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by spookthesunset 973 days ago
K5 was one of the few sites where I’d actually pay attention to the username of the poster. On sites like this one, it’s me writing to an anonymous, random person.

I think this is because k5 had diaries. It build a community of people who knew each other to some extent.

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It did. And I miss it! It was certainly an interesting, and sadly forgotten, time in Internet history.