So Jeff Hunter finally decided to pull the plug. This is indeed a sad day for all totseans everywhere.

Most people came here for some sort of idiotic reason or another but decided to stay for the community. Some people have spent half their lives on &totse. People of all ages, ethnicities, religions, genders, etc all coming together as one entity: Temple of the Screaming Electron.

I'm pretty sure I found this site through google while searching for something illegal, God only knows what that might have been. I didn't even realize there was a BBS here at first, just checked out some of the text files, but I clicked on one of the Hot Topics and I discovered the forums and signed up.

That was 2004, seems so long ago, yet such a short time in the grand scheme of things.

Over the years I have been introduced to IRC, shocking pictures, strange pornography, snuff films, and horrible youtube clips. I've came here for advice and support at times, believe it or not, some times it was good. I've used totse as a place to get help with things tech or computer related and have been surprised by how knowledgeable so many totseans are. I've come here just to bullshit, have some fun, get a laugh or kill some time. I've met several totseans in real life and have had varying experiences, some of which you know about, some you don't.

Totse has been many things to many people, it seems such a surprise that it all could end so suddenly, something about the short notice gives you the feeling of just learning a good friend or relative has died. A feeling that you never really had the chance to say "goodbye" and feel sort of scarred or unfulfilled.

We must remember, that totse was never really ours, it was Jeff's baby. I believe he felt that totse had lived it's golden years and was slowly declining more and more, I feel he would rather burn out than fade away, as it were. He most likely wants to leave a legacy he can be proud of, not a legacy of mediocrity and failed dreams. This was a social experiment in which all of you are the test subjects, you are all an organism in which has been studied for the good of mankind, do not think your posting here was done in vain.

I think I've ranted long enough here, so I shall end with a quote from my favorite writer: Hunter S. Thompson


"It never got weird enough for me."


-Selah

AMEN

Safe travels to every Totsean out there.

Have good lives, and do it the Totse way ;)

GOD WILLS IT


but yea man this post made me a little less sad

Buy the ticket, take the ride!


See you all in RL. :)




Also:

http://jj.am/gallery/d/42162-3/Mika_Shindoh_Shower.gif


-F☺rd

Yeah, I feel like this is a bad dream, but in my heart I know it isn't. :(


-Selah

Yep.

I felt a bit sick when I read the thread in NOTT. But it's a good thing, I'm sure. And the temple will live on, probably in one shitty incarnation after another.

Regardless, I'm getting this inked tomorrow. :D

http://www.totse.com/bbs/back_main.jpg




dontpanic @ hushmail.com y'all.



-F☺rd

whats this, my first post in months?

To lament the passing of totse is to prepare for what is to come.

It is a shame that one of the few bastions of true internet freedom is falling but it is not the peoples choice.

Totse has never pretended to be a democracy, I'll give it that.

To TheDuke, Ayden, tripballs and many others: we've probably grown up together somewhat. We'll all still be around if you look hard enough. Armsmerchant, Meta and others (maybe even tsunami) you've always given sage advice if we asked and been like our internet grandparents. Thanks a lot.

This will probably be my last post, thanks a lot &TOTSE, I wish we had more time together. It's been a good 6-7 years.

-gowerski

google me if you gotta find me