56:47 UTC
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I think the only forum that has survived from the early 2000s is werelist, and it's sitting in some semi broken limbo state. People still go and post there.

Other snippets I've found over the past couple of years:
I talked on the phone with WolfVanZandt about a year ago now and it turns out he wis living with a few others including Coyote Osborne, the founder of werelist.
The person credited with hosting the first howl, Smash Greywolf still has an online presence, although I haven't successfully contacted him yet.

I also found these photos from the 1995 2nd Harvest Howl a little while back:
http://www.firelion.org/raven/photos/
Reemule is in them. He passed away some time ago now due to a failed lung transplant.
If anyone has photos of the first Harvest Howl I'd love get a copy of them. I enjoy collecting the history of the therian community.

Then there are these gems from my own 1998 howl:
http://community.fortunecity.ws/meltingpot/anderson/576/chp1.html

Nice to see some still lurk here. I've tried at times to track down some of the early posters of AHWW, but the trail usually goes cold around 2005. I imagine most of them were around the same age since in the early 90s it was just college/university students who had Internet access. Most people seem to disconnect from their online life around the age of 25.

This place must still hold some meaning for those of you that still check it out from time to time. It may be long dead, but it's a culturally significant place to the therian community. I can't believe we've come to a point where there the majority of therians I run into don't know what AHWW is and that it is the origin of the online community and the vocabulary that they now enjoy.

AHWW will likely never be resurrected. If it were to become meaningful again the teenage trolls would find it and probably go through the trouble of destroying it again. OTOH since no one uses newsgroups anymore except the old fogies, maybe it could come back and fly under the radar.

Although all of your names are familiar to me, that is all I know of you, but I am still curious what has happened to all of you and where you are at in life. It seems so fast that when I first came here I was about 22 and now I'm pushing 40. I think of everyone here just remaining the same age, but of course you are either close to my age or older.
Post by shadowscout
The webforums I knew are all long-gone, but Darkmoon and I have been out of the loop for a decade or so.
Shadowscout
Post by §ñühwö£f
Everyone moved to web forums, fyi.
§ñühwö£f
2015-05-30 13:18:00 UTC
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Post by Wolfreak
I think the only forum that has survived from the early 2000s is
werelist, and it's sitting in some semi broken limbo state. People
still go and post there.
Other snippets I've found over the past couple of years: I talked on
the phone with WolfVanZandt about a year ago now and it turns out he
wis living with a few others including Coyote Osborne, the founder of
werelist. The person credited with hosting the first howl, Smash
Greywolf still has an online presence, although I haven't
successfully contacted him yet.
He's still in silicon valley riding motorcycles & doing IT stuff.
I talked at him a few years ago.
Post by Wolfreak
I also found these photos from the 1995 2nd Harvest Howl a little
while back: http://www.firelion.org/raven/photos/ Reemule is in them.
He passed away some time ago now due to a failed lung transplant. If
anyone has photos of the first Harvest Howl I'd love get a copy of
them. I enjoy collecting the history of the therian community.
http://community.fortunecity.ws/meltingpot/anderson/576/chp1.html
Nice to see some still lurk here. I've tried at times to track down
some of the early posters of AHWW, but the trail usually goes cold
around 2005. I imagine most of them were around the same age since
in the early 90s it was just college/university students who had
Internet access. Most people seem to disconnect from their online
life around the age of 25.
Huh? Theres plenty of old people on the internet. Just not *here*.
Post by Wolfreak
This place must still hold some meaning for those of you that still
check it out from time to time. It may be long dead, but it's a
culturally significant place to the therian community. I can't
believe we've come to a point where there the majority of therians I
run into don't know what AHWW is and that it is the origin of the
online community and the vocabulary that they now enjoy.
Facebook etc has changed the way people "do the internets".
Everyone wants all sorts of feeds and apps built in. Plain text just
wont do it for the kids.
Post by Wolfreak
AHWW will likely never be resurrected. If it were to become
meaningful again the teenage trolls would find it and probably go
through the trouble of destroying it again. OTOH since no one uses
newsgroups anymore except the old fogies, maybe it could come back
and fly under the radar.
Everyone dreams of resurrecting usenet. Highly unlikely to happen.
Post by Wolfreak
Although all of your names are familiar to me, that is all I know of
you, but I am still curious what has happened to all of you and where
you are at in life. It seems so fast that when I first came here I
was about 22 and now I'm pushing 40. I think of everyone here just
remaining the same age, but of course you are either close to my age
or older.
Older than you. Lone Wolf is like *ancient* though :)
Post by Wolfreak
Post by shadowscout
The webforums I knew are all long-gone, but Darkmoon and I have
been out of the loop for a decade or so.
Shadowscout
Post by §ñühwö£f
Everyone moved to web forums, fyi.
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^..^ Lone Wolf
2015-06-01 01:04:42 UTC
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Post by §ñühwö£f
Older than you. Lone Wolf is like *ancient* though :)
Indeedy - I'm officially too old to die young now ;-)


