Subj : Re: gettogethers was: BBS
To : DARYL STOUT
From : NANCY BACKUS
Date : Sat Jul 18 2015 08:45 pm
-=> Quoting Daryl Stout to Nancy Backus on 07-02-15 11:21 <=-
NB>We had that sort of thing here in Rochester, too... back in the old
NB>days... :) Reinforced the sense of community... :) And at least one
NB>bbs grew out of a local computer interest group...
DS> I remember at one of the gatherings, a female Sysop (who ran an
DS> adult based BBS (i.e. "R" content) would be "carding" potential users.
I never saw that here... :)
NB>And the COOKING echo picnics are a different form of the same idea...
NB>getting together in person, putting faces to names, and real-time
NB>interaction... ;)
DS> The funny part is that you make a mental image of the person you
DS> type with...or as in the case of ham radio, talk with. But, when you
DS> finally meet them in person, they don't look at all like you pictured
DS> them!!
That partially happened at the first Cooking echo picnic I went to...
but there were a couple people there that looked a lot like what I'd
thought they might. Years ago, back when the Genealogy echo was a
thriving echo, I went to a Genealogy conference in Baltimore, hoping to
meet some of my friends from the echo.... I saw one lady facing away
from me, and said to myself, I bet that's Elsie... and sure enough, so
it was... and she was almost exactly how I'd pictured her... a very
sweet grandmotherly sort... :)
ttyl neb
... History never looks like history when you are living through it.
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