One Year Later

Posted by Baddie on February 4, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Exactly two years ago from today, I opened eLBi, the UPLB Forums. It was a product of idle time, internet curiosity, grand aspirations, and nostalgia for my college years. And oh yeah, I got tired of the egos I constantly encountered within my former online hangout. And I was too lazy to join other similar online communities. Yeah sure, there probably is another intelligent online community out there that interests me, but sadly, I was too lazy to search for it. I built one instead.

I wanted to discuss the most intricately serious topics and the most trivial non-issues with people who I’m comfortable with, whether I’ve already met them in person or not. “But that’s nearly bloody impossible, Baddie! LOL” you say. Yeah, nearly. In UPLB, we’ve always manifested the sense of a community of strangers from distant towns and cities. People call UPLB a “microcosm of the Philippines”. A melting pot of the country’s brightest minds isolated from the rest of the so-called civilized nation. Strangers, yet a tightly knit community. If I’m going to build an online community, it might as well be made up of people from UPLB. And within a span of a year, the community matured, and ideas for bigger things grew with it. Bigger things like our own domain and more ways to showcase the talent and brilliance of the scholars doing scholarly stuff at the foot of Mt. Makiling.

more! more! mooooore!

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