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L.W.
§ñühwö£f
2015-06-01 13:13:36 UTC
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Post by ^..^ Lone Wolf
Post by §ñühwö£f
Older than you. Lone Wolf is like *ancient* though :)
Indeedy - I'm officially too old to die young now ;-)
Its the badass trike you ride that keeps you young though!
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shadowscout
2015-06-11 13:51:27 UTC
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"§ñühwö£f" wrote in message news...
Post by §ñühwö£f
Older than you. Lone Wolf is like *ancient* though :)
Indeedy - I'm officially too old to die young now ;-)
-- - -
L.W.
I'm in my early 40's, Darkmoon's pushing mid-50's.. getting older sucks. We're all getting too old to officially "die young", now. ;-)

Shadowscout
^..^ Lone Wolf
2015-06-11 17:28:22 UTC
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Post by shadowscout
.. getting older sucks.
Indeed it does . . . but compared to the alternative :-)

-- - -
L.W.
Moonshiners MCC
§ñühwö£f
2015-06-12 19:23:42 UTC
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Post by ^..^ Lone Wolf
Post by shadowscout
.. getting older sucks.
Indeed it does . . . but compared to the alternative :-)
Depends on what you're dieing from. My dad passed last year from
alzheimers and lung cancer. Sometimes death is better than "life".
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^..^ Lone Wolf
2015-06-13 22:40:20 UTC
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Post by ^..^ Lone Wolf
Post by shadowscout
.. getting older sucks.
Indeed it does . . . but compared to the alternative :-)
Depends on what you're dieing from. My dad passed last year from alzheimers
and lung cancer. Sometimes death is better than "life".
Been there, done that. . . . and as you must know . . . it's not nice.
There is a very separate definition of "living" and "existing".

At times I wish the driver who almost took off my leg had done the job
properly - some days are
more existing than living . . . . but as long as the good ones outweigh the
bad ones, then I'll carry on.

-- - -
L.W.
Moonshiners MCC
§ñühwö£f
2015-06-14 20:28:28 UTC
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Post by ^..^ Lone Wolf
Post by §ñühwö£f
Post by ^..^ Lone Wolf
Post by shadowscout
.. getting older sucks.
Indeed it does . . . but compared to the alternative :-)
Depends on what you're dieing from. My dad passed last year from
alzheimers and lung cancer. Sometimes death is better than "life".
Been there, done that. . . . and as you must know . . . it's not nice.
There is a very separate definition of "living" and "existing".
"Home-based hospice care" isn't really better in my experience.
Post by ^..^ Lone Wolf
At times I wish the driver who almost took off my leg had done the job
properly - some days are
more existing than living . . . . but as long as the good ones outweigh
the bad ones, then I'll carry on.
Yeah. And you don't have the DEA over there telling you that Oxycodone
is something you don't deserve.
You health care system trumps ours, in spades.
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^..^ Lone Wolf
2015-06-14 22:48:33 UTC
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"§ñühwö£f" wrote in message news:mlkoaj$rcn$***@news.albasani.net...

Wotcha.
Yeah. And you don't have the DEA over there telling you that Oxycodone is
something you don't deserve.
You health care system trumps ours, in spades.
Isn't that one of those wonderful drugs you get hooked on ?
fires up Google<<
Thought so.

I'm (un)lucky is as much that most opiates don't have much effect on me,
pain wise.

I can see what you mean about our health service - though in my case a lot
of the treatment was paid for by the other party's insurance.
Actually - when I say that - the health service claimed the cost back from
the other side, but if the accident had been totally my fault then I would
still have received the same treatment.


-- - -
L.W.
Moonshiners MCC
§ñühwö£f
2015-06-15 15:02:48 UTC
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Post by ^..^ Lone Wolf
Wotcha.
Post by §ñühwö£f
Yeah. And you don't have the DEA over there telling you that Oxycodone
is something you don't deserve.
You health care system trumps ours, in spades.
Isn't that one of those wonderful drugs you get hooked on ?
Yep. Highly addictive. But for terminal or elderly it makes sense.
Post by ^..^ Lone Wolf
Post by §ñühwö£f
fires up Google<<
Thought so.
I'm (un)lucky is as much that most opiates don't have much effect on me,
pain wise.
Theres a new snail-venom based drug in the works...supposedly.
Post by ^..^ Lone Wolf
I can see what you mean about our health service - though in my case a
lot of the treatment was paid for by the other party's insurance.
Actually - when I say that - the health service claimed the cost back
from the other side, but if the accident had been totally my fault then
I would still have received the same treatment.
Egg'zacly...and even with "Obamacare" theres plenty of people left
uninsured over here. Count yer lucky stars, mate :)
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Wolfreak
2015-06-01 03:45:29 UTC
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So what web forums do all the old fogies hang out on? Except for werelist I've mostly found the younger generation on the ones I've seen.

