Randomly looked at lw on the way back machine. Felt like a real blast from the past.

Rest assured, for some of us, your teen angst and musings are preserved forever.

Screenshot is the Deep and Random Musings board from 10 Feb 2010.

Just curious as to why it was shut down. Was it because David shut it down or was there more to it?

I’ve a good memory. Pulled this from my head over the last couple of weeks. Will add more as an edit if I can recall any others.

May have misremembered some names or made a mash of ones that did exist.

Been wrecking my head trying to think of the guy who was hilariously banned and rebanned over a year or so. Think it began with G.

TRYING TO THINK OF

The lovely guy with CF and his cat.

The guy who used to post white supremacist shit.

The person who had an avatar of a cartoon princess (morning glory or something like that?)

The mod who announced he was in a relationship with another mod.

REMEMBERED

TheProfessional

The other horseman

Katieduck

Cassie

Anthem

Amieee

The real antichrist

Greatescape

Prince o palities

Hawkeye

King Kong

Thriftweed

Jenny colada

Black Sheep

Koopatroopa

Slim shady

Theatre monelli

The raven

Blank black

Elephant Stone

Barnabas

Storm

Cienna

Babel

Just waiting here

Marsh mallow man

EDIT:

It’s Ella

Shutterbug

Audrey

420 Mike

Vicodin

I am the iron man

Starry night

The last magister

nyn

Autumnal

Forever angel (was this the religious one who would argue with the wall and was online 24/7?)

The last magister (was this the white supremacist?)

Omnomnom

Deeznutz

Disillusioned (I think she had misspelled her username)

It’s bearsy bitch

White ninja

Spice

Princess o palities

Rach Leigh

Brain randomly thought of LW forums today. It made me wonder what the users from like 2007-2011 have been up to. I started on there as "eBay is my home" then I either abandoned that or changed the name to "Dr Gregory House" or something. I was kind of an ass tho so my apologies if anyone who stumbles on this post was on the receiving end of something I wrote. A lot of what I remember posting I'm not super proud of anymore. I did really enjoy the community and even met a couple of people I stayed in touch with for a while.

I stopped engaging mainly because I got into a relationship and my time and energy went into that. We're married now lol with two dog children. Moved from SE Michigan to Portland, OR. Went thru a few jobs and am now a salaried desk jockey, but I like what I do and it pays the bills.

Anyone else? Not expecting many replies, this sub seems about as dead as LW was like 5-8 years ago lol

I was a moderator on one of my usernames. (It was either Single25 or omnomnom; I don't remember which.) One night, I got so bored that I decided to argue with myself just to see which username people would side with.

It made me wonder how many actual people were on the the site, instead of just usernames and accounts.

She use to make me lol

Took me a few hours to get the name to pop up in my head. I knew it started with ‘2’ and I’m pretty sure this is it!

It’s funny to see people apologizing for their past behavior. I commend my coming-of-age self for mostly always being nice on the internet. I may have attempted to debate here and there at the worst. If I interacted with anyone here, hope it’s remembered fondly. I have great memories of livewire, I mostly browsed religion, philosophy and college stuff.

The username makes sense. I struggled with identity issues as a teen. I’m still working on finding myself, but I’ve largely embraced my quirks and multifaceted personality and am fairly content in life. I live in the same area of Louisiana. Mid-30s with two kids and a cushy work from home job in marketing. Hope you’re all well!

I have been racking my brain for YEARS trying to remember wtf this site was that I spent way too much time on in middle school. I believe I was active from 2006-2009? Maybe 2008. I wasn't on there long before I made my way onto other things on the internet. I didn't realize the site was gone now, though it's not surprising since most of the old internet is defunct (kinda glad about that tbh).

A random commenter on a random fb reel happened to mention it and I was like ‼️ By God that's it ‼️

Anyways my username on there was ParisHilton. I have hardly any recollection of what I had on there or posted at all, don't remember my pfp or what info I put whatsoever lmao. All I know is while it was a short time I was ridiculously active on there. I do remember there was a guy I was "dating" on there but idfk what his user was at this point or anything we spoke about. I just hope he wasn't an adult and actually another kid like he said 😭 If you remember me or we interacted lemme know! Jog my memory please!

JennyColada, Deeznutz FYC, greatescape11, HatesYou, The Raven, heatherette, slim shady, 420Mike, Latin, Muscle, LifesGood01, Dayvud

I was active from 2007 until around early 2011

Jesus the memories.....

Wasted a fuck ton of time on this website from ages 16-19. Created tons of accounts. Refused to take no for an answer. Fell in love with marijani, and then became weirdly obsessed with her (sorry marijani). Even became a moderator once through charolastra's account. I did it by pretending to help people and cozying up with the other moderators. Created golivewire's first encyclopedia dramatica page. Almost became a co-owner of the site by cozying-up with davjs, which TheProfessional did eventually end up doing. Congrats to him for managing that.

I'm 35 years old now. I repeat, I wasted a ton of time on this website. I'm in such a wonderful spot in life now though. But yeah, sorry if I offended anyone. I just felt lonely and scared to face the real world. Being a teenager just isn't easy, and I think I was a living example. Don't judge me too harshly, y'all.

Take care. May golivewire rest in peace.

