https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start?s=09

I was looking through Twitter this morning and found a link to this post/Substack.

She’s put into words some of what has been going through my mind with the slow implosion of Twitter.

I’ve been on BBSs, usenet groups, MUDs, MUSHs, MMORPGs, it seems like people just move from one to another as things change.

I spend a lot of time thinking about the friends I’ve made in these places. Obviously ApocMUD & GeoCities, but others, like Asheron’s Call and EverQuest. There was at least one chat room in the late 90’s that I don’t remember the name, but the group was ‘Bored @ Werk’ and one Usenet group two years earlier where one person always talked about his Siamese fighting fish. That’s where I first learned about Heisenberg’s Uncertainty principle, though I’m not sure why I never heard it of in my college courses.

I knew about Livejournal, just didn’t see the point when I could make a new page on my website to write what I wanted. That was one advantage of working for a webhost.

Though it’s sad that Twitter is imploding, its where I’ve met more like minded people. Again I’m not limited by geography.

Not being limited by geography is why I liked the Internet in the first place. I could meet people while being at home with my son, and later his sister and brother. I didn’t have to go to bars where I wasn’t comfortable. I could talk to people from the comfort of my own home.

I still wonder about people that I met and wish them well. There are too many to mention. Some knew me as Sharleone, some as Karal, Danica or Dani and some as Silverymoon.