There are people I've lost touch with that I've been unable to find any current online presence for. Mudgewolf, Winter, Sarah B, BlackPaws to name a few...
Post by §ñühwö£f
Post by Wolfreak
I think the only forum that has survived from the early 2000s is
werelist, and it's sitting in some semi broken limbo state. People
still go and post there.
Other snippets I've found over the past couple of years: I talked on
the phone with WolfVanZandt about a year ago now and it turns out he
wis living with a few others including Coyote Osborne, the founder of
werelist. The person credited with hosting the first howl, Smash
Greywolf still has an online presence, although I haven't
successfully contacted him yet.
He's still in silicon valley riding motorcycles & doing IT stuff.
I talked at him a few years ago.
Post by Wolfreak
I also found these photos from the 1995 2nd Harvest Howl a little
while back: http://www.firelion.org/raven/photos/ Reemule is in them.
He passed away some time ago now due to a failed lung transplant. If
anyone has photos of the first Harvest Howl I'd love get a copy of
them. I enjoy collecting the history of the therian community.
http://community.fortunecity.ws/meltingpot/anderson/576/chp1.html
Nice to see some still lurk here. I've tried at times to track down
some of the early posters of AHWW, but the trail usually goes cold
around 2005. I imagine most of them were around the same age since
in the early 90s it was just college/university students who had
Internet access. Most people seem to disconnect from their online
life around the age of 25.
Huh? Theres plenty of old people on the internet. Just not *here*.
Post by Wolfreak
This place must still hold some meaning for those of you that still
check it out from time to time. It may be long dead, but it's a
culturally significant place to the therian community. I can't
believe we've come to a point where there the majority of therians I
run into don't know what AHWW is and that it is the origin of the
online community and the vocabulary that they now enjoy.
Facebook etc has changed the way people "do the internets".
Everyone wants all sorts of feeds and apps built in. Plain text just
wont do it for the kids.
Post by Wolfreak
AHWW will likely never be resurrected. If it were to become
meaningful again the teenage trolls would find it and probably go
through the trouble of destroying it again. OTOH since no one uses
newsgroups anymore except the old fogies, maybe it could come back
and fly under the radar.
Everyone dreams of resurrecting usenet. Highly unlikely to happen.
Post by Wolfreak
Although all of your names are familiar to me, that is all I know of
you, but I am still curious what has happened to all of you and where
you are at in life. It seems so fast that when I first came here I
was about 22 and now I'm pushing 40. I think of everyone here just
remaining the same age, but of course you are either close to my age
or older.
Older than you. Lone Wolf is like *ancient* though :)
Post by Wolfreak
Post by shadowscout
The webforums I knew are all long-gone, but Darkmoon and I have
been out of the loop for a decade or so.
Shadowscout
Post by §ñühwö£f
Everyone moved to web forums, fyi.
--
http://www.wolfwatcher.org
www.snuhwolf.9f.com|www.savewolves.org
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§ñühwö£f
2015-06-01 13:21:00 UTC
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Post by Wolfreak
So what web forums do all the old fogies hang out on? Except for
werelist I've mostly found the younger generation on the ones I've
seen.
Don't know. For whatever reason people lost interest or said everything
they needed to say and moved on.
Like I poasted; werwolfcafe was the only forum aside from Smashes one
that I visited. I think Smash had one...maybe?
Post by Wolfreak
There are people I've lost touch with that I've been unable to find
any current online presence for. Mudgewolf, Winter, Sarah B,
BlackPaws to name a few...
AshWolf, Jure Sah, Safari Denvarion, Kamatu, Sonicide...
Yeah. But I bet theres a new crop springing up around the "Bitten"
series on SciFi teevee.

