On 7/1/2012 9:29 PM, VWGirl wrote:
> On Saturday, May 12, 2012 11:01:04 PM UTC-4, (unknown) wrote:
>> On Sunday, 18 March 2012 12:24:31 UTC+10:30, Bill Berckman wrote:
>>> Rob:
>>>
>>> Glad to see you are still driving an ACVW. It has been a while. I
>>> remember the links page. That was back when the internet was still
>>> fairly new and free server space on Geo Cities and other servers was
>>> plentiful. If I remember right, Geo Cities was bought by Yahoo at
>>> some point.
>>>
>>> On Mar 14, 3:46 am, Rob > wrote:
>>>> On Feb 22, 1:48 pm, Lauren Bailey > wrote
>>>>
>>>>> Just wanted to drop in and say hi... I know a few of you are still out
>>>>> there from a long time ago. I checked and it's been right at 10 years
>>>>> since I used RAMVA, so thought I was long overdue for a hello!
>>>>
>>>>> ~Lauren aka VWGirl
>>>>
>>>> Wow, it really is a meeting of the "old school" - VWGirl, Jan
>>>> Andersen, Bill Berkmann, Jim Ed, BergRace et al.
>>>>
>>>> This group was my first foray into VWs on line too - about 15 years
>>>> ago; and the web sitewww.vw-resource.comwould not exist today
>>>> if it was not for this group - I started answering Qs put by Dave in
>>>> the USA when he was rebuilding his son's (now his)
>>>> 73 superbug. We became good friends (and I finally met him last year
>>>> for the first time!) and we had so much stuff
>>>> after a year or so of emails back and forth during his rebuild, we
>>>> started the web site - which is now a dinosaur in size
>>>> - over 400 articles.
>>>>
>>>> Dave in WA USA still has that 73 superbug, and I still have my
>>>> original 1970 1500 swing axle bug (plus a 68 and a 57).
>>>>
>>>> Jan - you always gave (and give) great advice. Bill - you had THE
>>>> MOST COMPREHENSIVE list of VW links
>>>> I have ever seen.
>>>>
>>>> Nice to see lots of the old folks popping in again.
>>>>
>>>> Rob (in Australia)
>>>> Rob and Dave's aircooled VW pages
>>>> Repairs and maintenance for the home mechanicwww.vw-resource.com
>>
>> Yes Bill - Geocities was taken over by Yahoo. On Geocities I was just "aussiebug" but when yahoo took over it would not let me continue with that handle so I had to become "aussiebug1970" - which refers to the year of my first bug - which, as mentioned above, I still own :-) It's not my birth year as some might think - got to go back to the dark ages of 1949 for that one!
>>
>> Rob
>
> I guess more people are coming out of the woodwork cause there just isn't as close a community out there anymore. Samba is just way too big to function like this. This is more like Cheers. I kinda miss the old days... when you guys were all the old guys and I was just one of the youngins
>
Probably fewer old guys around in general due to the natural course of
things. Probably some became senile and could no longer work a computer.
KWW


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