Welcome to the Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Bulletin Board & All Nite Shooting Range
Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. . .many pasts have been trudged up
from far murkier depths than this and for much crazier reasons. For clarification
I refer you to so-called "tribute bands" playing note-perfect yet soulless versions
of songs by The Beatles, U2 (why would one bother?) and even Pink Floyd. Or to Hollywood,
where the past is always the future so long as there lives a lazy director and a
20 year-old movie to remake.
Now comes this—the ghost of a relic from eons ago
(in Internet terms, anyway) that died a mysterious death which no one ever fully
explained or even bothered to autopsy. For those unfamiliar with said relic, here's
a bit of history. Sometime back in 1995 there appeared an extension of the old AspenOnline
site dedicated to Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. In addition to news items from Doc's sordid
life and times there was a quaint throw-back to the ancient BBS style of early computer
communication: The HST Bulletin Board. Like all great works, the BB embodied
classic simplicity and functionality. You entered a nickname, posted a message and
it appeared on screen in all its textual glory. None of this new-fangled bullshit
where snazzy threaded messages conspire to become defacto standards in the simple
Art of Communication.
Originally populated by a few hard-core Hunter freaks,
the old HST BB grew in astounding measures; Gunnar the Great, original webmaster,
was compelled to institute an archive of past postings to keep his server from becoming
jammed up with foolishness and innuendo. Sure, at times it was impossible to tell
who was really posting, but so what. As they say in the States, Shit Happens—and
it usually did.
So welcome to the Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Bulletin Board & All Nite
Shooting Range(b); enjoy at your own risk.
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