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ORIGINAL: wrench45us

i am most impressed by your sense of history and your abilities as an archivist. and i have honestly known an archivist or two and you share many of their traits, thoroughness, eye for detail... ok let's be honest they all tend to be obsessive/compulsive and anal. but I mean that in the best possible way. Without them history would be lost and so it is with this electronic archive.
it's just that before i thought that aggie was one of the more stable members of the P5 Insomniacs Club. I mean he plays horn in a ska band -- that seems relatively stable, but maybe staring/studying those Madness LPs has had an unanticipated side effect.

ORIGINAL: b rock
This is clearly the most important of the P5 Folklore subjects to chronicle, but there's a wealth of them out there yet to be assembled. The list reads like a Seinfeld marathon: Mikey's disappearance/kidnapping [followup with the walrus]; Post-Its; Dan Deacon idolatry; the Canadian wars; trance/dance pidgeonholing; P5k00L; European perk segregation; TV Tray Studios; the No-Nude campaign that fizzled out; the Zima/Cake connection & Nick's transformation; Good Groove/Bad Groove; the Project5.com atrophy; Rene's Cakewalk landing, then settling in P5; the Red-Headed Stepchild Syndrome; the list could go on & on. I've barely scratched the surface.

There might even be a need to go back to pre-history [before 1.5], and translate those occasional grunts and snorts that we used to call threads. A persistent sort could even attempt to go back to The Beginning: 1.0; the MIDIOut release [Who is this guy? Oh, well: thanks for the plugin ...], a quick maintenance release, and an NG. I wonder if anyone managed to capture those posts, or if they're lost to the ravages of time.

There was a long Dark Period after that, with no Cake contact and only the sporatic smoke signal from another P5'er survivor. Your new post would stay on page one for a month or so. I was so starved for content that I even jumped to Yahoo [I'm still paying for that] and watched as that forum died an agonizing death.

That's a tall order for any P5 Historian. I do think that Aggie is highly qualified for this, but that way too much work to ask anyone in particular. Even Techead. I guess that we'll all have to pick a Folklore subject that's close to our own hearts and start building this thing up one by one. But it would indeed be sad and ironic if, after all of this hard-fought work, we suddenly became renowned as the World's Funniest Forum or Quirkiest Quorum.