TYWC Refugees... Bad News

I think I lost all the poems I wrote on TYWC when the site went down. This makes me want to cry. That poetry defined me for a long while, and the quality of some pieces surpasses what I can muster now, having fallen into lack of practice. I must have lost hundreds of poems on there.

I was either part of that site or wanted to be but it was for a short amount of time. It's still sad that it's gone, though.

I spent a few years on TYWC, 2002-2004 I think. I wrote under ernesthemingwayii and unfunny clown. It was a HUGE part of my life; for a few months it was like I lived on that website. I made so many friends and grew so much because of that website. It helped that I joined smack in the middle of adolescence. I really miss that site sometimes. I found this thread when I was looking up TYWC out of nostalgia, as I do from time to time. This is a very sad feeling. I feel like a part of me has disappeared.

Tomorrow morning I'm leaving for college. It would have been nice to have that link to my past.

I'm happy to see that so many old friends are alive and well .

~Aaron

Lots of familiar names here. I'm really glad someone backed up all my old writings for me, otherwise it would be totally gone. Does anyone know what happened?

unfunnyclown wrote:I spent a few years on TYWC, 2002-2004 I think. I wrote under ernesthemingwayii and unfunny clown. It was a HUGE part of my life; for a few months it was like I lived on that website. I made so many friends and grew so much because of that website. It helped that I joined smack in the middle of adolescence. I really miss that site sometimes. I found this thread when I was looking up TYWC out of nostalgia, as I do from time to time. This is a very sad feeling. I feel like a part of me has disappeared.

Tomorrow morning I'm leaving for college. It would have been nice to have that link to my past.

I'm happy to see that so many old friends are alive and well .

~Aaron

http://web.archive.org/web/200410141353 ... m13717.htm

I found this poem when I was looking through the archives. I believe it's yours. I had remembered it from when I was 11. Weird, huh?

It looks like the site is back up. That really is strange.

CrazyBob wrote:It looks like the site is back up. That really is strange.

That's the web archive. Not the site. TYWC is still down:
http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~david/derya/ywc.html

gaylegoh wrote:I think I lost all the poems I wrote on TYWC when the site went down. This makes me want to cry. That poetry defined me for a long while, and the quality of some pieces surpasses what I can muster now, having fallen into lack of practice. I must have lost hundreds of poems on there.

Totally. I was Liz_Funk, you may remember me...Anyhow although I'd probably cringe at the stuff I put up there it'd be nice to just have it, you know? To remember where I came from. I lost it all when my computer died about 2 years ago and I always relied on TYWC. Weird that it's just gone.
Anyway hey to all the old TYWC members on here - what a blast from the past!

Courtesy of the wayback machine at archive.org...

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http:/www. ... a/ywc.html

That's awesome! Thanks for the link!

All of the ice in my drink melted in a matter of half a minute. That's absurd. But yes. I was 11 whence I first frequented the TYWC, and i'm turning 20 in 2 days. Time is nothing more than the catalogue of change. And I feel a page of that catalogue has been torn out and used to wipe up something that stains paper easily. I suck at metaphors.

Well well my story, I guess, would be much of the smae wistful, nostalgic character... I joined TYWC when I was 13 or 14 maybe, and hang around the place for 2 or 3 years... now I'm 20. The only difference would be that TYWC helped me a lot in polishing my English - some of you might have a shade of reminiscence about a certain girl from Siberia, under the impish nicks of Imprisoned Freedom or, worse, Splendour Hyaliane )) makes me laugh a lot. Anyway, this post is a tribute to TYWC and people behind the brightly colored string of names of Gayle Goh, Midnight (her real name was Anne and she lived in London), Aaron (of course! the sharp witted republican in favor of Iraq war whose ambition (I think) was to become a pharmacist of some kind), Warty, Malenkaya and the unbelievably talented New Zealand guy. Oh and I musn't forget to mention Xandrique (or Monique), I have never been close to her, her being away on shining pedestal of unreachable eloquence. These people helped me attain English, realize my own crippled knowledge of it and develop at least a sense of the English language, and ability to enjoy good use of it - whether someone else's or my own.

So thank you, guys, the mighty planes and vast forest of Siberia hail you in my person.

I can't trick myself into believing that any of the mentioned will find this post and return the salute - an electronic one, or just a simple silent thought of recollection - but who knows what intricate patterns of cyberspace might lead them to this.

So, I joined this message board to post here.

I'm probably not that memorable of a person--or I really hope that I wasn't. If you could remember that little kid running around TYWC, uploading god-awful things and picking fights, please don't. I had no clue of how the internet and the world worked when I first joined TYWC in the early 2000s, but I pretended I did. Another thing I pretended to know about was writing. I've never repeated that mistake.

Unalike you lot who had a positive learning experience, I had a somewhat negative (due to my own actions) experience. I was.. relieved when I found TYWC down. I wrote David a few emails over the years, requesting my stories, poems and storybooks to be removed. When the site was taken down, I finally felt free from my past..

Sorry for my repetitive word-vomit, I'm not much of a writer.

My username was superdate, for those of you who're curious...

=O OH MY. I think I posted a few things there AGES ago. The site just looks super familiar, but I never really stuck around. O;

Lets hope that never happens to yewis.. *nods*