in the distant future, advanced beings of unknown origin (are they artificial superintelligences or highly evolved aliens? watch the end of the movie AI: artificial intelligence to see this idea explored up on the silver screen!) dig out the forumwarz server from the greater north american ice shelf as part of a millennium-long project to survey and interpret the entirety of recorded human communication. the beings insert their hyperbandwidth infoprobes into the machine’s ancient access ports, and though the primitive cultures of the present day might describe these infoprobes as extremely, insanely, almost graphically phallic, the more advanced future society has expanded its collective consciousness far beyond the need for penile juvenilia.

as the mbumes of preserved posts are almost instantly parsed and catalogued, archival unit BZ-3282746 executes a cultural and linguistic textual analysis that quickly determines “flamebate” poster “macks” made the best posts yet discovered in the entirety of recorded human online history; and furthermore that the rest of his “klan” (the historican wryly notes the use of the letter “k” to spell the word rather than the era’s more generally accepted “c” as a primary artifact of the late-period human comedic construct known as “irony” ), called “team shortbus,” was equally unmatched.

unit BZ-3282746 and its fellow historians close the file with a final appended comment noting that the decline of the “forumwarz” community appeared to coincide almost exactly with the departure of “macks” and the other members of “team shortbus,” and that no further research is required

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