How far we've come.

[GrubbTheFragger]

I was looking back at old threads I made years ago and I gotta say, I hate the way I typed and spelled. I was like a hyper active typer. If a number could replace a letter. I went from b4 to before. Anyone else have similar sobering moments like this XD

[c.t.,girl]

i want to burn everything i typed and drew from my past. XD

[Warrior4Christ]

Yeah, I think everyone goes through that phase... XD

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

Well, my typing skills were always legible but my ability to discuss things properly was rather naive.

[Twister980]

Yeeeeup. I found some of my older stuff,
i would type sentences in all lower cases,and not put spaces between the comma and the next word,and use commas more than once,and the sentences would go on and on. Like that.

[Atria35]

Not really... I was always hard on my own spelling, and had very good grammar when I started posting in forums. I hated how my friends had issues spelling in real life on papers and the like, and strove to do better than that.

[MomentOfInertia]

Mah gramrz in notzbly betr by alot.

Really, I'm not kidding (okay, the first line was all kidding) my grammar is much better, and I tend to make my posts faster as well.

[Dante]

I proofread my work to see if I can understand it. Outside of that, everyone else is on their own when it comes to deciphering my pseudo English.

[Okami]

Heh. I can look back and see how much I've matured as a person. And even now. I've matured a lot even in the past week. God's been working quite a bit these past few years...

[Wolf-man]

Me and some other of my online friends did this just recently to a forum that we were on a few years ago. It always funny to see how you change and mature even in typing. Like using proper punctuation and spelling correctly. Not having and exclamation point after every sentence. XD

[samurai10]

Oh dude, don't even get me started.

I once looked through my past PMs and posts, and I was downright embarrassed. If I could delete them all from the face of the Earth and pretend they never happened, I will be very very happy. I was really, REALLY bad. I honestly can't believe that people were so nice to me when my grammar was so annoying and horrific. >_>

[Derek_Is_Me]

My sentence structure hasn't been the best in the world for many years nor do I think that it will be improving anytime soon. But I can say that I have learned how to 'talk' better online thanks to typing in forums. I have also become faster at typing then I used to be. I used to type at an average of about 25 GWAM, now I'm about a little over 45 GWAM. A bit of an improvment but I still need to do better.

[TheMewster]

I... I've actually gotten lazy and rushed and gotten worse, actually, especially in IMs and texts. Maybe due to autocorrect?

[mechana2015]

I'd be careful with relying on that auto-correct. There're whole websites dedicated to the hilarious accidental corrections it can make.

[TheMewster]

True, true. So true.

[ShiroiHikari]

I used to make dumb, low-content posts with gratuitous use of emoticons.

I don't even want to think about all my old Livejournal posts.

[rocklobster]

I didn't do a good job taking my feelings to PM's. I'm usually better these days.

[Radical Dreamer]

Looking at old posts of mine is one of my least favorite things to do. XD I never had a problem with spelling or grammar (me?), but my old posts are all so very...16 year-old. XD Shudder. XD

[FllMtl Novelist]

I don't want to see my old posts or PMs. I don't think I had many grammar/spelling problems, but I said a lot of... really stupid things. >_>;;

[Jingo Jaden]

My excuse for my past?

Months ago I fell on my head and forgot all about it. However it may be brought up, I will deny all claims.

[TheMewster]

Years later, I may not even wanna look at my old posts. To tell the truth I've been into things I can't believe I was into due to the content, and have actually posted favorably about them.

[TopazRaven]

I look at stuff I wrote just yesterday and regret it.

[aliveinHim]

I get embarrased over old stuff I drew. I want to burn it too. I want to burn every single old pic of me.

[seaglass27]

but my old posts are all so very...16 year-old. XD Shudder. XD

I've always gone out of my way to use good grammar and spelling on the Internet, though I tend to let that go in chat rooms.

[Cognitive Gear]

I used to dread my old posts, but now I appreciate them, because it provides a handy way to remember just how much I've grown, and how much growth I have the potential to look forward to.

[Mr. SmartyPants]

When I see my old posts (and not just posts, but writings and thoughts in general) I pretty much facepalm and wish it never existed. XD But that being said I still see it as an odd point of a growth-process on myself.

[KhakiBlueSocks]

I think I've changed a great deal from when I first started here. It's weird looking back at some of the threads I've started during my tenure here. Here are some of the more crazy ones:

Best Anime Catchphrase of 2005
The Kakashi-Sensei Book Club!
A Customer Cursed Me Out! Pray for Him!
The Naruto Headband Downtown Photo Project
Mr. Rogers had the First Flat Screen!
Girls Who Play Boys in Anime!
President Gives Queen Elizabeth II An iPod


I'm not going to lie, I still think that a few of these were good threads, but, for the most part, I'm so glad THAT KhakiBlueSocks has evolved and matured into the KhakiBlueSocks you see in front of you today.

At least I don't use Comic Sans MS anymore.

[Rusty Claymore]

I just blame hackers.

[TheMewster]

I actually think that KhakiBlueSocks' old threads look interesting. Just sayin'.