I was on line in the late 80's I think - but I was more , look at the shinny. I didn't really go whole hog until the first version of Netscape came out. DH was on all kinds of BBS. And my youngest sister - didn't get into the meet other people on the thing until she got her new dogs about a year ago. She has met some of the other people that have the same dog breed. So umm.. It isn't old or antique or even hard to find people on line that are interested in the same stuff you are.
As for the fandom stuff, well I was never really interested in the actors outside of the show. But it changed with buffy , but more because I got interested in the craft. I can't saying I am dying to meet the actors, or even the writers, but I am interested in what they have to say about what they do - or even there lives - because I might learn more.
Kat, that is totally not bad mother.
amych: RSS4lib: [link] We need to do a library geek blog swap.
Just the strip, no advertisements, etc. Is that what you mean?
Girl Genius and Bad Gods just contain links to the pages. Not sure why Bad Gods does it, since there are no ads on their front page--possibly to have stuff coded to prevent hotlinking--at least one of my comics feeds states up front that images will not load from feeds. Which is particularly irritating with a pictoral medium.
Go to sleep, Kat! But first tell me--what app do you use to read your feeds?
Torture yourself with an optical illusion. I can do what the poster says, but not on purpose. I look away, I look back, sometimes it's reversed.
Kat, I'm glad Noah is doing well. Go sleep!
But I'm just stunned at the idea that it's somehow more difficult to find your tribe online now, than it was ten years ago.
The ONLY way I can see this being true is because everyone and their dog (okay, or stuffed bunny) is on the interwebs, which means there may be a lot of false starts when you're trying to find your tribe. A lot of
"Wait, I thought you were my people, but you're crazy in ways I'm not"
sort of searching.
Timelies all!
Hmm, my first online community was on GEnie, back in the early '90s, and my involvement with congoing and filk directly stem from an AOL chatroom. The more things change...
I ran a BBS in San Diego in the middle to late 80's. It was one of the earlier boards in the area to go to 2400 baud. That was when USRobotics offered a discount on 2400 baud courier modems to BBS Sysops.
The board was originally on an Apple //e and the whole thing ran on 2 5.25 inch floppy drives. In 1987 I got an Apple IIgs and the whole board ran off of a single 800k 3.5 inch floppy drive.
I'm dismissing one source of vitamin B2 because, in part, the site says the supplement is used for head cavity disorders. Just sounds weird.
Well, they'll get undiscarded if they continue to sit at the top of the dosage heap. Still sounds weird.
Torture yourself with an optical illusion. I can do what the poster says, but not on purpose. I look away, I look back, sometimes it's reversed.
I am freaked. It just switched directions on me. I'll have to take the post at its word that nothing changed.
How many of you who don't consider yourselves computer geeks know what RSS is and use it at least once a week? If you use a feed in LJ, this may be you.
Me.
First knew of the internet in '85 or '86, but didn't really dive in until '89 or '90. Which was still pre-Endless September, let alone web, so I'm'a desperately cling to my Older Than Dirt pretense*.
amych and I are both older than dirt apparently. I remember being on BBSes back in the day. Got my first GEnie email address in 90? 91?
