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There's a bittersweet nostalgia in finding any web-forum where you can see your own account with an ancient last-posted date.

As usual XKCD has this covered:

Except sadly the xkcd forums themselves were wiped from the internet.

As have too many others. It fills me with the same sadness as deforestation.

Why did that happen?

The took them offline after a security breach, and they never came back. https://www.engadget.com/2019-09-03-xkcd-forum-breach-expose...

They’re still arguing about SNES vs Genesis / Megadrive on rec.games.video.nintendo. Some threads seem to go back 20 years.