I came here to see Image Of The Day. Don't remember if it was Fark or BoingBoing that pointed me to IOD.

I quit Fark over a year ago. Too addictive, and too stupid. BoingBoing is still good, but the Cellar has better comments/discussion than any on-line community I've seen.

I've been around in one incarnation or another since the dialup days (version III IIRC)

One day I was talking to an old friend and was informed that the Cellar had gone online and here I am!

Brian

I was also a BBS user from back in the early to mid-90s. I found the current incarnation after I was futzing around with the Internet Archive wayback machine, and I put in cellar.org and here we are.

I wanted to see what a "BBS" actually was. I had never bothered looking at them when they were around ( are they still?) and searched "bbs celalr" to see if i could find anything.

does anyone remember this?

But what posessed you to use "cellar" (or "celalr"??) as search term?

Are they still around? I personally don't know of any. (Unlike The Cellar, a lot of the small ones died when there was a disk crash and the sysop had no backups, or the sysop's parents made him move out and get a job, etc. etc. And several of the big ones that survived became ISPs or were slurped up by ISPs.) But given the affection of some people for older technology, I'd be suprised if there weren't a few BBSes of some kind floating around out there.

satan?

no, actually the assumption( context of your reply makes me think it was incorrect) that it was also called the cellar when it was a bbs.

My parole officer told me about it and makes me come here.

Brian Siano...used to see him on the ng's a lot...

Oh, never mind... I thought you meant that's how you found the site in the first place.

IOTD , i found my self on the same board more than once , looked around liked what i saw , lurked for a couple of weeks then i found a discussion that i wanted to jump into and signed up . The cellar is a daily read now .

member since the before-time (dialup days).

And yes, I remember Brian Siano. (never met, often read)

Through the Image of the Day. That was a couple of years ago, I think. My memory is notoriously bad (Think absent-minded professor type) so I don't remember what put me on to the IOTD.

Last year I started looking around the rest of the site and decided to stop lurking and join.

i found the cellar bland, redundant, oft-repeating, and tasteless.

-sm

Those are some of the same reasons I liked it, too.

I tripped on this site as I was lookng at the picture of the day. (It was Good Friday, 04, and the picture was over the phillipine crucifixions.)