For the record, I'd rather see interesting posts of olde than silly new ones. If a thread has been dead for a while and is *outdated* (i.e. something about Beta testing, Christmas, etc) then it can stay dead. Something like this that might start a new conversation with the new AGers is fine in my book.
I think it is so amusing that people become famous because of the internet... like Tila Tequila, who got her own show because of MySpace! Or the person who did all the silly Flash gerbil-critters that ended up with a Quiznos commercial...