Talk:Alt.fan.warlord
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The discussion at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Alt.fan.warlord has resulted in a keep decision and is now archived as a historical record. Mgm|(talk) 20:43, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Stuff to add, perhaps
I spent a lot of time on a.f.w back in the day, and I know for a fact that McQ was sacrosanct. Anyone who tried to warlord a .sig under four lines long, no matter how ugly that .sig may have been, got flamed to the nine netherworlds. (In fact, it became something of a pastime to see how hideous one could make a .sig while keeping it under four lines.) So I'm editing out the part about how McQ-compliant .sigs got teased.
There's a lot of other a.f.w lingo that has been lost in the sands of time; I can't even find it on Google. "YKI,YEI" is the one that leaps most readily to mind. I don't know if "IHNW;IJLS" was the source of the "IHNJ" variation I've heard recently, or whether I just happened to learn the Warlords version first. a.f.w. also had its own, distinctive uses of other popular Internet acronyms like "YHBT. YHL. HAND." and "HTH" which could probably do with some definition here. Kibo also had a real presence there, and his .sig was legendary. Is this entry the place to write that stuff up?
Ah, memories.
--Hapax 05:28, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
