• Bluelight
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    to Bluelighters
    who have passed away

RIP skydancer aka. Walt | July 3rd, 1978 - February 13, 2024

Rip skydancer, thank you for all of your contributions to Bluelight
 
This place was founded by him and one other person, I believe.
 
Truly old school bluelught. The work admins do is often thankless but without thT work the site would not function. Without his work the site may well not have ever reached a young kid like myself in freaking alabama. Which would of been a tragedy because I'm not Alive today without bluelight
 
Skydancer was the person who put me in contact with the EZ test crew in Holland back in 2000, which eventually led to another bluelighter and i teaming up with a pharmacist and his girlfriend to run the first ever ez test stall (selling kits not testing) at Advent*jah in 2000, and that is where we met our first Brisbane Bluelight friends (some of whom are still best beloveds of mine). As far as I know it was the first of its kind in qld. The police were so confused, it was superb. Walt facilitated that, and my more active involvement in the harm reduction movement. He was an awesome human; this news has broken my heart a little 💔
 
Just found this after searching both names:

Specified said:
The origins of Bluelight

by Anonymous with contributions from Jase, johnboy, skydancer and xtcxtc

Beginning in 1997, there was a small message board hosted on bluelight.net called the MDMA Clearinghouse. The Clearinghouse was a side project for the owner of a design company called Bluelight Designs in West Palm Beach, Florida. The message board could only hold a few threads before they scrolled off the board and could not be retrieved.

Nevertheless, a small but dedicated number of people were regular participants and it felt like a close community. Someone suggested that a more permanent home be created so the message board could be stable and the content could be better managed.

The New Bluelight was created in May 1999 as a new home for the MDMA Clearinghouse participants. The "bluelight.nu" domain was registered in June 1999. Once the technical details were finalized, "The New Bluelight" opened for business and most of the crowd from MDMA Clearinghouse migrated to the new forums.

In October of 2005 the domain was switched to "bluelight.ru".

At least two different kinds of message board software (DCForum and wwwboard.cgi) were used between May 1999 and October 1999. There are no posts remaining from that time period. "The New Bluelight" changed software again in October 1999 and has operated continuously ever since then. From that time, Bluelight has grown from a small underground forum to one of the largest message boards of all time.

At some point the MDMA Clearinghouse collapsed and disappeared, although historic screen shots of the front page are still available through . While there have been many changes, Bluelight is still maintained by volunteers and a strong community spirit continues to evolve.
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