Please give this a read, you wont be dissapointed. 20 years of priceless info is being forgotten

Disclaimer - this is not meant to compare TFP to Totse or to complain that its gone, because honestly im happier here. But I believe the legacy and unparalleled information of the temple should be utilized and enjoyed by everyone here, it would be a shame to let it all go to waste. I want to share with you what I enjoyed and benefited from since I was just a kid. At least just give this post a quick read and give some thought to what is collecting dust in archives around the web.

The Legacy and Knowledge of the Temple Must be Kept Alive​

Born again from the ashes of the Temple Of The Screaming Electron, I drifted here to continue what loved so much about Totse, the free and unregulated sharing of any and all information desirable. To freely exchange ideas, thoughts, experiences, and wisdom in an accepting and unbiased environment with other knowledgeable and talented, not to mention interesting and enjoyable, people.

This is only a small taste of what Totse and Totse2 had to offer and I do recommend finding the Totse archives and giving it's massive amount of text files and bulletin boards a good look over, because there is an ungodly amount of amazing information gathering dust and being forgotten. It's impossible to convey how many different topics are actually there; if you can imagine it, its almost definitely going to be there. I cant express enough how valuable and amazing Totse was and for me still is, so I almost beg you to at least give it a good look over. If you're interested in totse and its priceless amounts of information, feel free to get ahold of me anytime, anyway you want.

After the original totse shut down in 2009 after a 20 year run, totse2 rose from the ashes to keep the legacy alive. but it was short lived because it started to lose its creed of free information, and turned into a place for egotistical, fake, "internet badasses" to bitch and complain and flame everyone for anything. In its last few years until it closed in 2013(I believe) it was nothing but a flamefest spamming wreck.

But its priceless text files, threads, and information is still floating in the web, begging to be read and acknowledged. And I'm more than willing to help anyone who is interested about it. The Tilted Forum Project is my new home now, and I love it here, its so much more productive and friendlier. And huge egos don't seem to exist here. Thank you for making me feel welcome and treating me with dignity and respect. Thank you for contributing and listening to my ideas even though you may not completely agree with them and not disregarding or putting me down because im just the new guy.


I thought I would be lost without Totse, but im found now and im proud to call TheTFP my home. thank you for your acceptance and support, your friendship, and im excited and committed to the betterment of this community and sharing my knowledge, thoughts, ideas, and life with you all. Thank you so much TFP! Please at least consider taking a part in the preservation of the place that meant so much to me for so long, you wont be disappointed, I promise you that!

Here's to the information age, let us utilize and benefit from it exponentially!

Thank you Jeff Hunter for giving birth to the place I loved for so many years, and thank you The Tilted Forum Project for taking me in and filling the emptiness I suffered as Totse withered and died.
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The Creator of Totse's opening statement on Totse2

http://www.totse.com/

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 too many hours each month. It's time to do something different. It's time for something new.

I don't know exactly 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.

-- Jeff Hunter

Thank you Jeff



Just a bit more insight on what The Temple was all about
The community of TOTSE was an Internet forum and IRC channel. Some users of the community referred to themselves as "Totseans". Members engaged in discussion about a wide variety of topics including but not limited to religion, sex, politics, humanities, weapons, explosives, drugs, illegal activities, technology, music, the environment, mechanics, food, and do it yourself projects. TOTSE is affectionately referred to by the users as &T, &TOTSE, and "The Temple". Although Hunter had an account[7] he rarely posted on the TOTSE forums as himself. In his announcement of TOTSE's closure, Hunter stated that when he started TOTSE his "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."[8] ; the TOTSE text file archive illustrates this.
RIP &T

 

It sounds like it was a great site,

but with a seriously geeky & nerdy name, The Temple of the Screaming Electron.

Do you have any idea what the age range was for the dedicated participants at TOTSE?

 

I was around 12 when I started crusing there text files, but id say was about the youngest member at that time. id say it was 16 or 18-50s and 60s maybe a bit older. I remember quite a few older ppl that I got along well with. most of the mods and super mods we in there 20s and 30s. there was a lot of genius in the admins and mods, they made a crazy software and hardware engineering team

 

Thanls for the info. I was curious because I find discussion sites with a wide membership age range to be more interesting and informative than sites filled with just geezers (I'm one) or just younger folks.

 

im the same way me and my girl friend have more than a handful of good friends double or more our own age and we're 21. i love the stories they have and the wisdom about them. and it kinda feels good in a way that we are friends with someone older and they don't treat us like kids we're just one of the guys

 

By the way I just now got the whole site of Totse backed up on my computer so if anyone wants it let me know. its a big file 1.7 gb but I got it in a zip file so its .7gb . but free to anyone whos interested

 

Wasn't TOTSE basically what The Anarchist Cookbook would have been if MediaWiki had existed in the '90s

 

I got all the text files backed up which is most of the site short of the forum, which near the end was just a flame haven. its all in html files so ya actually get to be on the real totse, but without the need for internet and the site need not be there. And totse did have a lot of the cook book on it but it was a lot more than that, from self improvement to bombs and weapons, erotica to scams and rip offs. just about anything really

 

and the information on totse is free to be used as you please as long as credit is given to the site or author of the text