LogFAQs > #979949378

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I ignore my AOL accounts for years at a time, and when I do remember to log into them they've usually had all of their email purged due to inactivity and I need to reset them, but they're still there (as far as I know - I've only reactivated one of them in the last 10 years or so).

I stopped using it for any correspondence about 15 years ago, but I keep it active for junk. Any "sign up now and get a free appetizer!" type stuff, I just use that account, and then go in and delete all the emails/unsubscribe to stuff a couple times a year. I have a hotmail that kind function more in the middle between that and my active gmail.

Pretty much every site I used to frequent in the 90s is long gone, and most of the 00s sites as well.

Just reading this all of a sudden made me remember Cheat Code Central. Man, I don't even think that made it through the 00's.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Everyone always used to act like "nothing ever goes away once it's online", but stuff purges and vanishes all the time. And with most search engines becoming more and more crap with every passing day, it's getting harder to find even the stuff that is still out there somewhere.

Can't the Way Back Machine site locate a decent amount of old stuff?

Metalsonic66 posted...

Those are rookie numbers

>_>
*looks at your account*
<_<

Then again, I did lurk at least a solid year on GFaqs before making an account. I recall it was to ask some sort of question about a part of a game/wanting to actively participate in writing for the Super Smash Bros. Melee board story topics.