All good things must come to an end...

[Jeff Hunter]

When I first started this site, almost 20 years ago now, the idea was to have a place where all types of ideas could be spoken, traded, and exchanged, where no topic was off-limits or forbidden. At the time the site was started there was nothing like it. There wasn't a world wide web, Internet access was hard to come by, publishing new ideas was limited to paper, and publishing on paper and mailing out what you published was ridiculously expensive. After all of the effort, your potential audience was limited to a few hundred people.

Now we have the web, and anyone can start a web site or create a Facebook or MySpace page and publish their thoughts for all to see. If you want to be heard you can be, and if people are interested in listening they'll find you. Access is cheap and plentiful. This is the golden age of information.

I don't think it will come as a shock to most of you that after 20 years I am burned out. For the last several years I've reduced the time I spend on the site to the bare minimum – paying bills, finding advertisers, maintaining the servers, fixing database problems, debugging e-mail server problems, handling SPAM, and answering the occasional question or mediating a random dispute, but even that takes 10 to 20 hours a month. It's time to do something different. It's time for something new.

I don't know what that something new will be yet, but I know I won't figure it out unless I make a clean break with the past, so it's time to say goodbye and move on.

I am closing down the site as of January 17th. The irc.slashnet.org IRC channel #totse will remain on-line (I don't host it and I have nothing to do with running it) and Zok's BBS is up and running and Zok says he thinks his equipment can keep up with the load, but this web site will cease operations.

So make your plans, set up a new rendezvous, and move on to the next thing. Thanks for the memories, it's been an interesting 20 years to say the least.

Holy fuck, this has got to be some sort of sick joke..

Oh my god.

Someone needs to save all of the text files, post haste.

Congratulations though Jeff. You've done a great job throughout the years.

[grusomhat]

Oh my fucking fucking fuck.

/me sheds a tear for this said moment

[Jeff Hunter]

The 5 stages of grief...

denial

anger

bargaining

depression

acceptance

[slowdown]

You are just going to shut it down? Whatever happened to the idea of selling the name and site to someone else?

This is highly gay.

Its been an honor posting with you guys these last few years. Ill never forgot how much totse helped me as a little stoner back in high school!


PEace out

Sad to see you go, Jeff - and also happy to see you move on to the next adventure. All the best.

This is sad, can't you sell the site?

Oh, sure, whatever.

this can't be true!

your shutting down tomorrow?
nooooooo totse has been part of my life for 10 yr's

Bye.

Are you going to discontinue hosting the text files or just close community?


I lurked and posted on this website for several years. I'd say it has changed many of my views, made me more informed about many things, and has aided in shaping me into what I am today.

On the other hand, goatse, tubgirl, decapitation, octopus porn.....




So I guess totse's 20th birthday is meh

Oh yeah, and if anyone here is relatively wealthy, and I know there is a few, then offer to buy this place. Jeff wouldn't want millions for it - if you are thinking that... You will be loved and adored by tens of thousands. Of course you will never live up to the myth that is Jeff Hunter but who cares? You'll be like Kim Jong II ha ha

jeffrolled.../?>

what the fuck man, seriously. you got sponsers you got adds. so you had a fuckin crash, shit happens brother.

I've learned so much and met some cool people from this place man I wish you would carry on the flame.

Sometimes shit takes work you know, I mean if this was my site, and I was broke and going into red then I'd fuckin dip out. But hey if you got you some sponsers, you've worked this hard on it then wtf man keep on keeping on.


you've made your decision but whatever, I loved this site. but like the sayin goes all good things must come to an end.


peace love and happiness...

toker420

The Doors-THE END
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjsRj...eature=related
Oh totse

The song, early, echoes our communal tone,

Originally Posted by Jeff Hunter

When I first started this site, almost 20 years ago .........

Do your thing man. Thanks for allowing free speech on the web for as long as you have.

It's been fun everyone.

Queue the sad parting music.
http:../../www.youtube.com/watch@v=atoby6ydfts

I'm getting in on this. Haven't posted in months.

Found TOTSE in 8th grade, joined in 9th. Now in college with a long history of repetitively reading about/viewing sick images of people fucking bagels, their sister, highlighters, and so on. Thank you TOTSE for fucking up my life.

Bye.

Twice in one thread?

To all the nostalgic dorks;

It's just a website.

I feel privileged and proud to be a &t member since the last quarter of its existence.

And pats on the back with a resounding 'thank you' to Jeff for making the tightest and giving (and also fun filled hating) any online community has ever seen.

Would it be possible for someone (such as a proven and respectable mod) to take over or purchase the domain name and keep the legacy and dream set by Jeff online and going?

I'm sure there is at least one member in this community that would love to do so.

Plus we need a strong outpost to keep the chan-wars alive.

I just had to post in this historic thread, it's a very sad day indeed.

Peace totse, you have been a good home to us.

[-SpectraL]

Thanks for being the ones to fuck up an Internet legend zok and acidmelt. Hope you're both proud of yourselves, now that Jeff has taken matters into his own hands.

[Numberjumbo]

fuck

*posts as many blank posts as possible*

Originally Posted by -SpectraL

Thanks for being the ones to fuck up an Internet legend zok and acidmelt. Hope you're both proud of yourselves, now that Jeff has taken matters into his own hands.

I knew it would happen, I just didn't expect it so soon.

man please don't do this you gave us so much and now you take it away, why not have a donations box up or something?

you say its easy to find people that are like minded on social networking sites, thats complete fucking bullshit. i dare you to write about drugs, weapons, pyrotechnics or chemistry on a website like myspace.

why man why
this is one of the few havens we have for this kind of discussion without draconian rules (roguesci, madsci).
nothing allows free speech like totse, even on the internet.

fucking acolytes....

I've been posting and lurking since 2002, I'm sure gunna miss this shithole.

Bye Totse, love you!!

I guess this is goodbye.

Originally Posted by SSFC

Holy fuck, this has got to be some sort of sick joke..

It is. Its an early April fools. Mark my words Totse will still stand on Jan 18!

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first login in over a year

RIP temple

thanks Jeff
thanks &totse

wow...its really ending

i havnt been a member long, but i've been lurking here for a few years.

i remember when my friend asp821 showed me the site, i just went to the porn thread, but found out that there was a lot more....

well even though i never got the title or a regular its all good.

its been fun and enjoy the rest of your lives fellow totseans...

awww noooo
&T
Sorely missed.


R.I.P