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NimrodClover
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Post Re: Bearchive .com down ?

Having been at the BEA from the start I would have to say that the "usefulness" is up for debate. There have been, in general, three eras at the BEA.

The initial phase - when it was the ONLY rather comprehensive place to go, computers were slower, and the idea was more to collect and "ARCHIVE" the BE content out there. I mean, its in the name of the site! This seemed to last until the early members aged out or moved on and the nature of the internet started to provided sites with a much more interactive and "modern" feel.

The first crash - this took out much of the beginning history of the BEA and the forum which did gut much of that early feel of the place. There was some much more varied content back then. In a way it removed some of the "importance" and undermined the "archive" aspect. One should remember that the first crash was caused by the attempt to move / back-up the site in an attempt to improve the site and make it more modern.**

The latter forum and site - in more recent years and after a few other incidents the place settled into a basic chest centered soft porn site. There was just a tiny bit of actual BE and the participation was a fraction of before. There has not been much in the way of BE activity there for a long while.

I will say, that due to its long existence, it may be the closest thing to a comprehensive collection, dare we say archive, to the whole BE thing.

** There is still a theory that the first crash was precipitated by a request to have some content removed and the forum architecture did not allow for the extent of deleting and something went wrong in the process.
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