Wanted to play Minecraft, had no money, found out about this cool old "Classic Minecraft", tried out a few servers, most were sh*t (freebuild and no nice people). Forgot about it for over a year.
Then, again, I wanted to play MC. THEN, I found a Zombie Survival server. Had no idea what the heck that was, so I tried, and got kicked within seconds (Still remember the caption: "Lag-pillaring like a champ!").
Never read the rules (only did once, two days before the Shutdown), always followed them (after being kicked numerous times and warns etc.). Never actually stayed for the game (except the maps, those were awesome if you could make those (DARNED) 2x1s), I came for the game and stayed because of the awesome people.
And that's it. ZS was closed, and with time some of my old friends have either gone to other classic or premium servers (MineManiacs and TNT, AoD, for instance), some stayed in the community, but most left it.
My only hope here is that nobody else leaves, and that those who did will one day return into a whole new and better Classic Blocktopia Zombie Survival.
Somewhere this week, I think, was the first time I came onto Zombies. And it was epic.
Don't regret, nor will I ever, a single second on these servers, or on the forums.
My only fear is that I will soon need to leave as well...