If somebody put a gun to my head, I could maybe remember 1/10th of this. =D Awesome, awesome stuff.
I actually find it harder to get to know people now than I ever did during our mailing-list days. 95% of the people in fandom that I consider friends, I met on mailing lists or via IRC channels that evolved from mailing loops. Now, there's just so much coming at everyone from so many different directions -- it's hard to slow down to the 1:1 level. You have to work at it harder, I think. Or well, I do.
Maybe it's a combination of life getting busier (I had more time in college!) and fandom also getting gigantic and sprawling - connections seem harder to make. Not impossible, just less probable, maybe.
Also - I totally remember when "who did you get your tapes from?" was a way of establishing your cred in fandom. And I remember getting mine from gloria v and there were these wacky things at the end of the set of tapes - like, clips of the show, over music? What the hell was THAT about. For years, I was baffled as to why anybody would want to do something so bizarre... =D
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I actually find it harder to get to know people now than I ever did during our mailing-list days. 95% of the people in fandom that I consider friends, I met on mailing lists or via IRC channels that evolved from mailing loops. Now, there's just so much coming at everyone from so many different directions -- it's hard to slow down to the 1:1 level. You have to work at it harder, I think. Or well, I do.
Maybe it's a combination of life getting busier (I had more time in college!) and fandom also getting gigantic and sprawling - connections seem harder to make. Not impossible, just less probable, maybe.
Also - I totally remember when "who did you get your tapes from?" was a way of establishing your cred in fandom. And I remember getting mine from gloria v and there were these wacky things at the end of the set of tapes - like, clips of the show, over music? What the hell was THAT about. For years, I was baffled as to why anybody would want to do something so bizarre... =D