Well then!
Happy decade b3ta.

I found the site through (I think) Buffy's Swearing Keyboard. The rest is fairly well recorded in hideous photographic detail...

Creatively, the highlight for me has always been taking part in phases 3+4 of Fnord's epic M3tatw33ning project, and going to see it screened at a little festival somewhere near Leeds. I did e-mail him about 2 years ago to try and get a copy of it, and he replied but I never followed it up. If anyone has it I would love to see it again.

It's that kind of non stop collaborative creativity that I think sums up all the positive things about b3ta and the internet in general. I used to love that a simple text post could inspire a song, then a flash video, then a whole website within a few hours. The "daughter" sites have been great too, with m3ss3ng3r and 4rthur doing a great job of forerunning social networking on a home brew scale.

Most of all though I am thankful for the people I've met through b3ta. If it weren't for b3ta I would never have met my beautiful fiance and wouldn't have my gorgeous daughter.

I'd never have picked up enough IT and internet knowledge to give up working in pubs and start a pretty successful career in broadband support.

And, or course, I'd never have been shot at while hitch-hiking from St Albans to London. Or decided the best way to pick up a dog is to hold it like a duck. Or played Photoshop Tennis. Or drunk vodka with a cider mixer for breakfast in Joel's kitchen. Or any of the other 10,000 amazing and ridiculous things I have done with so very many of you lovely people.

Now do fuck off, again.
( supermoore: HUNG, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 19:27, 10 replies)

we still have the metatweens :)
hello!xz
( popt_art, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 19:30, closed)

Hello!
I've just seen the prof post video links below! Awesome nostalgic viewing.
( supermoore: HUNG, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 19:32, closed)

Joel posted a bunch of old bash pic he found on his computer today from the first couple of main ones
www.flickr.com/photos/joelveitch/sets/72157627652490478/

Imagine if m3ss3ng3r had become facebook, B3ta would be running the planet by now. We were so spoilt back then, who's up for connect 4?

Glad to see some familiar faces, I don't normally read Q of the W but this week I can see myself reading all of them :)
( Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 19:44, closed)

I ended up here today
because someone tweeted me a pic from that set of myself and 100% of Gibbon.
( supermoore: HUNG, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 19:51, closed)

FNORD!
I knew this QOTW would bring you out of hiding, how're you doing fella?
( witchy is covered in BEES, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 20:35, closed)

You're alive too!

( bananaman, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 21:14, closed)

I love this QOTW. Lots of lovely people are here.

( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Mon 12 Sep 2011, 21:18, closed)

Wow, this is like a lovely reunion of people I miss talking to.
So many memories were made.
( Wildheart Baby. Drunken Mess In A Good Way, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 23:06, closed)

We need a ten year reunion
bash!
( discostu oh my, its back, Tue 13 Sep 2011, 19:24, closed)

there's an outside chance I would attend it
but I'm not organising it.

No.

No way.
( supermoore: HUNG, Tue 13 Sep 2011, 20:17, closed)