How text boards have affected you

Are you an experienced textboarder? If so, how have your experiences here affected you? Has it changed your way of thinking? Has it improved your writing and debate skills? Or do you think it's harmful? Any other thoughts or observations you want to share about it?

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it's not nostalgia, it's a continuation

nostalgia is just ``hey remember the good old days? yep''

but the continuation is living on in the present rather than the past

old style board, new content though