I was at the Somervillian viewing party for the S6 finale. It was the "GILES!!!!!" heard round the world, or at least the block. An awesome moment.

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If you were already online by that point. I would imagine the large majority of watchers hadn't adopted online fandom in 1998, and it's easy to avoid that kind of information if you're not in fandom.

Actually, I think it was TV guide that spoiled me for that. And it was definitely before the Becomings aired. I don't think I was even lurking on TT at that point, but when I played catch up on the old threads, there seemed to be an awareness of it back in the day.

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she mentioned that she posts at the Alt board still on occasion. is that Bishop's board?

Yes. And actually, the last I knew, he now had two. One is a carbon copy of Apollo's threaded. One is a more conventional bulletin board that uses IBB or whatever package that is that Vanessa's board uses.

I never got the appeal of threaded. it was too much like chaos over there. i remember when i first got the internet i went to buffy.com and was so confused by the linear board that i never went back. the only reason i started posting was because janni was telling all of us at ck.net how much fun it was and that we needed to go post if we were planning on going to the PBP.

I just couldn't figure out the linear. Buffy.com was the first place I ever went online, so I was figuring out everything at the same time. I cringe when I remember some of my first (far too eager) posts at the linear. And I didn't know HTML, so even though I knew caps were shouting, I wasn't sure how people would see their names, if I didn't bold them. I didn't know people did control+F. I remember posting something like:

ALLYSON ALLYSON ALLYSON

and then my text, which might have been either about complaining to Apollo about trolls, or asking her about quitting smoking. I'm lucky she didn't kill me.

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Yes. And actually, the last I knew, he now had two. One is a carbon copy of Apollo's threaded. One is a more conventional bulletin board that uses IBB or whatever package that is that Vanessa's board uses.

gotcha.

I just couldn't figure out the linear. Buffy.com was the first place I ever went online, so I was figuring out everything at the same time.

I had been involved in chat rooms. so i was used to everything scrolling top to bottom not vice versa. i didn't know html either. janni taught me that too. janni really was like a protective mother to all of the kanies.

I'm lucky she didn't kill me

ha! my first foray was people talking of speed*s.

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I'm lucky she didn't kill me.

There may have been a vote. Seriously, I remember you first posting at the linear board. Your comments were good. As to the technical stuff -- everybody makes errors at first.

And ge*. Oye.

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Unfortunately, unless you were really going out of your way to avoid spoilers, it was pretty common knowledge at that point that Angel was in the early planning stages

Oddly, I don't recall knowing about the spin-off until sometime in Season 3. And I was a regular at the Bronze in 1998.

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I definitely knew about the Angel spin-off when "Becoming" aired, because that's why I was so surprised by what happened. I think I was just lurking on usenet at the time.

And, er, this is maybe a little tacky, but I was given a "Liam/Angelus" doll (with ceremonial skull!) and I took pictures, and, well... I think they're funny. Or the last one is, anyway. Look, just humor me.

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Dial-up folk, be advised that there are 5 (crappy, medium-sized) photos.

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the last one is my favorite, Strega. it actually looks like DB dancing, which may or may not be an insult to DB.

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Heh, thanks. I have to take more, because later I realized that you can raise the stand enough to hold him up above the ground (or table, whatever). He can fly!

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Those were really funny. (Funny enough that I'm commenting on how funny they are twice.)

I'm sad that I lost all my action figure action shots in the great hard drive crash of '02, but honestly, none of them were that good.

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