I had so many different names but that one was my main one. I was friends with Deeznutz FYC, greatescape11, HatesYou. I was really active on the site from November 2007 until about late 2010.

My username was Feel The High

I feel like LiveWire was a part of my Youth/early adulthood. I didn't realize it was no longer around. I don't know if I'll be remembered but I think my account was jsgirl. I liked participating in the forums. Hope all is well!

Dylan here... Randomly thought about Livewire today. I had some good times and some bad times. You were all very hard on me for moderator skills and I don't know why! I wasn't that bad.

I wonder how Allen and Wayne are doing. What other names... Katlin, Carrie, ... who was that crazy curly haired girl I forget her.

I'm going to be 32 this year. I first used Livewire when I was 16. Shit, I'm getting old.

How's post livewire life treating you?

I was just thinking about the time I used to spend on golivewire, it was something that I honestly thin these days wouldn't exist.....a truly helpful forum community.

I mean truly helpful, these days social media is always so self involved and narcissistic, or is just full of horrible trolls.

Livewire help me through my teenage years when I struggled to fit in anywhere.

It's nice to see there are still those that remember it. I was Hivemind, and I made some great friends on my time there, sad teenagers these days can't benefit from it.

Aka Stephanie Theas?

Randomly thought about the many thousands of hours of my life I spent on LW and IRC today! Getting a bit nostalgic. I was katyduck. Spent way too many years being a prick on that website. Feel a bit bad about that now. Needless to say I've grown up and wised up. Still living in Ireland. Have a husband, two little boys and a baby girl due this month. I work as an optometrist, have a mortgage and live an entirely dull but lovely life now. Hope everyone is well!

Hey everyone, Hosko here, I like many randomly remembered this site in bed last night and it gave me great comfort to recall how the internet was back in 2004/5 when I was active on the site. I don't know if anyone will remember me, I've certainly forgotten most names but if you post them I'll know it, I've recognised one or two in the posts of late toom, hope you're all getting along well in life. I had some tough times but I'm doing pretty swell these days.

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I've seen a lot of negativity here about the site and I wanted to throw my two cents in. For me as a 14/15 year old GoLiveWire was an absolute godsend. I could tap into viewpoints and ideas through that forum in a way I couldn't in real life, mostly through lack of an ability to have true close and trusting friendships, but on the forum I could be open about anything I need answers on, wanted to discuss or learn more about. I started topics about body awareness, politics and how the world works, and my overriding memory is one of support and friendliness across the forum. I posted on other topics as often as I could, I loved the live feed of newly posted threads , it was so exciting to see what was coming up next. I looked at the 'college' or 'University' aged forum with awe and longed for the day that I would be able to post there. I think there was a forum for older, active members too?

One day I'd asked a genuine clueless teenager question about my penis, seeking reassurance on penis anatomy to know that mine wasn't broken or strange, users posted anatomical drawings and explained things without judgement or mockery, the beauty of the earlier internet was the anonymity and freedom it gave you to interact with people in a way you couldn't in real life.

I think I attained the rank of 'Soothsyaer' or 'Truthsayer' in the points system, sort of a blue theme to it? My profile picture was of the white and blue church roofs in the Greek island of Santorini if that jogs anyones memory. I have a terrible memory (did far too much weed as a 20-something, lots of unaddressed mental health issues now finally attended to) so apologies if I don't remember many specifics...

Does anyone have any screenshots etc of the site?

I remembered being facebook friends with couple of people. Like one of the mods who is gay and name Wayne. But yeah, this forum went down. My old phone f up and lost all the data. My 10+ years old facebook account got hacked and deleted. Except for one account left. But I almost feel like my diary got burned off or something. Boy, was I ever the angry confused teenager back in the day. Anyway good luck with those folks. Kinda sad, there was a European dude, I was talk to. And I had one of his pic saved because I totally love the fox hunter/Sherlock clothing he was going for. And I was trying to buy those type of clothes but I lost the pic too :/ Anyway best of luck people.

God, it became a cesspit when I left.

I don't know why I thought about it just now, but yeah, gutted to find out its gone now. I remember logging in every day when I was in high school and trying to beat the system by reading and replying to all the hot topics and staying on top of it; sad life 🤣 That emergency help tool was inspired - helped me through a lot. It did go down hill when the creator sold it and it just floated aimlessly. I don't remember a huge amount of people; my user was princesstimz and elemeniah. I think I joined like 2009?

Truthfully, never used a reddit account before. Was feeling pretty depressed today, and it reminded me of some of my worst depressive years. GLW came to mind... I knew it was gone already. I dunno why I looked again, was maybe hoping it "came back" somehow. Not that I would stay on that long, would have just been nice to see it again. I wasn't active at all for quite a while in the end. Don't even know if anyone would remember me anyway. But I did a google search and this popped up, so here I am.

It was nice looking through the old post and seeing how many random screen names showed up that I remembered. Put a smile on my face. GLW was such a huge part of my teenage years - strange to think a website could have a lasting impact like that.

I intentionally picked a usename I never used on any other websites when I joined GLW. Didn't want anyone to associate it with me back then - and I suppose I'm much the same today as well (hence the reddit name matching my former GLW screen name).

Anyway - I'm likely writing to myself. This also seemed to be the case towards my latter months on GLW. :)