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Hello Ladies and Gentlemen wa salam ya shabab,
This is your pilot speaking.
I'm going to be taking you on a little journey through time and space and when we're done I think that you'll all be able to see through the clouds and have a much better idea of how the land lies.
I should warn you now that this is going to be an enormous post, so kill a sheep or make sandwiches and make a drink or two, or three, and sit back and relax.
You can dip in and out of this thread at your leisure, but I recommend that you pay close attention to it. Along the way you'll learn a lot about the history of this site and get a much better idea of how to use it.
I'm going to be speaking for myself so I'm not claiming to be speaking on behalf of VCI, its owner or its administrators. Before deciding to make this post I've had many, many conversations with Algerians and listened to them all very carefully.
And after careful consideration it is clear that there's no other way of presenting a 'history' like this other than to be brutally honest. So I am going to be honest - and I am going to be brutal. At times in this thread I will be saying very hard and very harsh things about individuals that some of you possibly liked and admired. But however hard they are, they will be facts.
So, you can resent what I'm going to say, you can be angry about it, you can do the 'how dare you say that about an Algerian!' routine - you can do whatever you like with the information - except one thing. The one thing that you won't be able to do with it is to claim that it is untrue.
If you're smart then you'll make good use of what you're going to learn, both in terms of thinking a lot harder about your personal online safety and in terms of understanding better how this site 'works for Algeria and for Algerians'.
So, while the printing press is running, grab your refreshments and then come back tomorrow and I'll take you on a journey through 'history' here. It'll be interesting to learn whether it matches the memory of some of the older members. It could be that some of you never really knew what was going on at all or who was who or who was doing what.
Time to find out, eh?
ashoofkom bukra.....
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