Oh, and Happy Birthday, Vortex!
You all gonna be here when I wake up?
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
Natter .44 Magnum: Do You Feel Chatty, Punk?
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kalshane - May 17, 2006 7:46:32 am PDT #7782 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 17, 2006 7:50:53 am PDT #7783 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Happy Birthday Vortex!
The first internet people I met were actually guys I went on dates with back in '98. Not too long after that I attended my first Posting Board Party and met a metric ton of Bronzers all at once (I recall AKA Becker and Jane were in the group I first ran across walking to the party venue.) I can't actually recall meeting Allyson or Kristen at any of the early PBPs, though of course we knew each other online-the Vegas Buffy-themed Halloween party where Kristen and I went as the Ampersands of Evil may have been my first face-to-face meeting as a Buffista.
Jessica - May 17, 2006 7:52:20 am PDT #7784 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The first online people I met were all pre-WWW.
Huh, me too.
(Weirdly, it was another TV-based-but-not-really group like this one -- the 90210 "LC" board on Prodigy. It never mattered that I'd never seen a full episode of the show.)
Alibelle - May 17, 2006 7:52:34 am PDT #7785 of 10002
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
JZ!! Any little bit helps, thanks!
Happy Birthday, Vortex!
Sean K - May 17, 2006 7:56:43 am PDT #7786 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
My first online friends meeting was probably about fifteen years or so ago. There was a local BBS called M-Net that I usually dialed directly. In many ways, they weren't too much unlike Buffistas -- there was some fannishness about this that or the other, different areas to talk about different subjects like movies and music, lots of techie and book-loving people, people had a penchant for regular F2F meetups and making funny quips that frequently referenced shows we liked.
They had regular monthly things at a nearby bar, and seeing as I had a bunch of meatspace friends who also participated, we just liked the excuse to go drink and be social with other people of a similar mind.
The first Buffistas I ever met were Kat and lori, over at the Miracleborn's place. I wasn't a Buffista yet, but I knew what a Buffista was, or at least that such a collection of people existed. The first Buffistas I met were meara, Theo, vw bug (I think), aurelia (both of us were still pretty new at that point), and possibly one or two other people. That was just before the weekend of the LA F2F, just about three years ago now.
I've been logging on to some sort of board or forum or chat room for a while now, and aside from M-Net, B.org is the only place I've ever stayed at for longer than six months. These days, I generally try to avoid other forums for more than just short jaunts here and there. Compared to B.org, other places are strange and offputting.
Nora Deirdre - May 17, 2006 7:57:16 am PDT #7787 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
first meeting of online people I believe was the Buffistas from TT days. I invited a bunch of them to watch the Faith-wakes-from-coma episode at my house. This included: JonB, Theodosia, and a couple other TTers that I can't remember (Theo, do you remember? I thought you were friends with one of those guys). I invited my cousin to come over so that I could avoid being murdered. And, oh yeah, a cute, quiet, mumbly-funny shy British dude came over too... and then a few years later, I married him!
Lee - May 17, 2006 8:01:44 am PDT #7788 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
The first Buffistas I met were meara, Theo, vw bug (I think), aurelia (both of us were still pretty new at that point), and possibly one or two other people. That was just before the weekend of the LA F2F, just about three years ago now.
Didn't you come to dinner with several of us before that, at El Cholo, when Aimee fainted?
Aims - May 17, 2006 8:03:03 am PDT #7789 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
That was the first time I met you, Perkins! I was so stunned, I passed right out.
Lee - May 17, 2006 8:04:52 am PDT #7790 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Ha.Ha.
Jessica - May 17, 2006 8:05:18 am PDT #7791 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I've been logging on to some sort of board or forum or chat room for a while now, and aside from M-Net, B.org is the only place I've ever stayed at for longer than six months.
I had the LC, and then I had Fledglings, and now I have Buffistas. Of the three, Buffistas has lasted the longest by several years. (The LC was killed off when Prodigy started charging for bulletin board usage -- today, we probably would have just moved to WX! -- and Fledglings had a dramatic and flamey self-implosion.)