And rightfully so - you should not believe it's been TWENTY years my dear tilde because it's only been TEN, at the risk of giving you a "snap to reality" nudge so this early in the morning.
It is a pleasure to know you're still "kickin'" and paying attention but I have to admit that I am surprised that someone revived this thread this far out and that it got a response from you.

That was a fun time for some of us simple minded folks like me, during my virginal, and only, foray into the online world of photography. As you say, "bittersweet" by now. The atmosphere we had then has dissipated into thin air. There's rarely anything now to laugh at but the collective ignorance and stupidity of some of us. The "dashing" characters among us are gone, those who knew how to look at themselves with a modicum of humor, like "gizzywhicker," replaced by a group of technophobes who get tangled up in their ego and their own words neither of which is anything that's likely to offer an occasional laugh, except in pity, as they drone on and on ad nauseum in an attempt to display their intellectual superiority as though anyone cares.

See you in another ten years? If so, it'll be a pleasure again. Happy Thanksgiving...