Frunk Posted June 1, 2011 Report Share Posted June 1, 2011 Have no idea who this guy was but the obituary by his sister was very touching. Reminds me of this story: http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/worlds-oldest-blogger-makes-final-post/2008/07/14/1215887490954.html [spoiler=July 14, 2008][quote][size="5"]World's oldest blogger makes final post[/size] [img]http://images.theage.com.au/ftage/ffximage/2008/07/14/oliveriley_wideweb__470x381,0.jpg[/img] The Australian woman renowned as the world's oldest internet blogger has made her final post, aged 108. Olive Riley, of Woy Woy on NSW's central coast, died in a nursing home just after 6am yesterday. She will be mourned by family and an international readership in the thousands. "It was mind blowing to her," her great grandson Darren Stone, of Brisbane, told AAP last night. "She had people communicating with her from as far away as Russia and America on a continual basis, not just once in a while." Olive had posted more than 70 entries on her blog, or as she jokingly labelled it, her "blob", since February last year. The ardent Sydney Swans AFL fan shared her day-to-day musings and her life's experiences raising three children on her own, living through two world wars and the Depression, her work as a station cook in rural Queensland and as an egg sorter and barmaid in Sydney. In her final post, dated June 26, an increasingly frail Olive noted she couldn't "shake off that bad cough". She also: "read a whole swag of email messages and comments from my internet friends today, and I was so pleased to hear from you. Thank you, one and all." Olive's musing live on at http://www.allaboutolive.com.au and more recently at http://worldsoldestblogger.blogspot.com. She was born in 1899, and would have turned 109 on October 20. "She enjoyed the notoriety - it kept her mind fresh," Mr Stone said. "What kept her going was the memories she had, and being able to recall those memories so strongly." Olive's funeral will be held at Palmdale Cemetery, on the NSW Central Coast, late this week.[/quote][/spoiler] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qu@ke Posted June 1, 2011 Report Share Posted June 1, 2011 my cousin said there was a member named Lucky before that had passed, he said he didn't know if it was just Lucky or something else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tin Trooper Posted June 1, 2011 Report Share Posted June 1, 2011 Yeah, rest in peace and all, but, honestly, I could not give a damn. People die every day. Dio with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Revan of the Sith Posted June 2, 2011 Report Share Posted June 2, 2011 People may die in real life but they never die on the internet... Everything they have done will live on after them as a testament to who they were and what they stood for... Heren-kun may have died in life but his spirit lies within the art work he left for the people to look at... When a person dies there Blogs, posts, comments etc. become a permanent tombstone that people look at whether they know you are dead or not, it still lives because those are only things the internet can't keep up with Death, and Rememberance... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resident Fascist Posted June 3, 2011 Report Share Posted June 3, 2011 That sucks D: Didn't know who he was... But Poor Guy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gospel. Posted June 3, 2011 Report Share Posted June 3, 2011 [quote name='Dr. Tongue' timestamp='1306953917' post='5246725'] Yeah, rest in peace and all, but, honestly, I could not give a damn. People die every day. Dio with it. [/quote] I see what you did there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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