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walking around
Jul 29, 2013
I first learned of SA when I was in 8th or 9th grade in the mid 2000s, when I was making stupid accounts/groups on Xanga. Somebody who saw these messaged me on AIM to ask if I had stairs in my house and I had no idea what they were talking about, then they painfully described what they meant to me.

Later, I remember asking some HS seniors when I was a junior if they had accounts on the boards, or they just liked reading the homepage. The answer that I got was the latter, but I'm skeptical. That was, in 2007, probably the last time I heard people talk about SA in real life.

Then some years later I signed up mainly to get access to a bunch of the forums that you had to log in at the time (maybe now too?) to see: YLYS, GWS, SAS, etc. The discussions and introductions to new hobbies/interests/life topics have kept me around since. This really seems like a unique place on the internet in that you can wander into some random subforum and find a megathread on a topic that is new to you, informative, and not completely monetized.

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