Lemme see…
I went on to Firefox, typed in the website for Black Mesa Forums, saw a white page filled with words, slept, went to Black Mesa chat, checked out the new replacement forums, and here I am.
I’m one of those readers who never posted before, maybe I’ll change my ways this time. I made missing dog posters for the advertising competition ages ago, dunno if anyone remembers that (a black dog called mesa :p).
Hello Guys,
Thank you all so much for the stories. I am so glad you are happy here and look at this as more then a mod website, but a community of loving, caring people. You really all put a smile on my face after this sad day in Black Mesa history.
Keep On Rocking!
We remember it cause it was on 404 page, Chris 
I must of put it in a different directory and forgot to update my post, my bad. xD
Edit - Can’t find the photos but this was what the poster looked like.
But I do, and it was like that one but the other way up.
I go away for a day and you guys go and ruin Christmas!
Hmm, interesting website. Could’ve saved me some trouble earlier today…
This site is lying! Gamernode isn’t up!
I played Solitaire for a few hours thinking that the page just kept timing out. (56k > My connection) Went to sleep, woke up. Re-created an account.
it was horrible , after the crash leroy jenkins went ahead and : someone else continue
…Raped my cat?
Well, I had heard stories of Black Mesa Source before, but had never seen anything concrete. Then a few days back my friend introduced me to the HL2 comic “Concerned”. It was there that I found my first link to Black Mesa Source.
Naturally I was very excited, as I clicked the link with my expectations running wild! When suddenly I was informed that firefox could find no such address. I was suddenly depressed, thinking the project had been abandoned long ago. Suddenly I was struck with the idea to search it on google, and it was confirmed by google to be a real site. So I checked out googles cache, which naturally didn’t have much, but confirmed to me the site was real. I then checked back a few hours later and found the HDD failure note, and was relieved to see that the project was, in fact, still going strong. SO, here I am.
This will be entered into History Textbooks, and gonna be told to our grandchildren by a fireplace. Awesome.
By then fireplaces will be replaced by hovering lazers
Just came by to lurk and read posts, and BM was gone. I had visited earlier in the day (pacific time zone) and everything was fine. I hope the site was backed up and can be restored to its former glory. Good luck guys.
I was browsing the web pointlessly, tried to open the website, the loading failed.
I then tried Google.
Google loaded quickly.
THEN I sent an e-mail to VALVe thanking them for the Free Friday… then I got an e-mail from GabeN saying thanks etc.
I then noticed the message saying sorry for the kerfuddle and then it went blank again.
I was relieved when, 5 hours later, I could access the site and register.
That’s about it 