Found my oldest extant (and underwhelming) contribution to the interwebs.
Found my oldest extant (and underwhelming) contribution to the interwebs.
Teenage me in 1994 trying to combine helpfulness and knowitallness. Some things never change.
I hope Rudy got that Ultrastar and other cool stuff too.
And I was SOOO close to truly being a part of the original hordes of eternal September, but I was really about 9-12 months too late.
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I was fascinated by Usenet, having grown up so isolated, but I was too scared to post. I was at university, and I think my biggest fear was that fellow students there would see my posts and take them as an opportunity to bully me.
I was, and still am, very introverted and, around people I don't know well, very reserved as well. I found that first AOL and USENET, and then the web provided a safer space, where just that veneer of anonymity was enough of an excuse to engage more readily, and with people whom I knew, based on the literal names of the communities, would share at least one interest, LOL.
Glad to see you eventually found avenues for self-expression.