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Need more context.

Just a trip down memory lane.

M.I.A.

Tobias is still active in IRC.

Yeah, the shark one is in irc a lot still at least

This thread would go great with:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfwi8-X1Vow
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NqBWLeP9f4

Some cool cats. I wonder what they're up to now?

These are the one's I'm able to recognize:

Sorroco
X-G
AlexGSquadron?
Manjula
jhukson

evert
Thomas
Richard Phipps

Ultio
NightHacker
spellcaster
good bytes
thomas harte
golieca

chris barry
Onewing
memo

You forgot Rampage, juvinious, darioFF, Ron Novy, HoHO and others I can't even remember now

I remember the avatars as follows (could be wrong):

?, ?, ?, X-G, Kanzure, ?, Richard Phipps, ?, ?, ?

Evert, indeterminatus, manjula, BillyBob, ?, Tobias Dammers, Dustin Dettmer, Dario ff, ?, ?, ?

Paul Pridham, Krystof Klucszek(sp?), ?, ?, ?, ?, spellcaster, good bytes, Thomas Harte, ?

23yrold3yrold, Oscar Giner, Neil Walker, nonnus29, ?, ?, ?, memo

Many of the ? look familiar but the mind currently does not remember the names.

Some of the others not mentioned yet: wearetheborg, hardtrancefan, SailorMoonChild, ReyBrujo

Where's picolo?

He's probably wherever his time machine sent him.

The poor bastard probably sent himself back in time to where you had to fight for food without a way back.

Thewhatnow?

spellcaster was one of the nicest most enlightening (for me from a programming pov) kind posters I had come across.
Actually that applies to a lot of those old crew, very helpful people indeed.

I think if I was gone, probably nobody would notice.

Who are you?

It's not funny how you need someone to point out that someone who you are used to be around has been missing for some time now. I remember that during my Amsterdam visit two years ago we went with down the memory lane with Evert and Andrei and now it seems that both of them are having more fun with their real lives. By the way, Arthur, I think you're missing Andrei there in the OP.

Don't worry, the time someone would bring up the memory lane trip, we would remember I seem to remember quite a lot of people from the OP simply by their avatar and I still can assign a (nick)name to them.

Oh, talked with Andrei about that a couple weeks ago when I ran into him at the train station. We said we should have another allegro.cc meetup in Amsterdam or nearby at least. But we concluded that neither of us would be likely to try and organize anything :p

Aw, now I feel terrible I haven't thought about that earlier I've been in Amsterdam from the October 17th to 21st, we could have done something. On Friday I was in Rotterdam, then moved to stay with my friend in Amsterdam who's moving out after 3 years of living there, and then on Tuesday I've returned to Rotterdam airport with a stop at Delft.

He hasn't been gone all that long, and he doesn't have an avatar.

That ain't me. Besides, I'm still hanging around.

SailorMoonChild lives 5 minutes away from me and is doing fine with her family.

I am here and there. Time machine is not functional yet however I have a few inventions that are.

So when it is, you'll be now and then?

It is safe to assume you have failed/will fail at developing the time machine then. Why? If you would eventually succeed at it, the smart thing to do would be to travel back in time and give the development process a boost or just presenting your self the final device(including a detailed service manual and the full dev log). But since you haven't done that, the machine will obviously never come into existence.

Paradoxically, this is also proof that there won't be ANY time machine available ever.

Not necessarily. An even smarter (potentially selfish but also potentially protective of evil which may arise from time travel devices in the wrong hands) thing to do would be to keep the developed device for oneself and denying its existence.

I recognized 21 avatars right off the bat.

Perhaps more initiation rituals and rites of passage would keep people hanging around.

This is a staple of timetravel sci-fi, but as of things work in the real world, no one man show can indeed develop time travel.
So the more people involved the higher the probability of a leakage, which kind of becomes practically certain at some point.

So right, "not necessarily", but quite pessimistically "sure"

Lurkers, lurkers are forever omnipresent.

Who knows. If one manages, one would probably keep it secret.

But... well. It's probably physically impossible but we can never be sure about it, since we can only understand what we can understand and we can only observe what we can observe.

All my posts are prerecorded messages (I am dead).

My machine only allows me to jump into the future. All my posts on a.cc were written over the time span of a single week in my life.

Yes, after finishing my machine, this is what I've determined to be the best usage of my time.

I'm time travelling right now.

Time zones do NOT count!

He's talking about traveling through time one second per second.

Thomas is in love. He doesn't get that good a rate.

Hahaha. Its all relative man. I'm at a lower altitude than I was at home so now I'm going slower than I was. I'm getting older slightly slower.

I don't think iit works that way really

Anyway it's cool, I could do a t-shirt: "I am a time traveller, I hop one nanosecond at a time"

Indeed. Time slows down as speed increases not the other way around.

Goodbytes was an old colleague of mine. The one who introduced me to the a.cc community waaaay back in the day. Sadly I don't think he programs at all these days.

Ha, I remember master goodbytes. It was a good guy. I hope he'll hang around somedays.

If auto login didn't fail (even with the IP address security feature disabled), we'd probably be able to catch more old timers lurking in Online Users. Not that I'm complaining. It's amazing this site has lasted so long and thanks to Matthew for consistently keeping it running for so many years. Still, it would be nice to open the site up to limited community contributions, but that's just my humble opinion and it doesn't matter that much to me anyway.

Yes, auto login never worked for... but Firefox is good at remembering the password so it doesn't really matter.

Auto-login has always worked for me across all browsers and operating systems. Make sure you set the IP address limit to 0 if you want to disable it (back when I was on dial-up or DSL or something I needed to do this). These days I login with Google's OpenID so generally I'm logged in as long as my Google account is logged in.

I'm still very much active online, just not here.

My last Allegro related activity was trying to get the Android port to work and failing miserably to follow the instructions.

I lurk here from time to time, though not as often as a few years ago...

Hey, Crazy !

That was kind of a photonic message ^^

I mostly lurk for the past few years, occasionally offering up lexical transmutations of my relevant insights. Today I went through the way back machine to my first domain name (as it was up for renewal), ahh the nostalgia.

I see what you did there GullRaDriel!

Sup