Emporis is Dead
 

After all these years, Skyscrapers.com/Emporis is officially dead. Shut down completely!

RIParooney. :(

I forget how exactly I found this site but I know for a fact my curiosity started with Emporis first and then made my way here.

I'm pouring one out.

Actually.. beyond that.. does anyone recall how they found this site?

I've been lurking since like.. 2008 but only checked in a few times a year. I would take some photos but not contribute. Eventually guilt set in that I was devouring content without participating. For anyone else here in the same boat... submit a photo of the upgraded bike path at the end of your street. This is about city building just as much as it is about admiring tall buildings.

I want to say Emporis led me here but I don't recall how that went down.

My journey was pretty similar.

I grew up in Gatineau and we had no internet. When I turned 17 in 2006 and started college, we moved to Carp, and not the village, deep in the woods. So I had no bus service, no car. No matter my school schedule, I was in school from 8am to 3pm because I had to rely on my mom to drive me to and from home, so I spent a lot of time on the internet at the library.

Lots of Wikipedia, Emporis and YouTube. I somehow stumbled on SSP and followed until I finally joined in 2012.

I used to be a fanboy dork of the building diagrams back in the late '90s in high school - I think I found them when doing research for a school assignment - and spent tons of time studying them. Then stayed a serial lurker.

Sad to see it is gone. I found this forum while searching for a condo in 2006 (eventually purchased and lived at Mondrian for a while). Always been interested in urban design/architecture but also transit development and pretty much every other subforum. Glad SSP is still going strong!

I'm still a huge fan of pixel art. My families first computer was a Tandy 1000. No HDD, single sided 3.5" floppy w/ 720KB, 16 color RGB screen which was actually pretty good. The keyboard and computer were the same unit. 512KB base memory. I remember my dad and my uncle bought me a ninja turtles game but we had to upgrade the base from 512KB to 640KB. 99 Dollars... and it came in a twix candy bar style box and it was a row of old style chips with bug feet you had to smuck into the motherboard one by one. The ninja turtle game was awful BTW.

I recall one night.. using our 300 baud modem.. yes that's correct.. 300 baud.. my dad and his work friend playing some turn based 4 color tank game.. and they were able to text back and forth.. my dads buddy cussed him out and I DIED laughing.. I couldn't believe it... did Bryan just call my Dad a C**ksucker? 6 year old me was in tears laughing over the fact that this was even possible.

Anyhow... :rolleyes: I love voxel art too. Reddit has some cool subs pertaining to that throwback style. The voxel art is extra cool because you can animate it like GIF. 8 and 16 bit graphics still have a place when used correctly.

I moved to Montreal in December of 2001, and became fascinated with all the tall buildings. I wanted to find out the name of one of them and found this site. Then I bought a tiny Sony camera and became addicted to uploading pics here. Still good friends with a lot of Montreal forumers who have left this place, or moved to other cities.

I was researching the history of my building and Emporis came up and led me here.