Yesterday was a slow day for me,had a few hours to kill,let me start off by saying I've used the Archives on this board before,but yesterday was somewhat different. I decided to start in the beginning (1998) I believe and do just a very general search on my new (branched out) love of Illegals,I was truly amazed to find almost what you would say a history on Illegal collecting and sharing of information.I was in awe of how many chips were UFO's then and how people had stacks of chips for sale cheap and some chips were costly but you can buy today cheap (Gene,you had Illegals of the day way back than ) There is a wealth of information in those Archives,it amazes me how much this hobby has grown in the amount of information thats out there now.What I really enjoyed were the words of encouragement and stories from people who are no longer with us like Greg Susong (whom I've never met) and others,it's comforting to know that their words will live on.Two last things,it's nice to see alot of the same people posting and still sharing,plus people were still fighting and arguing and the board still survives