Protip: set your newsreader so the replies appear at the bottom as its
normal usenet convention to do so.
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Post by Wolfreak
I think the only forum that has survived from the early 2000s is
werelist, and it's sitting in some semi broken limbo state.
People still go and post there.
Other snippets I've found over the past couple of years: I talked
on the phone with WolfVanZandt about a year ago now and it turns
out he wis living with a few others including Coyote Osborne, the
founder of werelist. The person credited with hosting the first
howl, Smash Greywolf still has an online presence, although I
haven't successfully contacted him yet.
He's still in silicon valley riding motorcycles & doing IT stuff. I
talked at him a few years ago.
Post by Wolfreak
I also found these photos from the 1995 2nd Harvest Howl a little
while back: http://www.firelion.org/raven/photos/ Reemule is in
them. He passed away some time ago now due to a failed lung
transplant. If anyone has photos of the first Harvest Howl I'd
love get a copy of them. I enjoy collecting the history of the
therian community.
http://community.fortunecity.ws/meltingpot/anderson/576/chp1.html
Nice to see some still lurk here. I've tried at times to track
down some of the early posters of AHWW, but the trail usually
goes cold around 2005. I imagine most of them were around the
same age since in the early 90s it was just college/university
students who had Internet access. Most people seem to disconnect
from their online life around the age of 25.
Huh? Theres plenty of old people on the internet. Just not *here*.
Post by Wolfreak
This place must still hold some meaning for those of you that
still check it out from time to time. It may be long dead, but
it's a culturally significant place to the therian community. I
can't believe we've come to a point where there the majority of
therians I run into don't know what AHWW is and that it is the
origin of the online community and the vocabulary that they now
enjoy.
Facebook etc has changed the way people "do the internets".
Everyone wants all sorts of feeds and apps built in. Plain text
just wont do it for the kids.
Post by Wolfreak
AHWW will likely never be resurrected. If it were to become
meaningful again the teenage trolls would find it and probably go
through the trouble of destroying it again. OTOH since no one
uses newsgroups anymore except the old fogies, maybe it could
come back and fly under the radar.
Everyone dreams of resurrecting usenet. Highly unlikely to happen.
Post by Wolfreak
Although all of your names are familiar to me, that is all I know
of you, but I am still curious what has happened to all of you
and where you are at in life. It seems so fast that when I first
came here I was about 22 and now I'm pushing 40. I think of
everyone here just remaining the same age, but of course you are
either close to my age or older.
Older than you. Lone Wolf is like *ancient* though :)
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Post by shadowscout
The webforums I knew are all long-gone, but Darkmoon and I have
been out of the loop for a decade or so.
Shadowscout
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Everyone moved to web forums, fyi.
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^..^ Lone Wolf
2015-05-27 13:42:25 UTC
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On Monday, 4 April 2011 02:09:54 UTC-6, Wanderer wrote:

Figured I'd ask; there don't seem to be any new posts showing up.

Wotcha.

Still around.


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Moonshiners MCC
Coyo Stormcaller
2016-07-15 19:23:30 UTC
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On Fri, 22 May 2015 20:06:38 -0700 (PDT)
Post by Wolfreak
I recognize some of your names from the early years of this
newsgroup. I didn't post here, but once I found out about the
newsgroup in '98 lurked a little. I still check in from time to
time. Wish I'd been here in the beginning. Would have liked to have
attended the first howl in '94 too.
It would have been cool. I was born in '87, so in '94 I would have been
7 years old. I wasn't innocent even then. If only I was wise enough at
the time to buy a fake ID and get a car or something. I may have been
intelligent enough, but not wise enough.

Oh well.
shadowscout
2016-07-16 18:53:39 UTC
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I'll be letting those I know and have contact info for that the old usenet is still running. I know for sure that some left due to the massive trolling and spam, which seems to have moved on, now, to other forums. ;-)
y***@gmail.com
2016-07-26 07:20:32 UTC
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Oh you really need to seek around furryland aka FA. Pinky, Coyote, Kyoth, Goldenwolf and other ex-ahwwers are there. The clan of bearX was dead on 2000s when he got married, so dont bother to seek for Frnkzk or others because they were just closet furries. Most people that I tried to contact just shut doors in my muzzle, specially that meanie "dragon" that made a book about us in pdf.

I stopped to call myself therian just for avoid being counted with Coyote Osborne and Co (werelist). So meh, bad luck for ya, some werewolves are still well alive but just stop to remove the ashes of this place.

Holws from the dork that wrote the Ahww faq part 8 seen here http://www.firelion.org/raven/ahwwfaq/ahwwfaq08.html


Either look for my name in the page or poke my id here. ;)
v***@gmail.com
2016-07-26 15:53:53 UTC
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I remember that I became "persona non-grata" on werelist when I did oppose to use the silly therian logo and religion. My account was "damaged", I couldnt reply or post anymore just browse comments. Savage, Osborne, Kyoth/GoldenWolf deny it until today. So around 2004 I moved away for good.

