Cranks and trolls were *better* back in the usenet days, damnit!

Those were the days. Anyone remember Kibo?

Of course, there’s a bunch of stuff like that: J.R. “Bob” Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius was mighty in my gaming (Cthulu-based) circle back in the day, but who under 30 has even heard of it?

I’ve had an LJ since 2004 and my own blog site before that (with no readers but two friends of mine). Twitter is just about right for me, as I do about 75% re-blogs and 25% original stuff (original in that I’m posting them directly on tumblr and not rebloging; mostly pointers to news stories and funny photos).

As for followers and those I follow, is an interesting mix on tumblr; about half the folks I know are under 20 while the rest go on up to their 60′s. On LJ, things seemed a lot more segregated. Weird!

As for remembering when, I still have my Ti-99/4A with expansion chassis but no longer have the 300 baud modem. One day, will have to dig it out of storage and jigger up a connection to a monitor or tv. Daughter will be confused. She’s 9, has her own laptop, regularly uses Wikipedia and Google and wants her own Facebook and iPad. They grow up so fast!

That’s the ticket! Look for the similarities.

Oh yeah, and Lynx. Tell them about Lynx.
(get off my digital lawn)

I’m seeing a fair bit of ammo building up for cracks about how oversensitive, easily offended and prone to overreaction teens are…

See? They’re not so different from us after all.

:)

But we wouldn’t use the ammo, because we are sensitive new age old farts.