aTOMiC wrote:
I checked the stats and it appears that the switch over from the old message board to the one we use today occurred around May of 2002. I've been around since late 2003 but I don't know the exact history of the genesis of Kevinswatch so forgive my inaccuracy.
What if we acknowledged the 15th Anniversary of the Watch? Is it possible to send out a mass email or PM to all members inviting them to come back for one last, big post-a-rama? I wonder how many absent members would be willing to come back and participate for old times sake.
Just an idea that crossed my mind.
I see a few inaccuracies that need further clarification. While the internet version of KW was launched in 2002, KW was invented in 1969-70 by the collective brain trust of Al Gore, Bill Gates and and Danlo:
anonymous
The Origin Of Kevin's Watch
The Watch was created in December of '69, a couple of hours after danlo woke up from a drug-induced coma in the empty field where Woodstock had happened a mere three months earlier. His first thought was, 'Man, Jimi ROCKS!". Then, the dream came back to him. See, during danlo's drug-induced coma
(did I mention his coma was drug-induced?), he dremt of the illustrative characters we have come to know and grudgingly accept as High Lord Jay, Alynna, Vain, Sevothtarte and the like. And danlo dremt of a special place where they all lived; a place filled with all sorts of cool people dedicated to truth, justice, and repelling the evil forces of the Terry Brooks Hack Team, and the one known only as the Dark Bird. Oh, and he drempt of the THOOLAH idiots, too. That's what you get for dropping acid, danlo!
Anyway, back to my riveting story. Lying in the field next to him was a young Bill Gates, and when he awoke, danlo described his dream to him. Intrigued, Bill agreed to create and market small, affordable 'Personal Computors' for people to own and use, so that danlo would have a venue to house his concept of a 'Kevin's Watch', and get filthy rich in the process.
Albert Gore happened to be wandering nearby when he overheard this fascinating discourse, and agreed to help danlo and Bill by inventing an 'Internet' by which danlo could share his wonderful ideas with the rest of the world
(and help Bill get richer, while winning the Nobel Peace Prize for his altruistic efforts.).
Together, they decided to contact a professional writer to write several books that would be the basis of the whole 'Kevin's Watch' concept; the writer they chose is known to us all as the inimitable Stephen R. Donaldson
(Stephen King, their first choice, threw them out of his house, shouting "O, Discordia!"). The reason the Watch appears to be only
fifteen years old is because A) these ideas took time to complete, and B) danlo crashed his VW bus into the arch of time, bending it somewhat.
And thus, so born was Kevin's Watch.[/quote]
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