On Sat, 10 Feb 2001 23:20:15 -0800
Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2/10/01 7:48 PM, "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> The priesthood is dead. That's a good thing.
>> It also has its downsides. I prefer the new 'net, but I admired
>> the old one.
> I go back to the time when you could post a party invitation to
> net.general with your home address and phone number, and feel safe
> doing it. And not have the riot squad show up to control the
> crowd, either.
Ahh, you got in a few years before I did.
> For those of you who think online romances are new things... Grin)
Seeing as I met my wife on the phone and proposed (and was accepted)
before I ever met her, I'll take the fifth on that one.
> The net's changed. I miss the old days when it was smaller, more
> intimate, better focussed, less noisy. That's to some degree the
> kind of environment I'm trying to re-invent these days with stuff
> like hockeyfanz. Not big, not famous, not yahoo, not money-making,
> not a lot of stuff -- but fun and interesting. At the same time,
> though, the current net is a lot of fun, too, in many different
> ways, and trying to bodysurf the cyberwave of growth and change
> and keep up with what's going on (much less useful and innovative)
> has been one hell of a rush, too.
Precisely. I prefer the new 'net, but I admired the old one.
>>>> Okay, so they need a lot of education.
>>
>>> But who's stepped up to educate?
>> They did not take advantage of the material already present,
> I think that's a generalization -- a stereotyping. Many of them
> DID, in fact, take advantage of that material. And some of them
> didn't, but in all honesty, that's ALWAYS been a problem on the
> net since the early days. I'm not even sure it was more common in
> this latest wave. It's just this latest wave was much bigger, so
> the percentages could be the same and the noise still got huge.
Good point. The problem there is that that those who did take the
clue were (mostly) invisible, so what was visible was the sudden
September**3 mass of clue vacuum.
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J C Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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