I like how the few old muzzlers here want to paint ahww like a small family. It was not. There were rival groups of course people remember Reemul but not BearX despite he did host therainthrope.net a rival site of werelist. BearX quit therian scene in mid 2000, part bored of fakers and the otherkin madness (hello to any weresmurfs there) part he had married. Of course he did shut doors and Frnkzk (now a furry called dr leo) did host all sites in the server but mine. So I moved to furnation meh.

I did dare to add the part 8 to the ahww and the grey muzzlers agreed. Ahww in 1998 was too european/anglo and there are too much folklore and myhts about werewolves. If you ask me I prefer to be a desendant of kings (maya myth about weres) than to be a cursed guy that only has fun on full moon.

The term polywere was coined after me, and still a lot of therians will never forgive me for that. But who cares, I won the raffle so jealous people can see furry porn on velan... hrm netscape'96 now allows tables, why I dont made a website called Wolfcountry?

Edge was the channel on irc where all stated of. There were several trolls like Lanmaru, Fax and of course yours truly (so why few people bother to remember me) people that seemed just the seed of furries/otherkind now active Furaffinity/livejournal users and fellow greymuzzlers like obsorne, polar, bearX. Yes irc and usenet was the rage on ghoperspace and more rad when used in a VAX 9000 mainframe.

*****

There is your timelime from an ex-ahww. Basically the group did tear up for madness from some people: The darn logo and religion, the otherkin, the trolls, the server wars, the ego wars (seriously nobody remember that Goldenwolf did host a howl for "certiticate" therians? tsk, tsk), the spiritual furries (my totem animal is horny today), etc. AHWW is dead, keep it like that. The winners run werelist and they are the official source, the losers just go elsewhere.

Also my name popup a lot of places to find me so really your wolf nose is very sharp. :) I think I left enough for your archeology homework. See'ya!

Lobocursor Lyceus


PD.
Memories, memories.
Therian Nation
2016-07-27 14:51:23 UTC
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Post by Wanderer
Figured I'd ask; there don't seem to be any new posts showing up.
Yours belatedly,
The lonely,
Wanderer
Where am I going? I don't quite know.
What does it matter *where* people go?
Down to the woods where the bluebells grow!
Anywhere! Anywhere! *I* don't know!
-- a. a. milne, *On A Spring Day*
Hello. It's nice to suddenly see a discussion here. I don't think anyone would know me other than Wolfreak. I go by Wolf Daughter everywhere on the internet. I've displayed more animalistic behavior all my life. Around 2000-2001 I started to awaken as I realized that I didn't understand how to socialize well with other humans, especially my class mates in high school. Shortly after that, I found Werelist. I was in and out of the online community a lot since then. I went to university, etc. I'm currently 29 years old. Living in Canada. A few months ago, I created the Youtube Channel Therian Nation in the hopes of putting out correct information. Tumblr, Facebook, and other places are full of incorrect information. So, it would be nice if maybe at some point I could interview some of the older members in the discussion here.
^..^ Lone Wolf
2016-07-27 16:23:13 UTC
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"Therian Nation" wrote in message news:285865a0-549d-43d0-9002-***@googlegroups.com...

Wotcha.
Post by Therian Nation
Hello. It's nice to suddenly see a discussion here.
Yes, it has been rather quiet of late.


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Bear X
2017-01-16 00:22:53 UTC
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Post by ^..^ Lone Wolf
Yes, it has been rather quiet of late.
I'm still around, too... finally finishing out a decade-long hiatus of
raising my boys and getting my offline life together.

Cheers,
Bear X
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t***@gmail.com
2017-05-30 03:01:26 UTC
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*looks in*
Whats all this, now. :]

Heyas, just thought I should poke my nose back in here, as well.

-Wolfmage
tom
2019-04-20 16:37:45 UTC
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On Mon, 29 May 2017 20:01:26 -0700 (PDT)
Post by t***@gmail.com
*looks in*
Whats all this, now. :]
Heyas, just thought I should poke my nose back in here, as well.
-Wolfmage
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2019-08-10 03:42:33 UTC
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Post by t***@gmail.com
*looks in*
Whats all this, now. :]
Heyas, just thought I should poke my nose back in here, as well.
-Wolfmage
Careful, might start a snowball fight! ;)
tom
2019-08-18 09:38:29 UTC
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On Fri, 9 Aug 2019 20:42:33 -0700 (PDT)
Post by Bear X
Post by t***@gmail.com
*looks in*
Whats all this, now. :]
Heyas, just thought I should poke my nose back in here, as well.
-Wolfmage
Careful, might start a snowball fight! ;)
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