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These files are from the text e-zine Another Day and |
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Night Alliance (ANADA), which I stumbled onto while |
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wandering around textfiles.com. ANADA the e-zine ran from |
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2000-2004. I authored four text files for ANADA: |
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#409: "What Were You Asking?" (2001) |
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#430: "Restless" (2001) |
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#510: "Untitled" (2002) |
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#524: "Checking out" (2003) |
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The original issues of ANADA are, surprisingly, all still |
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online: |
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ANADA |
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I wasn't nearly as active or involved as many of the |
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other authors. I didn't create ANADA. I saw enough in |
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what the other authors had to say, that I found a voice |
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that I didn't know I had and surprisingly found a few |
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listeners. I'm not sure I ever even completed my bio |
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enough for Gloomchen to post it, although I remember |
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participating in the anada.net forums. |
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ANADA, and the text scene, predates social media. All of it. |
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Friendster, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WordPress, |
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Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, Android, the iPhone, emoji-- all of |
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these came later. ASCII knows nothing, adds nothing, subtracts |
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nothing. ASCII is words, thoughts, descriptions, meaning, |
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explanation. |
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A picture may be worth a thousand words, but how many |
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picures do you scroll by every day without giving them a |
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second (or even first) thought? |
