https://web.archive.org/web/19991013021455/http://2ndlight.com:80/

Edited: 11/28/2018 at 06:52 PM by ReedBeach

http://web.archive.org/web/199...ttp://2ndlight.com:80/

Thanks for helping with the link. I suppose the internet is forever.

LOL. Sounds like a love song. The internet is forever...

20th Anniversary this yr??

1999 was a memorable year for Hurricane Dennis and I think the year that many of us first joined 2ndlight.

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Replace turf grass with native plants that don't need irrigation and synthetic fertilizers or chemicals that can go into our waterways and ocean

Edited: 11/29/2018 at 06:31 AM by daner

I was going to host a 20th party this past summer but got busy and distracted from it. The website obviously took a hit with that virus along with other great surfing website competition (and, facebook), but we still up and running!

The website obviously took a hit with that virus

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

Live Long and Prosper

Live Long and Strong


Yeah, uploading pictures to FB (which I said I would never do) is a bit easier...
.... but FB isn't just a surf site.


How long has FB been around?
2ndLight? 20 years. I think 2ndLight has withstood the test of time.



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Puerto Rico 11 - 24 - 2013

plus the close call of Hurricane Floyd!

ugh 20 years later, one more reminder that I'm getting older and time is going by with too little surfing, too much working....

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Even a blind hog finds an occasional acorn

I mock people for facebook and other social media. I am a committed regular on here. I can appreciate my hypocrisy on this score.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Still remember this being my go to back then: http://web.archive.org/web/199...w.rcsboardshop.com:80/

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My Facebook Picture Page

Edited: 12/02/2018 at 05:00 PM by MSP

I got a stand-up dry barrel at 6th street that evening.



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I was right.

It does seem that the visitation to 2ndLight.com declined markedly after it went down from the virus. Do have stats you can share about how bad it did decline?



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Replace turf grass with native plants that don't need irrigation and synthetic fertilizers or chemicals that can go into our waterways and ocean

Perusing around on the old school site is fun. I love reading the old boards for sale postings. It's like a tiny history; you can see Loehr, perhaps, experimenting with a lot of new shapes and materials. And the rise and fall of shapers' presence on the market - like BAT-AJF shapes.

If NSR went away, the surf related threads would increase in my opinion.

I think that troll farm ran more folks off than the virus.

What were the stats when we got the nice NSR break earlier this year?