good old days

[domarzione]

I just posted this to tumblr, but really, it's meant for here (and LJ) because, well, it's still dinosaur country. 

‘I met my wife on LiveJournal’: stories of love, friendship and joy from the web’s early days

I have RL friends of *gulp* twenty years’ standing I met online. I met my first love on a hockey mailing list I’d found on Gopher. I flew to another country to hang out in person with a bunch of people I knew only from IRC and a comics mailing list (OTL!) and most of us didn’t know each other’s real names. This article hit me in the feels, as the kiddies say. 

Comments

[mirabile]

I loved that article, too! Same. My oldest and closest friends are from Usenet, mailing lists, and of course LJ. So happy I've met all these wonderful people!

[vaznetti]

That was a great article, and even the comments were sweet. Now I'm feeling all the feels too, as they say.

[vicki_rae]

All the feels.